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.

Academic Search Complete
Designed specifically for academic institutions, this is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.

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.  When you click on a title in this database, you can scroll to the "Cited Reference" entry and find an abbreviated bibliography for the article. This is a convenient way to preview the article's bibliography before you actually locate and/or read the text.

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 conduct keyword searches to find artists who deal with female subject in specific ways. It might also be easier to view a collection of images by a specific artist or from a specific period in time.

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.  The following link should go directly to the entry on women in art history:
<http://www.groveart.com/shared/views/article.html?section=art.092072>

Humanities Abstracts
Citations and abstract for journals in the Humanities.  While the resource is not a full-text resource, you can use the TOUR link to find out if the library has access.

JSTOR
This full-text database covers topics in the humanities, social sciences, and some of the sciences.  This might be a particularly useful resource to locate interdisciplinary works on women in art history.

ProjectMuse
Full-text database of articles in the humanities, social sciences and more.  This resource should offer full-text coverage for time periods not covered by the same journals in JSTOR.

WorldCat
Bibliographic information on books and other materials in libraries worldwide.  You can limit your search to items held by the Trinity library, or open your search to see what may be available through interlibrary loan.

 

Books
Use Quest, the library catalog, to find books on your topic. Use the "Keyword Search" feature to use several search terms. 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

 

The library's reference collection includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, and bibliographies on topics related to both women's studies and the history of art.  The "N" and "HQ" call number shelves might be smart locations for browsing as you begin your search.  Note that while entries in dictionaries and encyclopedias are not always useful in an academic paper, many of these entries will be accompanied by brief bibliographies.  See the following for examples of current reference titles:

Dictionary of Women Artists   N 8354.D53