Library Catalog

Library Catalog

To find books about the art of a particular country, use the subject heading e.g. Art, Russian. There are also form headings for specific genres, e.g. Sculpture, Roman. To find works by a particular artist, search his or her name as an author; to find works about that artist, search the name as a subject heading, e.g. Kandinsky. Many aesthetic movements or schools of art will have their own distinctive subject headings, e.g. Fauvism or Classicism in Art.

Databases

ArtAbstracts via FirstSearch

Includes citations from 475 leading art publications from around the world, including direct links to some full-text sources, from 1984 to the present.

Arts and Humanities Search via FirstSearch

Extensive database of almost 3 million records, covering over 1000 journals in the arts and humanities, from 1980 to the present. In addition to keywords, the database allows cited reference searching.

WorldCat via FirstSearch

Truly the most extensive bibliographic database ever, WorldCat's over 62,000,000 records cover knowledge artefacts including books, government documents, sound and video recordings and every other format for information storage humans have invented since 1000BC. This database gives you access to the collections of thousands of other libraries, since we can obtain on interlibrary loan for you items we lack in our own collections.

Historical Abstracts

Published since 1954, Historical Abstracts has long been recognized as the world's leading bibliographic database for historical study. Includes articles, books, dissertations about the history of the world since 1450, excluding the United States and Canada. Currently indexing over 730,000 documents from 1700 journals.

Grove Art Online

Comprises the full text of The Dictionary of Art, edited by Jane Turner (1996, 34 vols) and The Oxford Companion to Western Art, edited by Hugh Brigstocke (2001), as well as articles that have been added or updated since their appearance in print. Limited to one user at a time; please log off when finished.

Contact Information

Frank Lepkowski

238 Kresge Library

email: lepkowsk@oakland.edu

IM: AOL: frankjlepkowski

phone: (248) 370-2497

E-Journal Collections

 

JSTOR

This online archive collects the complete back issues of 641 important titles in the humanities, social sciences and other learned disciplines. It does not cover current issues for any of its titles; to see if we have current issues for a particular journal check our Voyager catalog.

 

Project Muse

This is a collection of current issues of 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.

 

Print and Other Resources

The Dictionary of Art. (Ref. N 31 .D5 1996) The single most extensive encyclopedia of art owned by the library, it is international in scope, compiled by experts and contains both excellent illustrations and bibliographies for further research. Unlike the database, the 34 volumes of the printed book permit multiple user access!

 

Encyclopedia of World Art. (Ref. N 31 .E533; 17 vols.)
Until the publication of the previous entry, this was the scholarly encyclopedia of art par excellence and still is a very valuable resource for its scholarship, illustrations and bibliographies.

 

A pathfinder to many other reference sources that you may find useful:

• Art and Art History

General Library Information

 

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