Drain-Jordan Library Database List-Art, West Virginia State University
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DATABASES: ART

Academic One File

(Gale) Multidisciplinary database containing full-text articles and citations to academic journals and popular publications. Includes New York Times from 1985.
offcampus access

Academic Search Complete

(Ebsco) Academic Search Complete is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text databasewith more than 8,500 full-text peridicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references atr provided for more than 1,400 journals. (replaces Academic Search Premier)
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Art Inventories Catalog | Smithsonian American Art Museum

Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture Reference with over 400,000 works in public and private collections nationwide, and includes records from Save Outdoor Sculpture. Open access.
free public database

Communication Source

(Ebsco) Communication Source is the most comprehensive resource on the market for communication research. It was developed from a merger of high-quality EBSCO databases, Communication and Mass Media Complete and Communication Abstracts (formerly by Sage), and includes many unique sources not previously available in other databases. Communication Source offers abstracts and indexing as well as full-text content from publications worldwide pertaining to Communication, Linguistics, Rhetoric and Discourse, Speech-Language Pathology, Media Studies and other fields relevant to the discipline.
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Directory of Open Access Journals

Multidisciplinary collection of open access academic journals. Can search for journal titles or keyword search for articles.
free public access

Education Source

(Ebsco) Education Source is designed to meet the needs of education students, professionals and policy makers. The collection provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2,850 academic periodicals and includes full text for more than 1,800 journals, 550 books and monographs, education-related conference papers, citations for over 4 million articles including book reivew and over 100,000 controlled and cross-referenced names of educational tests. Coverage in Education Source spans all levels of education from early childhood to higher education and also includes educational specialities such as multilingual education, health eduction and testing.
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ERIC

(Ebsco) Education Resource Information Center, contains over 1.3 million records and links to over 323,000 full-text documents dating back to 1966. Also available at http:/www.eric.ed.gov
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JSTOR - Early Journal Content

Articles covering various subject areas, full-text available prior to 1923 for US publications, and prior to 1879 worldwide. To ensure a full-text only result keep "Include only content I can access" selected.
free public access to early journal content

Master FILE Premier

(Ebsco) Multidisciplinary database including full-text periodicals covering general interest subject areas. Contains an image collection with photos, maps and flags.
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OpenDissertations

(Ebsco) OpenDissertations is an open-access database built to assist researchers in locating both historic and contemporary dissertations and theses. Created with the generous support of the H.W. Wilson Foundation and the Congregational Library & Archives in Boston, it incorporates EBSCO's previously released American Doctoral Dissertations, and features additional dissertation metadata contributed by select colleges and universities from around the world. Providing researchers with citations to graduate research across a span of time, from the early 20th century to the present, this database will continue to grow through regular updates and new partnerships with graduate degree-granting institutions.
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Photographic Archives Catalog

(Smithsonian American Art Museum) Contains over half a million photographs, negative and slides documenting American art from colonial to contemporary times (about 20% of collection is digitized). Notable collections: Peter A. Juley & Son Collection, Walter Rosenblum Collection, American Sculpture Photograph Study Collection, Library of Congress Copyright Deposit Collection. Open access.
free public database

Pre-1877 Art Exhibition Catalogue Index

(Smithsonian American Art Museum) Contains 136,494 records describing fine art works exhibited in the United States and Canada up through 1876, includes artists of all nationalities who exhibited works from 1773 to 1877 including Old Masters. Open access.
free public database

Primary Search

(Ebsco) Full-text for over 70 popular magazines for elementary school research.
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TOPIC Search

(Ebsco) Current events database, contains articles and citations on social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics.
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