History of Art & Visual Culture Research Guide

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This guide includes the library's resources in the History of Art & Visual Culture.

The tabs include resources/databases for:

Primary Sources - Images and archival information
Articles & Books - Journal Articles and books on art history
Topic Overviews & Bibliographies - Background information and curated bibliographies
Writing & Citing - Resources for writing better papers

Below are links to quick links to databases:

International Bibliography of Art (IBA) This link opens in a new window
Resource for scholarly literature on Western art, covering at least 500 core journals (with an emphasis on specialist and rare titles not covered by other indexes), monographs, essay collections, conference proceedings, and exhibition catalogues. Successor to Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA).
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (ARCH) This link opens in a new window
Citations to articles on the following topics: architecture, architectural design, city planning, furniture and decoration, interior design, historic preservation, history of architecture, and urban planning
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary database of scholarly articles. Searches citation indexes in Arts and Humanities, Social Science, and Science. Includes "cited by" feature and allows sorting by citation count.

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