Provides access to journals relating to fine arts, decorative arts, and design and biographies of over 40,000 artists, architects, craftspeople, and designers from the 1800s through present day.

Backlist and out-of-print scholarly works in art and architectural history from Art Institute of Chicago, MIT Press, Yale University Press, Harvard Art Museums, and Yale University Art Gallery.

EBSCO database providing access to scholarly articles, art reproductions, artist interviews and profiles, and more. Also covers related fields, such as media, culture, women's studies, and history.

EBSCO database providing access to scholarly articles, art reproductions, artist interviews and profiles published between 1929 and 1984. Predecessor to Art Full Text.

Contains abstracts and full text of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, and exhibition reviews relating to modern and contemporary art.

Digitized archive of leading magazine for international contemporary art in all media, with coverage from 1962 to 2020.

Large collection of digital images in the areas of arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences from the world's museums, archives, libraries, scholars, and artists.

ProQuest database that indexes journal articles published worldwide on architecture and design, archaeology, city planning, interior design, landscape architecture, and historic preservation.

Articles published between 1975 to 2007 on visual arts in Europe and the Americas from late antiquity to the present, from journals, books, exhibition and dealer's catalogs, conference proceedings.

Documents objects owned by the Chazen Museum, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Collection of abstracts and bibliographic records for articles, news items, and reviews published in design and applied arts periodicals from 1973 onwards.

Scholarly literature database on Western and Global art, decorative arts, museum studies, and architectural history in journal articles, essays, conference proceedings, and exhibition catalogs.

Archive of scholarly journals and ebooks in the humanities, social sciences, sciences and mathematics. Journal coverage is volume 1 of each title until 3-5 years ago (embargo period varies by title).

Access to Oxford’s art reference works (includes Grove Dictionary of Art and Benezit Dictionary of Artists), and articles covering ancient to contemporary art and architecture, images of works of art.

News, information and images for the fashion and style industries. Coverage on fashion trends, forecasting, design, company profiles, and news items on e-commerce, finance, advertising, and marketing.

Coverage and analysis into the world of consumers; publisher’s flagship trend product. Features original and thought-provoking content on consumer, marketing, retail and innovation trends.

In-depth reports and trends on marketing strategy and experience design. It includes color forecasts, information on material research, coverage of trade shows, and consumer research news.

Complete and unabridged online editions of four reference works in medieval studies.

The Encyclopedia Mythica is an online encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, and legends. Containing over 17,500 entries, the entries include legendary animals, gods and goddesses from many religions...

The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts contains over 3,000 entries covering thousands of years of decorative arts production throughout western and non-western cultures. Included are entries on ...

Reference tool supporting the study of literary theory and discourse; contains a comprehensive historical survey of important figures in the field, critical schools and movements; updated annually.

Access to Oxford’s art reference works (includes Grove Dictionary of Art and Benezit Dictionary of Artists), and articles covering ancient to contemporary art and architecture, images of works of art.

Large, multidisciplinary EBSCO database encompassing most topics.

EBSCO database that provides access to journal articles covering topics related to United States and Canadian history. For the rest of the world, see Historical Abstracts.

The DPLA brings together books, images, historic records, and audiovisual materials from contributing universities, public libraries, museums and other public-spirited organizations in the United S...

The Directory of Open Access Journals provides free, full-text access to open access scientific and scholarly journals. Open access journals are journals that use a funding model that does not char...

Collection of articles, reading lists, object collections, podcast episodes, and essays, at the intersection of fashion and race that examine the fashion industry.

History database (EBSCO) that provides access to journal articles that cover topics related to world history. For U.S. and Canadian history, see America: History and Life.

Humanities journals, weekly magazines, and limited newspapers published in the UK and other English speaking countries.

The IBZ is produced in Germany and indexes more than 11,000 academic journals in 40 languages from around the world. It is particularly strong in European humanities and social sciences. The databa...

Archive of scholarly journals and ebooks in the humanities, social sciences, sciences and mathematics. Journal coverage is volume 1 of each title until 3-5 years ago (embargo period varies by title).

Digitized, full-image journal articles from hundreds of scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences disciplines, published from 1802 to 2005.

Article database for social science and humanities journals published in North America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, and Germany.

Digital newspaper archive of various editions of the Chicago Tribune, with coverage from from 1849 to 1998.

Digital newspaper archive of various editions of New York Times, with coverage from from 1851 to 2020.

Large, multidisciplinary database that covers science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Includes tools to track, analyze, and visualize research.

Full text archive of the Times Literary Supplement, which contains reviews of books, theatre and musical performances, art exhibitions, film, and other cultural events.

Collection of databases indexing scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, from journals, conference proceedings, symposia, and more. Includes citation network data.

Backlist and out-of-print scholarly works in art and architectural history from Art Institute of Chicago, MIT Press, Yale University Press, Harvard Art Museums, and Yale University Art Gallery.

Virtual exhibit of decorative German trade bindings (1870 to 1920) from German-speaking areas of Europe, documents the binding trade, commercial binding equipment, specific binderies, and artists.

An illustrated, descriptive index to the Artists' Book Collection, located in the Kohler Art Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison acts as a "visual finding aid" to this collection.

Within the UW Digital Collections, this collection contains primary and secondary materials in digital form relating to the creative arts as broadly defined: visual, literary, musical, and performing.

Large collection of digital images in the areas of arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences from the world's museums, archives, libraries, scholars, and artists.

Image database of art and architecture from 13 countries in Europe sourced from museums, cultural heritage agencies, research institutions and individual photographers.

Documents objects owned by the Chazen Museum, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Collection of electronic texts and facsimiles, image databases, and Web resources for study and research of the decorative arts, with a particular focus on Early America.

The DPLA brings together books, images, historic records, and audiovisual materials from contributing universities, public libraries, museums and other public-spirited organizations in the United S...

The Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection is a teaching collection of over 13,000 textile artifacts based in the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Images for over 9,00...

Digitized collection of printed ephemera (Bodleian Library in Oxford, England), documents various aspects of everyday life in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Material ConneXion is the largest global resource of new materials. Its library houses over 3,500 new and innovative materials representing eight categories: polymers, glass, ceramics, carbon-based...

Catalog and image collections from the fourteen museums administrated by Paris Musées, with the 18th and 19th centuries particularly well-represented.

PBO is a searchable database of decorative trade bindings produced by American publishers in the 19th and early twentieth centuries, with accompanying explanation, teaching materials, and other res...

Working notebooks, verse manuscripts and correspondence of William Wordsworth and fellow writers, including Dorothy Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas De Quincey and Robert Southey.

Scholarly primary-source collection of adult comic books and graphic novels covers the full spectrum of this visual art form from around the world; with interviews, commentary, theory, and criticism.

The New York Public Library (NYPL) Digital Collection's Picture Collection contains over 34,000 digitized, public domain images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs,...

News, information and images for the fashion and style industries. Coverage on fashion trends, forecasting, design, company profiles, and news items on e-commerce, finance, advertising, and marketing.

Coverage and analysis into the world of consumers; publisher’s flagship trend product. Features original and thought-provoking content on consumer, marketing, retail and innovation trends.

In-depth reports and trends on marketing strategy and experience design. It includes color forecasts, information on material research, coverage of trade shows, and consumer research news.

The Wisconsin Decorative Arts Database is an online resource for the study of craft traditions, manufacturing, state and local history, and material culture. This searchable archive brings together...

The WorldImages database provides access to the California State University IMAGE Project. It contains approximately 100,000 images, is global in coverage and includes all areas of visual imagery. ...

This online streaming film collection delivers over 500 hours of documentaries and interviews illustrating the theory and practice of a variety of art forms and providing the context necessary for ...

Large collection of digital images in the areas of arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences from the world's museums, archives, libraries, scholars, and artists.

The DPLA brings together books, images, historic records, and audiovisual materials from contributing universities, public libraries, museums and other public-spirited organizations in the United S...

Streaming video collection of independent, social-issue and environmental films from renowned leaders in documentary film distribution.

Streaming video collection of documentary and social-issues films and videos.

Streaming video service of documentaries and films across diverse subjects and disciplines. Access to Criterion Collection, Media Education Foundation Collection and California Newsreel Collection.

Digital movies uploaded by Archive users, ranging from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts, many of which are available for free download.

Open access archive of twentieth- and twenty-first-century avant-garde and experimental literature, film, and music.

Citation search about the conservation and preservation of cultural heritage materials.

EBSCO database that provides access to journal articles covering topics related to United States and Canadian history. For the rest of the world, see Historical Abstracts.

The American Indian Experience is a portal and full-text online library of more than 150 titles; hundreds of primary documents and images, including treaties, speeches, traditional tales, and capti...

Covers classical studies and information on Ancient Greece and Rome, including literature, history, civilization, law, philosophy, science, technology, and more.

Arachne is the central Object database of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) and the Archaeological Institute of the University of Cologne. Arachne is intended to provide archaeologists and ...

The Directory is a pioneering resource created by the Center of the History of Collecting in America. Its purpose is to help researchers locate primary source material about American collectors, de...

This online streaming film collection delivers over 500 hours of documentaries and interviews illustrating the theory and practice of a variety of art forms and providing the context necessary for ...

Art History Resources on the Web is a comprehensive subject gateway that covers a huge expanse of art history websites. Historically, it covers resources from prehistory to the modern era, and geog...

Virtual exhibit of decorative German trade bindings (1870 to 1920) from German-speaking areas of Europe, documents the binding trade, commercial binding equipment, specific binderies, and artists.

Treatises on art and architecture from 1470 to 1775, based on the two Italian editions of Giogio Vasari's Lives of the Artists.

An illustrated, descriptive index to the Artists' Book Collection, located in the Kohler Art Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison acts as a "visual finding aid" to this collection.

Within the UW Digital Collections, this collection contains primary and secondary materials in digital form relating to the creative arts as broadly defined: visual, literary, musical, and performing.

EBSCO database that provides access to the literature in the fields of religious studies and theology, including journal articles, essays, and book reviews.

Provides access to research and scholarly literature on East, Southeast, and South Asia written in Western languages. Covers all subjects, particularly in humanities and social sciences.

Image database of art and architecture from 13 countries in Europe sourced from museums, cultural heritage agencies, research institutions and individual photographers.

Interdisciplinary collection on medieval studies combines primary sources and interdisciplinary scholarship from a global perspective.

Online bibliography of book and library history from scholarly publications written from a historical perspective; covers papermaking, bookbinding, book illustration, type design, libraries, and more.

Database of antique monuments and their representation in Renaissance media (1400–1600) - visual and written sources, places, persons, dates, artistic styles, events, bibliography and illustrations.

Index to journal articles, newspapers, books, book chapters covering aspects of the Chicano and Latino U.S. experience, in art, education, labor, literature, mental health, law, politics and sociology.

Collection of electronic texts and facsimiles, image databases, and Web resources for study and research of the decorative arts, with a particular focus on Early America.

The DPLA brings together books, images, historic records, and audiovisual materials from contributing universities, public libraries, museums and other public-spirited organizations in the United S...

Focused on the history and archaeology of the region around the Mediterranean Sea from 800 BCE to 476 CE. Covers early Christian, Byzantine, Medieval, and ancient Middle Eastern art and archaeology.

Collection of edited correspondence of the early modern period, linking thinkers from Europe, the Americas, and Asia from the early 17th to the mid-19th century.

The Getty Provenance Index Databases currently contain 1.1 million records taken from source material such as archival inventories, auction catalogs, and dealer stock books. The five databases are:...

The Getty Research Portal is an online search platform providing global access to digitized art history texts in the public domain. Through this multilingual, multicultural union catalog, scholars ...

This fully searchable and sortable database includes information on creator credits, story details, and other information. It contains non-English language comics and English language comics. It is...

History database (EBSCO) that provides access to journal articles that cover topics related to world history. For U.S. and Canadian history, see America: History and Life.

Humanities journals, weekly magazines, and limited newspapers published in the UK and other English speaking countries.

The IBZ is produced in Germany and indexes more than 11,000 academic journals in 40 languages from around the world. It is particularly strong in European humanities and social sciences. The databa...

Covers European-language articles, books, and reviews related to Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, as well as Muslims elsewhere, and their history, societies, cultures, languages, and literatures.

Images and descriptive data related to the iconography of works of art produced between late Antiquity and the sixteenth century.

Index to 19th century art journals published in the U.S., covering artists, illustrators, painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, architecture, design, decoration, exhibitions, sales, collecting.

The International Medieval Bibliography is the major index to medieval studies (c. 400-1500). It includes citations to articles in approximately 4500 journals and "miscellany" volumes (conference p...

Bibliography of secondary source material pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400 - 1700): citations of books, journal articles, reviews, bibliographies, catalogs, dissertations and more.

Marquis Biographies Online (Who's Who) is a collection of over 1.4 million biographies that have appeared in 25 print titles since 1985, including, among others, "Who's Who in America", "Who's Who ...

Material ConneXion is the largest global resource of new materials. Its library houses over 3,500 new and innovative materials representing eight categories: polymers, glass, ceramics, carbon-based...

Digitized archive of personal and professional papers of Edward Sylvester Morse documents his career as a natural historian and his life as one of the first Americans to live in Japan.

This rich database drawn from documents in the Amsterdam City Archives provides detailed information on ownership of works of art in the Dutch Golden Age. Compiled by late Yale University Professor...

Digital movies uploaded by Archive users, ranging from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts, many of which are available for free download.

NINES is a searchable and tagged site linking the material, cultural and literary archive of the nineteenth century and the digital research environment of the twenty-first. The NINES site is a sou...

Collections of photographs, photograph albums, photographically illustrated books and texts on the early history of photography from libraries and archives from across the globe.

Catalog and image collections from the fourteen museums administrated by Paris Musées, with the 18th and 19th centuries particularly well-represented.

Digitized, full-image journal articles from hundreds of scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences disciplines, published from 1802 to 2005.

Digital library of resources for the study of the humanities, with textual and visual materials on the Archaic and Classical Greek world.

Article database for social science and humanities journals published in North America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, and Germany.

Digital newspaper archive of various editions of the Chicago Tribune, with coverage from from 1849 to 1998.

Digital newspaper archive of various editions of New York Times, with coverage from from 1851 to 2020.

PBO is a searchable database of decorative trade bindings produced by American publishers in the 19th and early twentieth centuries, with accompanying explanation, teaching materials, and other res...

Catalog of books, journals, drawings, photographs, slides, manuscripts, audio-visual and other material in the British Architectural Library, and an index to approximately 300 architectural periodi...

Works about the Americas published around the world from 1476 to 1926, based on Joseph Sabin's Bibliotheca Americana: A Dictionary of Books Relating to America from Its Discovery to the Present Time.

Large, multidisciplinary database that covers science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Includes tools to track, analyze, and visualize research.

Access to millions of 2D and 3D digital items from the Smithsonian collections, including images and data from across 19 museums, research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.

Collection of manuscripts, printed text, illustrations, and maps that document travel to and daily life on the European continent, as seen and experienced by many wealthy Britons of the 18th century.

Digital archive of magazine which focuses on decorating and the domestic arts, 1896-present.

Full text archive of the Times Literary Supplement, which contains reviews of books, theatre and musical performances, art exhibitions, film, and other cultural events.

Open access archive of twentieth- and twenty-first-century avant-garde and experimental literature, film, and music.

Scholarly primary-source collection of adult comic books and graphic novels covers the full spectrum of this visual art form from around the world; with interviews, commentary, theory, and criticism.

The Vernacular Architecture Forum (VAF) publishes a running bibliography in the quarterly Vernacular Architecture Newsletter (VAN). Citations are provided by members as they discover new source mat...

The New York Public Library (NYPL) Digital Collection's Picture Collection contains over 34,000 digitized, public domain images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs,...

Collection of databases indexing scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, from journals, conference proceedings, symposia, and more. Includes citation network data.

The Wisconsin Decorative Arts Database is an online resource for the study of craft traditions, manufacturing, state and local history, and material culture. This searchable archive brings together...

The WorldImages database provides access to the California State University IMAGE Project. It contains approximately 100,000 images, is global in coverage and includes all areas of visual imagery. ...