Communication, Design & Creative Arts

Art Full Text is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world. It covers Advertising Art, Antiques, Archaeology, Architecture and Architectural History, Art History, Computers in Art, Crafts, Decorative Arts, Fashion Design, Folk Art, Graphic Arts, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Motion Pictures, Museology, Non-Western Art, Painting, Photography, Pottery, Sculpture, Television, Textiles, and Video. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals is also included. Periodical coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. In addition to articles, Art Full Text indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Indexing coverage begins 1984; abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. The abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source articles. Full-text coverage begins in 1997.

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The ARTstor Digital Library provides more than one million images with tools for teaching and research. Its collections comprise contributions from outstanding museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates from all over the world. The collections encompass a wide variety of subject areas, including art, architecture, music, religion, anthropology, literature, world history, American Studies, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, and more.

Users can do keyword or advanced searching, or browse by collection, classification, or geography. Results can be sorted by date, creator, or title, and filtered by geography, date range or classification. Users can view images and image data, zoom in on and pan images, and experience 360 degree panoramas through QTVR images. Organize images into groups, or print and save images and related data to other hardware (e.g. CD, memory stick, hard drive). Upload and manage personal images and sound files in ARTstor. Tools for sharing include saving, emailing, and printing citations for images or image groups; downloading image groups for use in presentation software such as PowerPoint, KeyNote, and ARTstor's Offline Image Viewer (OIV); exporting citations for images or image groups into EndNote, ProCite, RefWorks, Reference Manager, or a text file; and generating URL links to images and groups for integration with local course management software and sharing with students.

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The Grove Encyclopedia of Materials and Techniques in Art offers information on all aspects of this area of the visual arts. It provides historical and current uses of materials and techniques in a wide range of areas from painting and sculpture to non-traditional media such as digital and video art. Coverage includes materials in art practice (e.g. ink, enamel, digital materials); materials in conservation (e.g. adhesives); classes of artifacts (e.g. wallpaper, mosaic, ceramic); techniques and methods (e.g. book binding, gilding, printing, weaving), terms (e.g. rustication), tools (e.g. easel, laser), theory (e.g. technical examination, conservation controversies), fakes & forgeries, and conservation theorists and practitioners.

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A collection of more than 250 journals focusing on all aspects of the communications field: key subjects covered include advertising and public relations, linguistics, and literature.

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Extensive coverage of all academic disciplines including astronomy, religion, law, history, psychology, humanities, current events, sociology, communications and the general sciences. Indexing is from 1977; full-text coverage from 1983. Academic OneFile also includes peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources, full indexing of some of the world's greatest newspapers, and access to wire services covering worldwide current events. Millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML, including full-text coverage of the New York Times since 1995.

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Online reference library that provides access to a growing selection of reference books. Includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, books of quotations, and a range of subject-specific titles from art to accountancy and literature to law. Credo Reference generates a network of cross-references that provide an easy-to-follow trail to related information contained anywhere within the library.

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Provides access to more than 150 full-text magazines and journals for research in areas such as drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.

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This collection provides information for any researcher in a social science, history, art, or liberal arts course. The collection is made up of 100 subject-appropriate periodicals, which are predominantly full-text.

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Theatre in Context Collection (formerly North American Theatre Online) is a reference work covering all aspects of the Canadian and American Theatre. It includes major reference materials, together with records for plays, biographies, theatres, productions, and production companies. The collection also includes images, playbills, postcards, scrapbooks and other resources.

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