Research Guides: Art: Databases

About the Resources on this Page

On this page you'll find links to a variety of databases with scholarly journal articles, news, trade journals and other information.

To search most of these resources at the same time, use the OneSearch box below.

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Inspiration

Light art Installation, Gallery Inge Baecker, 2000, Roman Tower, Cologne, Germany. Image via the Wikimedia Commons.

Image Databases

ARTStor
A rich digital library that offers collections of art images and descriptive information as well as the software tools to enable active use of the collections.The ARTstor Library's content includes more than one million images covering a wide variety of subject areas, including art, architecture, music, religion, anthropology, literature, world history, American Studies, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, and more.
Bridgeman Education
Provides access to over 460,000+ high-quality fine art, historical and cultural images from thousands of collections all over the world. These images represent the canon of art history; from pre-historic cave paintings, through non-Western traditions, Renaissance Masters, Modernist movements, to contemporary artists; architecture, photography, manuscripts and objects.

Recommended Databases

Looking for articles and other resources, and you're not sure where to start? Check out the recommended resources below!

Art Full Text
The database covers fine, decorative, and commercial art as well as photography, folk art, film, architecture, and much more. In recent years, its coverage of Latin American, Canadian, Asian, and non-Western art has expanded greatly, along with its material on new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, and feminist criticism.
Gale OneFile: Fine Arts
Covers such topics as drama, music, art history, and filmmaking with emphasis on full-text content for publications included in the Wilson Art Index and RILM bibliography.
Grove Art Online
The foremost scholarly art encyclopedia, updated regularly and covering global art and architecture from prehistory to present day. Includes peer-reviewed articles contributed by nearly 7,000 scholars from around the world, accompanied by images, bibliographies, and links to additional resources
JSTOR Arts & Sciences
JSTOR offers high-quality, interdisciplinary content to support scholarship and teaching. It includes leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. Journals are always included from volume 1, issue 1 and include previous and unrelated titles.
Project MUSE
Project MUSE is a 100%full-text online collection of several hundred titles in the arts, humanities and social sciences from 60 university and society presses. MUSE journals cover many fields of study including literature, history, politics and policy studies, economics, education, film, religion and women?s studies.

Additional Helpful Resources

Here's some additional databases that are useful for art research. More databases can be found at the A-Z database listings.

Academic Search Premier
contains indexing and abstracts for more than 8,500 journals, with full text for more than 4,600 of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
Artcyclopedia
The Artcyclopedia is an index of online museums and image archives: find where the works of over 8,000 different fine artists can be viewed online.
BrowZine
Read Bunch Library's academic journals on your phone, tablet or desktop.
Using BrowZine, you can:
- Easily read complete scholarly journals in a format that is optimized for tablet devices
- Create a personal bookshelf of favorite journals
- Be alerted when new editions of journals are published
- Easily save to Zotero, Mendeley, Dropbox and other services
New York Times (nytimes.com)
To access the library's NYTimes.com subscription, you'll need to sign up for an account using the link above. Choose Create an Account once you've clicked on the link above. We recommend that you use your Belmont email address just in case you ever have trouble with your password. Once you've created your account, you can access NYTimes.com from anywhere, including via the NYTimes mobile apps! Every year, you'll need to log in to your account via the link above while on campus to keep it active.