Research Databases for Art History Research
These databases are all good places to start. Oxford Art Online contains scholarly encyclopedia entries with bibliographies and links to images; the other databases will help you find scholarly articles.
- Art Full Text & Art Index Retrospective This link opens in a new window
Indexing for hundreds of international art publications, including peer-reviewed journals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, with full text provided for many.
- Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window
Oxford Art Online includes the peer-reviewed, regularly updated Grove Art Online, The Benezit Dictionary of Artists, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, providing access to thousands of articles spanning ancient to contemporary art and architecture, as well as images of works of art, structures, plans, and artist signatures.
Access limited to 3 users at a time. - JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Over a thousand full-text scholarly journals and books covering all subjects in the humanities, sciences and social sciences. History, economics, art, literature, and mathematics are particularly strong. All journal titles are archived back to the first issue, many dating from the early 1800s. JSTOR now also hosts the complete ArtSTOR collection.
- Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) and Répertoire international de la littérature de l'art (RILA) This link opens in a new windowIndex to scholarly articles published between 1975 and 2007 on the history of Western art from antiquity to the present.
Other article databases
These databases are good places to also look if you didn't find enough in your initial searches.
- Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive index of journal articles published worldwide on architecture and design, archaeology, city planning, interior design and historic preservation.
- Project MUSE - Standard Collection This link opens in a new window
An interdisciplinary collection of hundreds of high quality, peer-reviewed, scholarly journals in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. All titles in the Standard Collection are full text.
Coverage: Mostly 2006 to the present
Users: Unlimited simultaneous users
Contains: BGSU has purchased 86 titles on Project MUSE and has access to around 1,800 open access titles. The collection is particularly strong in humanities and social sciences subjects.
Best for: A wide range of academic subjects
Printing: From pdfs
Download: Each chapter is a downloadable pdf
Compatible with: Anything with a web browser, pdf
- PASCAL and FRANCIS This link opens in a new window
This resource presents an archive of the PASCAL and FRANCIS bibliographic databases in exact, human and social sciences. It contains millions of multilingual, multidisciplinary citations and abstracts from scholarly journals in STEM subjects, the humanities, social sciences, and economics, and features multiple search modes, as well as the option to browse by keywords (vocabulary) or by thematics (classification).
- Historical Abstracts (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Index to scholarly journal articles from international historical journals, covering the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present.
E-Journals
The library subscribes to more journals electronically than we do in print, and we often have access to more years of a journal online than we do in print, as well. These e-journals are the online equivalents of their print versions. They contain pdfs of the individual articles published in them. The links below will show you all the ways you can link to the full text of that journal. You can browse or search within the journal once you have linked to it.
- Art Bulletin (College Art Association)Available online from 1919 to the present. Several different databases carry this title, so check coverage dates.
- Art HistoryFull text in Academic Search Complete from 1981 to 1 year ago; most current year can be found in the EJC.
- Renaissance QuarterlyAvailable online from 1967 to 1 year ago. Several different databases carry this title, so check coverage dates.
- Renaissance Studies: Journal of the Society for Renaissance StudiesAvailable online from 1987 to the present.
Print Journals
As above, these links connect to the library's catalog, but some of these journals are not available online. Browse them in print by going to the journals section on the east side of the first floor of Jerome Library. All journals are in alphabetical order by title.
- ApolloWe have vol. 145 (1997) to present. Search for articles in Apollo in Art Full Text.
- Sixteenth Century JournalWe have vols. 31 (2000) to present (missing vols. 35:1-2). Earlier issues are full text in JSTOR.