Sara Harrington Art Librarian saraharr@rci.rutgers.edu April 16, 2008

Research Resources: Subject Research Guides: Art History:
Indexes Useful for the Study of Art and Art History

• Major Indexes
• Secondary Indexes
• Other Indexes of Interest

Major Indexes

• Art Full Text
    - How to Use Art Full Text
• ARTbibliographies Modern
    - How to Use ARTbibliographies Modern
• Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
    - How to Use Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
• Bibliography of the History of Art
    - How to use The Bibliography of the History of Art

Secondary Indexes

• AMICA Library (Art Museum Images from Cartography Associates)
• Image Collections in Luna Insight
• Index of Christian Art
• Index to Nineteenth-Century American Art Periodicals
• Oxford (Grove) Art Online
• SCIPIO - Art and Rare Book Sales Catalogs

Other Indexes of Interest

The following databases may be of interest to researchers in art history. Most are interdisciplinary and some may offer more focused cultural insights on particular topics in the visual arts. Please click on the links for further information.

• Academic Search Premier
• America: History and Life
• American Periodicals Series Online 1740-1900
• Access World News
• L'Année Philologique
• Anthropology Plus
• ArchiveGrid
• Arts and Humanities Citation Index (Web of Science)
• ATLA Religion Database
• Biblical Archaeology Society: Online Archive
• Booksinprint.com
• Chicano Database
• Corpus de la Littérature Médiévale
• Digitale Bibliothek Deutscher Klassiker
• Dissertations and Theses
• Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800
• ECO: Electronic Collections Online
• Ethnic NewsWatch
• Handbook of Latin American Studies
• Hispanic-American Periodicals Index
• Historical Abstracts
• History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
• Humanities Full Text
• IngentaConnect - Multidisciplinary Periodicals Tables of Contents
• International Medieval Bibliography-Online
• Iter: Gateway to the Renaissance
• JSTOR (Journal Storage Project)
• MLA International Bibliography
• New York Times (Proquest Historical Newspapers)
• Oxford English Dictionary
• Patrologiæ Græcæ
• Patrologia Latina
• Periodicals Index Online
• Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University Press)
• Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
• Women's Studies International