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Search these online databases and journals for articles about your topic.
Usually, it's helpful to start a search experimenting with lots of different keywords about your topic. Then, narrow your search once you have learned the distinct, precise subject headings each database uses.
Databases - Art History
- Art Full Text & Art Index Retrospective This link opens in a new window
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Indexes a wide array of international art literature back to 1929. Also indexes reproductions included in these publications. Includes some full text for literature from 1997 to the present. - Art & Architecture ePortal This link opens in a new window
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Art and architectural history ebooks from some of the world's finest publishers and museums. - Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window
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Covering all aspects of the visual arts, this collection includes such key reference works as the Grove Dictionary of Art, The Benezit Dictionary of Artists, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.
Databases - History
- Iter Bibliography This link opens in a new window
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Scholarly journal articles, essays, and books on the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Covers 1842 - present (coverage varies by publication type). - International Medieval Bibliography This link opens in a new window
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An extensive bibliography of literature about the European Middle Ages. Covers publications from 1967 - current. - Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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The primary place to find scholarship on world history. (For U.S. and Canadian History, use America: History and Life). Covers publications from 1955 - present.
Databases - Gender and Sexuality
- Archives of Sexuality and Gender This link opens in a new windowPrimary sources for the historical study of sex, sexuality, and gender from the 16th through the 20th centuries.
Databases - Religion
- ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials This link opens in a new window
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Indexes journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all scholarly fields of religion. Covers 1949 - current. - ProQuest Religion Database This link opens in a new window
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A broad index of all aspects of religious and spiritual studies worldwide. Covers 1968 - present.
