Library databases have access to articles from journals, magazines, and newspapers. Every database has different content. This makes it important to use a database that has content on the subject you are researching. In addition, be sure to search in more than one database to find information.
Check out these recommended databases to get started:
Full-text articles, indexing and abstracts from scholarly journals on a variety of topics from fine, decorative and commercial art to photography, folk art, film and architecture. This database features full-text articles from more than 320 periodicals dating back to 1977, and indexing of more than 210,000 art reproductions. Art Full Text also supplies indexing and abstracts for over 660 periodicals dating back to 1972, including nearly 360 peer-reviewed journals, and indexing and abstracts for over 14,000 art dissertations.
Online digital image library with more than one million images on subjects in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences. The Artstor collection is part of JSTOR. JSTOR provides tools to search, present, and share digital images for research and teaching.
JSTOR's archival journal collections include more than two thousand journals dating as far back as 1665. Multidisciplinary and discipline-specific journal and ebook collections are offered, covering more than 50 academic disciplines in the Humanities, Life Sciences, and Social Sciences.
Search the Grove Art Online for articles and updates on every aspect of the visual arts, from prehistory to the present, with images of the most frequently studied works of art. You can find the option to also search The Concise Dictionary of Oxford Art Terms, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and Oxford Companion to Western Art from the search results page.
*Note: you can save content/searches by creating a Personal Profile (top right). Please ignore the institutional sign in underneath the "Caldwell University" text (left of page).
To find books or articles not available in the Jennings Library, use inter-library loan (ILL) or VALE Reciprocal Borrowing.
If the Library doesn't have a book or article you need, we can most likely get it through interlibrary loan.
For more information see the library's guide to Jennings ILL.
Another option is to use VALE Reciprocal Borrowing. To borrow directly from other academic libraries, you must first visit our Information Desk (hours) to obtain a form to take with you to the participating library.