Research Guides @ Fordham: Visual Arts: Articles & Databases

Finding Full Text Articles from a Citation

Finding Full Text Journals & Periodicals (video)
Watch this video to learn how to search for a specific journal or periodical.

Selection of Journals

Suggested Art Databases

The easiest way to find multiple articles on a topic is to search by keyword across many publications in a database.

Art, Design & Architecture Collection
From ProQuest. Includes ARTbibliographies Modern Database, Arts & Humanities Database, Design & Applied Arts Index, and International Bibliography of Art Database.
Art & Architecture Complete
Index and abstracts to hundreds of periodicals, trade publications and books with links to full text when available.
Arts & Humanities Database
On ProQuest's platform. Full text of almost 500 scholarly peer-reviewed journals and selected trade and consumer titles relevant to applied arts and cultural studies.
ARTbibliographies Modern
Abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art, dating back to the late 1960s.
Oxford Art Online
Resources for art research including Grove Art Online - the world's largest art encyclopedia and Encyclopedia of Aesthetics. Fordham University community can ignore the log in box! Subscription DOES NOT INCLUDE Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Limited to 5 Simultaneous Users.
JSTOR & ARTSTOR (WITH AI RESEARCH TOOL - BETA)
Hundreds of academic journals in full text from v.1: n.1. Primary source materials include 19th Century British Pamphlets, Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa, and World Heritage Sites: Africa. All Open Content, Journal Collections, and Reports are available to Fordham users. Artstor database of visual media is now accessible from the JSTOR platform.
NOTE: Basic and advanced searching defaults to "read and download" content we subscribe to. Browsing defaults to "all content." Look for the Access Level limiter on the lower left side to change settings. Access excludes ebooks, Thematic Collections and Global Plants (part of Primary Sources).Fordham does not subscribe to the Constellate text/data analytics service. Users can download full datasets with up to 25,000 items. CLICK HERE FOR INFORMATION.
JSTOR Subscribed Collections with Access:
Arts & Sciences I through XV, Ireland, Life Sciences, Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa, World Heritage Sites: Africa, Business IV, Hebrew Journals, Lives of Literature, Public Health, Security Studies, Sustainability, Global Plants,19th Century British Pamphlets.
ARTSTOR notes:
To go directly to Collections, use the Browse function dropdown (upper right corner) or filtering on the left side after doing a search.
Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)
The Getty provides open access to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) and to the Répertoire International de la Littérature de l'Art (RILA). These citation databases, searchable together, cover European and American visual arts material published between 1975 and 2007.The Getty Research Institute.

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Requesting Articles Through Interlibrary Loan

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Visual Arts: Articles & Databases

Finding Full Text Articles from a Citation

Selection of Journals

Suggested Art Databases

Ask a Librarian

Requesting Articles Through Interlibrary Loan

Reference & Instruction Department