Bibliographic Databases and Abstracts

BHA: Bibliography of the History of Art (Indexes books and articles on European and American Art from Antiquity to the Present)

Worldcat (Full OCLC Union Catalog)

Google Book Search (Full Text of Public Domain Collections of Major Research Libraries; Full Text Indexing of Copyrighted Materials)

Worldwide Books (a searchable listing of art exhibition catalogs 1960's-current)

Artbibliographies Modern (Index/Abstract to 20th Century Art)

Nineteenth Century Books on Art and Architecture (a wide-ranging corpus of critical, historical and biographical works on art published in the 19th century in British Collections.)

L'Année philologique (bibliography for classical studies)

Victorian Database Online (References to articles, books and dissertations on every field of nineteenth-century British Studies)

ITER: Gateway to the Renaissance (Bibliography of Medieval and Renaissance Europe from 400-1700)

Bibliography of Asian Studies (Indexes subjects on East, Southeast, and South Asia in Western-language periodicals and books, etc.

Periodical Indexes and Abstracts

Art Abstracts (Includes Art Index Oct 1984-current issue)

Art Index Retrospective (covers 11/1929-8/1984)

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals

Article First (cross-searches all Firstsearch Databases 1990 to Present)

Arts & Humanities Citation Index (indexes all subjects in humanities 1975 to Present)

Expanded Academic ASAP Index (Newspaper as well as Journal Articles; Full Text)

ProQuest Direct (Multidisciplinary index to scholarly periodicals and newspapers. Full text of over 800 sources. 1986-current)

Ingenta (formerly "Uncover") is an online article delivery service, a table of contents database, and a keywordindex to nearly 30,000 periodical titles.)

PCI: Periodicals Index Online electronic index to the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues to 1990/1991)

Religion Index (ATLA) (1949-Current)

19th Century Masterfile  (Index to 19th century journals, newspapers & much more)

Anthropological Index Online (Supplemental Source for African, Pre-Columbian arts materials)

TOCS-IN (archives the tables of contents of over 150 journals of interest to classicists)

NESTOR (Bibliography of Aegean Prehistory and Related Areas)

American Periodicals Series Online 1740-1900 (Index to over 1100 historical periodicals published in North America)

Other Indexes and Databases

NUCMC: National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (National union catalog of original documents in US collections)

ARTstore (Image database -- Images not very useful because of their size but database is useful as an iconographic index to the Illustrated Bartsch)

LUNA (Image database -- 65,000 quality images of art historical content )

Fashion, Costume, and Culture (Indexes Books and Articles on Clothing and Fashion, Historical and Contemporary)

Dissertation Abstracts (1861-Present)

Index of Christian Art (Princeton Medieval Iconographic Index)

Early Encounters in North America (Contains primary texts and images on the people, cultures, and environment of North America from 1534 to 1850)