Research
Databases
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ArachneArachne is intended to provide archaeologists and Classicists with a free internet research tool for quickly searching hundreds of thousands of records on objects and their attributes.
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Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection: Series 1
The majority of the resources are provided in Spanish. “...draws its content from the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project, the largest national project ever to locate, preserve, and disseminate Latino-Hispanic culture of the United States in its written form, from colonial times to 1960.”
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Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection: Series 2
The majority of the resources are provided in Spanish. "Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection is an archive of publications focused exclusively on U.S. Hispanic history, literature and culture from colonial times until 1960. Series 2 focuses on Hispanic American civil rights, religion and women’s rights from the 18th through the 20th century.”
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Digital Commons Network"The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work."
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Europeana Collections
Explore millions of artworks, artefacts, books, films and music from European museums, galleries, libraries and archives.
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PhilArchive
PhilArchive is the largest open access e-print archive in philosophy. Formerly known as the PhilPapers Archive, it is built on and integrated with the PhilPapers database. Access to items on PhilArchive is free without a user account. PhilArchive is a non-profit project supported by the PhilPapers Foundation. PhilArchive consists entirely of articles submitted by users. There are currently over one-hundred thousand works in the archive. These works fall under an index of thousands of topics.
Art Databases
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Art & Architecture Complete
Art & Architecture Complete is a robust art research database providing full-text art journals, magazines and books, plus detailed indexing and abstracts. Useful for artists, art scholars and designers, it covers fine, decorative and commercial art, as well as architecture and architectural design.
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Artstor
ARTstor is a nonprofit digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences with a suite of software tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.
Artstor is now part of the JSTOR database. The Artstor website was officially retired on August 1, 2024, but you can still click here to search ARTstor.
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Gale OneFile: Fine ArtsSearch millions of articles about drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. Diverse resource for serious fine arts students.
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National Endowment for the Arts Publications
Research on the arts and its impact on and value to American communities is contained here. All documents are in PDF format.
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Oxford Art Online
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 19,000 images of works of art, structures, plans, and artist signatures.
