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• Grove Dictionary of Art

  
  Signed articles covering both the fine arts (painting, sculpture, and architecture) and the decorative arts (ceramics, textiles, jewellery, interior design, furniture, glass, metalwork, and more). Also includes over 30,000 links to colour images from high-quality museum and other art sites, plus over 100,000 images from The

• Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians

  
  An extensive encyclopedia of music. (Full-text)

• InfoTrac Fine Arts & Music Collection

  
  A collection of 200 periodicals covering music and music theory, drama and the performing arts, visual arts, and art history. (Some full text)

Multi-subject Databases Recommended for
Art Research
 

• Academic OneFile (InfoTrac)

  
  (Some full text)

• Academic Search Complete

  
  Provides more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals, with indexing and abstracts for 10,900 publications. Content goes back as far as 1865. Covers many academic disciplines including art, music, literature, history, sociology, psychology, government, and science. (Some full-text)

• InfoTrac OneFile

  
  A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social sciences, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Updated daily.

• JSTOR

  
  Includes articles from over 300 research journals covering a wide range of academic fields. (Full-text)

• Project Muse

  
  This multi-purpose database offers the full text of over 300 scholarly journals covering the humanities, arts, and social sciences. (Full-text)

• ProQuest Direct

  
  A general purpose database that includes the full text of many magazines and journals from a number of fields and disciplines. Good for popular, current event, opinion-oriented, practical, and how-to topics. (Some full-text)

• Wilson OmniFile

  
  A general purpose database that includes the full text of many magazines and journals from a number of fields and disciplines. Good for popular, current event, opinion-oriented, practical, and how-to topics. (Some full-text)