The following databases and journals are useful places to search for art-related articles. Contact a librarian if you would like more information on how to search for articles on your specific topic.

Databases

• Academic Search Complete (EBSCO): Covers a wide range of academic disciplines, with more than 8600 periodicals available in full text.
• Directory of Open Access Journals: An interdisciplinary database of free, full-text, scholarly journals.
• Humanities International Complete: Broad coverage of humanities disciplines, with over 1200 full-text journals and books.
• JSTOR: A full-text archive of over 400 scholarly journals in the arts and sciences. Issues from the past three to five years may not be available.

Journals

Search for journals that cover studio art topics by using our Publication Finder tool. You can search for specific journals by title, subject, and more.

Get articles from other libraries

If you cannot find a full-text version of the article you need, request it through interlibrary loan. Interlibrary loan is a free service that allows you to borrow books and articles from other libraries.

Books from Lane Library

Search for books in our collection through Lane Library’s catalog. You can find books with art-specific subject headings below:

• Art and Society
• Art technique
• Ceramics
• Digital art
• Drawing
• Graphic design
• Painting
• Photography
• Studio art
• Visual arts

Discovery Search: Search Lane Library’s books, ebooks, and articles in one place.

Books from other libraries

WorldCat: Search for books not available at Lane Library and borrow from other libraries for free through interlibrary loan.

• Artstor Public Collections: 1.3 million freely accessible images, videos, documents, and audio files from library special collections, faculty research, and institutional history materials, as well as hundreds of thousands of open access images from partner museums.
• Digital Public Library of America: Millions of texts, images, audio and video files, and other primary source materials digitized by libraries, archives, museums, and other organizations.
• Library of Congress Digital Collections: Browse the freely accessible maps, images, and files making up the digital collections of The Library of Congress.
• The Met Open Access Artwork: Browse more than 406,000 hi-res images of public-domain works in The Met collection that can be downloaded, shared, and remixed without restriction.
• National Gallery of Art Images: A repository of digital images of the collections of the National Gallery of Art. More than 51,000 open digital images up to 4000 pixels each are available free of charge for download and use.
• Openverse: Over 500 million freely available images, all of which can be reused.
• Smithsonian Open Access: Download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.
• Wikimedia Commons: A collection of more than 75 million freely usable image, audio, and video files.

• Chicago Manual of Style: Quick guide for citing using the Chicago Manual of Style, 17th ed.
• Citing images and artwork (MLA): From Purdue’s Online Writing Lab.
• Lane Library Citation Guide: Find info on APA, Chicago, CSE, and MLA citation styles here.
• MLA Formatting and Style Guide: From Purdue’s Online Writing Lab. Covers MLA, 8th ed.