Research Guides: Museum Studies Resource Guide: Databases and Preservation Sites

Preservation Sites

American Arts

The Burns Archive: Photographs

Syracuse University Digitized Collections

Library Digitized Collections
Art Image Collection (AIC) also has many architectural images from Italy.

Art Databases

American Association of Museums

Art and Architecture Source
Abstracts for journal articles in 400 key international, English-language arts publications, includes periodicals, yearbooks, museum bulletins, competition and award notices, exhibition listings, interviews, and film reviews.
Art Index Retrospective : 1929-1984
One simultaneous user only.
Articles, interviews, reviews, yearbooks and museum publications, from 1929-1984.
ARTbibliographies Modern
Index and abstracts to articles, essays, reviews, and more covering modern and contemporary art from the 19th century to the present.
ARTstor
Art, architecture, and archaeology images including images from the Smithsonian, the MoMA collection for architecture and design and the Schlesinger photograph collection on the history of women in America.
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses @ Syracuse University
Dissertations and theses from Syracuse University, from 1870 to the present.
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global
Index to dissertations and theses from around the world rom 1743 to the present day and with full text for many primarily from 1997.
Eighteenth Century Journals
British periodicals published from 1685-1835, documenting colonial life, French and American revolutions, literature, fashion, politics, and gossip. Features many titles targeted towards women, plus an image gallery, chronology, and background essays. Includes modules 1-5.
Grove Art Online This link opens in a new window
Also called Oxford Art on Line
Grove Art Online is today's foremost scholarly art encyclopedia covering all aspects of Western and non-Western visual art. It includes the full text of The Dictionary of Art, edited by Jane Turner (1996, 34 volumes) – the landmark reference work containing more than 45,000 articles (more than 21,000 biographies and 500,000 bibliographical citations) contributed by 6,700 scholars from 120 countries

Institute and Museum of the History of Science in Florence italy

JSTOR
Full-text archive of scholarly publications in mathematics, science, the arts and humanities, and the social sciences
Nexis Uni
News, business, and legal sources covering world news and companies, and including U.S. Supreme Court decisions, state, federal and international law, regulations, and law reviews.

Making of America
The Cornell University Library Making of America Collection is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
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The Cornell University Library Making of America Collection is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. This site provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. The project represents a major collaborative endeavor in preservation and electronic access to historical texts.

Project Muse
Journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics, published by Johns Hopkins University Press.

Einstein's Five Types of Montage

I have nothing to say & I'm saying it by Stoneking

Impressionism - more background information

Grove Art Online This link opens in a new window
14 simultaneous users only.
The Dictionary of Art, edited by Jane Turner (1996, 34 vols) covering both Western and non-Western art, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, edited by Hugh Brigstocke (2001), The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, and the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (2nd edition).

Heilbrun Timeline of Art History

Time Line for Art History-The Metropolitan

Museum Studies Resource Guide: Databases and Preservation Sites

What is a library database?

Preservation Sites

American Arts

Syracuse University Digitized Collections

Art Databases

Einstein's Five Types of Montage

Impressionism - more background information

Heilbrun Timeline of Art History