Major Indexes and Databases

Art Index

Indexes art journals, magazines, bulletins and film reviews from 1984-current. Preceding years covered by Art Index Retrospective, listed below.

Art Index Retrospective

Indexes art journals, magazines, exhibit catalogs and bulletins from 1929 to 1984.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index

Indexes leading arts and humanities journals worldwide. Search by cited author, cited work, or topic, 1980 to current.

ARTStor

ARTStor is a non-profit initiative, founded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with a mission to use digital technology to enhance scholarship, teaching and learning in the arts and associated fields.

The ARTstor Digital Library Charter Collection is:

• A repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images and related data; The tools to actively use those images; and
• A restricted usage environment that seeks to balance the rights of content providers with the needs and interests of content users.

Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)

1973 - current

Published by the Getty Research Institute of the J. Paul Getty Trust and the French Institut de l’Information Scientifique et Technique du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (INIST-CNRS), the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) is the most comprehensive art bibliography available worldwide, covering European and American visual arts from late antiquity to the present.

Expanded Academic ASAP

Expanded Academic ASAP is an interdisciplinary article index that indexes journal and magazine articles (both scholarly and popular) in all subject areas. Includes some full-text. 1980-present. Click here for a guide to Expanded Academic ASAP.

Grove Art Online

Grove Art Online comprises the full text of The Dictionary of Art, edited by Jane Turner (1996, 34 vols) and The Oxford Companion to Western Art, edited by Hugh Brigstocke (2001).

JSTOR

JSTOR is a full-text archive of over 125 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences covering all issues published, except for the last 2 to 5 years.

PCI: Periodicals Contents Index

PCI indexes the contents of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues to 1995.