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Magnifying glass  Databases for Art & Design

Essential Research Tools

Art Index

This resource covers fine, decorative, and commercial art, as well as photography, folk art, film and architecture. Includes expanded Latin American, Canadian, Asian, and non-Western art. In addition to articles, this database indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals.

1984–current | Citations only


Academic Search Premier

Large, scholarly, multi-disciplinary database. Over 300 journals are specifically focused on art and design.

1975–current | Some full text


Digital Public Library of America

Provides an ” open, distributed network of comprehensive online resources that draw on the nation’s living heritage from libraries, universities, archives, and museums in order to educate, inform, and empower everyone in current and future ­generations.” National portal to digital holdings of archives, libraries, museums, and cultural institutions.


JSTOR

Provides multi-disciplinary access to scholarly journals and books. Our collection (Arts & Sciences I-IV and VII) is available in all full text. Under “Refine Results” check “All Content” if you want more search results, some of which may need to be requested from other libraries. (See our Interlibrary Loan page for more information)

1800s–current | Some full text


New York Times

Search for full text newspaper articles. Good for art reviews and happenings.


Project MUSE

Comprehensive source for scholarly journals and books. Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, religion, gender studies, economics, and many others. Our collection is available in full text. Check “All Content” if you want more search results, some of which you may need to request from other libraries. (See our Interlibrary Loan page).

Some full text | More info

 

 

Also Useful

Google Scholar

Google Scholar provides a simple way to search for scholarly literature. When accessing this database through the link provided here you will find free connections to the pay for view materials that are located in our subscription sources. Just click on “Find Full Text @SMU.” See also the Google Scholar Blog for citation metrics.

Some full text, some pay for view


News & Newspapers

Access to over 500 national newspapers. Includes full text for the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. (from ProQuest)

Some full text


New York Public Library Digital Collection

Explore 677,429 items digitized from The New York Public Library’s collections. This site is a living database with new materials added every day, featuring prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more.


OAISter

Union catalog of digital resources. Includes digitized books and articles, born-digital texts, audio files, images, movies, and datasets. (From OCLC FirstSearch)

Catalog records


WorldCat

From OCLC, the largest, most comprehensive catalog of books and other materials, with records from over 55,000 libraries worldwide. Materials found in WorldCat may be borrowed through our interlibrary loan program. (From OCLC FirstSearch)

Catalog records


 

 

Questions?
Contact your liaison librarian

Lauren Leighton

Lauren Leighton
lleighto@smumn.edu
(507) 457 1564


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Start your research with CREDO

An online reference source with links to databases and the catalog

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