Art Research Guide
These Research Guides are intended as starting points for research.
Please contact the subject-specialist librarian if you have research questions, would like library instruction, or have material purchase requests.
Jennifer Barrera
Access Services - Office 109C
phone: 254-968-9248
email: barrera@tarleton.edu
Help is also available by using the Ask a Librarian page, emailing reference@tarleton.edu, calling (254) 968-9249, or coming into the library.
Books, Documents, Reports, Journals Titles, AV Materials, Etc.
Tarleton State University Libraries Catalog - Database of all items owned by Tarleton Libraries. Look here for books, government reports, journal titles, videos, CDs, etc. Keyword searching is available.
Library of Texas - Search for Books and Articles from libraries located in Texas. The Library of Texas lets you pick the library collections you search, helping you locate items near you.
WorldCat - (FirstSearch Core) Books and other materials in libraries worldwide. WorldCat contains more than 32 million records describing items owned by libraries around the world. If Tarleton does not own these items, they can be requested through Inter-Library Loan.
Databases and Journal articles
AH Search - Provides information on the arts and humanities. The advanced search feature allows for searching a specific periodical. Examples of art related journals are: Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies; Apollo - the International Magazine of the Arts; Renaissance Quarterly; Burlington Magazine; and Leonardo.
Academic Search Complete - An excellent source of all types of current arts information. Arts related journal titles include: School Arts; Australian Artist; Art in America; Smithsonian; and Art News.
Dissertations and Theses - Full Text - The database includes bibliographic citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester. Citations for dissertations published from 1980 forward also include 350-word abstracts written by the author. Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. The full text of more than one million of these titles is available in paper and microform formats. Institutional subscribers to ProQuest Dissertations and Theses - Full Text receive on-line access to the complete file of dissertations in digital format starting with titles published from 1997 forward.
Eighteenth Century Collections - Fine Arts, Music, Art, and Architecture—Treatises on music, painting, theater, and architecture as well as books on building and carpentry, catalogs pertaining to vocal and instrumental music, paintings, prints, drawings, coins and metals and other collectibles, and material about private art collections.
JSTOR - The JSTOR collections include journals in the fields of Art and Art History. Examples of these titles are: American Art and Art Bulletin.
Periodicals Contents Index - PCI is unique in combining a broad subject base with deep chronological coverage going back over 200 years. It covers 37 key subject areas in the humanities and social sciences and offers vast variety within these subject areas. PCI currently indexes 14 million articles since the eighteenth century and every article in each journal is indexed.
Project Muse - Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.
E-Journals and Internet Links
- Electronic Journals by Category (Subject).
- Electronic Journals by title.
- METALIB: search multiple subject specific databases at once
- Internet Links: including Art History, Art Education and Artists.