Databases

Art History and Studio

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Recommended Databases

  • The electronic version of Grove's multi-volume art encyclopedia and other Oxford art reference works, with hyperlinks.
    **NOTE** Access to Oxford Art Online is temporarily unavailable through CUNY. The link here takes you to a NYPL database listing page for all that begin with the letter O. Scroll down to select Oxford Art Online.
    NYPL card and login required.

  • The Artstor platform is retired as of August 1, 2024. All Artstor content is now available on JSTOR. The linked text above will take you to the JSTOR Images search page.

  • JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. Explore a wide range of scholarly content through a powerful research and teaching platform. (Current journals are not entered into the database for two to five years.)

    As of August 1, 2024, all image content formerly on Artstor is available on JSTOR. Select the Images tab to limit a search to images only.

  • An online collection of full text journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press and other university presses.

  • The Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) is the world's most comprehensive bibliography of scholarly writing about the history of European and American visual arts from late antiquity to the present. This database indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealers' catalogs, and articles from over 4,300 periodicals. Available on the Getty Website from April 1, 2010, it includes BHA records from 1990-2007 and records from RILA covering 1975-1989.

Related Databases

  • An online collection of over 3,300 fully searchable high quality ebooks in the humanities.

  • Index to articles in journals, museum bulletins and yearbooks on fine and applied arts, including architecture and archaeology; also indexes art reproductions appearing in periodicals. The majority of the articles are in English but some European languages are included.

  • Index to articles in journals, museum bulletins and yearbooks on fine and applied arts, including architecture and archaeology; also indexes art reproductions appearing in periodicals. The majority of the articles are in English but some European languages are included.

  • The electronic version of Grove's multi-volume art encyclopedia and other Oxford art reference works, with hyperlinks.

  • Resource to worldwide content on all aspects of the humanities in more than 1,450 full-text journals back to 1907.