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Art Abstracts (1984-present)
Comprehensive indexing and abstracts for 378 leading international art publications. Covers a broad range of art topics such as advertising, archaeology, crafts, folk art, graphic arts, interior design, video, film, architecture and art history.

Art Index Retrospective (1929-1984)

Arts & Humanities Search (1980–present)
A citation index. Records referencing many of the world's leading arts and humanities journals. Produced by Institute for Scientific Information; via FirstSearch.

ArtSTOR
An image database collectively compiled by educational and cultural institutions around the world. The so-called Charter Collection, which currently contains approximately 300,000 images and by 2006 is expected to contain 500,000, documents artistic traditions across many times and cultures and embraces architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual culture.

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
Indexes more than 2,000 periodicals published worldwide on archaeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation, as well as architecture. Coverage is from the 1930s (with selective coverage dating back to the 1860s) to the present.

BHA (Bibliography of the History of Art/Bibliographie d'Histoire de l'Art) (1973 - present)
A bilingual bibliographic database on the history of post-classical western art. Also includes RAA (Repertoire d'Art et d'Archeologie) from 1973 to 1989 and RILA (International Repertory of the Literature of Art) from 1975 to 1989.

Bibliography of Asian Studies
Index to articles and books in Asian Studies, including humanities and social sciences.

Grove Dictionary of Art
An art reference work covering all forms of the visual arts: painting, sculpture, architecture, graphic and decorative arts, and photography from prehistory to the 1990's. In-depth signed articles with a selection of clickable images, cross references and bibliographies.

ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (AC only)

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