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ARTS VIDEO
A quick documentary that hits the highlights of the brief career of the Dutch artist Bas Jan Ader, who vanished at sea in 1975.
Recommended Art and Art History Journal Databases
These databases have been chosen because they are the most directly relevant for finding journal and periodical articles when doing art and art historical research. A brief description of each database is given, including a mention of its particular arts-related usefulness where that is not immediately evident.
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Academic Search CompleteProvides indexing in a wide range of academic areas including business, social sciences, arts, humanities, general academic, general science, education and multi-cultural issues.
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Art Index RetrospectiveThis database provides invaluable electronic access to the citations published in volumes 1 through 32 of Art Index, covering the years 1929 - 1984. Art Index was the premier art citation compendium in the age of print information.
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ArtAbstracts FulltextCovers the world of the arts from architecture to video, including art publications worldwide, and serves as a comprehensive record of art reproductions that appear in the indexed publications.
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ArticleFirstContains citations for articles listed on the table of contents pages of journals in the arts, science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture. Some full-text links.
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Arts and Humanities Citation IndexProvides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information and cited references found in nearly 1,130 of the world's leading arts & humanities journals.
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ARTstorThe premier art historical image database. A digital library of approximately 725,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research.
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Bibliography of the History of ArtOne of the premier bibliographies of scholarly writing about the history of art. Indexes articles from more than 1,200 periodicals. Covers entries from 1990 to the near-present.
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Oxford Art OnlineComprises the full text of The Grove Dictionary of Art, (34 vols) and The Oxford Companion to Western Art. Includes ongoing additions of new and updated articles, with over 1,500 thumbnail art images and line drawings displayed in the text of articles.
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Humanities and Social Sciences RetrospectiveIndexes nearly 1200 periodicals from 1907-1984 (including 240,000+ book reviews.) covering a wide range of interdisciplinary fields in a broad array of humanities and social sciences journals, as well as many important scientific journals.
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Index of Medieval ArtThe Index of Medieval Art is a comprehensive thematic and iconographic index of early Christian and medieval art objects, primarily before 1400 AD with no geographic limitations.
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JSTORAn excellent resource. A collection of electronic full-text journals, many of them art and art history related. Titles are usually covered from their first issue, though some exclude the most recent 2-5 years.
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Lexis-NexisDatabase of news, business and legal information. Includes full-text access to articles from many major magazines and newspapers. Sometimes useful for finding general interest profiles of visual and performing artists.
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Museum DirectoryProvides the most accurate and up-to-date information on America's museums. Currently lists over 14,400 institutions of every size and type in all 50 states, including museums, houses/sites, planetariums, science-technology centers, art galleries/centers, aquariums and zoological parks. Information includes size, budget information, personnel, subject concentration, annual attendance and house publications. NOTE: This is a Loyola subscription database. LUC users do not need to log in.
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Museum of Online Museums (Moom)Web directory of online museums, collections, exhibits, and galleries ranging from "high" art to the mundane.
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New York Review of BooksThe New York Review of Books (or NYRB) is a biweekly magazine on literature, culture, and current affairs published in New York. It takes as its point of departure the idea that the discussion of important books is itself an indispensable literary activity. It has a long and venerable history of in-depth discussion of fine arts topics, usually old masters and modernists, but increasingly contemporary art creators and related ideas.
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Oxford Reference OnlineOver 100 reference titles covering a broad range of subjects areas, including a number of Art-specific dictionaries, guides and Oxford companions.
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Periodicals AbstractsIndexes general and academic journals, covering the arts, business, current affairs, economics, literature, religion, psychology, women's studies, and others.
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Project MuseOver 380 electronic full-text journals from a wide array of academic publishers. Covering the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and more.
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Who's Who in American ArtThis database includes 14,000 of today's most notable artists, including outstanding artists from the 20th century. This collection is available for one user at a time.
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Wilson SelectSelected full-text articles from various sources in the Humanities, Business, the Sciences, Social Sciences, etc. Including art-specific and general interest titles (with arts-related content).
Quick Guide: Peer Review - How to Judge
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Peer Review: Quick GuideThe attached one-page chart lists the four primary characteristics of a peer reviewed journal article or a book chapter in a scholarly edited book.
The link below provides a simple one-page chart listing four primary characteristics of a peer reviewed journal article. It suggests ways in which you may judge whether an article meets each criteria. These characterists may also be applied when evaluating a book chapter in an edited book. This is not a definitive guide - when in doubt, always consult your professor or contact the library reference desk (see the Need Help tab at the top of this subject guide for a variety of ways to contact a reference librarian).
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1032 W. Sheridan Rd.
Chicago, IL 60660
(773) 508-2647