LibGuides: Art Research Starter: Find Articles

Journal Databases

Try these databases to find journal articles:

ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
Find periodical and newspaper articles in all major subject areas, including Business, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, as well as the Humanities and Fine Arts.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
1831-2010; varies by title
Full-text backfiles to almost 850 scholarly journals from more than 25 academic disciplines published between the 19th and 21st centuries in the JSTOR Arts & Sciences I - IV, Arts & Sciences VII, and Biological Sciences collections. JSTOR provides complete journal backruns from the date of initial publication up to a "moving wall" of 3 to 5 years before the present year.

The resources below will be helpful to find biographic information about artists.

Biography (Gale in Context) This link opens in a new window
Discover the world's most influential people by searching narrative biographies, news, magazine, and multimedia content.
Biography Reference Center (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
This database contains a comprehensive collection of full-text biographies and unique narrative biographies from many of the top-ranked biographical reference collections and magazines such as Oxford's American National Biography and Biography Magazine.

Use our interlibrary loan (ILL) form to request resources from other libraries around the nation:

Journals and magazines in print format are located in the northeast compact shelving on the lower level of the library.

Periodicals in microformat are located in the file cabinets south of the print periodicals, around the corner and behind the study rooms.

Sometimes you can find full-text articles on the web. To locate scholarly articles use Google Scholar.