Wondering how to access, locate, and use information sources? This guide will provide information to support your research endeavors.
This guide brings together resources related to the arts. Included are search strategies to help you find the information you'll need for this course.
Use the side tabs to navigate this guide. Below is a summary of the information located on each tab.
Search Strategies: includes three basic search strategies to use in databases
Finding Images: points to databases and additional resources for locating images
More on ARTstor: discover how to use this large image databases to locate high quality images
Databases - Art Focus: lists databases recommended for research in the arts field, including about artistic movements, painters, exhibitions, works of art etc.
Databases - Arts & Humanities: lists additional databases that may also refer to art topics and additional historical context around art topics
About Artists: provides information on how to find biographical information on artists and interviews
About Exhibitions: strategies for locating information on artist exhibitions or exhibition catalogs
Scholarly or Popular?: notes characteristics of popular and scholarly sources
Access: information the Virtual Private Network (VPN), finding full text through Get it at UC, and requesting resources through Interlibrary Loan (ILL)
Citing Images: resources for learning how to cite images in Chicago format
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