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Art and Art History

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Provides millions of articles from scholarly journals and other authoritative sources with extensive coverage in key subject areas, such as biology, chemistry, criminal justice, economics, environmental science, history, marketing, political science, and psychology.
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Provides online access to descriptions of archival collections owned by thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies and archives worldwide. Helpful for finding historical documents, personal papers and family histories held in archives. Researchers can learn about the contents of these collections, contact archives to arrange a visit to examine materials or order copies. Subject strengths of the database include History, Humanities, Art & Architecture, Social Sciences and Genealogy.
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Provides detailed access to the art-historical information contained in The Burlington Magazine. Articles are then viewable through JSTOR. Provides more consistent and comprehensive subject indexing than the free-text searches available via JSTOR.
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eHRAF Archaeology is an online cross-cultural database containing information on world’s prehistory. The annually-growing eHRAF database is organized by archaeological traditions and the documents are subject-indexed at the paragraph level. eHRAF Archaeology is a unique resource designed to facilitate comparative archaeological studies.
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A collection of articles and sources on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Sources include scholarly and popular periodicals, newspapers, and newswires. Date coverage: 1980 to present. Updated daily.
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This website will connect to the art research tools available online at the Getty Research Institute, including the Union List of Artist Names (ULAN), the Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT), the Cultural Objects Name Authority (CONA), the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN), and the Getty's own extensive library collection.
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A collection of over 3,000 academic journals and over 70,000 ebooks in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Also includes over a million images, letters, and other primary sources. Most journals are covered from their first issue up to 3-5 years from the current year, and include previous titles. Also includes the current issues of some titles. Note: there are some journals in JSTOR for which Sewanee does not have full-text access. In the Advanced search you can limit to only the content available to you.
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Provides full text of articles from approximately 2,700 publications (many of them peer-reviewed.) Also includes abstracts and indexing from over 4,000 publications. Covers every core undergraduate subject (sciences, humanities, social sciences, business, and education) as well as cross-disciplinary areas such as ethnic studies, women’s studies, history. 1982 to present.
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Provides an online platform for the global new media art community to support the creation, presentation, discussion and preservation of contemporary art that uses new technologies in significant ways. The ArtBase archive includes net art, software art, computer games, and documentation of new media performance and installation. All of the art and documentation is available as Web pages or downloadable files. To register, use your sewanee.edu email address to be added to our subscription.
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Time period: 1400s to present
Locations: North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceania
The World Digital Library (WDL) is a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, carried out with the support of the United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (UNESCO), and in cooperation with libraries, archives, museums, educational institutions, and international organizations from around the world. The WDL makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from all countries and cultures.

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