ART 3210: World Art and Color History
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Article databases
- Art Index Retrospective: 1929-1984 (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowThis index covers back issues of Art Index and includes citations from over 420 periodicals.
- Bibliography of the History of ArtThis is a complete bibliography of books, chapters, and journal articles written on western art between 1975 and 2007. It is compiled and maintained by The Getty Research Institute.
- ProQuest Research Library This link opens in a new windowIndexes popular magazines, scholarly journals, newspapers and trade publications in a wide range of subject areas, including business, education, humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Full-text available for over 2,500 journals. Coverage from 1857.
- Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
This is a multi-disciplinary, full-text database which includes 4,000 peer-reviewed journals and indexing and abstracts for more than 9,000 journals.
- JSTOR Archival Journals and Primary Sources Collection This link opens in a new window
This collection includes all 2,800+ academic journals on JSTOR, covering more than 60 disciplines across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Also included are millions of primary sources from the 19th Century British Pamphlets, World Heritage Sites: Africa, Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa, and the Global Plants collections.
The JSTOR platform does not provide access to the most recent 3-5 years of a journal’s content. Current issues of journals hosted on the JSTOR platform are available through separate subscriptions on other platforms. Please check LibrarySearch for access to embargoed content.
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