Databases
Use databases to find journal articles, magazines articles, newspaper articles and images related to your topic. The following databases may be particularly helpful for this course.  When you find useful keywords in your search, make note of these and use the same words and combinations of words in other search situations.

Art Abstracts
Index that includes citations and abstracts of scholarly journal articles covering all fields of art and art history. Limited full-text access.

Arts & Humanities Search
This resource indexes the world's leading arts and humanities journals and it indexes selected articles from social science and science journals. It Indexes articles, bibliographies, editorials, letters, reviews, and more.

ARTstor
ARTstor provides an impressive database of over 500,000 searchable images. Tools within the database enable  viewing (or displaying) slides side-by-side and collecting "folders" of images for classroom use, research, or assignments. These works are copyright cleared for educational and research purposes.  For this course, you might use information about size, medium, current location, etc. provided for all of the images found in ARTstor.  After finding an image, click on the "i" with a circle around it for more information.

Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)
Index and abstracts for journal articles and books covering European and American art from late antiquity to modern.  Use the TOUR link to access an article full-text article online or for information about print availability.

Grove Art Online
This electronic version of the print reference resource is fairly new to Trinity's collections.  Here, you may find brief biographical material on artists as well as other types of entries. Note that most of these entries include a brief bibliography at the end.  These may be used as a jumping off point to find further information about your topic.

JSTOR
Full text scholarly journals in multiple disciplines; coverage typically excludes the most recent 3-5 years. (P.S.-This is one of your professor's favorite resources so it might be smart to give it a shot.)

 

Books
Use Quest, the library catalog, to find books on your topic.  If you are using one of the databases listed above, you may be redirected to the library catalog to find a specific item.  You will find out if an item in one of the databases is available electronically or in print by using the "TOUR Full Text" button.  However, you may also search the library catalog for books and book chapters directly.  You can go directly to the Quest catalog by clicking HERE.

 

Most of the resources used by art and art history students are located in the N call number range on the library's 4th floor.
 

 

Reference Books
A number of dictionaries, encyclopedias, and bibliographies are available in the library's reference section that might help you begin your search. While not usually intended for use in an academic paper, encyclopedia or dictionary entries will often be accompanied by a list of more sources for further reading.  Browsing the "N" call number range in the information commons, you will find books such as the following: