Guides: History of Art & Architecture: Articles

Finding Journal & Magazine Articles

Art Index (H.W. Wilson)
Indexes art journals, magazines, bulletins and film reviews from 1984-current.

Art Index Retrospective (H.W. Wilson)
Comprehensive index to art criticism, 1929-1984. Indexes art journals, magazines, bulletins and film reviews from 1929-=1984. Subsequent years covered by Art Index.

Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)
The Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) is the most comprehensive art bibliography available worldwide, covering European and American visual arts from late antiquity to the present in publications since 1973. The recently unveiled (2010) free database search via The Getty Museum includes both BHA and the Répertoire de la litterature de l'art (RILA), covering the years 1975-2007.

Index Islamicus
Indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. Over 3,000 journals are monitored for inclusion in the database, together with conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews. Journals and books are indexed down to the article and chapter level. 1906 - present.
Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Comprehensive bibliography of scholarly materials pertaining to the study of European and other cultures between A.D. 400 and 1700. Currently indexes articles, books, and reviews.
Project MUSE - Premium Collection
Offers full-text of over 100 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics from the 1990s to present.

Historical Newspapers (ProQuest)
Search the digitized full-text and images of several major newspapers including New York Times (1851-2013); Wall Street Journal (1889-2000); Los Angeles Times (1881-1993); Washington Post (1877-2000); Chicago Tribune (1849-1993); Boston Globe (1872-1985); Christian Science Monitor (1908-2004); Atlanta Constitution (1868-1942). Black Newspapers: Chicago Defender (1909-1975); Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003); Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002)

Illustrated London News Historical Archive (1842-2003)
A fully digitized run (1842-2003) of the world’s most iconic illustrated newspaper. Includes over 260,000 pages in full color.
Nexis Uni
Nexis Uni is the new platform for LexisNexis Academic. It offers a streamlined, unified search of more than 15,000 news, legal and business sources. Resources include the full text of national and international newspapers; magazines; wire services; business and financial information; U.S. laws, regulations, and legal cases. Designed to meet student needs, it allows individual customization along with collaboration tools for creating shared work space for group projects.