Databases: Arts: Architectural History

Aluka VCU

Coverage: Prehistory - Present

An international initiative to build an online library of full-text scholarly resources from and about Africa, Aluka includes archival documents, books, ecological data, periodicals, reports, maps, and oral histories.

Art Full Text VCU

Coverage: 1984 - present

Citations, abstracts, and selected full-text for articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Also indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Includes selected full-text. Abstracts, 1994+; full-text, 1997+.

Art Index Retrospective VCU

Coverage: 1929 - 1984

Electronic version of Art Index, volumes 1-32. Contains all citations found in the print version. Supplements Art Index (1984 - present).

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals VCU

Coverage: 1930s - present

Citations from the international architecture literature. Also includes archaeology, city planning, interior design and set design.

BHA: Bibliography of the History of Art

Coverage: 1973 - present

Covers European and American art from antiquity to the present. Includes RILA and RAA.

designinform VCU

Coverage: Late nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Resource for research into the history of modern design and the applied arts. Designinform consists of three linked databases: Design Abstracts Retrospective (DAR), Design ProFILES (DP), and ReVIEW.

Dissertations and Theses Full Text (ProQuest) VCU

Coverage: 1637 - present

Full text for most dissertations from 1997 to the present. Includes full text for some earlier dissertations, along with over 2.4 million dissertations and theses citations from around the world.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online VCU

Coverage: 1700 - 1800

With over 136,000 titles and 26 million pages, ECCO contains every published text of historical significance from Great Britain and Colonial America during the 18th Century.

Humanities International Complete VCU

Coverage: Ancient - Present

Providing full text of hundreds of journal articles, books and other published resources from around the world, Humanities International Complete (HIC) includes all data from the Humanities International Index.

Index Islamicus VCU

Coverage: 1906 - present

Covers publications in European languages on all aspects of Islam and the Muslim world. Includes history, beliefs, societies, cultures, languages, and literature.

Index to 19th-Century American Art Periodicals VCU

Coverage: 1840-1907

Indexes 42 art periodicals published in the United States during the 19th century.

Index to Christian Art VCU

Coverage: 30 CE - 1550 CE

With works ranging from apostolic times to the 16th century, the Index of Christian Art documents art found in a broadly-defined Christian context. This expansive archive contains images and full-text records.

International Bibliography of Art VCU

Coverage: 2008 - present

International Bibliography of Art, the successor to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA), covers European art from late antiquity to the present, American art from the colonial era to the present, and global art since 1945.

Material Connexion VCU

Collection of over 4,500 innovative materials and processes. Resource for designers of all disciplines - industrial, furniture, packaging, graphics, fashion, interior design, landscape architecture, and transportation.

New York Times VCU

Coverage: 1851 - 2006

More than a newspaper for an American city, the New York Times is an international record of national and world news, as well as personal stories of how events affect individuals.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online VCU

Coverage: 1789 - 1914

Digital archive of primary source collections from the "long" 19th century. Includes monographs, newspapers, manuscripts, diaries, letters, maps, statistics and more. Offers annotation and tagging tools.

TOCS-IN 0

Coverage: 1992 - present

TOCS-IN provides tables of contents for select Classics, Near Eastern Studies, and Religion print journals. Covers the archaeology, architecture, art, culture, history, literature, and religion of ancient Greece and Rome. Some pre-1992 content.