Guides: History of Art & Architecture: Home

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This website will help you find the best search tools, reference sources, and databases of visual and scholarly resources for History of Art & Architecture. In addition, the site contains information on formatting citations and image captions.

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Arts & Humanities Database This link opens in a new window
This database features hundreds of titles covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre and Cultural Studies. It is designed to complement the following indexes: ABM, Avery, BHA, BHI, DAAI, Index Islamicus, MLA, Philosopher's Index and RILM.
ARTstor This link opens in a new window
Collections of high-quality images, curated from leading museums and archives around the world. Artstor’s diverse collections are rights-cleared for education and research
JSTOR All Collections This link opens in a new window
Everyone's fave for quick-search scholarly articles. Full-text archive of over 1000 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window
Excellent background information. Think "Wikipedia" but scholarly!

Evaluating Resources

Scholarly vs. Popular Material
How to tell what's scholarly, and what's not.
Anatomy of a Scholarly Article
A visual introduction to the basic features of scholarly articles.
Internet News, Fact-Checking and Critical Thinking
This guide provides a variety of journalism and library resources to help you become a more savvy and critically-informed online news consumer.

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