ARAH 563 - MESDA Summer Institute: Chesapeake
FAL web page
www.lib.virginia.edu/fine-arts/
NC Live
http://www.nclive.org/authhome.phtml?top_page=browse&page=2#W
Continuing Education Resource Page
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/conted/
Google Scholar
http://scholar.google.com/
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painting, pottery, decorative arts, architecture, material culture
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Databases
America History and Life covers the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to present and has almost 400,000 citations from 2,000 key English-language journals published worldwide. Includes book reviews.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals 1860-present. Indexes 2000+ jounals covering all aspects of architecture.
BHA (Bibliography of the History of Art) covers European and American art from late antiquity (ca. 300 AD) to the present and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealer's catalogs, and articles from more than 2,500 periodicals.
Art Index indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world. In addition to articles, Art Index indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals.
Smithsonian Institution Archives and Inventories includes the Art Inventories which provide information on over 335,000 artworks in public and private collections worldwide.
American Periodicals Series Online 1740-1900 can find articles from 1,100 periodicals that first began publishing in America between 1740 and 1900.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online is a digital archive of 150,000 printed works from the 18th century.
JStor searches the full-text backfiles of many important scholarly journals. Coverage is usually from the first issue to 3-5 years before the present.
Contact the Librarian: Lucie Stylianopoulos | 924.6604 | lws4n@virginia.edu
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