REFERENCE WORKS

ART ENCYCLOPEDIAS AND DICTIONARIES

GENERAL:

The Encyclopedia of World Art. 17v. [R.R. N31 .E59]
This work was once considered the standard encyclopedia of art. Still valuable and containing excellent scholarship. Vol. 15 is an index.

The Encyclopedia of Visual Art. 10v. [R.R. N25 .E53 1983] Published by Britannica and containing sections on different regions of the world, different time periods. The last several volumes is a biographical dictionary of artists.

SYMBOLS & ICONOGRAPHY

THEMES

ADVERTISING/MARKETING

Major Marketing Campaigns Annual.[RR HF5837 .M35]

Dictionary of Marketing and Advertising. [RR HF5415 .R577 1995]

Encyclopedia of Consumer Brands. 3v. [RR HF5415.3 .E527 1994]

PHOTOGRAPHY

The Focal Encyclopedia of Photography [RR TR9 .F6 2007]

Contemporary Photographers [RR TR139 .C66 1988]

SEXUALITY

Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender 3v. [RR HQ16 .E52 2007]

CENSORSHIP

Censorship 3v. [RR Z658.U5 C38 1997]

 

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INDEXES & DATABASES

Interdisciplinary:

Academic Search Premier
This database provides access to over 8040 multi-disciplinary publications, many in full text. Covers 1975 to the present.

Jstor
An index to and full text of select, academic journals.

Project Muse
An index to and full text of journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press and other scholarly publishers.

Subject specific:

Art:

Art Index
"Indexes English-language art periodicals, plus museum bulletins, bibliographies, film reviews, and conference reports. Covers 1984 to the present.

Art Index Retrospective
Covers 1929-1984.

ARTbibliographies Modern
Modern and contemporary art, photography and design. Covers 1974-present.

History:

America: History & Life -- An index to approximately 2,800 journals, plus dissertations and books in North American History. Indexes literature published from 1964 to the present. See Historical Abstracts for coverage outsde North America.

Gender/Sexuality:

Women's Studies International -- Covers the core disciplines in Women's Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. Coverage spans from 1972 and earlier to present.

Gender Watch -- A full-text collection of international journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, special reports and conference proceedings devoted to women's and gender issues.

Sociological Abstracts -- An index to 2600 sociology journals plus book abstracts. Covers 1963-present.

Business:

Business Source Premier
Indexes approximately 3800 business journals with full-text for over 1100 publications. Covers 1922 to present.

Newspapers:

LexisNexis Academic
Excellent source for full-text articles in national and international newspapers.

New York Times (1851 - 2004)
Offers "full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue."

Images of art:

ARTstor (St. Olaf subscribes to this resource)
A "repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images and related data." Covers architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design from many cultures. ARTstor also features an Offline Image Viewer (OIV) that you can use to create presentations. It can be easily downloaded form the ARTstor site.

ArtSource
A web site of collected images submitted by librarians, artists and art historians.

Web Gallery of Art
Searchable images of art from the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque.

The Beazley Archive
Large collection of images from Greek vases. Well indexed extensive collection.

Timeline of Art History
Well researched site sponsored by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

COMPASS (Collections Multimedia Public Access System)
Access to 5000 objects housed in the British Museum.

CORSAIR
Images from Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts.

The George Ortiz Collection
Private collection of ancient art. Entries exist for each item as well as a glossary.

Google Image Search
Search the Internet for art images.

 

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HOW TO CITE

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers Sixth Edition [RR LB2369 .G53 2003]

For on-line guides, see:

Citation Guide from Purdue University

Assembling a List of Works Cited in Your Paper

You may also take a short tutorial on how to compose your citations in the MLA style (by Ielleen R. Miller and Jonathan D. Grubb from Eastern Washington University) at: http://support.library.ewu.edu/reference/tutorial/flash/citation.html

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