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Art Abstracts -- now Art & Architecture Source This link opens in a new window
LITS now subscribes to the expanded database, Art & Architecture Source, with more international coverage, more direct access to full-text articles and coverage back to 1914.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals This link opens in a new window
Journal articles published worldwide on architecture and design, archaeology, city planning, interior design, landscape architecture, and historic preservation. Coverage is from the 1930s (with selective coverage dating back to the 1740s) to the present. Updated weekly.
Benezit Dictionary of Artists This link opens in a new window
Bibliography of the History of Art This link opens in a new window
BHA and RILA cover European and American visual arts material published between 1975 and 2007. Periodicals, books, exhibition catalogues.
International Bibliography of Art This link opens in a new window
International Bibliography of Art is the successor to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA). Includes abstracts and indexes (1945-) for books, articles, proceedings, and catalogues.
International Foundation for Art Research This link opens in a new window
A database of published catalogues raisonnés and one of catalogues in preparation.

Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
Publishes current research articles, symposia, special issues, and timely reviews of books in aesthetics and the arts. The “arts” are taken to include not only the traditional forms such as music, literature, landscape architecture, dance, painting, architecture, sculpture, and other visual arts, but also more recent additions including photography, film, earthworks, performance and conceptual art, the crafts and decorative arts, contemporary technical innovations, and other cultural practices, including work and activities in the field of popular culture.

Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window
Oxford Art Online offers access to online art reference sources including Grove Art Online, Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and Oxford Companion to Western Art.
International Foundation for Art Research This link opens in a new window
A database of published catalogues raisonnés and one of catalogues in preparation.
Oxford Bibliographies Online: Art History This link opens in a new window
Oxford Bibliographies Online: Medieval Studies This link opens in a new window

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including full text (PDFs) for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. Backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
Arts and Humanities Citation Index This link opens in a new window
Bibliographic and citation information for journal articles in the arts and humanities from 1975-present. Part of the Web of Science Core Collection.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, still images, moving images, audio, and primary sources.
ProjectMUSE This link opens in a new window
Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community.

Many citations in art historical research can be located by reviewing exhibition catalogs and by reviewing the citation list in reference sources such as Oxford Art Online. It's easy to overlook the citations in Oxford Art Online. If you have additional questions contact your librarian.