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Books and journals in the disciplines of art, art history, and design are housed on the second floor of Hesburgh Library. The Italian Renaissance is an area of emphasis. Related collections in Hesburgh Library include photography, on the first floor, and Medieval Institute books and journals, on the seventh floor. The Architecture Library in Bond Hall holds 28,000 volumes in that discipline, and the Art Slide Library in O'Shaughnessy houses a collection of slides.

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Recommended Resources (All Resources: 21 databases | 83 e-journals )

• Art full text

  
  

  Coverage:

  1984- (Indexing); 1994- (Abstracting); 1997- (Selected full-text)
  Indexes and abstracts articles on archaeology, architecture, art, motion pictures and photography in international periodicals (including full-text of selected periodicals). Titles covered are English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. Art Full Text also indexes reproductions of works of art in these periodicals.

• ARTbibliographies modern

  
  

  Coverage:

  1974-
  Provides abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, and exhibition reviews on modern and contemporary art (dating from the late 19th century onwards) including photography, performance art, video art, computer and electronic art, theater arts, etc., as well as painting, printmaking, sculpture, and drawing.

• ARTstor

  
  
  Searchable database of more than 300,000 images applicable different times, cultures, and disciplines. Combination of images, data, and texts provides comprehensive art-related teaching, learning, and researching capabilities. Can view and analyze images through features such as zooming and panning.

• BHA: Bibliography of the history of art

  
  
  Indexes and abstracts articles, art-related books, journals, conference proceedings, dissertations, and art exhibition and dealer's catalogs. This extensive and comprehensive index covers European and American art from late antiquity to the present. Usage info: Licensed for 5 simultaneous users.

• Bibliography of the history of art (see BHA: Bibliography of the history of art)

  
  

• Grove art online

  
  
  "... provides web access to the entire text of The dictionary of art, ed. Jane Turner (1996, 34 vols.) and The Oxford companion to Western art, ed. Hugh Brigstocke (2001). ... ongoing additions of new and updated articles, over 1,500 thumbnail art images and line drawings displayed in the text of articles, extensive image links, and sophisticated search and navigation tools."--About Grove art online.

• Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance

  
  
  Contains electronic resources for researchers in the study and teaching of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Enables users to access citations in journal, book, and reviews databases; provides online access to Paul Oskar Kristeller's Iter Italicum (a finding list of Renaissance humanistic manuscripts); provides access to the International directory of scholars (a comprehensive directory of contact information, and information on the research and teaching careers of scholars around the world).

• JSTOR

  
  

Other Art, Art History and Design Resources

Organizations: Museums

General and local information: Local and regional information

Formats: Electronic books and texts · Electronic journals · Manuscripts · Photographs and images

Research tools: Bibliographies · Catalogs · Directories · Encyclopedias · Guides and finding aids · Indexes and abstracts

E-Journal Collections: Blackwell Synergy · Brill Academic Publishers · HighWire Press · Indiana University Press · IngentaConnect · JSTOR · MIT Press · OUP (Oxford Univ. Press) · Periodicals Archive Online (formerly: PCI Full Text) · Project Muse · ScienceDirect · University of Chicago Press