Research Sources in 
Art Design

 
 


Blue Ridge Community College
Houff Library

 
 
 Books and Print Resources
 
 
- To find books in the Library, search the BRCC Online Catalog  
 

Quick Book Search:          

  
Resources for locating books from other libraries.  

WorldCat (Catalog of materials owned by libraries in the United States).
James Madison University
Old Dominion University

If you find a title you would like, use the Library's Interlibrary Loan service.   Print or e-mail the information and contact the Library. 
 
 Periodical Indexes (Magazines, Journals & Newspapers)
 
Periodical Indexes containing full-text articles be sure and follow all the steps on our Remote Access Directions page to be able to access these databases from your home computer

 Academic Search Complete - our new general database.
 Associates Programs Source - our new database specially designed for community college students
Humanities International Complete Full-text articles available
 JSTOR database that is unique because the complete archives of core scholarly journals have been digitized, starting with the very first issues, many of which date from the 1800s. 

Periodical Indexes containing Citations and Abstracts Only (Articles found in this index can be obtained through Interlibrary Loan).

Arts and Humanities Index - includes 2 million records from 1980 to present.  
 
Online Reference Sources
 
Art and Artists, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of
Art Terms, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of
Art, The Oxford Dictionary of
ARTstor - fantastic image database (TIP: you may need to press the Control key while you click on an image for images to appear) 
Modern Design, A Dictionary of
Twentieth-Century Art, A Dictionary of
Western Art, The Oxford Companion to
 
Web Sites
 
AMICO: Art Museum Image Consortium - A huge catalog of thumbnail images of over 100,000 digitized works of art, text, and multimedia provided by a consortium of over 35 art museums around the world.
 Art History Research Centre
ArtLex - art dictionary
Artsource General Resources
Biography.com
Art History Resources on the Web
Internet for the Fine Arts
Intute: Arts & Humanities
Metropolitan Museum of Fine Arts' Timeline of Art History
Mother of all art and art history links
Voice of the Shuttle - Art (Modern and Contemporary)
Voice of the Shuttle - Art History
Web Gallery of Art
 
Image Search Engines
 

AllTheWeb
AltaVista Photo Finder: search for photos or artwork on the Web
The Amazing Picture Machine: searches for photos and other graphics
AMICO: Art Museum Image Consortium - A huge catalog of thumbnail images of over 100,000 digitized works of art, text, and multimedia provided by a consortium of over 35 art museums around the world.
Ditto.com:  the web's leading visual search engine.
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Art Imagebase: Search 15,000 artists in more than 60,000 works
Google Image Search  the most comprehensive on the Web, with more than 1 trillion, 187 billion, 63 million images!
Ithaki
xquick
 New York Public Library Picture Collection - 30,000 images organized into more than 24 subjects, with photos, illustrations, and postcards that have been clipped from books, newspapers, and magazines dating back to the 1700s through roughly 1925.
NYPL Digital Gallery - provides access to over 275,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.
 Picsearch
Picture Collection Online - From the New York Public Library, this is a "collection of 30,000 digitized, public domain images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created before 1923.
Prints and Photographs Online Catalog - from the Library of Congress
Yahoo Image Surfer: search by keyword or browse by subject
 
Internet Search Engines
 

Dogpile - searches 16 search engines at once
Google - award winning search engine

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