Searching for Images
In our class together we will only use a number of resources designed to locate or provide images to researchers.  Be certain to make note of information about where an image was located as you may need these when citing the source.

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.

Grove Art Online
While this resources is primarily used as a reference or textual resource, some image galleries are included and links are provided to museum exhibitions and other authoritative web resources.

Millennium Park
The park's website includes information and images about various installations location at this Chicago landmark. Note that high resolution images are available by sending an email to the webmaster.  This information will also be useful when citing your images as sources.

Resources by Subject: Images
This library page includes a number of online search engines for locating images, as well as a listing of our subscription databases that include image galleries.

Yotophoto
New resource that searches for images available from creative commons sites and public domain resources. 

While you may only be looking for images, the credibility of the resource is still an issue.  Internet resources located using a search engine should be evaluated before they are included in a scholarly project.  See the library's page on Evaluating Web Sites for more information.

 

Searching for Journal Articles
Use databases to find journal articles, magazines articles, newspaper articles and images related to your topic. For your group presentation assignments, searching by the artist's name or the name of the work may be most beneficial.  For brief news articles or opinion columns, the library's general subject database Academic Search Premier may also be helpful. 

Art Abstracts
Index that includes citations and abstracts of scholarly journal articles covering all fields of art and art history. Limited full-text access.  When you find citations in Art Abstracts and wish to see if the library has a copy of the article or book, click on the "TOUR Full Text" button to find information on availability.

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 feature 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.

WilsonSelectPlus
This is a full-text database that includes articles from many scholarly disciplines. The main reason for its inclusion here as that the journal Public Art Review is included in this resource, along with a number of architecture and landscape architecture publications.

 

Searching for Books and Book Chapters
Use Quest, the library catalog, to find books on your topic.  Because several your course discussions will focus on very recent issues or exhibitions, books may be most helpful if you wish to find background information on an artist or a specific type of creative process. 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.