LibGuides: Art and Visual Culture: Course Outlines

Lang Arts

Exhibitions as History
Senior Seminar

In this orientation, we will take a tour of library resources and services together. Today's lesson:

Go to the library website at library.newschool.edu
Note the link in the banner to the library updates guide.
Search the library catalog (Books & More) to find books, articles, and more on your topic.
- Example keywords: thelma golden
- Note that this is not a full-text search.
- Filter to books only: Resource Types -> Books.
Filter to physical books. Availability ->Physical Items in Consortium
- Click on Login to request a book.
Scroll up on search results page and note the "E-ZBorrow" button.
Now go back to the library website https://library.newschool.edu/
Click on Browse Databases and click on "Art."
Please note this is one place where you can find a link to EAI.
Select Art & Architecture Source.
Search using our example keywords: whitney biennial and refine Published Date to 1993
View full text, search for full text in other databases, request from library periodical holdings, request InterLibrary Loan, or Ask Us
Next, we will create an account in RefWorks, a citation management system.
Click on "Cite this item" then "Export to RefWorks"
Then click on "Yes, export to the newest version of RefWorks"
Click on "No account? - Sign up here" We will all create a RefWorks account. Please check your Spam folder if you don't get the verification email.
Now we will complete exporting the citation to RefWorks. Return to JSTOR and click on "Export to RefWorks"
Highlight the citation to view details on the right. You can edit the fields, if necessary.
To create a bibliography in any citation style, click on the checkboxes to the left of the references. Then go to "Create bibliography" and select "Create bibliography."
You can change your citation style using the drop-down menu. (Recommended: Chicago 17th Edition (Notes & Bibliography)

Need help? Request a 1-on-1 Consultation or Ask Us! Consult our Art Research Guide and Youtube playlist.

In this orientation, we will take a tour of library resources and services together. Today's lesson:

Go to the library website at library.newschool.edu
Note the link in the banner to the library updates guide.
Search the library catalog (Books & More) to find books, articles, and more on your topic.
- Example keywords: art protest
- Note that this is not a full-text search.
- Filter to books only: Resource Types -> Books.
Filter to physical books. Availability ->Physical Items in Consortium
Click on Login to request a book.
Scroll up on search results page and note the "E-ZBorrow" button.
Now go back to the library website https://library.newschool.edu/
Click on Browse Databases and click on "Art."
Select ARTbibliographies Modern.
Search using our example keywords: art protest
For books: search in library catalog
For articles: View full text, search for full text in other databases, request from library periodical holdings, request InterLibrary Loan, or Ask Us
Next, we will create an account in RefWorks, a citation management system.
Click on "Cite this item" then "Export to RefWorks"
Then click on "Yes, export to the newest version of RefWorks"
Click on "No account? - Sign up here" We will all create a RefWorks account. Please check your Spam folder if you don't get the verification email.
Now we will complete exporting the citation to RefWorks. Return to JSTOR and click on "Export to RefWorks"
Highlight the citation to view details on the right. You can edit the fields, if necessary.
To create a bibliography in any citation style, click on the checkboxes to the left of the references. Then go to "Create bibliography" and select "Create bibliography."
You can change your citation style using the drop-down menu. (Recommended: Chicago 17th Edition (Notes & Bibliography)

Need help? Request a 1-on-1 Consultation or Ask Us! Consult our Art Research Guide and Youtube playlist.

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Recommended Resources

Grove Art Online
The foremost scholarly art encyclopedia, updated regularly and covering global art and architecture from prehistory to present day.
Ebook Central
An exhaustive selection of authoritative, scholarly e-books that combines ebook databases ebrary and EBL into one platform.
A&A 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.

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.

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.
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.