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• Academic OneFile
  Scholarly journal articles and popular magazines covering all topics. A great database for beginning searches. 1980s-present (dates may vary).

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  • OneFile
  • Gale Academic OneFile

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  Covers

  • Periodicals -- General interest magazines; scholarly academic journals; business publications; technology periodicals; plus specialty titles in law, health care and computers
  • Newswires -- 89 wire services covering agriculture, general news, broadcast news, government, business press releases, industry topics, sports and current events from all over the world
  • Newspapers -- Indexes The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and Christian Science Monitor

  This database was formerly a part of Infotrac Onefile.

  Access restricted to University of Connecticut.
• Academic Search Premier
  Scholarly journal articles and popular magazines covering all topics. A great database for beginning searches. 1980s-present (dates may vary).
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  Topics include news and current events, politics, literature, communication science, business, medicine, psychology, the arts, and many more.

  • Summaries of articles in over 8,000 journals, magazines, and newspapers
  • Full-text of articles in over 4,000 journals
  • Summaries of scholarly articles in over 6,000 journals
  • Full-text of scholarly articles in over 3,000 journals

  While subject-specific databases may offer more depth, this one may be more up-to-date.

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• AP Images
  Photos from the Associated Press 50 million image print and negative library. Includes photos from the past hour. Some audio and graphic files included. 1840s-current.

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  • Associated Press Photo Archive
  • AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive

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• Art Abstracts & Art Index Retrospective
  Summarizes scholarly articles about art published in national and international journals. Indexes yearbooks, and museum bulletins, and reproductions of works of art. 1984-indexes; 1994-abstracts.
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• Arts & Humanities Citation Index
  Scholarly journal articles in arts and humanities. Includes some full-text. From Web of Science. More comprehensive searching than FirstSearch. 1994- current.
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  Subjects covered include:

  • Archaeology
  • Art & Architecture
  • Classics
  • Dance
  • Folklore
  • History
  • Language
  • Linguistics
  • Literature & Literary Reviews
  • Music
  • Philosophy
  • Poetry
  • Radio, Television, & Film
  • Religion
  • Theater

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• Arts & Humanities Citation Index (FirstSearch)
  Scholarly journal articles in arts and humanities. Provides earlier coverage than Web of Science. 1980-current.
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• ARTstor
  Over 500,000 high-resolution art and architecture images, for educational (non-commercial) use. Includes architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual culture.
  

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  The ARTstor Charter Collection currently contains approximately 500,000 images. Covers artistic traditions across many times and cultures, including architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual culture.

  Contains the following collections (descriptions from the ARTstor Web Site):

  • The Image Gallery A deep and broad collection of images of world visual art and culture.
  • The Art History Survey Collection Key monuments of world art defined by a concordance of ten standard art history survey texts
  • The Carnegie Arts of the United States Collection Images documenting the history of American art, architecture, visual and material culture.
  • The Huntington Archive of Asian Art Broad photographic overview of the art of Asia from 3000 B.C. through the present.
  • The Illustrated Bartsch A collection derived from the standard art reference publication, The Illustrated Bartsch, which contains Old Master European prints from the 15th to 19th Centuries.
  • The Mellon International Dunhuang Archive Wall paintings and sculpture from the Buddhist cave shrines in Dunhuang, China, a key site on the ancient Silk Route.
  • The MoMA Architecture and Design Collection Images representing the collections of the Department of Architecture and Design of The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.

  Contact Michael Young, Art & Design Librarian, Tel. 860-486-4953, email michael.s.young@uconn.edu for a demonstration for your department of this sumptuous resource.

  Technical requirements for access to ARTSTOR:

  • Flash Player: Version 6 or above
  • Java: Sun Version 1.3 or above
  • Pop-up blocking software: Must be disabled or set to allow pop-up windows from www.artstor.org
  • Cookies: Must be enabled
  • Monitor resolution: 1024x768 is recommended
  • Memory: 128 MB or higher

  Supported browsers

  • PC: Windows 2000 or XP, Microsoft IE 5.5 and above, Netscape 6.0 and above, Mozilla 1.5 and above, PWB 2.05 and above
  • Macintosh: OS 10.2 ot OS 10.3 (10.3 is required to use Java 1.4), Microsoft IE 5.2 and above, Netscape 6.0 and above, Mozilla 1.5 and above
  • Linux: Any version, Netscape 6.0 and above, Mozilla 1.2 and above, Firefox 0.9.1

  Access to ARTstor is restricted to use within the United States or at facilities which are owned by the University of Connecticut in foreign countries.

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• Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
  Indexes 2,000 scholarly journals in archeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation, as well as architecture. International coverage. 1930s-current.
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• CHIN -- Canadian Heritage Information Network: Research and Reference
  Information about museums, galleries, and heritage information in Canada and around the world. current.
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  Includes:

  • Conservation Information Network (BCIN), with over 172,000 bibliographic records in the field of conservation in museums and libraries
  • Museology Bibliography (BMUSE), bringing together holdings from many international sources, including the UNESCO-ICOM Museum Information Centre, the Library of the Canadian Conservation Institute, and the Library of the Direction des Musées de France. Referenced material includes over 25,000 journals, journal articles, books, and reports
  • National Gallery of Canada Library Catalogue: books, periodicals, microforms, and audiovisual materials in the National Gallery of Canada Library.
• Connecticut Artists Project
  Information about the painters, sculptors, illustrators, printmakers, photographers, craftspersons and other artists who have lived or worked in Connecticut. current.
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• Connecticut Historical Preservation Commission
  This guide provides references to documentary, architectural and archaeological survey reports conducted in accordance with federal, state, and local regulations regarding cultural resource protection. 1975-present.
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  Surveys within this guide are available in Archives & Special Collections, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.

  This guide is intended to provide researchers working in this region with an overview of the available literature and previously completed surveys. The surveys are organized 1) by Town Survey, Statewide Survey, Regional Survey or Thematic Survey and 2) thereunder within three categories -- Architectural, Archaeological and Documentation.

  For more information about the surveys described in this database, contact Laura Katz Smith, Curator, Archives & Special Collections, Dodd Research Center, at Laura.Katz.Smith@UConn.edu.

  The Connecticut Historical Commission and the Office of Connecticut State Archaeology are the lead agencies for preservation of the state's archaeological and historic heritage.
• Marquis Who's Who in American Art
  Over 14,000 biographies of the most noteworthy men and women in today's art world - including notable artists from the past.
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• Oxford Art Online
  Over 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts (painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography) from prehistory to the present. current.

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  • Grove Art Online

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• Project MUSE
  Full-text of over 200 journals in classics, education, history, literature, math, philosophy, politics, religion, and visual and performing arts.
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  Journals published by major university presses, especially in the humanities and social sciences. Subjects include:

  • Classics
  • Culture
  • Education
  • Film, Theater, and Performing Arts
  • History
  • Judaic Studies
  • Language
  • Law
  • Literature
  • Math
  • Music
  • Philosophy & Religion
  • Philosophy & Science
  • Politics

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• Reader's Guide Retrospective
  The most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States. 1890-1982.
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  Journals covered include Time, Newsweek, and Life.

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• Rhizome
  Includes ArtBase, which contains over 1,800 digital art works, and TextBase which holds over 2,500 new media art-related articles.
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  Programs include an annual cycle of commissions, journalism, discussion and exhibitions. Rhizome supports the creation, presentation, discussion and preservation of contemporary art that uses new technologies in significant ways.

  Create a free account to access the archives. Click on join your university's organizational subscription and use your @uconn.edu email account to ensure access to all the archived material.

  If you have any questions, please contact Michael Young, the University of Connecticut?s art librarian, for assistance. Rhizome.org is an affiliate of the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Rhizome's Organizational Subscriptions are supported by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation.

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• WorldCat
  Catalog of books, journals, DVDs, CDs, scores, and sound recordings from over 9,000 libraries. 40 million records representing 400 languages. Covers information back to the 11th Century. Includes items at the University of Connecticut Libraries. Request items not at UConn via Interlibrary Loan..
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  WorldCat indicates if UConn owns the item, but it does not have UConn’s specific call numbers for books, music, and scripts, and it does not have any AV call numbers.

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