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Art, Architecture & Art History
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Subject Specific Databases
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Grove Dictionary of Art [via Oxford University Press] (http://www.groveart.com/index.html) VPN
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The Grove Dictionary of Art is the standard multi-volume reference work on all aspects of the visual arts from prehistory to the present. Now,it has been combined with three other reference works in the new Oxford Art Online. It can be searched separately or in conjunction with The Oxford Companion to Western Art, The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. It also incorporates a related collection of more than 5,000 digital images.
- Access: http://www.groveart.com/index.html (http://www.groveart.com/index.html) VPN
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ARTbibliographies Modern [via CSA Illumina] (http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=davis&access=davis856&cat=artbm&adv=1) VPN
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Provides abstracts of journal articles, books, essays,
exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art.
- Coverage: 1974-present
- Access: http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=davis&access=davis856&cat=artbm&adv=1 (http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=davis&access=davis856&cat=artbm&adv=1) VPN
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Art Full Text (http://uclibs.org/PID/33002) VPN
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Art Full Text offers full text of 111 publications back to 1997 plus abstracts and indexing of nearly 400 publications back to 1984. Covers the fields of archaeology, architecture, art history, city planning, computer applications and graphics, crafts, film, folk art, graphic arts, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, museology, painting, photography, sculpture, tv, textiles, and video. Features include: subject thesaurus, indexing of art reproductions, links to websites.
(This is "Art Abstracts" with the addition of some full-text.) To search pre-1984 publications use Art Index.
- Coverage: full text 1997-present, index and abstract 1984-present
- Access: http://uclibs.org/PID/33002 (http://uclibs.org/PID/33002) VPN
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ARTstor (http://uclibs.org/PID/44518) VPN
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ARTStor is a library of digital images, associated information, and software tools designed to enhance teaching, learning and scholarship. It contains a searchable database of more than a million digital images, covers many time periods and cultures, and documents the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design, as well as many other forms of visual culture.
- Access: http://uclibs.org/PID/44518 (http://uclibs.org/PID/44518) VPN
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- Getting Started with ARTstor [via UCDavis]
For initial training and information on using ARTstor, contact: artstorhelp@lib.ucdavis.edu
- For off-campus access, first register with ARTstor from a computer on campus. Then, you may login from off campus with your ARTstor ID by going directly to www.artstor.org. ARTstor does not always work smoothly with the VPN. Or, you may use the Proxy
- If you would like to join a UCD community of ARTstor users to share discoveries and help solve problems, please join our ARTstor Users Group on Smartsite.
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Art Index Retrospective [via H.W. Wilson] (http://uclibs.org/pid/16691) VPN
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Indexes over 420 art journalism publications including journals, yearbooks and art museum periodicals, from 1929 through 1984. Subjects include advertising art, architecture, interior design, landscape architecture and motion pictures.
- Coverage: 1929-1984
- Access: http://uclibs.org/pid/16691 (http://uclibs.org/pid/16691) VPN
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Bibliography of the History of Art [via CSA Illumina] (http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=davis&access=davis856&db=bha-set-c&adv=1) VPN
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Indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealer's catalogs, and articles from more than 2,500 periodicals covering European and American art from late antiquity to the present
- Coverage: 1973-present
- Access: http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=davis&access=davis856&db=bha-set-c&adv=1 (http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=davis&access=davis856&db=bha-set-c&adv=1) VPN
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- NEWS!: The BHA looks different as access is now provided by a different vendor. The underlying data is the same.
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DAAI--Design and Applied Arts Index [via CSA Illumina] (http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=davis&access=davis856&db=daai-set-c&adv=1) VPN
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DAAI indexes more than 500 design and craft journals and newspapers. It also includes two directories--one is a directory of academic design and craft programs in colleges and universities, the other is a directory of design and craft journals.
- Coverage: 1973-present
- Access: http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=davis&access=davis856&db=daai-set-c&adv=1 (http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=davis&access=davis856&db=daai-set-c&adv=1) VPN
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Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals [via CSA Illumina] (http://www.cdlib.org/inside/resources/choosecampus/avery_csa.html) VPN
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Citations to journal articles in the areas of art and architecture.
- Coverage: 1930s-present; selective coverage dating back to the 1860s
- Access: http://www.cdlib.org/inside/resources/choosecampus/avery_csa.html (http://www.cdlib.org/inside/resources/choosecampus/avery_csa.html) VPN
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- NEWS!: Avery looks different as access is now provided by a different vendor. The underlying data is the same.
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ArchInform (http://www.archinform.net/)
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This architecture database includes over 11,000 built and unrealized projects from various architects and planners. The architecture of the 20th century is the main theme of this database. One can search by architect, subject or location. Includes many images of buildings and plans.
- Access: http://www.archinform.net/ (http://www.archinform.net/)
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Index to 19th-Century American Art Periodicals [via OCLC FirstSearch] (http://uclibs.org/PID/9571) VPN
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Indexes 42 art journals published in the U.S. during the 19th century
- Access: http://uclibs.org/PID/9571 (http://uclibs.org/PID/9571) VPN
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SCIPIO: Art and Rare Book Sales Catalogs [via OCLC FirstSearch] (http://uclibs.org/PID/9567) VPN
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Describes art auction and rare book catalogs for sales from the late 16th century to scheduled auctions not yet held
- Access: http://uclibs.org/PID/9567 (http://uclibs.org/PID/9567) VPN
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Clothing and Textile Arts [CD-ROM]
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A guide to the behavioral, historic and artistic periodical literature dealing with clothing and the textile arts. This version contains over 25,000 citations published in over 2300 serial titles since 1970. See also the print index in H/SS Reference at call number TT507.C61.
- Coverage: 1970-1993
- Location: Humanities/Social Sciences Reference, 2nd Floor Shields Library, Workstation "BOSTON"
- Access: Library Use Only
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Amica [Art Images] (http://uclibs.org/PID/32491) VPN
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ACCESS TO AMICA ENDS JUNE 30, 2008. MOST OF THE IMAGES IN AMICA CAN NOW BE ACCESSED IN ARTSTOR.
AMICA (formerly AMICO) offers high resolution images of approximately 115,000 different works of art from museum collections. Images represent a comprehensive survey of Cultures, styles and time periods.
You can either search AMICO directly on the web or you can download the Insight® Client software.
- Access: http://uclibs.org/PID/32491 (http://uclibs.org/PID/32491) VPN
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Museum and Online Archive of California Images (MOAC) (http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/moac/search.html)
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MOAC WILL BE REMOVED FROM INSIGHT BUT CONTINUES TO BE AVAILABLE AT THE MOAC WEBSITE AND VIA CALISPHERE. The MOAC collection contains nearly 38,000 images from 7 California museums and libraries -- Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive, Japanese American National Museum, Oakland Museum of California, Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, UC Berkeley Bancroft Library, UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts.
- Access: http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/moac/search.html (http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/moac/search.html)
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Saskia Art Images (http://www.artstor.org) VPN
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SASKIA ART AND ARCHITECTURE HAS MOVED TO ARTSTOR WHERE IT CAN BE FOUND UNDER "INSTUTIONAL COLLECTIONS: UC SHARE" Saskia offers over 26,000 art historical digital images, with a special emphasis on core images required for teaching the history of Western Art.
- Location: For more information see the main ARTstor entry in the databases list.
- Access: http://www.artstor.org (http://www.artstor.org) VPN
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Hartill Collection [Architecture Images] (http://www.artstor.org) VPN
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THE HARTHILL COLLECTION HAS MOVED INTO ARTSTOR WHERE IT IS FOUND UNDER "ARTstor Collections."
This collection of images covers the architectural history of the Western world from earliest antiquity through the
present,and from the Middle East to the Americas. It includes thousands of details of architectural decoration, mosaics, sculpture and stained glass, as well as related decorative arts and public sculpture. It is exceptionally strong in European medieval architecture and sculpture of the Romanesque and Gothic periods; additionally, modern architecture and sculpture are both especially well represented.
- Location: For additional information see the main ARTstor entry in the databases list.
- Access: http://www.artstor.org (http://www.artstor.org) VPN
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Art Abstracts [via H.W.Wilson ] (http://uclibs.org/pid/16692) VPN
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This database has been absorbed by "Art-Full Text".
- Coverage: 1994-present
- Access: http://uclibs.org/pid/16692 (http://uclibs.org/pid/16692) VPN
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L'Année philologique; bibliographie critique et analytique de l'antiquité gréco-latine. (http://uclibs.org/PID/31798) VPN
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This is the major bibliographic index for Classical studies, including art, history, philosophy, literature and more.
- Coverage: 1949-current
- Access: http://uclibs.org/PID/31798 (http://uclibs.org/PID/31798) VPN
- More Information:
- Use the hard copy edition of the Annee Philologique to search for material published before 1949. It is located at Shields Library Humanities/Social Sciences Reference Z7016.A1 A5
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Encyclopedia of Aesthetics [Oxford University Press] (http://www.oxfordartonline.com) VPN
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Part of Oxford Art Online, this encyclopedia surveys critical thought on art, culture, and society, including major concepts, thinkers, and debates about the meaning, uses, and value of all the arts from painting and sculpture to literature, music, theater, dance, television, film, and popular culture. Because it is included in Oxford Art Online, it can be searched alone when individually selected or in conjunction with the other reference works in the collection.
- Access: http://www.oxfordartonline.com (http://www.oxfordartonline.com) VPN
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Oxford Art Online [via Oxford University Press] (http://www.oxfordartonline.com) VPN
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Oxford Art Online contains four major reference works for the fine arts: The Grove Dictionary of Art, The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. These may be searched individually or in combination.
- Access: http://www.oxfordartonline.com (http://www.oxfordartonline.com) VPN
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CAMIO [via OCLC] (http://camio.oclc.org/) VPN
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CAMIO--Catalog of Art Museum Images Online--contains around 80,000 images of works of Art from 24 different museums. The artwork selection draws from a wide range of places and time periods.
- Access: http://camio.oclc.org/ (http://camio.oclc.org/) VPN
- More Information:
- The images in CAMIO are licensed for non-commericial, educational use (teaching and research).
General Databases
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General Databases in the Humanities and Social Sciences (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/ul/research/subjects/?heading=35)
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This is a list of the best general databases in the Humanities and Social Sciences. It includes abstracting and indexing services, FullText Databases and Electronic Journal Libraries which are of interest to the variety of fields in the the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences.
- Access: http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/ul/research/subjects/?heading=35 (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/ul/research/subjects/?heading=35)
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AP Images (http://apimages.ap.org/unsecured/logip.aspx) VPN
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Formerly known as the AccuNet/Associated Press Photo Archive, this site is an ever-changing collection of over 700,000 photographs from the AP news service, historic images. Most of the images are contemporary and date from 1995 forwards and all include descriptive captions and source information.
- Coverage: 1844-present; current file contains 1995-present
- Access: http://apimages.ap.org/unsecured/logip.aspx (http://apimages.ap.org/unsecured/logip.aspx) VPN
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International Medieval Bibliography (http://www.brepolis.net) VPN
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Provides the most comprehensive, current bibliography of international scholarly literature in Medieval Studies available.
[updated quarterly]
- Coverage: 1967-present
- Location: print equivalent is in the Humanities/Social Sciences Reference Collection
- Access: http://www.brepolis.net (http://www.brepolis.net) VPN
- More Information:
- You may need to download a special font for the diacritical marks in records to display properly. Follow instructions at the databases main page.
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ProQuest Historical Newspapers
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Historical coverage of the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal with both full page and individual article images. Searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
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Expanded Academic ASAP [via Thomson/Gale]
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Expanded Academic ASAP has been cancelled. Licensed access to this multi disciplinary periodicals database ended June 30, 2008. Academic Search Complete [via EBSCO] replaces it.
- Coverage: 1980-present
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- Academic Search Complete [via EBSCO] provides full-text access to more than 5,500 periodicals, multi-disciplinary in nature. http://uclibs.org/PID/126936
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Historic U.S. Newspaper Indexes [via Proquest]
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The following newspapers collaborated with ProQuest to provide searchable indexes to their archives. Articles can then be read on microfilm (for the titles we own) or requested through Interlibrary loan.
Note: while you can search the full text of the newspapers you cannot read these articles online; the links here are to indexes only, not full-text resources.
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ArchiveGrid [via OCLC] (http://archivegrid.org) VPN
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ArchiveGrid is a database designed specifically for locating archival collections held in libraries, museums and other institutions. It combines all the archival records in WorldCat with others pulled from various archives Web sites. Included are all of the item records added to the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC) after 1987, as well as many records from earlier years. (NUCMC includes records added before 1987, especially of smaller archives, that are not found in ArchiveGrid.)
- Access: http://archivegrid.org (http://archivegrid.org) VPN
Full-text Resources
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Early Encounters in North America (EENA): Peoples, Cultures and the Environment (http://uclibs.org/PID/31414) VPN
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EENA contains full text letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters, centered on present-day Canada and the United States with some limited coverage of Mexico. Includes information on the peoples, places, environment, flora and fauna encountered. Of note are more than 9,000 Audubon prints from "The Birds of America" as well as the complete contents of the three-volume "The Quadrupeds of North America".
- Coverage: 1534-1959
- Access: http://uclibs.org/PID/31414 (http://uclibs.org/PID/31414) VPN
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Corsair: Images from Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts (http://corsair.morganlibrary.org/ICAIntro/ICAintroshortdesc.htm)
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Corsair, the website for the Pierpont Morgan Library includes a searchable database of more than 15,000 images selected from the Pierpont Morgan Library's collection of medieval manuscripts.
- Access: http://corsair.morganlibrary.org/ICAIntro/ICAintroshortdesc.htm (http://corsair.morganlibrary.org/ICAIntro/ICAintroshortdesc.htm)
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WorldImages [San Jose State University] (http://worldimages.sjsu.edu/)
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WorldImages "contains almost 50,000 images, is global in coverage and includes all areas of visual imagery. WorldImages is accessible anywhere and its images can be freely used for non-profit educational purposes. The images can be located using many search techniques, and for convenience they are organized into some 440 portfolios."
- Access: http://worldimages.sjsu.edu/ (http://worldimages.sjsu.edu/)
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Discover Islamic Art (http://www.discoverislamicart.org)
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An online exhibit of Islamic art objects drawn from Museums around the world. It is a project of the Museum With No Frontiers.
- Access: http://www.discoverislamicart.org (http://www.discoverislamicart.org)
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Landscape Architecture Image Resource [LAIR] (http://www.lair.umd.edu)
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This collection of Landscape Architecture-related images is a joint product of several Landscape Architecture departments, including UCDavis'. Images are well indexed and searchable by a variety of criteria.
- Access: http://www.lair.umd.edu (http://www.lair.umd.edu)
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LIFE photo archive hosted by Google (http://images.google.com/hosted/life)
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This is a collection of millions of digitized photographs drawn from the LIFE Magazine archives. Many have never been published. A joint project of Life Magazine and Google, it is searchable through the standard Google interface.
- Access: http://images.google.com/hosted/life (http://images.google.com/hosted/life)
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Flickr Commons (http://www.flickr.com/commons)
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A free public collection of photographs from major photography archives. Contributors include the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution, the Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Portugal),the Bibliothèque de Toulouse, and many others.
- Access: http://www.flickr.com/commons (http://www.flickr.com/commons)
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Europeana: Europe's Digital Library (http://www.europeana.eu)
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Direct access to some 2 million digital objects (and counting): film,photos, paintings, sounds, maps, manuscripts, books,newspapers and archival papers.
Selected from already digitised resources available in Europes museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections.
[Note: there is heavy demand for this site so access is sometimes limited to prevent overload.]
- Access: http://www.europeana.eu (http://www.europeana.eu)
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1789-1939 L'Histoire par L'Image (http://www.histoire-image.org/index.php)
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This growing collection of historical images from France is a collaborative project of several academic and cultural institutions and the French government. The images are carefully selected and fully described.
- Access: http://www.histoire-image.org/index.php (http://www.histoire-image.org/index.php)
Guides to Electronic, Print, and Other Resources
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Art and Art History Internet Resources [via UC Davis Library] (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/arthistory/arthistory-internet-resources.php)
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A guide to important free Art and Art History Web sites. Includes online encyclopedias and biographical indexes as well as image collections.
- Access: http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/arthistory/arthistory-internet-resources.php (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/arthistory/arthistory-internet-resources.php)
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How to Find Reviews and Articles on Contemporary Artists [UC Davis Library] (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/arthistory/pdf/contemporary-artists-reviews.pdf)
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- Access: http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/arthistory/pdf/contemporary-artists-reviews.pdf (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/arthistory/pdf/contemporary-artists-reviews.pdf)
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Fashion, Costume, and Textiles Subject Guide [via UC Davis Library] (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/resources/guides/fashiontextiles.php)
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This pathfinder provides information on reference books, internet resources, suggested subject headings, and related library subject guides available from Shields Library.
- Access: http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/resources/guides/fashiontextiles.php (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/resources/guides/fashiontextiles.php)
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Guide to Luna Insight Client Software for Digital Image Collections [via UCDavis Library] (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/resources/guides/insighttips.php)
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This guide will orient new users to the University of California instance of this software. It includes installation instructions, an overview, recommended best practices for users, and step-by step instructions for exporting images.
- Access: http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/resources/guides/insighttips.php (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/resources/guides/insighttips.php)
Encyclopedias & Dictionaries
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Encyclopaedia of Islam Online [via Brill Academic Publishers] (http://uclibs.org/PID/97333) VPN
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"The Encyclopaedia of Islam (New Edition) sets out the present state of our knowledge of the Islamic World. It is a unique and invaluable reference tool, an essential key to understanding the world of Islam, and the authoritative source not only for the religion, but also for the believers and the countries in which they live.
It embraces articles on distinguished Muslims of every age and land, on tribes and dynasties, on the crafts and sciences, on political and religious institutions, on the geography, ethnography, flora and fauna of the various countries and on the history, topography and monuments of the major towns and cities. In its geographical and historical scope it encompasses the old Arabo-Islamic empire, the Islamic countries of Iran, Central Asia, the Indian sub-continent and Indonesia, the Ottoman Empire and all other Islamic countries."
[2002 -]
- Access: http://uclibs.org/PID/97333 (http://uclibs.org/PID/97333) VPN
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Encyclopaedia Judaica [via Gale Virtual Reference Library] (http://find.galegroup.com/gvrl/infomark.do?type=aboutBook&prodId=GVRL&eisbn=0028660978&version=1.0&userGroupName=ucdavis&source=gale) VPN
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This is a new, fully updated edition. It contains thousands of articles on all aspects of Jewish tradition, contemporary culture, politics and history.
- Access: http://find.galegroup.com/gvrl/infomark.do?type=aboutBook&prodId=GVRL&eisbn=0028660978&version=1.0&userGroupName=ucdavis&source=gale (http://find.galegroup.com/gvrl/infomark.do?type=aboutBook&prodId=GVRL&eisbn=0028660978&version=1.0&userGroupName=ucdavis&source=gale) VPN
Other Resources
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Visual Collections: Images of Art, History and Culture (http://www.davidrumsey.com/collections/other.html)
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This is a list of image collections in architecture,the fine arts, cartography, history and more--all freely available. Representative collections include: The Museum and Online Archive of California; The Estate Project for Artists with Aids; Maps of Africa; The Comer Archive of Chicago (photographs);The Farber Gravestone Collection. Many of these are accessible through the UC Image Service (imageservice.cdlib.org).
- Access: http://www.davidrumsey.com/collections/other.html (http://www.davidrumsey.com/collections/other.html)
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UC Image Service (http://imageservice.cdlib.org/)
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The UC Image Service provides digital image collections and robust tools in support of teaching, learning, and research for faculty and students of the University of California. This page describes all the image collections accessed through the UC Image Service; it also has links to more information about the Image Service itself.
- Access: http://imageservice.cdlib.org/ (http://imageservice.cdlib.org/)
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- Some of the public collections listed here are also offered through a new, easier-to-use Web site, the "Luna Commons." http://www.lunacommons.org/
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Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide (http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html)
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The Chicago Manual of Style presents two basic documentation systems, the humanities style (notes and bibliography) and the author-date system. Choosing between the two often depends on subject matter and nature of sources cited, as each system is favored by different groups of scholars. The humanities style is preferred by many in literature, history, and the arts. This style presents bibliographic information in notes and, often, a bibliography. It accommodates a variety of sources, including esoteric ones less appropriate to the author-date system. The more concise author-date system has long been used by those in the physical, natural, and social sciences. In this system, sources are briefly cited in the text, usually in parentheses, by author's last name and date of publication. The short citations are amplified in a list of references, where full bibliographic information is provided.
- Access: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html (http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html)
