Library Architectural Studies 365/EURO 365/GERM 365

• Academic Search Premier (date coverage varies)
  Full-text articles from over 3,600 journals in the social sciences, arts and humanities, and sciences.
• JSTOR
  Full-text backfiles of over two thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. (Alumni access)
• Arts & Humanities Database
  Full-text publications that focus on art, architecture, design, history, philosophy, music, literature, theatre and cultural studies.
• Performing Arts Periodicals Database (1864 to present)
  Covers a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry - including dance, drama, theater, opera, film, television and more.
• Access World News (Newsbank) (date coverage varies)
  Electronic editions of over 2,600 local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers as well as 1,500 international sources. Fully searchable and browsable by map.
• Project Muse
  Online database of more than 200 journals from nonprofit publishers. (Alumni access)
• BHA: Bibliography of the History of Art (1973 to present)
  Bilingual 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.

• Reference Universe
  Searchable index of the library's entire reference collection, both print and electronic.
• Gale Virtual Reference Library
  70 reference e-books, including multivolume works like the Encyclopedia of Religion, American Decades, and more.
• Oxford Art Online
  Oxford Art Online is the access point for Grove Art Online, and other Oxford art reference works covering all forms of the visual arts: painting, sculpture, architecture, graphic and decorative arts, and photography from prehistory to the present.
• New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
  Survey of the history of Western thought and culture, exploring the origin, cultural interpretations, and historical themes of a variety of subjects.
• Oxford Reference
  Digitized entries from Oxford's Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias, spanning multiple subject areas.

• ARTstor
  Image database including architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual culture.
• Amherst College Digital Collections
  Digitized art works, photographs, manuscripts, books, and other media from Amherst College Archives & Special Collections and the library’s Art & Architecture Collection.

Some example subject terms to search in the Five College Catalog:

Collective Memory
Memorialization
Public Art
Public Sculpture
Monuments -- United States
War memorials -- United States
Memorials -- Political aspects
Art and Society

• Basic search allows searching by subject terms, subject keywords
• Advanced search allows more nuanced searching and limiting, such as "rites and ceremonies" AND memorials
• You can "modify search" from either basic or advanced search results