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Reference Resources
Art collections on the Web | Online Handbooks & Stylebooks | Encyclopedias |
Art Collections on the Web
IMAGE provides access to CSU collections of images used for education and research. The collections currently available include CIELO (3,000 art and architecture images for 1st year courses), and the World Art Database (24,000 images of art and culture from around the world).
Image database containing over 500,000 images of art and cultural material from around the world
Encyclopedias
Continuum encyclopedia of native art : worldview, symbolism, and culture in Africa... native North America / Hope B. Werness New York : Continuum, c2000
Location: Reference Room E98.A7 W49 2000
Grove's Dictionary of art (34 v.)
Location: Reference Room N31.D5 1996 and online
Encyclopedia of world art (17 v. 1968)
Location: Reference Room N31 E533
Encyclopedia of North American Indians / Frederick E. Hoxie, editor. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, c1996-
Location: Reference Room E76.2 .E53 1996; Also available through Netlibrary
Gale encyclopedia of Native American tribes / edited by Sharon Malinowski ... [et al.]. Detroit : Gale, c1998
Location Reference Room E77 .G15 1998 v.1-4
Handbook of North American Indians / William C. Sturtevant, general editor. Washington : Smithsonian Institution : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1978-
Location: 2nd Floor and Reference Room E77 .H25
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Art (5 v.)
Location: FLOOR3 N33 M33
Find Books
Check the Library Catalog
Library Catalog
Oviatt Library's catalog
Subject headings: You may need to use a variety of techniques to find what you need; you may need to search for general books rather than books on a specific tribe. For example: Indian baskets -- [in a geographic area] or Cherokee baskets.
Links to other library catalogs
World Cat, Melvyl and more!
Find Articles
Periodicals/Journals:
Indexes
Anthropological Literature and Anthropological Index combined
Location: Internet
Arts and Humanities [Citation] Search (AHSearch)
Indexes articles, bibliographies, editorials, letters, reviews, and more from over 1,3000 journals. Provides searches for "cited" authors. Search author names: Last name, First Initial. Names as subjects, Search author names: Last name, FirstName
Location: Online
Location: FLOOR3 Z5937 .R4 Incomplete holdings. 1910-1937,1960-1964;1967-1989.
Full-Text
"Complete electronic archive of all AAA journals through 2003 ... Current issues for 11 of the AAA's most critical peer-reviewed publications."
Art Index (1984-) with Full Text (1997-)
Corresponds to the Art Index (print). Contains articles and reproductions of works of art that appear in 400+ indexed periodicals 1984 to the present. Indexes major English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as European periodicals in a number of different languages. Provides access to a wide range of bibliographies, notices of competitions and awards, reports of conferences, exhibition listings, review articles, interviews, and film reviews. Limited to 12 users at one time.
AcademicSearch Elite (EbscoHost)
Full-text and citations from journals and magazines, may limit to only search full-text, within a specific date range and peer reviewed journals
Full-text database of selected newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press in the United States. Alternative to mainstream media so gives a different perspective
Full-text and citations from journals and magazines, may limit to only search full-text, within a specific date range and peer reviewed journals
Humanities Abstracts with Full Text
Abstracts 400 periodicals in archaeology, art, classics, film, folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion, world history, and world literature, 1984- Limited to 12 users at one time.
Human Relations Area Files
Data and publications on a variety of cultures world-wide.
Location: Microfiche 4th Floor; Partially available on line through eHRAF.
Archival collection of scholarly articles from various academic displines, including Anthropology, History, Political Science, and Sociology, the most recent articles are at least 2-5 years old. Use the Advance screen and search terms in title, abstract in articles. If the result is not sufficient, search the entire article not just the title and abstract. However, double with the ethnic group or time period or geographic region.
A full-text resource of journal articles. It includes 167 full-text titles of scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences and mathematics from over 20 not-for-profit scholarly presses.
Writing Guides
A short guide to writing about art/ Sylvan Barnet.
Location: Reserve Books 2HOUR N7476 .B37 2003
Writing about art / Henry M. Sayre
Location: FLOOR3 BOOK N7476 .S29 2002
Writing for the visual arts / Mashey Maurice Bernstein.
Location: FLOOR3 PE479.A76 B47 2001
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