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ABC-CLIO eBooks Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
A browsable collection of electronic reference works in all academic subjects. The site includes encyclopedias, handbooks, and biographical works. Each individual title is searchable, though the collection is not cross-searchable.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, General Subjects, Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences.


ARTbibliographies Modern Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM) provides full abstracts of journal articles, books, exhibition catalogs and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art. Entries date back as far as the late 1960s. Publisher is Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA).
Subject area(s): Art and Art History.


ARTstor Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable database of more than 300,000 digital images and associated catalog data, including many of the images previously associated with AMICO, the Art Museum Image Consortium. ART stor covers many time periods and cultures, and documents the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design, as well as many other forms of visual culture. Users can search, view, and download images. One of the following browsers is required to view the site: IE, Netscape, Mozilla, or Firefox.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, General Subjects, Humanities.


Academic Search Complete from EBSCO
Searchable database with citations and abstracts for journal articles in all academic disciplines. The full-text of over half of the articles is included. Many of the journals are peer-reviewed. Database and interface provider is EBSCOhost.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, General Subjects, Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences.


Accunet AP Photo Archive Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff.
A searchable electronic library containing Associated Press's current year's photo report and a selection of images from their negative and print library dating from the 1500s. The Archive currently contains 700,000 photos, most of which are contemporary images made since late 1995. The Archive features two photo databases: an International Photo Archive and a Euro/Asian Photo Archive. Images may be used in presentations and reports for UCSC faculty, staff, and students only. Archive photographs may not be used or published in newspapers, magazines, or other promotional items.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, General Subjects. Covers: 1995 - present.


African American Song Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff.
Electronic database of approximately 50,000 digital music tracks by African Americans. In order to play sound files, Mac and Windows computers need Macromedia Flash Player. In addition, Windows computer users need Microsoft Windows Media Player. From Alexander Street Press.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, Humanities.

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American Song Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable database of online music recordings that will contain 50,000 tracks from America's past. The database will include songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Included in the database are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests, and more. From Alexander Street Press.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, Humanities.


Art Full Text Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable database that indexes and abstracts articles from art periodicals published throughout the world. Indexing coverage begins 1984; abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. Selected full-text coverage begins in 1997. Topics include: Advertising Art, Architecture and Architectural History, Art History, Computers in Art, Fashion Design, Folk Art, Graphic Arts, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Motion Pictures, Non-Western Art, Painting, Photography, Pottery, Sculpture, Television, Textiles, Video.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History.


Art Index Retrospective Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff.
Searchable database of article citations listed in Art Index volumes 1-32. The resource cites articles from periodicals published throughout the world covering Archaeology, Architecture, Art History, Folk Art, Film, Motion Pictures, Painting, Photography, Pottery, Sculpture, Television, and Textiles. Publisher is Wilson Web.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, Humanities. Covers 1929-1984.


Art: A UCSC Library Research Guide
Provides tips for finding articles, books, reference works, images, and Websites relevant to the study of art, art history and visual resources.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, Humanities.


Artforum Index Available online to all Web users.
Browsable index to the early issues of the journal, volume I, number 1, through volume VII, number 4.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History. Covers: 1962-1968.


Arts and Humanities Citation Index via Web of Science Available online to UC student, faculty, and staff.
This Web of Knowledge database contains citations to 1,100 arts and humanities journals. Search by subject, author, and journal title. Cited Reference Search finds articles that cite an author or article specified by the searcher.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, Humanities. Covers: 1975 - present


Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (ARCH) Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Citations to articles on the following topics: architecture, architectural design, city planning, furniture and decoration, interior design, historic preservation, history of architecture, and urban planning. Vendor is CSA.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History. Covers: 1977 - present.

Search multiple arts and humanities databases from CSA.
Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
This database indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealers catalogs, and articles from more than 2,500 periodicals. Vendor is CSA.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History. Covers: 1973 - present

Search multiple arts and humanities databases from CSA.
Branson DeCou Archive Available online to all Web users.
A collection of digital images of Branson De Cou's hand-tinted lantern slides photographed in Italy in the 1920s-30s. The Web site has an image index that is searchable by site.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, General Subjects.


CSA Illumina Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Choose from any of the 30+ databases provided by CSA (formerly Cambridge Scientific Abstracts.) Cross-database searching is allowed.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, General Subjects, Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences.


California Digital Library (CDL) Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
The CDL is the University of California's 11th University library. Its goal is to build the University's digital library, assist campus libraries with sharing their resources and holdings more effectively, and provide leadership in applying technology to the development of library collections and services.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences.


Classical Music Library Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff.
Electronic database of classical music recordings, with digital audio selections cross-referenced to a database of supplementary reference information. In order to play sound files, Mac and Windows computers need Macromedia Flash Player. In addition, Windows computer users need Microsoft Windows Media Player. From Alexander Street Press.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, Humanities.

Also available from a CDL link.
Digital Image Resources for Teaching and Research at UCSC Available online to UC student, faculty, and staff.
List of art, architecture, and image databases and websites.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, General Subjects.


Dissertations & Theses (a.k.a. Digital Dissertations or Dissertation Abstracts) Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff.
Citations for U.S. dissertations and masters' theses. Abstracts are included for all entries published since 1980. Full-text for all University of California dissertations issued since 1997 is available in pdf format.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences. Covers: 1861 - present

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Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff.
The Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures (EWIC) is a searchable and browsable site that brings together over 1,000 scholars to write critical essays on women, Muslim and non-Muslim and Islamic cultures in every region where there have been significant Muslim populations. It aims to cover every topic for which there is significant research, examining these regions from the period just before the rise of Islam to the present. From Brill Online.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, Humanities, Social Sciences.


Expanded Academic Index ASAP from Infotrac/Gale Available to UC students, faculty, and staff.
As of July 1, 2008 this database has been replaced by Academic Search Complete from EbscoHost. Though the interface is different, the coverage of articles and journals is the the same.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, General Subjects, Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences. Covers: 1980-present.


Film Indexes Online Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff.
Searchable database of film information. This site searches the AFI Catalog and Film Index International.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, General Subjects, Humanities.


Film and Video Catalog: UCSC Available online to all Web users.
A searchable database of videotapes, laserdiscs, 16mm films, and DVD's in the UCSC library collection.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, General Subjects, Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences.


Gale Virtual Reference Library Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable database of encyclopedias and dictionaries in many subjects including education, environment, history, law, medicine, multicultural studies, religion, science, and social science.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, General Subjects, Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences.

Cross search Gale Virtual Reference and Expanded Academic ASAP.
Grove Dictionary of Art Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
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A searchable dictionary of articles with external image links covering all aspects of the visual arts. Also includes a searchable index to the Bridgeman Art Library of online images.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History. Covers: Prehistory - present.


Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians Available online to UCSC faculty, students, and staff.
The New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians 2nd edition on the Web contains the complete text of the encyclopedic reference work. The searchable database contains: biographies of composers, performers, and writers; articles on styles, terms, and genres of music; information about regions, countries, and cities; articles on instruments and their performance practice; articles on popular music and jazz; information on musical concepts and notation.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, Humanities.


HAVC 190-O Art & Culture Contact in Oceania
Library research guide for HAVC 190-O.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, General Subjects.


History 137b
Library research guide for History 137b - Africa since 1800.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, Humanities.


History of Art and Visual Culture 80T: A UCSC Library Research Guide
Guide to accompany HAVC 80T (Body Art: Oceania).
Subject area(s): Art and Art History.


Index to 19th Century American Art Periodicals Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
The database indexes 42 art journals published in the US during the nineteenth century , includes information on popular culture and industry, artists and illustrators, painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, architecture and design, exhibitions and sales, decorations, and collecting. Vendor is RLG/Eureka.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History. Covers: 1840 - 1907.


Ingenta Available to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
This journal publisher's Website contains the full-text of over 300 journals. Browseable by journal title and searchable by topic. Formerly known as CARL Uncover.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, General Subjects, Social Sciences.


International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text (IIMP) Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable database of articles in music and musicology journals. 60 of the 370 journals indexed contain the full text online.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, Humanities. Coverage varies, some titles are searchable back to 1874.


International Index to the Performing Arts - Full Text (IIPA) Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable database of citations to articles in the performing arts. Subjects include theatre/theater, film, dance, popular culture, and opera. 33 out of 214 journals indexed contain articles with full text.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, Humanities. Coverage varies. Most titles begin coverage in the mid-1990s though a few titles are indexed back to the early 1900s.


MELVYL Union Catalog Available online to all Web users.
Books, periodical titles (no articles), media, and other publications from all of the UC campus libraries.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, General Subjects, Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences. Covers: 1,000 A.D. - present

Also available via Telnet.
MOAC Image Collection Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable database of images in the Museums in the Online Archive of California. The site will include images from the permanent collections of the Berkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive, Japanese American National Museum, Oakland Museum of CA, Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, UC Berkeley Bancroft Library, UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, and the UCR California Museum of Photography. Searchable using Luna Imaging's Insight software.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, General Subjects.

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Music Index Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable database of citations for popular and scholarly journal articles. Includes citations from more than 640 international music periodicals. Both classical and popular music topics are categorized and organized according to the framework of an internal Subject Heading List. A broad range of subjects are indexed, covering musicological or organological topics, plus book reviews, record reviews, first performances, and obituaries.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, Humanities. Covers articles published 1979 - 2000.


Naxos Music Library - Jazz Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable and browsable collection of online Jazz music. It includes thousands of titles of the Fantasy catalogue and Naxos Jazz. Works may be searched by featured artist(s), disc / song title and catalogue number.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, General Subjects, Humanities.


Online Journals List (UCSC)
A searchable or browsable list of online journals licensed by UCSC and the California Digital Library. The database links to the Website and full text of each journal.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences.


Oxford Art Online Available to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable online reference work. Includes the following titles: Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History.


Oxford Reference Online Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Large, searchable database of reference sources including English language dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, quotation sources, and encyclopedias. Subjects include art and architecture, environmental science, literature, history, food and drink, law, maps, medicine, mythology, medicine, politics, religion, and science.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, General Subjects, Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences.


People's Daily (Ren Min Ri Bao) Access limited to UCSC faculty, staff and students.
Access to full text of People's Daily Archives.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, General Subjects, Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences. 1946-2005


Princeton's Index of Christian Art (PICA) Available online of UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
The index records works of art produced without geographical limitations from early apostolic times up to A.D. 1400 with particular emphasis on art of the western world. Seventeen different media are represented in the archive, including manuscripts, metalwork, sculpture, painting, and glass. The database includes textual descriptions of all works and digitized photographs of works from the Morgan Library.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, Humanities.


Project MUSE - Johns Hopkins University Press Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
This searchable database contains online access to the full-text of over 100 scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences. Coverage varies.


RIBA Library Available online to all Web users.
The Royal Institute of British Architecture Library is a comprehensive resource for research and information on all aspects of architecture.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History.


RILM Abstracts of Music Literature Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Citations and abstracts of articles on historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments, voice, dance, music therapy.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, Humanities. Covers: 1969 - present


RIPM: International Index to Nineteenth-Century Music Periodicals Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
This searchable database contains citations to articles written in the 19th century. Subjects include music history and musicology.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, General Subjects.


RLIN Bibliographic File/RLG Union Catalog Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable union catalog from the Research Libraries Group (RLG). The database contains records for books, periodical titles, and media in research libraries around the world. Journal articles are not included. This database was called RCAT when it was part of MELVYL.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences. Covers: 1,000 A.D. - present


SCIPIO: Art and Rare Book Sales Catalogs Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Describes art auction and rare book catalogs for sales from the late sixteenth century to the present. Records include the dates and places of sales, the auction houses, sellers, institutional holdings, and titles of works. Vendor is RLG/Eureka.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History.


Saskia Image Collection Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable database of historical art digital images, with a special emphasis on core images required for teaching the history of Western Art. Searchable using Luna Imaging's Insight software.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History.

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SlideCat: UCSC Available online to all Web users.
A searchable database with textual descriptions of over 200,000 images in the UCSC Slide Collection.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences.


Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff.
Electronic database of approximately 35,000 tracks of world music and sound recordings from the archives of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, with audio selections cross-referenced to a database of supplementary reference information. In order to play sound files, Mac and Windows computers need Macromedia Flash Player. In addition, Windows computer users need Microsoft Windows Media Player. From Alexander Street Press.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, Humanities.

Also available from a CDL link.
Tebtunis Papyri Collection Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Consists of the papyrus documents that were found in the winter of 1899/1900 at the site of ancient Tebtunis, Egypt. Searchable using Luna Imaging's Insight software.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, General Subjects, Humanities, Social Sciences.

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Web of Science / Web of Knowledge Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Click on {Cited Ref Search} for a cited reference search.
This Web of Knowledge database provides access to all three parts of the Citation Index: Arts and Humanities, Social Science and Science. Search by subject, author, journal title. Cited Reference Search finds articles that cite an author or article that you specify.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences. Covers: Arts & Humanities 1975-present; Social Sciences 1956-present; Science 1900-present


World Cinema: A UCSC Library Collections Guide
Research guide with links to reference works, article databases, film reviews, and other web links.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, Humanities.


WorldCat Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Also known as WCAT, this searchable catalog contains citations for books, journals, manuscripts, maps, music scores, sound recordings, films, computer files, newspapers, slides, and videotapes, on all subjects in a variety of languages at libraries around the world. Journal articles are not included.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences. Covers: 1000 A.D. - present


XreferPlus Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff.
Searchable and browsable collection of online reference materials including dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, books of quotations, and several subject-specific titles.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, General Subjects, Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences.


ebrary Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable electronic book and sheet music site. Includes university press titles. Require "ebrary Reader" software installation on workstation. Ebrary sheet music is now available at the link below.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, General Subjects, Humanities.

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