- Art Full Text
Art Full Text comprises the bibliographic contents of leading Art journals, museum bulletins and yearbooks. The database gives references to articles, reviews, exhibition listings and many other types of material. Unusually, reproductions of works of art that appear in the journals are also fully detailed. Full-text coverage for 160 periodicals is also included. Coverage is from 1984 as an index, with added abstracts from 1994, and with full text from 1997 to the present. It is updated monthly. Subject coverage spans all aspects of art, from visual to performing arts, and ranges from archaeology to television and video.
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- Arts on Film Archive
Offers on-line access to a large range of films on art produced in the United Kingdom since the 1950s, and is a unique record of British and international post-war art, as well as of documentary film-making in the UK.
In its first phase, the archive offers a complete database and an on-line video streaming of all 450 films made by the film department of Arts Council England between 1953 and 1998 and several films produced till 2003 by the dance Department of ACE.
- Bridgeman Education
An image database of over 260,000 high-quality images, with 500 new images added weekly. Worldwide coverage of the visual culture of civilisations from prehistoric times to the present. The images are supplied by museums, galleries and private collections. Images cover a wide range of subjects, from Medicine to Theatre and from Geography to Politics. Every image has been copyright-cleared for educational use by staff and students. An online tutorial is available.
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- DAAI : Design and Applied Arts Index
International index covering all areas of design and craft. Contains over 100,000 references from more than 450 design and craft journals, with 10-15,000 references added annually. Also includes data on over 40,000 designers, studios, workshops, firms etc. Also included are 4 supplementary directories on education, organisations, archives and periodicals.
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- JSTOR
JSTOR is a full text database. JSTOR Arts & Sciences III includes journals in languages and literature, as well as essential titles in the fields of music, film studies, folklore, performing arts, religion, and the history and study of art and architecture. There are 150 titles in this collection.
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- Lexis Library
Lexis Library includes Art Law which offers practical and authoritative answers to all the legal and tax ramifications involved in the creation, purchase, ownership, sale or transfer of a work of art. It features insights into statutes of limitations, fine-art multiples, tax and first amendment law, museum law, international trade, auction law, and new technologies, including the Internet. In addition, it includes an array of new forms, addressing copyrights, consignments, sales, international transactions, escrow arrangements, museum loans, commissioned works, and taxation.
- Oxford Art Online
Includes Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms
Grove Art Online is an art encyclopedia covering all aspects of visual art. It includes the full text of The Dictionary of Art, edited by Jane Turner (Macmillan, 1996) - the landmark reference work in 34 volumes with more than 45,000 articles contributed by 6,700 scholars from 120 countries - and is regularly updated. All new content is written and peer reviewed by scholars and specialists, with the participation of more than 1,000 international art historians.
Grove Art Online includes images of the most frequently studied works of art. Through partnerships with major organizations such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum, the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), Art Resource, Art Images for College Teaching (AICT), and many international galleries and individual artists, Grove Art Online offers over 5,000 searchable and embedded art images, maps, and line drawings. It also provides over 40,000 editorially selected image links to museums and galleries around the world.
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