Visual Arts Databases

Most Useful

Database Full Text Coverage Scholarly
Project Muse

Full-text coverage for hundreds of scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics

 Full-text 1993 to current All
JSTOR

Contains (EXCEPT for the latest five years) core scholarly journals in sociology, history, economics, political science, mathematics, African-American & Asian studies, literature, humanities, music, and biological, health & general sciences.

 Full-text 1838 to most recent five years Most
Art Full Text

Indexes over 550 journals covering a wide variety of the arts (film to fashion, classic to cutting edge, ancient to modern) from the US and around the world.

 Some full-text 1995 to current Most
ProQuest - Arts

Search among ProQuest’s Arts databases

 Some full-text; plus links to full-text via Get-It 1985 to current None

Also Useful

Database Full Text Coverage Scholarly
Communication & Mass Media Complete (Via Communication Source)

Provides abstracts and full text for more than 200 communication journals.

 Some full-text; plus links to full-text via Get-It 1950 to current Some
Dissertations and Theses Database: The Humanities and Social Sciences Collection

Dissertations and Theses Database includes digitized dissertations in a variety of subject areas including Art, Communications, Education, History, Linguistics, Literature, and Social Sciences.

 Some full-text 1979 to current All
Factiva

Covers news and business information, including Dow Jones and Reuters newswires and The Wall Street Journal, plus more than 8,000 other sources providing current news. The Library has a license that allows a maximum of 20 users at a time use Factiva. 

 Full-text 1975 to current Some
HAPI: Hispanic American Periodicals Index

Indexes journals from 1970 on providing information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean as well as Latinx and Chicanx people in the United States.

 None 1970 to current All