Fine Arts

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American Art
The University of Chicago Press and the Smithsonian American Art Museum publish American Art. The digital collection contains issues from 2004 to the present. There are links to back issues from 1991 through 2003 provided by JSTOR.

This database is an online collection of over 330,000 art images. ARTstor contains ten collections from art repositories from around the world. The collections are fully searchable by many fields, such as title, creator, or location.

Advanced Placement Source
This database is a collection of full-text articles from over 6,100 journals from scholarly journals, magazines, and newspaper articles. Advanced Placement Source contains over 120 periodicals on the Fine Arts. APS has the ability to search by Library of Congress Subject Headings

Grove Art is an electronic version of The Dictionary of Art (the 34 volume print version is found in the reference collection) and The Oxford Companion to Western Art. Grove Art provides 45,000 articles with over 130,000 searchable images linked to museum and gallery websites.

Grove Music is an electronic version of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (the 28 volume print version is found in the reference collection). Additionally, found in Grove Music is The Dictionary of Opera and The Dictionary of Jazz. Other features include 500 musical samples and over 3,000 links to related web resources.

JSTOR is a collection of over 900 full-text scholarly journals. JSTOR contains complete backfiles for each journal with a moving window that averages around 5 years (current issues are not available). JSTOR offers over 80 journals on the Fine Arts.

Naxos is a collection of over 80,000 full audio tracks and over 5,500 digital CDs. The major collections of Naxos are classical music and jazz. Additionally, Naxos offers reference material, such as music encyclopedias and dictionaries.

The Nation Archive
The Nation is the United States’ oldest weekly magazine. The Nation covers foreign affairs; local and national politics; education, law, literature, and the arts. The digital archive contains every issue of The Nation from 1865 to the present. The articles are in PDF format with full color images.

This database lets the user search over 100 Oxford University Press reference books at the same time. Oxford contains nine reference books on the Fine Arts, such as The Oxford Dictionary of Art and The Oxford Companion to the Photograph.

Project Muse is a collection of over 300 full-text scholarly journals. The coverage in Muse is current (five to ten years). Muse contains over ten Fine Art journals. Muse has the ability to search by Library of Congress Subject Headings.