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22 Databases Found for:Art & Art History

Art & Art History Databases

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The main database for research in art and art history. Includes both popular and academic titles.

Note: Artstor has moved to the JSTOR platform. View the Artstor on JTSOR video playlist for tutorials on the new site. The legacy Artstor interface will remain available until August 1.

Library of high quality digital images of artistic photographs and artwork from museums and collections worldwide.

Database of high quality digital images collected and maintained by the Art Department at Macalester.

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Alternate Name(s):Art & Architecture ePortal

The A&AePortal is an authoritative eBook resource that features important works of scholarship in the history of art, architecture, decorative arts, photography, and design.

Academic Search Premier
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Interdisciplinary resource with popular, scholarly, and peer-reviewed articles and citations. Includes speeches, newspapers, and polls.
International, national, regional, state, and local newspaper articles and video clips. Includes over a thousand international news sources from scores of countries on six continents, translated into English when written in other languages.
Alternate Name(s):Adam Matthew Explorer

A single access point for Adam Matthew collections. Search unique primary source content covering the 15th - 21st centuries. Includes themes like; Borders and Migrations, Gender and Sexuality, Global History, and War and Conflict.

Please note: access to AM Explorer will end on December 31, 2024. Access to the individual collections Leisure, Travel and Mass Culture and Victorian Popular Culture will continue.

Documents digital art. Collects data on artworks, events, artists and scientists who deal with Digital Art, art and science. Enables the storage, management and long-term archiving of media files; in particular graphics, video, text, and audio files
Provides article references for journals across the arts and humanities disciplines, including art and art history, archeology, architecture, dance, music, film and theater, history, humanities, literature, and religion. Offers cited reference searching.

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Indexes Western language literature including books, chapters from books, periodical articles and pamphlets on Asian studies.
Indexes and abstracts European and American art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealer's catalogs, and articles from periodicals from the present to late antiquity.

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Access to general and subject-specific reference books (encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations and proverbs). Provides a graphics-based Concept Mapping option for topic exploration.

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Alternate Name(s):Gale Virtual Reference Library
Search across subject-specific reference encyclopedias.

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Streaming video platform offering thousands of multidisciplinary videos.

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Search across a wide range of scholarly literature from around the world. This custom link for Google Scholar includes the Macalester Library code and will display a "MACLINKS FULL TEXT" link next to resources available from Macalester Library. You will also see MACLINKS if you are logged in to the on-campus network. If you are off campus and don't use the above custom link, you can configure Google Scholar to display MACLINKS by customizing your library links settings.

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Large collection of scholarly journals and books from all disciplines, with stronger coverage for the humanities and social sciences. Current issues from journals (the most recent 3-5 years) are generally not available in JSTOR.

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Video streaming service offering films from independent and specialty producers, with a focus on documentary films. Videos and clips can be embedded into Moodle.

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Newspaper Source
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Full-text coverage of hundreds of national, regional, and international newspapers, as well as newswires and TV and radio news transcripts.

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Resource of reference materials such as dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. Provides database-wide searching, subject searching across sources, and individual title searching.

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Search across our Gale primary source databases; find historical newspapers and primary documents, mainly from the United States and Great Britain.

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US Newsstream (ProQuest)
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Alternate Name(s):Proquest Newsstand
Current U.S. news content, as well as archives that stretch back into the 1980s. It features top newspapers, wires, broadcast transcripts, blogs, and news sites in full-text format. US Newsstream provides key national and regional news sources from the U.S. and includes exclusive and preferred access to top titles, including The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Newsday, and Chicago Tribune.

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Online resource for visual arts containing a portfolio of visual art collections.
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