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Databases: Visual Arts

How to Search Visual Arts Resources

  1. Use the boxes below to search by clicking the images to access each database.
  2. Additional databases can be accessed through the Subscription Databases and Free Databases tabs above. 

Academic OneFile

Click the image below to search Academic OneFile.                                              

A database used in most universities, so is best for Years 11 & 12. Academic OneFile is comprised of more than 3,500 indexed and full-text titles of which 2,100 are peer-reviewed in all disciplines with more than 20 years of backfile coverage and an intuitive interface that expedites successful searches.

Academic OneFile offers balanced coverage on a wide-range of topics including social sciences, history, humanities, education, science and technology.

JSTOR

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JSTOR is a shared digital library created in 1995 to help university and college libraries to free space on their shelves, save costs, and provide greater levels of access to more content than ever before. JSTOR currently includes more than 2,000 academic journals, dating back to the first volume ever published, along with thousands of monographs and other materials relevant for education.

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Gale eBooks

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More than 12,000 eBooks from over 100 industry-leading publishers for every discipline and subject. 

Gale in Context: Middle School

Click the image below to access Gale in Context: Middle School (formerly called Research in Context)                                                              

Created specifically for Year 5-8 students, Gale in Context: Middle School combines the best of Gale's reference content with age-appropriate videos, newspapers, magazines, primary sources, and much more.

Oxford Art Online

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This includes access to Grove Art Online, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics and the Oxford Companion to Western Art. It includes over 200,000 articles that span ancient to contemporary art and architecture, as well as over 19,000 images of works of art, structures, plans, and artist signatures.

World Book

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Tailored for students in primary and high schools, World Book Online includes all the articles from the print versions of the World Book Encyclopedia, plus thousands of additional articles, learning resources, videos, and research tools.

Gale in Context: High School

Click the image below to search Gale in Context: High School (formerly called Student Resources in Context).                                                  

Gale in Context: High School offers cross-curricular content with more than 150 titles from Gale and its publishing partners, full-text newspapers and periodicals and hundreds of thousands of images, videos, and audio selections. Subject areas covered include biography, business and economics, geography, government, history, literature and the arts, science and health, social issues, sports, world culture and religion.

Oxford Reference Online

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Bringing together 2 million digitised entries across Oxford University Press’s Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias, Oxford Reference is the premier online reference product, spanning 25 different subject areas.

 

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World Book eBooks

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World Book eBooks have over 2,500 titles, including World Book exclusive content and classic literature (novels, plays, poems, and nonfiction). This books are mainly aimed at Primary and lower Secondary students (K-9).  

Additional General Resources for Visual Arts

A free, not-for-profit, multi-media web-book designed as a dynamic enhancement for the traditional art history textbook. An outgrowth of a blog featuring free audio guides in the form of podcasts for use in The Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art created in 2005 by Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker, it now includes video, images, text, timelines, and other Web 2.0 possibilities for the open collaboration in study of art history.