Online Resources
Art Full Text - This is the Art Index online format back to 1984. It includes 152 full-text titles and covers Advertising Art, Antiques, Archaeology, Architecture and Architectural History, Art History, Computers in Art, Crafts, Decorative Arts, Fashion Design, Folk Art, Graphic Arts, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Motion Pictures, Museology, Non-Western Art, Painting, Photography, Pottery, Sculpture, Television, Textiles, and Video. Only available in MCA network.
ArtBibliobraphies Modern and DAAI ARTbibliographies Modern (1974-current) - The coverage of ABM is wide-ranging and includes performance art and installation works, video art, computer and electronic art, body art, graffiti, artists' books, theatre arts, conservation, crafts, ceramic and glass art, ethnic arts, graphic and museum design, fashion, and calligraphy, as well as traditional media including illustration, painting, printmaking, sculpture, and drawing.
ARTstor ARTstor is a digital library of approximately 550,000 high quality images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences. While on campus you will see a link in the top right corner that says 'Enter the ARTstor digital library. Go.' Click there to access ARTstor. You may create an ARTstor login that will allow off-campus access.
InfoTrac Password is elvis.
General OneFile (1980- current) – Some full-text. Multidisiplinary index to news and periodical articles. Includes business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily.
Academic OneFile (1980-current) – Same as above but contains peer-reviewed materials.
Expanded Academic (1980-current) – Some full-text. Provides citations, abstracts, and full-text articles in many disciplines including: Astronomy, Religion, Law, History, Psychology, Humanities, Current Events, Sociology, Communications and General Sciences.
Available out of network if you register through the public library.
AskART AskART is an online database containing over 200,000 artists' biographies, auction records, financial graphics, magazine ads pre-1998, and images. You may find biographical information about American artists as well as book and periodical references, along with International artists' auction records and images within AskART. Only available in the MCA network.
Atomic Learning Atomic Learning is a database of online technology tutorials, skills assessments, and learning projects. It covers over 150 software applications. Ask the librarian for a username/password.
Bridgeman Education Bridgeman Education is a database of 360,000 images from museums, galleries, private collections and contemporary artists all copyright cleared for educational use. Covering visual culture of every civilization and every period from Prehistory to the present day across continents and civilizations there are images of photography, fine art, engravings, sculpture, architecture, archaeology & ethnography, history, science & medicine, the decorative arts, artefacts and applied arts. Only available in MCA network.
JSTOR JSTOR is journal archive that provides online access to 275 electronic versions of journals from the origination of the publication. JSTOR does not contain current issues and there is a 1-5 year gap between the current issue and JSTOR coverage. No username/password necessary from within the MCA network.
Off-campus access instructions can be found at http://www.mcalabs.net .
Research and Documentation Online This is Diana Hacker's site that provides examples of how to cite resources in MLA and Chicago formats and includes sample papers.
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