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Subject Guide Art

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Catalogues and Databases

  • artlibraries.net: Virtual catalogue for Art history
    artlibraries.net is a European meta catalogue for literature records and other objects from art history databases
  • Artbibliographies Modern Archiv (ABM) 1974 - 2010 Nur an Rechnern im IP-Bereich der TU Dortmund zugänglich
    ABM is the most comprehensive international bibliography on modern and contemporary art. It covers all aspects of artistic production and is updated monthly (report period: from 1974 on)
  • Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)
    This standard bibliography on European history of art covers all aspects of visual arts. Report period: 1975 - 2010. - Help
  • Web of Knowledge Accessible from a TU Dortmund IP address only - Information on Isi Web of Knowledge
    International bibliographic records of articles with abstracts. Accessible 1945 to present. Contains
    • Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-expanded)
    • Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)
    • Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)

Journal Articles

  • Online Contents SSG Art Accessible from a TU Dortmund IP address only
    Provides bibliographical research on more than 600,000 journal articles and reviews on art history, European art history, photography, art design and graphics. The database, updated continuously, indexes approx. 416 journals back to the year 1993
  • Online Contents SSG Architecture Accessible from a TU Dortmund IP address only
    More than 500 journals are being indexed back to 1993. The database contains approx. 1,05 million journal articles and reviews on architecture
  • Fachkatalog zeitgenössische Kunst
    The catalogue of the special subject collection "contemporary art" (regional focus: Europe and North America) contains the holdings of the SLUB Dresden
  • ART-Dok. Publikationsplattform Kunstgeschichte

Image Databases

  • Bildarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz (BPK)
    The stock photo agency of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz provides more than 12 million motifs from national and international museums. The collection focuses on history, art and culture
  • Bildarchive und Fototheken
    Access free of charge to more than 2 million images on art and art history from the holdings of special libraries, photographic archives and scientific institutions
  • Bildindex für Kunst und Architektur ("Marburger Index")
    The database contains photographic reproductions of existing, modified or destroyed works shaped by mankind, single objects of utility as well as complex works of art and architecture
  • Deutsche Fotothek: Kataloge
    Meta search of pictures from all periods and countries. The SLUB Dresden provides access to more than 4 million documents free of charge
  • Art Cyclopedia
    The international meta search engine by John Malyon can be searched for artists and pictures and their locations
  • Prometheus
    The distributed image archive for research and teaching provides digital image materials of various contents. Prometheus also provides an e-learning platform
  • Farbdiaarchiv zur mitteleuropäischen Wand- und Deckenmalerei
    The archive, constituted in 1943-1945, is supervised by the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich. The database contains 39,000 digitized photographies of important fresco cycles and wall decorations in churches, monasteries, castles and secular buildings
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Reference Works and Tutorials

Reference Works

Tutorials

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Open Access in the field of Art

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