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AATA Online is a comprehensive database of over 100,000 abstracts of literature related to the preservation and conservation of material cultural heritage.
A multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 6,100 full-text periodicals, including more than 5,100 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 10,100 journals and a total of more than 10,600 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. This scholarly collection offers unmatched full-text coverage of information in many areas of academic study including, but not limited to: animal science, anthropology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, food science & technology, general science, geography, geology, law, materials science, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music, pharmaceutical sciences, physics, psychology, religion & theology, veterinary science, women's studies, zoology and many other fields.
ACRL Visual Literacy Resources
(ACRL) Association of College and Research Libraries
America's Distinguished Artists
National registry of American artists.
Electronic Access available (Society for American Archaeology)
American journal of archaeology : the journal of the Archaeological Institute of America
Electronic Access available
American Memory from the Library of Congress
American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity. These materials, from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America, serving the public as a resource for education and lifelong learning.
Electronic Access available
Architect? A candid guide to the profession
Series Title: Art and Design Career Development Resource Series
Index and directory of over 20,000 architectural firms
Electronic Access available
Electronic Access available
ArchivesUSA® is a current directory of 5,596 repositories and 154,678 collections of primary source material across the United States. Using ArchivesUSA®, researchers are able to read descriptions of a repository's holdings to determine whether a collection contains material useful to their work as well as find the information they need to contact the repository directly. Repository records provide detailed information including phone and fax numbers, hours of service, materials solicited, email and home page URLs when available. Each collection record links to its corresponding repository record, simplifying the research process.
Artists Rights Society (ARS) is the preeminent copyright, licensing, and monitoring organization for visual artists in the United States. Founded in 1987, ARS represents the intellectual property rights interests of over 50,000 visual artists and estates of visual artists from around the world (painters, sculptors, photographers, architects and others).
Art & Architecture Thesaurus (The Getty)
The AAT is a structured vocabulary of around 34,000 concepts, including 131,000 terms, descriptions, bibliographic citations, and other information relating to fine art, architecture, decorative arts, archival materials, and material culture.
Art Abstracts (H.W. Wilson) provides comprehensive indexing and abstracts for 378 leading international art publications, including periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins. This database covers a broad range of art and design topics such as advertising, archaeology, crafts, folk art, graphic arts, interior design, landscape architecture, video, film, architecture and art history. Coverage for this database spans from 1984 to the present.
Art bulletin (College Art Association of America)
Electronic Access available
Electronic Access available (National Art Education Association)
Art Guide is a comprehensive Internet guide to the art collections of Great Britain and Ireland.
Art History Resources on the Web
Web resource created and maintained by Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe, Professor, Dept of Art History, Sweet Briar College, Virginia.
Electronic Access available
Art Index Retrospective is a bibliographic database that cumulates citations to Art Index volumes 1-32 of the printed index published between 1929-1984. The database cites articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Periodical coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch. In addition to articles, Art Index Retrospective indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals.
Electronic Access available (College Art Association of America)
Ceased.
ArtBabble was conceived, initiated, designed, built, sculpted, programmed, shot, edited, painted and launched by a cross-departmental collection of individuals at the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA). It is intended to showcase video art content in high quality format from a variety of sources and perspectives. ArtBabble was created so others will join in spreading the world of art through video.
Electronic Access available
A central marketplace for buyers and sellers of the book arts to connect. All books are available for purchase!
Artists' Books Online is designed to promote critical engagement with artists books and to provide access to a digital repository of metadata, scans, and commentary. The project serves several different communities: artists, scholars and critics, librarians and curators, and interested readers. ABsOnline operates as an online collection with curatorial guidelines established by an advisory board of professionals.
Find definitions for more than 3,600 terms used in discussing art / visual culture, along with thousands of supporting images, pronunciation notes, great quotations and cross-references.
Louisiana Division of the Arts
ARTstor is a non-profit initiative, founded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with a mission to use digital technology to enhance scholarship, teaching and learning in the arts and associated fields. The ARTstor Digital Library Charter Collection is a repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images and related data.
AskART is an online database containing over 185,000 artists. From its inception the focus was on American artists from the early 16th-Century through the present. However, in January of 2007 the database has expanded to include international artists' auction records.
Association of Art Museum Directors
The purpose of the Association of Art Museum Directors is to support its members in increasing the contribution of art museums to society. The AAMD accomplishes this mission by establishing and maintaining the highest standards of professional practice; serving as forum for the exchange of information and ideas; acting as an advocate for its member art museums; and being a leader in shaping public discourse about the arts community and the role of art in society.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals indexes more than 1,000 periodicals published worldwide on archeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation, as well as architecture. Updated daily, the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals covers 1977 to the present.
Bibliography of the History of Art
This bilingual database (English and French) allows customized searching on the history of postclassical Western art. Covering European and American art from late antiquity to the present, the Bibliography of the History of Art indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealer's catalogs, and articles from more than 2,500 periodicals. BHA is updated quarterly and covers 1973 to the present. Topics covered include fine, decorative, and applied arts, industrial design and architecture, popular and folk art, and material culture of interest to art historians through article abstracts from 1989 to the present. BHA includes and extends the coverage of its two predecessor art indexes: RAA (Repertoire d'Art et d'Archeologie) from 1973 to 1989 and RILA (International Repertory of the Literature of Art) from 1975 to 1989. (Soon to be IBA = International Bibliography of Art).
This site has been developed to enable visitors to access and engage with the Museum's collection online and to provide practical information for people planning to visit the Museum.
Building design portfolios : innovative concepts for presenting your work
Series Title: Art and Design Career Development Resource Series
Bulletin - Metropolitan Museum of Art
Electronic Access available (Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art
Electronic Access available. Ceased.
Electronic Access available
Business and legal forms for fine artists
Series Title: Art and Design Career Development Resource Series
Business and legal forms for graphic designers
Series Title: Art and Design Career Development Resource Series
Business and legal forms for interior designers
Series Title: Art and Design Career Development Resource Series
Business and legal forms for photographes
Series Title: Art and Design Career Development Resource Series
Provides full text from 11,200 sources, including more than 1,100 scholarly business journals. This database offers information in virtually every area of business including accounting & tax, banking, finance & insurance, construction, computer science, economics and many more. The database contains full text from international top ranking journals including, Harvard Business Review, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity , Academy of Management Review, Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance, Journal of Marketing Management etc.
Capstone Projects - Landscape Architecture
Projects from past Landscape Architecture students from LA5002 course. Arranged according to date and author. SB469.22 + Date + Author.
Series Title: Art and Design Career Development Resource Series
Series Title: Art and Design Career Development Resource Series
CHArt - Computers and the History of Art Group
CHArt is a society open to all who have an interest in the application of computers to the study of art and design.
Christie's (New York) - Catalogue of Auction
Auction Catalogues
City Parish Planning Commission (CPPC)
Historic Preservation & Urban Design
Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Boards
The Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Boards (CLARB) is dedicated to ensuring that all individuals who affect the natural and built environment through the practice of landscape architecture are sufficiently qualified to do so.
Creating the perfect design brief : how to manage design for strategic advantage
Series Title: Art and Design Career Development Resource Series
See: Sanborn Maps (Indexes & Databases). Provides digital Sanborn for Louisiana.
Directory of Open Access Journals
The aim of the Directory of Open Access Journals is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact. The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content. In short, a one stop shop for users to Open Access Journals.
Contains citations to 1.2 million dissertations and masters theses. Coverage begins in 1861, with abstracts available since 1980, and thesis abstracts since 1988.
Egyptian archaeology (London, England)
(Egypt Exploration Society)
Environment and planning. B, Planning & design
Electronic Access available
Environment and planning. C, Government & policy
Electronic Access available
Environment and planning. D, Society & space
Electronic Access available
Ferguson career coach : managing your career in the art industry
Series Title: Art and Design Career Development Resource Series
Fine art publicity: the complete guide for galleries and artists
Series Title: Art and Design Career Development Resource Series
Fine artist's guide to marketing and self-promotion
Series Title: Art and Design Career Development Resource Series
Focus on Photography: A Curriculum Guide
International Center of Photography
Gallica, biblioteca digital de la Bibliothèque nationale de France
National Library of France Digital Library Collection
(American Society of Landscape Architects)
Ceased. Languages (English/French). Peer-Reviewed/Refereed.
Electronic Access available (International Center of Medieval Art)
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
The TGN is a structured vocabulary containing around 895,000 records, including around 1,115,000 names, place types, coordinates, and descriptive notes, focusing on places important for the study of art and architecture.
Getty Union List of Artist Names (Research at the Getty)
The Union List of Artist Names ® (ULAN) contains structured vocabularies that can be used to improve access to information about art, architecture, and material culture. See also Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names & the Art & Architecture Thesaurus.
Language (Spanish). Peer-Reviewed/Refereed.
GradShare: Graduate Student Community
Supported by ProQuest.
Series Title: Art and Design Career Development Resource Series
Electronic Access available (Classical Association (Great Britain))
Indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. This resource offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE serves as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet. The database contains nearly 300,000 records, full text for selected titles and searchable cited references for more than 200 titles as well.
Historic Preservation - Lousiana
The Louisiana Division of Historic Preservation's professionally trained staff works in the public's interest to preserve and restore these buildings so they can enhance and enrich our environment and, thus, our lives.
Electronic Access available
Electronic Access available
How to survive and prosper as an artist
Series Title: Art and Design Career Development Resource Series
ICC performance code for buildings and facilities
See MADCAD (Indexes & Databases)
Inhabitat.com is a weblog devoted to the future of design, tracking the innovations in technology, practices and materials that are pushing architecture and home design towards a smarter and more sustainable future.
Inside the business of illustration
Series Title: Art and Design Career Development Resource Series
Interior design (New York, N.Y.)
Electronic Access available
International Archive of Women in Architecture
(IAWA) at Virginia Tech
Getty Research Institute - Research Library contributions
Issues of Image Magazine | Image Magazine Online
The First 47 Years of one of the first Journals of Photography and Film, 1952–1997
Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Iter is a not-for-profit research project with partners in Toronto (the headquarters), New York City, and Tempe. Iter was created for the advancement of learning in the study and teaching of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700) through the development of online resources. The Iter Databases include: Iter Bibliography, International Directory of Scholars, Iter Italicum, Early Theatre, Renaissance and Reformation, Renaissance Quarterly, Aestimatio, Baptisteria Sacra, Electronic Capital Project.
International Visual Literacy Assocaition
Interior Design Educators Council.
Journal of landscape architecture (JOLA)
Electronic Access available
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
Electronic Access available
Journal of urban planning and development
Electronic Access available
A not-for-profit organization established with the assistance of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. JSTOR consists of a reliable and comprehensive archive of important scholarly journal literature. Subscription contains Arts & Sciences Collections I - VII, Ecology & Botany Collection, andHealth & General Sciences Collection.
International Cultural Society of Korea
Library - Firm Listing
Electronic Access available
Offers full-text online news, business, legal, legislative, and regulatory information, updated daily.
The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, maps and manuscripts in its collections. The Library's mission is to make its resources available and useful to the Congress and the American people and to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity for future generations.
Series Title: Art and Design Career Development Resource Series
National Fire Protection Association
National Fire Protection Association
The LOUISiana Digital Library (LDL) is an online library of over 84,000 digital materials about Louisiana's history, culture, places, and people. Its purpose is to make unique historical treasures from Louisiana's archives, libraries, museums, and other repositories in the state electronically accessible to Louisiana residents and to students, researchers, and the general public in other states and countries. The LOUISiana Digital Library contains photographs, maps, manuscript materials, books, oral histories, and more that document Louisiana's history and culture. We hope that you find the items in the Digital Library as diverse and interesting as the people and places in Louisiana.
Louisiana National Register of Historic Places
Established by Congress in 1966, the National Register of Historic Places is the nation's official list of significant historic properties. Each state has a historic preservation office which is responsible for nominating buildings, sites, districts, etc. to the Register. In Louisiana this program is administered by the Division of Historic Preservation, which is part of the Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism.
Louisiana State University Press
MADCAD Building Codes eLibrary
MAD CAD is a state-of-the-art subscription based reference database online, containing building codes, knowledge-based design solutions and, guidelines to meet the codes. MAD CAD will provide you access to cross-referenced collections of building, electrical, mechanical, plumbing, fire, and maintenance codes from BOCA, SBCCI, ICBO, ICC, and NFPA. MAD CAD goes beyond compiling national standards, and gives you immediate access to comprehensive state and local codes to meet your unique architectural, engineering and educational solutions. Its ease of use lies in the implementation of a search engine and organizational tools. (International Code Council 2009 available here).
Electronic Access available. Peer-reviewed/Refereed.
Electronic Access available
Opportunities in visual arts careers
Series Title: Art and Design Career Development Resource Series
Formerly Grove Dictionary of Art (also available in PRINT). The most comprehensive online reference resource for all aspects of the visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the present day. The Grove Dictionary of Art contains 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts - painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography - from prehistory to the present day. Compiled over a period of 15 years, it represents the work of more than 6,800 scholars from around the world, each writing on his or her own specialist field of study.
Pantheon (Bruckmanns Pantheon)
Ceased. Languages (English/French/German).
Ceased Publication. Language (Italian).
Parks & recreation (National Recreation and Park Association)
Electronic Access available
Portfolio : an architecture student's handbook
Series Title: Art and Design Career Development Resource Series
Archive: http://postsecretarchive.com/
The mission of the Preservation Resource Center: To promote the preservation, restoration, and revitalization of New Orleans’ historic architecture and neighborhoods.
Electronic Access available
Provides online, world wide, institutional subscription access to the full text of over 100 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics.
Electronic Access available (Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium)
Revue du Louvre : la revue des musées de France
Conseil des musées nationaux (France)
RIBA journal (Royal Institute of British Architects)
Electronic Access available
(International Sculpture Center). Open Access via publisher site- current issue and archive (1996-Present) Sculpture: (http://www.sculpture.org/redesign/mag.shtml)
Selling art without galleries : toward making a living from your art
Series Title: Art and Design Career Development Resource Series
Electronic Access available
Smarthistory: a multimedia web-book about art and art history
Smarthistory.org is a free multi-media web-book designed as a dynamic enhancement (or even substitute) for the traditional art history textbook.
Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS)
SEE: Smithsonian American Art Museum Research Databases / Archives, Manuscripts & Photographic Collection
Society of Architectural Historians
Contains : Biographies of American Architects Who Died Between 1897 and 1947
Auction Catalogues
Auction Catalogues
Sotheby's Arcade Auctions (New York) - Catalogue of Auction
Auction Catalogues.
The artist's guide to getting & having a successful exhibition
Series Title: Art and Design Career Development Resource Series
The Bonefolder: an e-journal for the book binder and book artist
The Bonefolder, an outgrowth of the Book Arts Web, is a peer-reviewed “open-access” e-journal for bookbinding and the book arts. Since fall of 2004, The Bonefolder has reached a global audience and contributed to the body of knowledge in the book arts both theoretically and practically.
The fine artist's career guide : making money in the arts and beyond
Series Title: Art and Design Career Development Resource Series
Museum & Library
J. Paul Getty Museum & Research Institute
The Journal of Artists' Books (JAB )
The Journal of Artists' Books provides a platform for both theoretical and creative expression. As a forum for the study of artists' books, JAB publishes critical and theoretical articles, reviews of artists' books and exhibitions, and commentary on conferences and and other book art-related activities. JAB also regularly showcases creative work in the form of artists' statements and artist-designed pages and covers.
The nude wall is an online art gallery + creative community where people come to sell, vote, comment and purchase amazing original artwork created by artists from around the world.
The RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects)
The Royal Institute of British Architects is the UK body for architecture and the architectural profession.
Umbrella is the most comprehensive online quarterly covering the arena of artists’ books, art books and other multiple editions, including audio and new media. Umbrella’s reviews cover new bookworks by artists, exhibitions, with special sections that focus on photographic and art books. Moreover, we try to keep you abreast of the best art gossip in the Western world.
VAGA.ORG: Visual Artists and Galleries Association, Inc.
VAGA is an artists rights organization and copyright collective representing reproduction rights (copyright) for approximately 500 American artists and, through agreements with affiliated organizations in other countries, thousands of foreign artists worldwide.
All the surviving letters written and received by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) are contained in this edition of his correspondence.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index - This database indexes 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals from 1975 to the present. Some of the disciplines covered include: archaeology, linguistics, architecture, literary reviews, art, literature, Asian studies, music, classics, philosophy, dance, poetry, folklore, radio, television, film, history, religion, language, and theater. (One of three citation indexes available via Web of Science).
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Offers Records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 12th century.
