Art Databases includes Art Full Text and Art Index Retrospective, covering an array of publications about artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews and theory and criticism. From EBSCO.
Images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences. Use built in tools to organize, share and present images. Now embedded in JSTOR.
The Getty provides access to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) and to the Répertoire international de la littérature de l'art (RILA) for no charge on its website. These citation databases, searchable together, cover European and American visual arts material published between 1975 and 2007.
Comprehensive encyclopedia of art that includes many images. Cross-search several art encyclopedias and dictionaries including Grove Dictionary of Art and the Benezit Dictionary of Artists. It includes over 200,000 articles that span ancient to contemporary art and architecture, as well as over 19,000 images of works of art, structures, plans, and artist signatures.
Use the following links to find journals listed under each subject.
Open Access (OA) materials, also known as Open Educational Resources (OER), are free-to-use educational materials – think textbooks, learning guides, videos, journals, etc. OER are free of cost, open to anyone to use, don't require any institutional log in credentials, and carry legal permission for open use.
Note: With art resources, take extra care to double check that you are properly using and citing images.
Many of the books, journal articles and other resources you find can be accessed through Oxy. However, if not, you will need to request them through Interlibrary Loan. If you are logged into your Oxy account, most interlibrary loans can be made via a link associated with the article/book.
