Course-Related Guide: Art History 3343
Italian
Baroque Art (Dr. Laura Agoston)
Fall 2006
These links provide
information, texts, and other resources to serve as starting points in your
research on topics in art history. Questions or suggestions related to this
course guide should be directed to Diane
J. Graves (Art History liaison), Benjamin Harris (Reference
Librarian), or Violeta Garza, Reference
Assistant.
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.
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.
Full text
scholarly journals in multiple disciplines; coverage typically excludes the
most recent 3-5 years.
JSTOR/ARTSTOR joint search
prototype
This is a test site for a new search prototype. It will allow researchers to search simultaneously in the JSTOR and ARTstor databases. It also pulls out any high-quality images from the JSTOR articles.
Books
Use Quest,
the library catalog, to find books on your topic. Your instructor or the
assignment may require that you find primary texts (which can include literary
works, diaries, speeches, letters, historical articles or essays,
autobiographies, transcribed interviews, brochures, pamphlets, etc.) or
secondary texts (commentary, either popular or scholarly, drawing from primary
sources). 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.
Get Items From
Another
If the library does
not have the article, book, or other item that you need to complete your
assignments, you can borrow these items from other libraries. Do note
that this can take from several days to weeks, so planning is imperative.
Use ILLiad
to receive items from other libraries.
Cite Your Sources (RefWorks)
Articles, books, images, etc. should all receive a citation that directs the
reader to your source. If you are constructing a limited number of
sources, refer to the library's pages for
citing sources.
For projects involving more
extensive research, use the library's online bibliographic citation management
software, RefWorks.
It sounds more complicated than it is.
Contact Your Librarian
If you need help with locating sources
or assistance in using the library's online or print resources, contact either Diane J. Graves or Benjamin Harris to set up a
research appointment.
Questions?
Diane Graves, University Librarian diane.graves@trinity.edu x8166
Violeta Garza, Reference Assistant violeta.garza@trinity.edu x7215