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  THEO 389: Theology & Art
   
 

Art and Architecture

Art Full Text (1984-present; much full-text; RefWorks help; tutorials; XLinks), formerly Art Abstracts, indexes and abstracts over 600 art journals, over 13,000 art dissertations, over 200,000 art reproductions, as well as yearbooks and museum bulletins. It covers fine, decorative, commercial, and folk art, as well as photography, film, architecture, art history, emerging artists, art styles, and art movements. To find art images limit your search to Full Text and the Document Type, Art Reproduction. It is produced by H.W. Wilson Company and the user interface is provided by EBSCO.

Art Index Retrospective (1929-1984; some full-text; RefWorks help; tutorials; XLinks), compliments Art Full Text and indexes over 600 art journals and over 25,000 book reviews. It covers fine, decorative, and commercial art. It is produced by H.W. Wilson Company and the user interface is provided by EBSCO.

Arts and Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) (alternative link; 1980-present; updated weekly; some full-text; RefWorks help; tutorial; citation alerts; saving searches & creating alerts; journal titles) provides current and retrospective bibliographic information and cited references (the author's bibliography) for over 1,130 arts and humanities journals plus individually selected, relevant items from about 7,000 science and social sciences journals. It covers archaeology, architecture, art, asian studies, classics, dance, film, folklore, history, language, linguistics, literary reviews, literature, music, philosophy, poetry, radio, religion, television and theater. It is produced by Thomson Scientific and the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI. The the user interface is provided by the Web of Science.Click Change Limits and Settings to search only this database. Click Register or Sign In to save searches and receive search history and citation alerts.

Bibliography of the History of Art (1990-2007) includes the Bibliography of the History of Art/Bibliographie d'histoire de l'art with abstracts and subject terms in French or English, as well as the International Bibliography of the History of Art (limited to 2008-2009). Forthcoming is the Repertoire de la litterature de l'art (1975-1989). These databases are freely provided by the Getty Research Institute.

Oxford Reference Online, Art and Architecture (all full-text; XLinks; RefWorks help) is a cross-searchable database of 8 encyclopedias, dictionaries and reference works covering architecture, art, art terms, artists, modern design, western art and twentieth century art. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by Oxford University Press. This subscription is limited to 5 simultaneous users.

Medieval

International Medieval Bibliography (IMB) (1967-present) contains more than 300,000 bibliographic records for current articles published in journals, conference proceedings, collected essays, Festschriften and exhibition catalogues. Articles relate to the Middle Ages, within the date range of 400-1500 AD. Geographical areas covered are Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. Users can search the Bibliographie de Civilisation Medievale (BCM) database separately or along with the IMB database for book bibliographic records. Click Enter Databases and then Go to begin. This subscription is limited to 3 simultaneous users. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by Breopolis Publishers.

Iter (400-1700; updated daily; RefWorks help) is a database of materials pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance. It contains bibliographic records for materials published in 500 scholarly journals. Available databases in this subscription include the Iter Bibliography, Baptisteria Sacra, NTMRS 1, International Directory of Scholars, Aestimatio, Medici Archive Project, and Electronic Capito Project. Click Search a Database to see available databases.

Electronic Journal Collections

Electronic Journal Center (about 1995-present; updates dependent upon publisher; all full-text; RefWorks help; XLinks; saving searches) is a multidisciplinary collection of about 5,000 journals published by Academic Press, American Chemical Society, American Institute of Physics, American Physical Society, American Psychological Association (PsycARTICLES), Association of Computing Machinery, Berkeley Electronic Press, BioOne, Blackwell, Cambridge University Press, Elsevier, Emerald (MCB University Press), Ingenta, Institute of Physics, Kluwer, Lawrence Erlbaum, Optical Society of America, Oxford University Press, Project MUSE, Royal Society of Chemistry, Springer-Verlag, Thieme and Wiley. Scholars can be notified by email about new relevant articles according to subject, author or journal title. It is compiled by and the user interface is provided by OhioLINK.

JSTOR (1st issue of 1st volume to 3 years from present; all full-text; Video tutorial; Handout tutorial; RefWorks help; XLinks; title list) provides online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in a variety of academic disciplines including the arts, business, demographic studies, humanities, social sciences, and science. The multidisciplinary arts & sciences collection was updated in June 2009 with an additional 120 titles, bringing the total number of journals in this collection to 749. JSTOR also includes 8,200 19th Century British pamphlets. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by JSTOR, a not-for-profit organization that serves and is supported by the scholarly community. NOTE: journal content published prior to 1923 in the US and prior to 1870 elsewhere is freely available to the public for reading and downloading (nearly 500.000 articles from more than 200 journals).

 

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