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Databases

InfoTrac Fine Arts & Music Collection (Gale InfoTrac) With more than 100 full-text magazines and journals covered in databases such as the Wilson Art Index and RILM.

InfoTrac Pop Culture Collection (Gale InfoTrac) This collection provides useful information for any researcher in a social science, history, art or liberal arts course.

Other Internet Sources

Art History Teaching Resources – Art History Teaching Resources (AHTR) is a peer-populated platform for art history teachers.

BBC Your Paintings – Your Paintings is a website which aims to show the entire UK national collection of oil paintings, the stories behind the paintings, and where to see them for real. It is made up of paintings from thousands of museums and other public institutions around the country.

CAA Reviews – Critical reviews of books, exhibitions, and projects in all areas and periods of art history and visual studies.

Getty Research Portal – The Getty Research Portal™ is an online search platform providing global access to digitized art history texts in the public domain. Through this multilingual, multicultural union catalog, scholars can search and download complete digital copies of publications for the study of art, architecture, material culture, and related fields. The Portal is free to all users.

Google Art Project – A collaboration between Google and some of the world’s most acclaimed art museums to enable people to discover and view more than a thousand artworks online in extraordinary detail.

Life Photo Archive – Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.

Mother of All Art and Art History LinksThis website from the University of Michigan School of Art provides links to research resources in all art-related disciplines, as well as other resources.

National Gallery of Art – NGA Images is a repository of digital images of the collections of the National Gallery of Art. On this website you can search, browse, share, and download images. More than 20,000 open access digital images up to 3000 pixels each are available free of charge for download and use. NGA Images is designed to facilitate learning, enrichment, enjoyment, and exploration.

Smithsonian Collections Search Center – Search over 7.99 million catalog records with 819,838 images, video and sound files, electronic journals and other resources from the Smithsonian’s museums, archives & libraries.