Fine Arts Subject Guide

Primary Resources

  • Art Abstracts
    • Provides access to a wide range of bibliographies, notices of competitions and awards, reports of conferences, exhibition listings, review articles, interviews, and film reviews.
  • CAMIO
    • Catalog of Art Museum Images Online
  • Gale's Virtual Reference Library
    • A collection of reference e-books.
  • Humanities Abstracts
    • Abstracts feature articles, book reviews, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction (including dramas and poems), and reviews of plays and television and radio programs.
  • IPA Source
    • Online since 2003, IPA Source is the web's largest library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts. Now with over 3500 texts!
  • Media Review Digest
    • Provides comprehensive review coverage of educational media.
  • MLA International Bibliography
    • Provides over one million citations for items from journals and series published worldwide.
  • NAXOS Music Library
    • An invaluable resource for music professionals with a wide range of standard and specialist repertoire, first-class performances and sound, over 18,000 CD's, 267,000 tracks of music, comprehensive liner notes, opera synopses and libretti, composer and artist biographies, and other essential information.

Secondary Resources

  • ABC-CLIO eBooks
    • collection of reference ebooks including Gamelan, Hip Hop Cultures, Music of European Nationalism, and South African Music
  • ABI-INFORM on Proquest
    • a leading business database with full-text available for many titles including the Wall Street Journal.
  • ACLS Humanities E-Book Project
    • Over 1500 full-text ebooks from the American Council of Learned Societies covering most humanities disciplines and area studies. 
  • ATLA Religion
    • Includes a full range of index citations to journal articles, essays in multi-author works, and book reviews from three ATLA print indexes: Religion Index One (RIO), Religion Index Two (RIT), and Index to Book Reviews in Religion (IBRR).
  • Biography Index
    • Covers biographical information from English-language periodicals and books for all subject areas covered by H.W. Wilson indexes.
  • Biography and Geneology Master Index
    • A database that enables users to locate biographical entries of people, living and deceased, from all time periods, geographical locations, and fields of endeavor.
  • Wiley InterScience Full-text Journals (Includes Blackwell Journals) 
    • A fulltext journal collection covering a wide range of subject areas such as business, computing, economics, health sciences, humanities, law, life and physical sciences, mathematics, medicine, social and behavioral sciences, and the arts.
  • Clase and Periodica
    • Contains information from articles, essays, book reviews, monographs, conference proceedings, technical reports, interviews and brief notes published in journals edited in 24 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as from publications that focus on Pan-American issues.
  • Christian Periodical Index (CPI)
    • an index to articles (not full-text) from an evangelical perspective. About 150 journals and popular evangelical magazines are indexed. See Journal titles. Some of these titles are available full-text online.
  • Ebrary
    • A large collection of religious titles in an electronic format. You will need to download the Ebrary Reader before using this site.
  • Education Abstracts
    • Provides citations for every article of at least one column in length taken from English-language periodicals and yearbooks published in the United States and elsewhere.
  • Educator's Reference Complete
    • Educator's Reference Complete is a selection of more than 450 full-text academic journals, hundreds of full-text reports, and many premier reference sources. Included content focuses on educational principles, child development and psychology, and best practices in education. Majority of the full-text titles included are also found in the ERIC database. The database is updated daily and provides 24-hour access from school or home.
  • eLibrary Elementary
    • Easily searchable reference sources, especially suited to K-12, including 35 popular magazines, 37 reference books, 11 newspapers, TV & radio transcripts, and a rich archive of photos and maps.
  • ERIC
    • Access full text ERIC documents by ERIC number, author, or title.
  • Essay and General Literature Index
    • Cites essays and articles contained in collections of essays and other works published in the United States, Great Britain and Canada.
  • Harpweek
    • electronic access to the images and text of the Harper's Weekly 19th century issues.
  • History Study Center
    • A rich full-text history database from Proquest.
  • International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences
    • A rich encyclopedia with thousands of full text articles relating to the social and behavioral sciences.
  • JSTOR
    • The Arts & Sciences I Collection includes 119 complete back runs of many of the core research and society published journals in economics, history, political science, sociology, ecology, mathematics, and statistics, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences. See the journal list.
  • Junior Edition
    • A general Infotrac database designed for students in junior high and middle school.
  • Kid's Edition
    • A periodical database designed for elementary school students, with easy access to full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
  • Kids InfoBits
    • A database developed especially for beginning researchers in Kindergarten through Grade 5 and covers geography, current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
  • LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe
    • Search full text newspapers, company news and financial info, International/Federal/State legal information, medical and health information (some abstracted), as well as general reference resources. (See Journal Titles list.)
  • Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
    • CSA's database that covers all aspects of the study of language insluding phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics. (See Journal Titles list)
  • Media Review Digest
    • Reviews of educational media and entertainment resources
  • Newspapers
    • Project Muse
      • Provides online, worldwide, institutional subscription access to the full-text of about 200 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. See Journal Titles list.
  • PsycINFO
    • Includes international material selected from periodicals written in over 25 languages since 1887.
  • Sage Fulltext Collections
    • SAGE Publications publishes over 460 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine. Click here to search the journals from off campus. You will not be able to export directly to Refworks using this link.
  • SCIPIO
    • Art and Rare Book Sales/Auction Catalogs
  • SIRS Discoverer
    • Research resources for grades K-9
  • SIRS Renaissance
    • Provides information about architecture & design, culture, literature, multimedia, music, performing arts. philosophy & religion, and visual arts.
  • Sociological Abstracts
    • CSA’s database of the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,809 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Records added since 1973 contain in-depth and nonevaluative abstracts of journal articles. 
  • Social Sciences Abstracts (SocialSciAbs)
    • Provides records for English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere.
  • Student Edition
    • A general Infotrac database designed for high school students.

Interdisciplinary Resources

  • Article First
    • Provides a list of libraries that have the journal title for most items.
  • Electronic Collections Online (ECO)
    • Lets you view abstracts and full-text articles from journals to which your library or institution subscribes.
  • Encyclopaedia Britannica
    • Includes link to Britannica's Internet Guide to "best web sites."
  • Expanded Academic ASAP
    • An Infotrac database filled with full text and images for a broad collection of academic disciplines.
  • FACTS.com
    • Includes Facts On File World News Digest, Issues and Controversies On File, and Reuters On-Line News Service (last 2 weeks).
  • General OneFile
    • A broad database covering a wide range of topics with millions of full text articles.
  • General Reference Center Gold
    • Full-text general database through Infotrac (1980- ). (See Journal Titles list.)
  • U.S. Government Publications (GPO)
    • Covers all types of U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.).
  • Infotrac OneFile
    • A broad database covering a wide range of topics with millions of full text articles.
  • Learning Express Library
    • A test preparation site that provides access to hundreds of online practice tests and courses including practice tests for the GRE, GMAT, LSAT and MCAT. You will need to sign up as a new user and create a user account.
  • MEL
    • Michigan Electronic Library
  • Netlibrary
    • A collection of almost 25,000 eBooks available to Michigan libraries. The state "owns" 1 copy of each book and the checkout time is 6 hours. You must create a free account before accessing the titles.
  • Opposing Viewpoints
    • Overviews, full-text articles, statistics, and resources on social issues.
  • RefWorks
    • a personal database that allows you to download references from online databases and then formats them for use in bibliographies and research papers. You will need to create an individual account the first time you use this service. Click here for Help Using RefWorks.
  • Ulrich's Periodical Directory
    • Online guide to information about periodicals. Use this to find out if a periodical is peer reviewed (called refereed in this database).
  • Wiley InterScience Full-text Journals (Includes Blackwell Journals) 
    • A fulltext journal collection covering a wide range of subject areas such as business, computing, economics, health sciences, humanities, law, life and physical sciences, mathematics, medicine, social and behavioral sciences, and the arts.
  • Wilson Select Plus
    • Provides indexed and abstracted records with accompanying full-text periodical articles, many of which are linked to citations in other FirstSearch databases.
  • WorldCat
    • Contains all the records cataloged by OCLC member libraries.

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