LibGuides: Art and Art History: Articles

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Research Databases

RESEARCH DATABASES

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive multidisciplinary database with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. Indexes/abstracts over 12,500 journals as well as over 13,200 other publications (monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.). Features PDF content going back as far as 1887.
Art & Architecture Complete This link opens in a new window
Full-text database for articles in art and architecture with over 63,000 images.
Humanities International Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text coverage of 380 periodicals and more than 220 books. Also offers cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 780 academic journals, magazines, and trade publications, as well as for over 230 books. Includes a collection of 63,000+ images.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.

Keywords

Keywords

Journal articles answer a specific question very thoroughly. Because of this, the keywords you use to search for articles can be more specific than keywords you use to search for books. Limit your search to a few keywords for best results.

Try searching for the:

Artist's Name (ex. "frida kahlo")
Artwork Title (ex. "mona lisa")
Art Movement (ex. impressionism)

Example:

If I'm looking for articles describing the human body in Michelangelo's art, some complex keyword searches I can try are:

michelangelo AND (anatomy OR body)
"italian renaissance" AND anatomy
"sistine chapel" AND figur*

Search Limiters

SEARCH LIMITERS

To narrow down your search results, try using the following limiters:

Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals
English Language
Full Text

Citations

ARTICLE CITATIONS

Databases can provide article citations for you. Follow these steps:

From the Search Results List, click on the article title. This opens up a detailed record for the article.
Look in the Tools column on the right-hand side of the page.
Under Tools, click on the Cite button.
A pop-up window presents you with a citation formatted according to different styles.
Copy and paste the citation into your list of references.
Verify the citation is formatted correctly. Typically databases make errors in formatting citations.

Click here for more information on citations.