Fine Arts Subject Guide

Primary Resources

  • Art Abstracts
    • Provides access to a wide range of bibliographies, notices of competitions and awards, reports of conferences, exhibition listings, review articles, interviews, and film reviews.
  • Arts and Literature
  • Classical Archives
    • 23,500 full length classical music files by 1,492 composers, in MIDI; Live Recordings downloadable in HiFi MP3, and streamed in WMA.
  • Humanities Abstracts
    • Abstracts feature articles, book reviews, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction (including dramas and poems), and reviews of plays and television and radio programs.
  • Media Review Digest
    • Provides comprehensive review coverage of educational media.
  • MLA International Bibliography
    • Provides over one million citations for items from journals and series published worldwide.

Secondary Resources

  • ABC-CLIO eBooks
    • collection of reference ebooks including Gamelan, Hip Hop Cultures, Music of European Nationalism, and South African Music
  • ABI-INFORM on Proquest
    • a leading business database with full-text available for many titles including the Wall Street Journal.
  • ATLA Religion
    • Includes a full range of index citations to journal articles, essays in multi-author works, and book reviews from three ATLA print indexes: Religion Index One (RIO), Religion Index Two (RIT), and Index to Book Reviews in Religion (IBRR).
  • Biography Index
    • Covers biographical information from English-language periodicals and books for all subject areas covered by H.W. Wilson indexes.
  • Biography and Geneology Master Index
    • A database that enables users to locate biographical entries of people, living and deceased, from all time periods, geographical locations, and fields of endeavor.
  • Blackwell Full-text Journals
    • A fulltext journal collection of over 800 journals from Blackwell Publishing covering a wide range of subject areas such as business, computing, economics, health sciences, humanities, law, life and physical sciences, mathematics, medicine, social and behavioral sciences, and the arts.
  • Clase and Periodica
    • Contains information from articles, essays, book reviews, monographs, conference proceedings, technical reports, interviews and brief notes published in journals edited in 24 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as from publications that focus on Pan-American issues.
  • Christian Periodical Index (CPI)
    • an index to articles (not full-text) from an evangelical perspective. About 150 journals and popular evangelical magazines are indexed. See Journal titles. Some of these titles are available full-text online.
  • Education Abstracts
    • Provides citations for every article of at least one column in length taken from English-language periodicals and yearbooks published in the United States and elsewhere.
  • ERIC
    • Access full text ERIC documents by ERIC number, author, or title.
  • Essay and General Literature Index
    • Cites essays and articles contained in collections of essays and other works published in the United States, Great Britain and Canada.
  • Harpweek
    • electronic access to the images and text of the Harper's Weekly 19th century issues.
  • History E-Book Project
    • Over 500 history ebooks from the American Council of Learned Societies.
  • History Study Center
    • A rich full-text history database from Proquest.
  • International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences
    • A rich encyclopedia with thousands of full text articles relating to the social and behavioral sciences.
  • LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe
    • Search full text newspapers, company news and financial info, International/Federal/State legal information, medical and health information (some abstracted), as well as general reference resources. (See Journal Titles list.)
  • Professional Collection
    • An Infotrac collection of educational journals.
  • Project Muse (for on-campus users)
    • Provides online, worldwide, institutional subscription access to the full-text of about 200 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. (See Journal Titles list.)
  • PsycINFO
    • Includes international material selected from periodicals written in over 25 languages since 1887.
  • Sociological Abstracts (SocAbs)
    • Provides access to the latest research in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
  • Social Sciences Abstracts (SocialSciAbs)
    • Provides records for English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere.

Interdisciplinary Resources

  • Article First
    • Provides a list of libraries that have the journal title for most items.
  • eBooks Michigan
    • A collection of almost 18,000 eBooks available to Michigan libraries. The state "owns" 1 copy of each book and the checkout time is 6 hours. You must create a free account before accessing the titles.
  • Electronic Collections Online (ECO)
    • Lets you view abstracts and full-text articles from journals to which your library or institution subscribes.
  • Encyclopaedia Britannica
    • Includes link to Britannica's Internet Guide to "best web sites."
  • Expanded Academic ASAP
    • An Infotrac database filled with full text and images for a broad collection of academic disciplines.
  • FACTS.com
    • Includes Facts On File World News Digest, Issues and Controversies On File, and Reuters On-Line News Service (last 2 weeks).
  • General Reference Center Gold
    • Full-text general database through Infotrac (1980- ). (See Journal Titles list.)
  • U.S. Government Publications (GPO)
    • Covers all types of U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.).
  • Infotrac OneFile
    • A broad database covering a wide range of topics with millions of full text articles.
  • MEL
    • Michigan Electronic Library
  • Opposing Viewpoints
    • Overviews, full-text articles, statistics, and resources on social issues.
  • RefWorks
    • a personal database that allows you to download references from online databases and then formats them for use in bibliographies and research papers. You will need to create an individual account the first time you use this service. Click here for Help Using RefWorks.
  • Ulrich's Periodical Directory
    • Online guide to information about periodicals. Use this to find out if a periodical is peer reviewed (called refereed in this database).
  • Wilson Select Plus
    • Provides indexed and abstracted records with accompanying full-text periodical articles, many of which are linked to citations in other FirstSearch databases.
  • WorldCat
    • Contains all the records cataloged by OCLC member libraries.

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