Electronic Resources [WAM]: Resources A-Z

Combination of global, regional and local news (Worcester Telegram and Gazette), including a unique merging of news formats (full-text articles, web-only content, PDF image editions), this resource supports a diverse range of research needs across an array of academic disciplines. Includes current and archived news content from more than 12,700 sources spanning 200+ countries and territories from 1980-present.

Biographies of more than 19,000 people — from all eras and walks of life — whose lives have shaped American history and culture.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art’s research portal for the study of American watercolors. This site provides resources on watercolor societies from the 19th and 20th centuries in New York City and Philadelphia.

Helps researchers locate primary source materials held in archives, libraries, museums and historical societies across the world.

A pioneering resource created to help researchers locate primary source material about American art collectors, dealers, agents and advisors, and the repositories that hold these records.

The world’s preeminent and most widely used research center dedicated to collecting, preserving, and providing access to primary sources that document the history of the visual arts in America.

A free research database containing abstracts of literature related to the preservation and conservation of material cultural heritage.

Definitive research database for the study of art and architecture. Full-text journals, magazines, books, and trade publications. Abstracts, indexing and an image collection as well.

An authoritative eBook resource that features important works of scholarship in the history of art, architecture, decorative arts, photography, and design. With innovative functionality and extensive metadata, the site offers students and scholars an engaging experience, encouraging critical thinking skills and supporting rigorous academic research.

A structured vocabulary for describing and indexing the visual arts and architecture.

Provides the most comprehensive online gallery guides for the major art cities and every state. A valuable online resource for collectors, art consultants, galleries, artists, and art enthusiasts. Links take you directly to listed art businesses across the country where you can quickly see what’s showing, and also find out about special events such as art fairs.

An art-focused research experience within the OCLC WorldCat environment.

Full-text access to the museum’s digital book publications.

Leading online resource for the international art market. Auction records dating back to 1985.

An online and print publication that covers the international art world. Its unrivalled news and events coverage is fed by a network of sister editions, which together have more than 50 correspondents working in more than 30 countries. In addition to the news, it publishes reviews and commentary by major players in the art scene, including Nicholas Serota, Michael Govan, Thelma Golden, Theaster Gates, Grayson Perry, Elmgreen & Dragset and Shirin Neshat—and many more.

Image library covering the subjects of art, architecture, humanities, and social sciences.

One of the most comprehensive collections of primary and secondary source material on contemporary Asian art.

Artist biographies, auction records, images, book and journal references. American art is very well represented, with some international information.

Comprehensive, international bibliographic resource for the conservation, preservation, and restoration of cultural property.

Citation databases that cover European and American visual arts materials published between 1975 and 2007.

You will need a BPL e-card to access these databases.
Resources include: Grove Art Online, JSTOR, New York Times (1851-2016) and (1985-Present), Art History Research net, Smithsonian Collections Online, Art Full Text, Art Index Retrospective, and much more.

Free, full-text access to catalogues that combine peer-reviewed introductory essays with carefully selected groups of object records generated from the Museum's Collection online database.

A peer-reviewed, academic publication that is dedicated to presenting research on aspects of ancient Egypt and Sudan and the representation of those cultures in modern times.

The preferred citation format for scholarship in the field of art history.

Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1756-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.

One of the strategic research units of the Oxford University Faculty of Classics. The purpose of the unit is to stimulate and support fresh research on many aspects of ancient Greek and Roman art. This site contains information within physical and virtual archives and databases, web resources, conferences, workshops, and publications.

Publishes timely scholarly and critical reviews of studies and projects in all areas and periods of art history, visual studies, and the fine arts, providing peer review for the disciplines served by CAA. Publications and projects reviewed include books, articles, exhibitions, conferences, digital scholarship, and other works as appropriate. CAA Reviews fosters timely, worldwide access to the intellectual and creative materials and issues of art-historical, critical, curatorial, and studio practice, and promotes the highest standards of discourse in the disciplines of art and art history.

An electronic database that compiles, defines, and disseminates technical information on the distinct collection of terms, materials, and techniques used in the fields of art conservation and historic preservation.

A continually updated biographical database of art historians of western art.

The Digital Art History Directory (DAHD) is an open-access publication containing a database of digital art history projects and information on data sources, best practices in Digital Art History project construction, preservation, and web archiving. Intended to be the largest, most comprehensive, and inclusive collection of information on Digital Art History and to function as a tool and living resource, rather than a static publication, the DAHD provides a platform for discovery, sharing, and research of Digital Art History.

Collects and creates electronic resources for study and research of the decorative arts, with a particular focus on Early America. Included are electronic texts and journals, image databases, and information on organizations, museums and research facilities. Created and maintained by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries.

Digitized material from America’s libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions; includes content such as: photographs, books, maps, news footage, oral histories, personal letters, museum objects, artwork, and government documents.

A community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books.

A community-curated, online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.

An initiative dedicated to the recovery and publication of primary source materials and critical texts related to Latin American and Latinx art. Contains digitized writings by artists, leaders of artistic movements, critics, and curators from Mexico, Central and South America, the Caribbean, and the United States.

The European equivalent to the DPLA. Digitized materials from archives, libraries, and museums across Europe; includes content such as: books, artwork, and music.

Contains price information on fine arts, including: oil paintings, etchings, engravings, watercolors, drawings, sculptures and much more ranging from Old Masters to Contemporary art.

Provides access to Archival Inventories (works of art from private collections in France, Italy, the Netherlands, and Spain from 1520 to 1880), Sales Catalogs (catalogs from major cities in Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and Scandinavia from 1650 to 1945 are included), and Dealer Stock Books.

Provides access to the Collectors Files, Payments to Artists (recorded payments to artists made in Rome between 1576 and 1711), and Public Collections (descriptions and provenances of paintings created by artists born before 1900 that are held by public institutions in Great Britain and the United States).

Full-text access to digital books published by the Getty.

A free online search platform providing worldwide access to an extensive collection of digitized art history texts from a range of institutions. This multilingual and multicultural union catalog affords art historians and other researchers the ability to search and download complete digital copies of publications devoted to art, architecture, material culture, and related fields.

Authority on all aspects of the visual arts, featuring entries on artists, architects, craftsmen, patrons, movements, locations, and periods, as well as bibliographies for further research.

Full-text access to digitized materials currently in the public domain.

Pairs essays and works of art with chronologies, telling the story of art and global culture through the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection.

Includes images and descriptive data related to the iconography of works of art produced between late Antiquity and the sixteenth century. Although the Index of Medieval Art was formerly known as the Index of Christian Art, it now includes secular subjects as well as a growing number of subjects from medieval Jewish and Muslim cultures.

An online edition of The Print Council Index to Oeuvre-Catalogues of Prints by European and American Artists by Timothy A. Riggs, expanded and updated by Lauren B. Hewes and Nicole Simpson. The database now contains entries for European and American prints, print publishers, drawings, and photographs; and Japanese prints and photographs.

A database containing over 9,000 records of Chinese artwork and artists from the Ming Dynasty.

Website contains educational resources for art law & cultural property, a provenance guide, collector’s information, and a bibliographic database for Catalogues Raisonnés.

Primarily a digital archive with content such as: web pages, books, audio recordings, live concert recordings, videos, televised news programs, images, and software programs. Home of the Wayback Machine--a digital archive of the World Wide Web.

The largest collection of auction catalogues south of the Arctic Circle from 1770 to the present from auction houses world-wide.

Full-text open access journals and books, in addition to research reports, images, and other media.

Multi-disciplinary full-text access to major scholarly journals, with some coverage dating back to the 18th century.

Contains 18 million records for books, serials, manuscripts, maps, music, recordings, images, and electronic resources in the Library of Congress collections.

An auction price results database that provides access to 29 million art, antique, jewelry, furniture, collectible, and fashion results that were auctioned off from thousands of global auction houses. Search by keyword and refine by auction house, location, origin, style & period, creator, materials, techniques, and more to research and determine the value of items. Auction results are updated daily with new hammer prices, as well as historical results dating back to 1999.

Full-text access to out-of-print publications by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Includes: Boston Globe, Britannica, Proquest Research Companion & Heritage Quest, Gale products: Biography, Fine Arts, Academic OneFile & Select, General OneFile, Gender Studies, News, Religion & Philosophy, New York Times, World History, and much more.

A reading list that consists primarily of books and exhibition catalogs. It does not include publications on individual artists. This reading list should be used as an entrée into the literature, as a point of departure into a much broader field. It should not be viewed as comprehensive.

An annotated bibliography compiled by Janet Stanley.

A single database providing unified access to over 330,000 records for medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, rare and reference books, literary and historical manuscripts, music scores, ancient seals and tablets, drawings, prints, and other art objects.

Full-text access to backlist publications by the National Gallery of Art.

Digitized primary sources ranging from 1789-1914. Includes books, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, statistics, and more.

A bibliographic database containing literature on arts from Late Antiquity to the present day, providing access to 1.2 million bibliographic records of periodicals, books, exhibition, and auction catalogues, published between 1910 and 2007.

Combination library and catalogue with a goal to list every book (in print and out of print) with information on where to access a copy. Free e-books and e-audio books are available.

30 peer-reviewed, open-access journals showcasing some of the most dynamic research in humanities disciplines. The journals cover topics including classics, modern languages, philosophy, theology, history, political theory, sociology, anthropology, film and new media studies, and digital humanities.

Widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. An unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and usage of 500,000 words and phrases, past and present, from across the English-speaking world.

An online library of free eBooks.

Hosts more than 800 journals (in the Humanities and Social Sciences) and nearly 100,000 books from some 400 leading university presses, scholarly societies, and related publishers. MUSE also offers more than 5,000 open access books and several open access journals on the platform.

Citation databases that cover European and American visual arts materials published between 1975 and 2007.

A free, not-for-profit, multi-media web-book, designed as a dynamic enhancement for the traditional art history textbook. Includes videos, images, text, timelines, and other web 2.0 possibilities for the open collaboration in study of art history.

35,000 digitized books and manuscripts, as well as digitized photograph collections, ephemera, and seed catalogs.

An online resource that helps researchers discover biographical and historical information about persons, families, and organizations that created or are documented in historical resources (primary source documents) and their connections to one another. Users can locate archival collections and related resources held at cultural heritage institutions around the world.

This database, originally created for The Frick Collection’s four volume print publication of the same title, provides essential bibliographic information on more than 5,000 Spanish artists, including comprehensive lists of alternate forms of artist surnames. It has been widely acclaimed not only as a valuable reference tool but also as a thorough review of scholarly opinion regarding the artistic identities of numerous anonymous masters.

A database and image similarity analysis engine, created by John Resig to aide researchers in the study of Japanese woodblock prints. The database currently contains over 213,000 prints from 24 institutions.

A structured vocabulary that includes names and associated information about artists. Artists may be either individuals or groups of individuals working together (corporate bodies).

Media-rich essays on broad themes as well as in-depth investigations of specific works of art. Featured works link to records in the Walker’s collections database, where additional information about the artists and artworks is available.

An archive of webpages from websites published from the late 1990s to today.

50+ titles on a wide range of French artists, with a strong focus on 18th and 19th-century art.

The world’s largest network of library content which enables the searching of library collections from around the world.