E-resources - Restoration & Conservation
Conservation Information Network: Comprises over 172,000 bibliographic records on conservation. Literature referenced includes Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts, technical reports, conference proceedings, journal articles, books and audiovisual and unpublished materials.
Access: available without charge via the internet. www.bcin.ca
Art Full Text
H. W. Wilson's Art Full Text is a database that offers full-text plus abstracts and indexing of an international array of art and design publications. Art Full Text offers:
- Full text of articles from some 160 journals as far back as 1997
- Indexing of periodicals back to 1984
- Coverage of fine, decorative and commercial art
Access: Login with university network username & password.
DAAI : Design and Applied Arts Index [coverage from 1977- ] International index covering all areas of design and craft. Contains over 100,000 references from more than 450 design and craft journals. Also includes data on over 40,000 designers, studios, workshops, firms etc.
Access: login with university network username & password
JSTOR: the scholarly journal archive. Access to full-text articles [as PDF files] on a variety of subjects, including art history, conservation, architecture, music. Coverage includes Studies in Conservation, Journal of the American Institute for Conservation, APT Bulletin and many other journals.
FAQs about JSTOR [open as PDF file]
Access: on campus click here JSTOR
Off campus: click here JSTOR and login with university network username & password
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.
Access: login with university network username & password
Nexis UK
Comprehensive international news, business and company data, including full text of all the major UK newspapers and major overseas daily publications.
Access: login with university network username & password
CAMEO: Conservation and Art Material Encyclopedia Online
A searchable encyclopedia developed at the Conservation and Collections Management Department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. CAMEO contains chemical, physical, visual, and analytical information on over 10,000 historic and contemporary materials used in the conservation, preservation, and production of artistic, architectural, and archaeological materials.
Access: available without charge via the internet.
