LibGuides: Art and Visual Culture: Course Assignments

Recommended databases

Art & Architecture Source
Formerly known as Art Source, Art & Architecture Source is an art research database that covers a broad range of subjects from fine, decorative and commercial art, to various areas of architecture and architectural design. It features full-text articles, indexing and abstracts for an array of journals, books and more.
Art & Architecture Archive
A full-text archive of magazines comprising key research material in the fields of art and architecture, dating from the late-nineteenth century to the twenty-first. Subjects covered include fine art, decorative arts, architecture, interior design, industrial design, and photography.
ARTbibliographies Modern
ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM) is a source of information on modern and contemporary arts dating from the late 19th century onwards, including photography since its invention and is the only specialist bibliography available for the study of modern and contemporary art.
JSTOR
JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible. Content in JSTOR spans many disciplines, primarily in the humanities and social sciences. Recent articles are generally not available.
ProQuest All Subscribed Content
All ProQuest databases, ranging from dissertations to newspaper articles to scholarly journals to trade journals to wire services.

Google Books
Use Google Books as a tool to help you search inside of books. Then copy and paste titles into Books & More, the library catalog.

Ebook Central
An exhaustive selection of authoritative, scholarly e-books that combines ebook databases ebrary and EBL into one platform.
Art & Architecture ePortal
Authoritative eBook resource that features important works of scholarship in the history of art, architecture, decorative arts, material culture, photography, and design. Innovative functionality and extensive metadata offer students and scholars exciting ways to discover and engage with content from Yale University Press and other leading university presses and museum publishers
MIT Press Direct
MIT Press covers more than 40 ejournals and 3200 ebooks , with 150 ebooks added annually. Subjects emphasized include cognitive science, digital humanities & new media, economics, environment, information science, neuroscience, philosophy, science/technology & society, and social sciences.

Credo Reference Academic Core
Credo Reference helps you start your research with 800+ full-text reference resources, such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, subject handbooks, image collections, and videos, on a user-friendly online platform.
CQ Researcher
CQ Researcher provides award winning in-depth coverage of the most important issues of the day. Our reports are written by experienced journalists, footnoted and professionally fact-checked. Full-length articles include an overview, historical background, chronology, pro/con feature, plus resources for additional research.
Grove Art Online
The foremost scholarly art encyclopedia, updated regularly and covering global art and architecture from prehistory to present day.

ARTstor
ARTstor is a digital library including high-quality images for use to enhance scholarship and teaching from a wide variety of contributors around the world.
Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI): Education
Founded in 1971, Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) is a nonprofit arts organization that is a leading international resource for video and media art. The EAI collection spans the mid-1960s to the present, and is recognized as one of the most comprehensive video art collections in the world.

EAI’s Educational Streaming Service contains almost 2,000 titles by 65 artists and will eventually encompass EAI’s entire collection of 3,800 media artworks. Videos currently not available for streaming can be requested via the New School library's Course Reserves service.
Dis.art
DIS is a New York-based collective composed of Lauren Boyle, Solomon Chase, Marco Roso and David Toro. DIS.art features video art from boundary-breaking contemporary artists exploring the themes of capital, identity, nations, nature, and more.

Chicago Manual of Style
The online Chicago Manual of Style is a style guide for American English published since 1906 by the University of Chicago Press.
RefWorks
User database for New School community to import, store and organize citations for automatically formatted papers and/or bibliographies, in any of hundreds of format styles such as MLA and APA.
Library Stack
Library Stack is a database and archive of digital arts publications from the fields of contemporary art, graphic design, architecture, film and philosophy.