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Academic Search Home Use
The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. This database is updated on a daily basis. Click here  to see a complete list of all the magazines and journals included in this databases.


Grove Art Online provides web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art, (1996, 34 vols.) and The Oxford Companion to Western Art. We offer ongoing additions of new and updated articles, over 2,500 thumbnail art images and line drawings displayed in the text of articles, extensive image links, and sophisticated search and navigation tools.


The full text of the 29 volume print encyclopedia is online, enriched with thousands of web links, sound files, and images.

Art Index & Abstracts 1984+
This database indexes and reproduces articles from major art periodicals published throughout the world. Coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. In addition to articles, Art Abstracts indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in the indexed periodicals. Click here  to see a list of the magazines included in this database.

Art Index Retrospective 1929-1984
An invaluable, in-depth record of contemporary art history, Art Index Retrospective allows users to search 55 years of art journalism at a keystroke. Featuring the same types of periodicals as listed above, this database allows users to find contemporary criticism of art at the time of its debut, track the body of work of an artist or movement, find artists’ interviews and other commentary, and much more. Subjects covered include: Advertising Art, Antiques, Archaeology, Architecture and Architectural History, Art History, Crafts, Decorative Arts, Folk Art, Graphic Arts, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Motion Pictures, Museology, Non-Western Art, Painting, Photography, Pottery, Sculpture, Television, Textiles.

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