Research Guides: Art & the History of Art Research Guide: Find Articles

Start With These

These core databases are good places to start!

Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window
Access to Grove Art Online and other Oxford art reference works covering all forms of the visual arts: painting, sculpture, architecture, graphic and decorative arts, and photography from prehistory to the present.
Art & Architecture Source (1914 to present) This link opens in a new window
Index covering fine arts, decorative, and commercial art, and architecture and architectural design. includes full-text coverage for several hundred titles, including OA journals.
International Bibliography of Art (IBA) (1973 to present) This link opens in a new window
Covers scholarly literature on western art, including traditional visual arts as well as new media, architectural history, museum studies and conservation, archaeology, and classical studies.
ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM) (1974 to present) This link opens in a new window
Citations and abstracts for journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Full text back files of scholarly journals primarily in the humanities, socials sciences, & sciences as well as ebooks, primary sources, and image collections across multiple disciplines. The Amherst College Library provides Alumni Access to JSTOR.
OpenBibArt This link opens in a new window
Open source bibliographic index to literature on arts from Late Antiquity to the present day, providing access to periodicals, books, exhibition and auction catalogues, published between 1910 and 2007. A collaboration between the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art (INHA), the Getty Research Institute (GRI) and the Institut de l’Information Scientifique et Technique of the CNRS (Inist-CNRS).
Arts & Humanities Database This link opens in a new window
Full-text publications on art, architecture, design, history, philosophy, music, literature, theater, and cultural studies.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (1934 to present) This link opens in a new window
Indexes more than 2,000 periodicals on archaeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation.
Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI) (1973 to present) This link opens in a new window
Covers both new designers and the development of design and the applied arts since the mid-19th century.

Kubikat
The collective catalogue of four of the leading German scholarly art history research institutes located in Florence, Munich, Rome and Paris. Kubikat includes both article and book citations.

More Library Databases

Getty Publications Virtual Library This link opens in a new window
Art historical research, exhibition catalogues, journals, and other full-text publications from the Getty Publications Archives.
Art Index Retrospective (1929-1984) This link opens in a new window
Index to leading English-language publications in the world of the arts.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Full text back files of scholarly journals primarily in the humanities, socials sciences, & sciences as well as ebooks, primary sources, and image collections across multiple disciplines. The Amherst College Library provides Alumni Access to JSTOR.
Academic Search Premier (date coverage varies) This link opens in a new window
Full-text articles from over 3,600 journals in the social sciences, arts and humanities, and sciences.

JURN
Index of 3000 open-source art and humanities journals.
AATA Online (Getty)
A Getty database of over 120,000 abstracts of literature related to the preservation and conservation of material cultural heritage.
Artlibraries.net (formerly the VKK)
Virtual catalog for art history. Searches across databases of associated art libraries and other online resources.

Black Studies Center (25,000 BC to present) This link opens in a new window
Cross-searchable gateway to black studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, reference books, and more.
British Periodicals This link opens in a new window
Searchable full text of hundreds of British periodicals from the late 17th century to the early 20th, with high-resolution facsimile page images.
GenderWatch (1970 to present) This link opens in a new window
Full text of publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas.
Bibliography of Asian Studies (1973 to present) This link opens in a new window
Index to articles and books in Asian Studies, including humanities and social sciences.
Critical Collective This link opens in a new window
Promotes scholarship and building knowledge in the arts in India.

Journals

Search journals and magazines for articles and reviews. You can also search the "Articles & Journals" tab on the library site.

Tip: Peer-reviewed articles

Peer-reviewed articles are:

written by experts in the field
assessed for validity and scholarly rigor by other experts in the field (peer review)
published in scholarly journals

Online bibliographies

Decentering Whiteness in Design History Bibliography
Bibliography assembled by design historians to highlight the work of Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and Asian writers.