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ARTICLE INDEXES (check for full text at www.bu.edu/library/ejournals/index.html)AATA ONLINE: International Conservation Literature, 1932+ WWW AATA Online is a comprehensive database of over 100,000 abstracts of literature related to the preservation and conservation of material cultural heritage. America: History and Life 1964+ BU-px AMERICA: HISTORY AND LIFE is an international index to journal articles, book and media reviews and dissertation on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present. The database coverage is from 1964 to the present. Art Index Full Text 1984+ (Full Text 1997+) BU-px ART INDEX Full Text is an index to periodicals, yearbooks and museum publications, both domestic and foreign. Book reviews are available in a separate section of the index. Subjects covered include archaeology, architecture, art history, crafts, motion pictures, graphic arts, interior design, landscape architecture and others. Coverage (including Art Index Retrospective) from 1929 to date. Abstracts and Full Text are included from 1997 to date. Art Index Retrospective 1929-1984 BU-px ART INDEX RETROSPECTIVE an index to periodicals, yearbooks and museum publications, both domestic and foreign. Book reviews are available in a separate section of the index. Subjects covered include archaeology, architecture, art history, crafts, motion pictures, graphic arts, interior design, landscape architecture and others. Coverage is from 1929 to date (including Art Index Full Text from 1984 to date, with abstracts and full text 1997 to date). ARTbibliographies Modern 1974+ BU-px ARTBIBLIOGRAPHIES MODERN indexes and provides abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, and exhibition reviews covering artists and movements beginning in the late 19th century to the present. Photography is covered from its invention in 1839. Lesser-known artists, performance art and installation works, video art, computer and electronic art, graffiti, artists' books, theater arts, crafts, jewelry, and illustration are included in addition to painting, sculpture, printmaking, and drawing. Coverage is from 1974 with 13,000 new entries added annually. Emphasis on foreign-language publications. Arts & Humanities Citation Index 1975+ BU-px WEB OF SCIENCE is the Web interface to the citation databases from the Institute of Scientific Information. Coverage is from 1978-. The databases include: Science Citation Index Expanded. covers 5300 journals (2000 more titles than the print version) and is updated with 16,000 new records every week; Social Sciences Citation Index covers 1700 journals and is updated with 2800 new records every week; Arts & Humanities Citation Index. covers 1100 journals and is updated with 2200 new records every week. Data extracted from the Web of Science should give the following attribution to ISI: The above data are extracted from the Science Citation Index Expanded., Social Sciences Citation Index. and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Databases of the Institute for Scientific Information., Inc., ISI., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, Copyright) 199_. Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals 1930+ ChRiv-px AVERY INDEX TO ARCHITECTURAL PERIODICALS indexes over 1,000 international periodicals on architecture, archaeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation. Coverage begins in the 1930s (selective coverage dates back to the 1860s) and continues to the present with daily updates. The source of the Index is the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. Bibliography of Asian Studies ChRiv-px [About] Bibliography of the History of Art 1973+ ChRiv-px BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE HISTORY OF ART covers American and European art from late antiquity to the present. The database indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealers' catalogs and articles from more than 2500 periodicals. Coverage is from 1973 to date... Dyabola (RealKatalog DAI Rom) ChRiv-px [About] FRANCIS (International social sciences & humanities) ChRiv-px FRANCIS includes multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities, social sciences and economics. The database is strong in religion, the history of art and literature with emphasis on current trends in European and world literature. Coverage is from 1984 to date. Historical Abstracts 1969+ BU-px HISTORICAL ABSTRACTS Historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada). Indexing is from 1969 to date. Humanities Full Text 1995+ (abstracts 1984+) BU-px HUMANITIES FULL TEXT is a database that indexes and abstracts articles from English-language periodicals, plus the full text of selected periodicals. Topics include archaeology, art, film, music, performing arts, religion, history and literature. Periodical coverage includes both well-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized periodicals. Indexing begins in 1984. Full text coverage begins in January 1995. Index to 19th Century American Art Periodicals BU-px INDEX TO 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN ART PERIODICALS indexes 42 art journals published in the US during the 19th century, providing nearly complete coverage of journals from this period. The Index describes the entire journal contents - articles, art notes, illustrations, stories, poems, and advertisements and offers information on popular culture and industry, artists and illustrators, painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, architecture and design, exhibitions and sales, decorations, and collecting. The file includes 27,000 records. International Medieval Bibliography ChRiv-px "The International Medieval Bibliography was founded in 1967 with the aimof providing a comprehensive, current bibliography of articles. This multidisciplinary bibliography of Europe, North Africa and the Near East(300 - 1500) contains morethan 350,000 records and offers a wide range ofsearch possibilities." FULL-TEXT ARTICLE DATABASESHistorical Newspapers of the New York Times 1851-2006 BU-px HISTORICAL NEW YORK TIMES is a full-image archive of the entire historical run of The New York Times, from 1851-2006. Every word appearing in the New York Times for this period is indexed, including those found in display and classified ads, comics and cartoons as well as editorials. Full page in-context pdf images as well as individual item pdf images are available. JSTOR (Journal Storage) BU-px JSTOR is a full-text collection of back issues (from volume 1 to approximately five years ago) of core scholarly journals. Includes journals in African-American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, classics, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, population studies, sociology, and statistics. LexisNexis Academic BU-px LEXISNEXIS ACADEMIC is a full-text database that includes newspapers, wire services, transcripts of television and radio broadcasts, medical and health journals, trade journals, accounting literature, company financial reports, law reviews, statutory and case law, and public opinion polls. The database is international in scope, and includes newspapers in English, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, and German. Dates of coverage vary depending upon the publication. Project Muse Alternative Link BU-px PROJECT MUSE provides access to the full text of over 330 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics. Coverage varies for each journal. REFERENCE TOOLSArt and Architecture Thesaurus OnLine (Getty Research Institute) WWW Artcyclopedia WWW ArtLex: Visual Arts Dictionary WWW Biography and Genealogy Master Index BU-px BIOGRAPHY AND GENEALOGY MASTER INDEX is a comprehensive index to nearly 12 million biographical sketches in more than 2700 volumes and editions of current and retrospective reference books, covering both contemporary and historical figures throughout the world. Citing Electronic Sources WWW Desktop Reference WWW Dictionary of Art Historians WWW Dissertation Abstracts (ProQuest Dissertations & Theses) - Full Text BU-px "The ProQuest Dissertations & Theses database (PQDT) is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. It is the database of record for graduate research, with over 2.3 million dissertations and theses included from around the world. Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1861, and more than 60,000 new citations are added to the database every year. Over 1.9 million dissertations and theses are available from the UMI vaults on microfilm or in hardcopy, and researchers can preview many recent titles electronically. Where available, PQDT provides 24 Page Previews of dissertations and theses. In addition, more than 925,000 are available for download in PDF format (Digital dissertations and theses are archived as submitted by the degree-granting institution. Some will be Native PDF, some PDF Image)." Encyclopaedia of Islam (Online) BU-px ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ISLAM (online). This comprehensive work includes the first nine volumes of the print edition as well as the three indexes (proper names, subjects, and technical terms) and the glossary. The Encyclopedia contains over 10 million words and thousands of articles on all aspects of Islam as well as figures, line drawings, genealogical tables, and maps. All images are searchable. The search engine allows for wildcard, Boolean, and proximity searching in both Arabic transcription and English. Grove Art Online BU-px GROVE ART ONLINE is an online version of the 34 volume print Dictionary of Art (1996). Comprising more than 45,000 signed articles on the visual arts, it is kept current with quarterly updates and additions. This site also incorporates links to over 130,000 images, searchable by artist, title, dates, location or by keyword. International Directory of Art Libraries (IFLA) WWW Oxford Reference Online BU-px OXFORD REFERENCE ONLINE contains about 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. It is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database of these works Provenance Index Database (Getty Research Institute) WWW Thinking Critically about WWW Resources WWW Timeline of Art History (Metropolitan Museum of Art) WWW ULAN: Union List of Artists' Names (Getty Research Institute) WWW WorldCat BU-px WORLDCAT is the OCLC Online Union Catalog in a user friendly version. It contains more than 32 million records of items owned by libraries around the world, as well as the Boston University Libraries. Every item in the catalog has a listing of libraries which own it. It contains records for books, journals, musical scores, computer programs and much more. (It does not include records for individual articles or stories in journals, magazines, newspapers or book chapters.) New records are added daily. SELECTED WWW RESOURCESArt History Resources on the Web WWW ArtServ (Michael Greenhalgh) WWW AskART (North American artists) WWW Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance WWW Dumbarton Oaks Electronic Texts WWW Finding Images on the Web WWW Museum Studies and Arts Management (Vassar) WWW Museum Studies Reference Library (Smithsonian) WWW Museum Studies: Online Resources for Students and Practitioners WWW Voice of the Shuttle: Humanities WWW Library Research GuidesAmerican ArchitectureAmerican Art American Studies Archaeology Architecture Art History Asian Art and Archaeology Boston and Its Neighborhoods Historic Preservation Images Photography Twentieth-Century |