When searching for articles related to your artist, artwork, or the topic in general, you want to consider your keywords and use database search tips to increase your specificity.

1. Artist's Name - depending on the artist in question, searching their whole name in quotation marks:
   • "Zeng Fanzhi"
   • Searching the name in " " tells the database to look for the name as a phrase, rather than two separate words, which increases your relevancy in results.
2. Artwork's Name - depending on the artwork in question, you could search for the whole title of the work or a well-known abbreviation of the title, or even the work series title. You may want to include keywords related to context (Chinese Contemporary Art) or the artist ("Zeng Fanzhi") if the artwork's title includes many generic words or phrases.
   • "Hospital Triptychs" AND "Zeng Fanzhi"

Scholarly Journals, Newspapers, & Other Periodicals

Whether the academic community has had time to analyze and discuss your artist or artwork greatly depends on their notoriety and on time. 

• Use TigerSearch and GoogleScholar to search for articles related to your artwork or chosen artist. Use the strategies above to find more relevant results. These will give you the broadest reach of sources, and you can use Interlibrary Loan to access copies of articles we do not have already.

Your artist may not be well-reviewed or analyzed in the scholarly literature at this time. In this case, you should search within Newspapers, Art-related Periodicals, and elsewhere to find discussion and information on your artist or artwork.

• Tigersearch can still connect you to Newspaper resources and other periodicals, like Magazines. 
• Check the below databases for more options to find relevant sources