Brief Guide to Research for Art & Art History

Art Abstracts is an art research database providing high-quality indexing and abstracts for nearly 700 national and international periodicals, including more than 370 peer-reviewed journals, plus thousands of art dissertations. The resource covers: art history and criticism, architecture and architectural history, archaeology, antiques, museum studies, graphic arts, industrial design, landscape architecture, interior design, folk art, painting, photography, pottery, sculpture, decorative arts, costume design, television and video, motion pictures, advertising art, non-western art, and textiles.

From the Getty Research Institute. Citations and abstracts of contemporary publications on European art from 4th century BCE to the present; it also covers American art since the 15th century. These citation databases, searchable together, cover material published between 1975 and 2007. BHA succeeds RILA (International Repertory of the Literature of Art) and RAA (Répertoir d'Art et d'Archéologie).

The Artstor Digital Library is a nonprofit resource that provides over 2.5 million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research.