Visual Arts and Design
Reference Resources
- Art & Architecture Encyclopedias
- Online access to a wide range of art and architecture subject dictionaries and companions.
- Oxford Art Online - Grove Art Online
- A comprehensive reference work on art and artists.
Databases
- Design and Applied Arts Index
- Contains over 130,000 annotated references from more than 500 design and craft journals and newspapers published from 1973 and onwards, and data on over 50,000 designers, craftspeople, studios, workshops and firms making it the largest index of its kind in the world.
- Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative
- This database provides access to digital images of woodcuts, photographs, slides, papyri, coins, maps, postcards, manuscripts, lithographs, sermons, shape-note tune books, and various forms of Christian art, architecture, and iconography.
- CAMIO: Catalogue of Art Museum Images Online
- OCLC's Catalog of Art Museum Images Online. Camio is a growing online collection documenting works of art from around the world, and representing collections of prominent museums.
- Arts and Humanities Citation Index
- A multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities.
- Project Muse
- Collection of humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from scholarly publishers.
- JSTOR
- JSTOR is an archive of important scholarly journals, see in particular, JSTOR Arts and Sciences Complement, and Arts and Sciences III and IV.
- ARTstor
- ARTstor is a digital library of approximately 550,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities and social sciences.
- Art Abstracts
- Provides access to comprehensive indexing and abstracts for more than 400 international art publications. This database covers a broad range of art topics such as advertising, archaeology, crafts, folk art, graphic arts, interior design, video, film, architecture and art history.
- AustArt Index
- Published by the College of Fine Arts Library, University of New South Wales.
- VADS
- Online resource for visual arts with over 100,000 images.
Web Sites
- Aboriginal Art, Culture & Spirituality
- Aboriginal art.
- WWW Virtual Library- the Arts
- List of links to the Arts.
- History of Art
- Collection of links relating to Art History and computer applications in Art History.
- Visualarts
- A gateway to Australian visual arts and craft created by the National Association of Visual Arts.
- Intute: Arts & Humanities
- Resources for education and research in Creative Arts and Humanities.
