Specialized Arts & Humanities Databases

Searching Articles and Databases

Select and search appropriate databases to discover useful articles

Search individual databases targeted to your subject topic. Databases are browsable by title and by subject area.

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Article Databases & Indexes

Full-text Collections

JSTOR logoJSTOR: the scholarly journal archive. A full-text collection containing the back issues of hundreds of scholarly journals. Most of the articles are at least five years old. Since it is searching the full text, be sure to use the Advanced Search function to narrow down results as much as possible. It is not uncommon to get search results of many thousands of hits in JSTOR.

Project Muse logoProject MUSE: A full-text collection of recently published articles in the social sciences and humanities. Covers recent issues of many journals that may not appear in JSTOR.

Artspeak

Some books to help you navigate art criticism and critical theory in general: