Art, Design & Architecture Databasese
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DATABASES)
AATA Online
Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts provides peer-reviewed abstracts of the
international literature of conservation and heritage management. (The Getty)
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African American Biographical Database
Contains extended narratives of African American activists, business
people, former slaves, performing artists, educators, lawyers, physicians,
writers, church leaders, homemakers, religious workers, government workers,
athletes, farmers, scientists, factory workers, and more--both the famous
and the everyday person. (Chadwyck-Healey)
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Alt-PressWatch
Alt-PressWatch is a full text database of the newspapers, magazines
and journals of the alternative and independent press. It complements
and challenges the coverage of the mainstream media and serves a broad
spectrum of subject areas. Funded by

.
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American National Biography
In the American National Biography "American" is loosely defined as someone
whose significant actions occurred during his or her residence within what is now the United States or whose life or
career directly influenced the course of American history. Over 26,000 biographical sketches including artists and architects.
(Oxford University Press)
American Periodical Series
Full-text of articles in periodicals published between 1741 and
1900. 1,000 titles include Benjamin Franklin's
General Magazine,
the first American professional journals, and several consumer magazines
still in publication, such as
Vanity Fair,
Harper's, and
Ladies' Home Journal.
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Année Philologique
Bibliography of publications since 1969 in the area of classical
studies.
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ArchivesUSA
Provides information about primary source materials from over 5,400
US manuscript repositories of American history and politics literature.
ArchivesUSA includes records, complete with detailed indexes, about
over 118,000 manuscript and other special collections.
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Art
Abstracts
Indexes scholarly articles in art, architecture, design, film and
crafts from all time periods and countries. Covers 1984 - present. Also searches Art Index Retrospective covering 1929-1984. (H. W. Wilson)
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ARTbibliographies
Modern
Index and abstracts of 500 major art journals, museum bulletins,
exhibition catalogs and books covering all aspects of 20th-century art.
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Art
Index Retrospective
Indexes scholarly articles in art, architecture, design, film and
crafts from all time periods and countries. Indexes from 1929 - 1984.
Also searches Art Abstracts covering 1984 - present. (H.W. Wilson)
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Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Indexes articles from over 1200 journals. Includes and is searchable
by references cited in each article. (Web of Science)
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A-V Online
"[A] comprehensive database of educational audiovisual materials
for educators, market analysts, trainers, journalists, and media specialists."
(SilverPlatter)
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Avery Index (Architecture)
Indexes more than 2500 journals, including all major scholarly journals
on architecture and design, landscape architecture, city planning, historic
preservation and interior design. Coverage is from 1741 to the present.
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Bibliography of the History of Art
Provides citations and abstracts to the literature of the visual
arts and material culture from late antiquity (4th century A.D.) to
the present, in Europe and the New World successors to the Greco-Roman
world. Also contains RAA and RILA records from 1975 until they merged
to become BHA in 1991. (SilverPlatter)
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Biography
Reference Bank
"Contains more than 95,000 biographies and obituaries and more than
26,000 photographs of the subjects. Many of the biographies are enhanced
with full text, abstracts, and citations." Funded by

.(H.W.
Wilson)
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Book Review Digest Plus
Descriptive summaries of books as well as excerpts of book reviews, with all the book review citations and full text of book reviews from eleven other H. W. Wilson indexes.
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Books In Print
Complete bibliographic records from over 44,000 publishers. (FirstSearch)
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Dissertations
Dyabola
Dyabola indexes books and articles on classical and medieval art, archaeology and the humanities. It is compiled at the German Archaeological Institute in Rome.
This is a freely available web site.
EBSCO Academic
Indexing and abstracts for over 3200 publications with full-text
for over half of the publications. Funded by

. (EBSCOhost)
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ERIC
Journal articles and reports in education. All versions cover 1966
to the present. Some full-text. (EBSCOhost)
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Grove Dictionary of Art Online (also called Oxford Art Online)
Contains more than 40,000 articles on all aspects of art and culture,
including information on people and places, surveys of art in all countries,
maps, diagrams and links to images on the Internet.
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Hispanic American Periodicals Index
Indexes articles and other materials covering information about
Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico
border region, and Hispanics in the United States. (HAPI)
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Humanities
Index
In the First Person
Over 2500 oral-history collections are indexed, with links to full-text and
some links to audio and visual files. Interviews with over 9,000 individuals, including artists,
architects and photographers, are available along with information on the collections and
respositories from which they come.
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Index Islamicus
Indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world--both works written about the Middle East as well as about the other main Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, plus Muslim minorities elsewhere.
(Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
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Index of Christian Art
The Index of Christian Art is an iconographic, descriptive and bibliographic
database that indexes works of art from early apostolic times to 1400
AD. Records include bibliography, references to reproductions and a
growing number of links to images.(Princeton University)
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International Index to Black Periodicals
Includes current and retrospective bibliographic citations and abstracts
from over 150 scholarly and popular journals, newspapers and newsletters
from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean--and full-text coverage
of 40 core Black Studies periodicals. (Chadwyck-Healey)
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International
Index to the Performing Arts (IIPA)
Indexes more than 200 international performing arts periodicals
plus performing arts related items from
The New York Times and
The Washington Post. Includes some full-text articles. (Chadwyck-Healey)
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Iter-Gateway
to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Index to interdisciplinary literature pertaining to the Middle Ages
and Renaissance (400-1700). Includes articles, bibliographies, books,
catalogues, editions, abstracts, and discographies.
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JSTOR
Full-text articles from journals in a variety of disciplines, from
the journals' first issues through the late 1990's. (Acrobat Reader
needed to print.)
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The Left Index
"The Left Index is a[n] ... index to the contents of periodicals
of the left. Journals selected for inclusion in the index have a Marxist,
radical or left perspective..."
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Mergent
Online
Current and historical global business and financial database
of 11,000 U.S. public companies and 17,000 non-U.S. companies from Mergent.
Helpful for graphic design students looking for examples of annual report design.
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Minerva
Catalog of items owned by the seven University
of Louisville Libraries.
MLA International Bibliography
The MLA International Bibliography indexes books and articles published on modern languages, literature, folklore, and linguistics. (Chadwyck-Healey)
Index to books, dissertation and articles in over 3000 journals
on literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. (FirstSearch)
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Newsbank
Newspapers
Periodicals Index Online
Indexes the contents of older issues (1770-1995) of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences.
(Chadwyck-Healey)

Perseus Digital Library
Perseus makes a wide range of source materials available at this free web site, including Greek and Roman texts and images.
Perseus
Extensive resources for exploring ancient Greek art and
culture. (CD-ROM available at the Art Library)
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MUSE
Full-text of articles from 1990 forward in over 110 journals covering
Arts, Sciences (including medicine and mathematics), Humanities and
Social Sciences.
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ProQuest Digital Dissertations
Formerly known as Dissertations Abstracts International.
Contains 1.6 million citations for dissertations and theses from over 1,000 graduate schools.
Provides indexing back to 1861 and full-text availability to titles back to 1997 (full-text availability varies by
author's institution). Free full-text downloads can be sent to an email account.
ProQuest
Direct
Includes a cross-section of general periodicals, ABI/INFORM business
periodicals, and several national newspapers in full-text.
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ProQuest
Research Library
Search for coverage of a broad range of subjects including arts,
business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities,
international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social
sciences, and women's interests. Some full-text. Includes the database
formerly known as Periodical Abstracts. (ProQuest)
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Sanborn Maps - Kentucky Collection
Sanborn fire insurance maps are large-scale plans containing data
that can be used to estimate the potential risk for urban structures.
Includes maps for many Kentucky cities and date from the 1890s to the
1950s. Full-text images of the maps are provided.
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TOCS-IN (Tables of Contents of Journals of Interest to Classicists)
TOCS-IN provides tables of contents for about 160 journals in Classics, Near Eastern Studies and religion. This freely available web site is a good source for current bibliography.
Ulrich's
Periodicals Directory
"Profiles a quarter of a million academic journals, professional
monographic series, electronic publications, conference proceedings,
consumer magazines, newsletters, newspapers, 'zines, and other serials.
Each entry includes publishing information, price, start date, whether
the item is refereed, where it is indexed, and much more." (R.R. Bowker)
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University of Louisville Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Collection of digital copies of both recent and retrospective University of Louisville (UofL) theses and dissertations. Additions are welcome from UofL authors. To search for all UofL theses and dissertations (print and electronic) see
Minerva.

Wellesley Index
A bibliography of articles published in 45 major 19th century British monthlies and quarterlies covering a variety of topics in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Because many articles were published anonymously, the database includes an index to the authorship of the articles with supporting evidence and brief biographical details. (ProQuest)

Who's Who on the Web
Includes
Who's Who in American Art along with comprehensive profiles on over 1 million of
the most accomplished individuals from all fields of endeavor including: government, business, science & technology,
entertainment and sports. Search by name, gender, occupation, geography, hobbies and interests,
religion and much more. (Marquis)

WorldCat
Books and other materials in libraries worldwide. Funded by

. (FirstSearch)
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