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References and Finding Images in Journal Articles
Art Information and the Internet: How to Find It, How to Use It, by Lois Swan Jones,1998.
Finding & Using Images: Digital and Print, Oberlin College Library, overview for faculty, January 27th, 2004.
Learning Page of the Library of Congress: How to Cite Electronic Sources
MLA-style Citation Format:
Photographer last name, first name, middle initial. "Title of photograph." Date. Title of Collection. [Protocol and address] [digital ID] (date of visit).
O'Sullivan, Timothy H. "Incidents of war." 1865. Selected Civil War Photographs from the Library of Congress, 1861-1865. [http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html] [cwp4a40875 40875] (August 14, 1996).
Turabian-style Citation Format:
Photographer last name, first name, middle initial. Date. Title of photograph. In Collection. [Type of medium] Available Protocol: Protocol/Site/Path/File; digital ID. [Access date].
O'Sullivan, Timothy H. 1865. Incidents of war. In Selected Civil War Photographs from the Library of Congress, 1861-1865. [Online] Available http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html; [cwp4a40875 40875]. [August 14, 1996].
"Locating Public Domain Images," by Lorrie A. Knight, College & Research Libraries News, Jan. 1998, 11-13.
Looking for Good Art, by David Mattison, Access Archivist, British Columbia Archives, Royal BC Museum Corporation in Infoday.com (Searcher), September-November 2004.
TASI: Technical Advisory Service for Images
Hosted by the Institute for Learning and Research Technology ( ILRT ), University of Bristol, UKJudging Quality on the Web (UCLA)
Finding Images in Journal Articles:
Art Full Text/Art Index Retrospective, 1929--. BU
Art reproductions. Enter keyword or subject in one search box. Type "reproduction" in a second search box and change the field to "Document Type." Illustrations (figures in article text). Enter keyword or subject in first search box; enter "illustration" in second search box and change field to "Physical Description." Click on the article title. Artist and title of work illlustrated are in the Artist(s) field. Only online articles reproduced in pdf will contain the image(s). Check the library catalog for articles available in print journals.Arts and Humanities Citation Index (Web of Science) 1978--. BU
Illustrations (figures in articles). Choose Cited Ref Search. Enter keyword, e.g., shipwreck, in Cited Work box. Note "ill" in volume column. Click Finish Search to find citations to the articles containing the illustrations. Click the Find@BU button for the articles or call numbers for the journals. Use a search engine or imagebase to look on the Web for other reproductions. For 1975-1977, use the print version (XZ 5937 A795 on Mugar Reference Index Table 6A).Burlington Magazine, online via JSTOR. In the box entitled "Search This Journal," type in artist name, artwork, or any topic for which you want illustrations. On the Search Results page, check off "search within these results," and click on "Images in JSTOR."
JSTOR. In the box entitled, "Search the Collections," type in any thing for which you want illustrations that appear in journal articles. On the Search Results page, check off "search within these results," and click on "Images in JSTOR." Alternatively, use Advanced Search to limit your search to particular JSTOR subject collections, e.g., you might want illustrations of telephones from the History of Science and Technology collection or stone tools from the Anthropology and Archaeology collections.
WilsonWeb. All the H.W. Wilson databases, Applied Science, Art, Business, Education, General Science, Humanities, Readers' Guide, and Social Sciences, allow you to search for images in Advanced Search by changing the field to search to Physical Description and typing in "illustration." If you are getting too many irrelevant results, change the search box field from keyword to subject(s). Only online articles reproduced in pdf will contain the images. Check the library catalog for articles available in print journals.
Page by Ruth S. Thomas, Art/Art History Bibliographer
rthomas@bu.edu (617) 353-3770