Databases: Arts

Academic Search Complete VCU

Coverage: 1887 - present

Comprehensive scholarly multi-disciplinary full-text database. Includes over 5,500 full-text periodicals and indexing/abstracting for over 9,500 journals. Covers science, social sciences, mathematics, engineering, and many other subjects.

ACLS Humanities E-Book VCU

Coverage: Ancient History - Present

Humanities E-Book (HEB) -- offered by the American Council of Learned Socieites (ACLS) -- is a digital collection of significant scholarship in the Humanities.

African American Music Reference VCU

Coverage: 1600 - 1970

African American Music Reference offers the first comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.

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.

AP Images VCU

Coverage: 1840's - present

More than 3.5 million historical and contemporary news photographs with thousands more added daily. In addition, the collection includes over 100,000 graphics, containing logos, graphs, maps, and timelines, as well as audio clips and news stories.

Archive Finder VCU

Coverage: Pre-historic to present

Current directory of thousands of repositories and collections of primary source materials housed in the United States and United Kingdom.

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).

ARTbibliographies Modern VCU

Coverage: 1974 - present

Abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art.

Arts and Humanities Citation Index via ISI Web of Science VCU

Coverage: 1975 - present

Database of references cited in articles from 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals. Search by cited reference, topic, and author.

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ARTstor VCU

ARTstor is a digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences.

Associates Programs Source VCU

Coverage: Content back to 1985; varies by title

1000 full-text journals and 100 full-text books covering a range of subjects, including substance abuse counseling, forensics, criminal justice, biotechnology, health information technology, robotics, graphic arts, interior design, and others.

ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials VCU

Coverage: 1949 - present

Premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion. Includes full-text for over 200,000 articles and book reviews from over 100 journals.

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.

Berg Fashion Library VCU

Coverage: Ancient History - present

Provides cross-searchable access to interdisciplinary text and image content on world dress and fashion. Includes e-books, reference works, images, and more.

BHA: Bibliography of the History of Art

Coverage: 1973 - present

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

Birds of North America Online VCU

Comprehensive reference covering the life histories of North American breeding birds. Includes images and videos of plumage, behaviors, habitat, nest, and eggs. Contains songs and calls.

Black Studies Center VCU

Coverage: 25,000 B.C. - present

Black Studies Center is a digital core collection of primary and secondary sources in arts, history, literature, politics, and religion that record and illuminate the Black experience, from ancient Africa through modern times.

Blackbird: An Online Journal of Literature and the Arts

Coverage: 2001 - present

An innovative online literary and arts journal, Blackbird features poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and the arts -- as well as interviews with writers and artists. Sponsored by the VCU Department of English and New Virginia Review, Inc.

Britannica Online VCU

Access to Encyclopaedia Britannica, news, magazines, journals, web sites, research tools, and multimedia.

Classical Music Library VCU

World's largest multi-label database of recordings for listening and learning in libraries. Browse, search, create playlists.

Classical Music Reference Library VCU

Coverage: Middle Ages - Present

From the ancient Greek modes to modern compositions, Classical Music Reference Library offers comprehensive coverage of all classical genres, spanning music from the Medieval period to the 21st century.

Classical Scores Library VCU

Coverage: Middle Ages - Present

Classical Scores Library contains over 400,000 pages of the most important classical music scores, manuscripts, and previously unpublished material.

Coloribus Advertising Archive VCU

Coverage: 1990-present

Coloribus contains more than 2 million current and historic ads (1990-present) for viewing online and download.

Dance Collection Catalog

Search for citations in the New York Public Library's extensive collection of dance materials. To limit your search, select Dance Research Collection, one of the lowermost options, from the drop-down menu.

Dance in Video VCU

Coverage: 1950s-present

Productions and documentaries covering ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance. Includes documentaries about choreographers and videos on dance training.

Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI) VCU

Coverage: 1973 - present

International index to articles in more than 450 design and craft journals. Also contains data on designers, craftspeople, studios, schools, workshops, and firms.

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.

Dissertation Abstracts Online VCU

Coverage: 1861 - present

Replaced by Dissertations and Theses Full Text.

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.

Dissertations from VCU VCU

Coverage: 1996 - present

Search all VCU dissertations/theses submitted to UMI. View 24-page previews; download full-text (PDF format) of those published after 1996.

ebrary: Academic Complete Collection VCU

Over 33,000 recent electronic books from university presses and other scholarly publishers covering all disciplines.

EBSCOhost Research Databases VCU

Databases covering education, health sciences, and social sciences.

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.

Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences VCU

Full text reference guide for those working in quality control, economics, probability and statistics as well as for those applying statistical methods in any discipline. Updated annually, with revisions and new articles added quarterly.

ERIC via ed.gov VCU

Coverage: 1966 - present

Premier database for education research. Includes journal articles, conference papers, reports, curriculum materials, and more. Use 'Find in a Library' to reach Get it @ VCU.

ERIC via FirstSearch VCU

Coverage: 1966 - present

Premier database for education research. Includes journal articles, conference papers, reports, curriculum materials, and more.

ERIC via ProQuest VCU

Coverage: 1966 - present

Premier database for education research. Includes journal articles, conference papers, reports, curriculum materials, and more.

Essay and General Literature Index VCU

Coverage: 1985 - present

Citations to essays and articles contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works. Focuses on the humanities and social sciences, with subject coverage ranging from economics and history to criticism of literary works, drama, and film.

Ethnographic Video Online VCU

Hundreds of classic and contemporary documentaries on the study of human culture and behavior covering every region of the world.

Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text

Contains indexing and abstracts, as well as full-text articles and chapters from journals and books relating to the field of film and television.

Filmakers Library Online VCU

Award-winning documentaries and independent films presenting points of view and historical and current experiences from diverse cultures and traditions world-wide.

Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online VCU

Coverage: Ancient - Present

More than 9,000 pages of material and 300 audio recordings, combined with entries by more than 700 expert contributors from all over the world, make this the most complete body of work focused on world music.

Google Scholar VCU

Scholarly literature crawled by Google.

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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.

International Index to the Performing Arts (IIPA) VCU

Coverage: 1998 - present

Citations and abstracts for information drawn from 200 international performing arts periodicals from 1998 forward. Also included in the database are retrospective citations from about 46 periodicals.

Iter Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance VCU

Portal to resources including a bibliography of citations for books, articles, and essays on all aspects of medieval and Renaissance life. Also includes a directory of scholars, Iter Italicum, a collection of Capito letters, and more.

Jazz Music Library VCU

Comprehensive collection of jazz recordings covering thousands of artists, ensembles, albums, and genres from all over the world from the beginnings of jazz to today.

JSTOR VCU

Searchable backfiles of core journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. (Backfiles end 3 - 5 years prior to current date).

JSTOR collections available at VCU 

Left Index VCU

Coverage: 1982 - present

Covers the diverse political, economic, social, and cultural literature of the left. Also covers some historically significant early left publications.

Literature, Arts and Medicine Database

Annotated multimedia list of prose, poetry, film, video and art for teaching and research in medical humanities.

Luminarium

Coverage: 1350 - 1660

Luminarium, featuring extensive background information on authors and selected full texts of their works, transforms the study of early English literature into a multimedia experience. Links to critical essays, art works, and music sound clips.

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.

MLA International Bibliography VCU

Coverage: 1926 - present

The Modern Language Association of America's index of critical scholarship on literature, language, linguistics and folklore. Citations only.

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Music Index VCU

Coverage: 1979 - present

Citations to the international literature on all aspects of music. Includes more than one million records from 650 music periodicals. Indexes book reviews, reviews of recordings, tapes, and performances, and notes first performances and obituaries.

Music Online VCU

Coverage: Ancient World - present

Music Online provides the most comprehensive database in streaming audio, video, reference, and scores on the web. Integrated searching by ensemble, genre, historical events and more provides in-depth context for music history.

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.

Oral History Online VCU

Index to English language oral histories publicly available on the Web and/or held by repositories and archives around the world. Includes interview level records if possible, and links to multi-media if available.

Oxford Art Online VCU

Integrated searchable access to Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, and more.

Oxford Music Online VCU

Integrated searchable access to The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Grove Music Online, The Oxford Companion to Music, and more.

Philosopher's Index VCU

Coverage: 1940-present

Indexes scholarly research in all major fields of philosophy. Covers journals, books, and book reviews.

Play Index VCU

Coverage: 1949 - present

Citations to over 31,000 plays published from 1949 to the present.

Project Muse VCU

Portal to electronic collection of about 200 journals from 30 not-for-profit publishers.

ProQuest Databases VCU

Databases covering the sciences, health sciences, arts, business, and social sciences.

RefWorks

Citation management tool for storing and managing references; creating bibliographies. Supports most citation styles. Requires an individual account set up from a VCU Libraries link. Available to VCU and MCVH-VCU email account holders.

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RILM Abstracts of Music Literature VCU

Coverage: 1969 - present

Citations and abstracts to the international music literature. Indexes many foreign-language journals. Includes citations to dissertations and essays in books. Focuses on academic research.

Scirus VCU

Search engine for scientific information on the web.

Theatre in Video VCU

Over 250 of the world's most important plays. Includes over 100 documentaries about productions and interviews with authors, directors, and actors.

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.

Twentieth Century North American Drama VCU

Coverage: 20th century

Full-text of 2,000 plays from the United States and Canada. Includes playbills, posters, and other ephemera.

Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels VCU

Coverage: 1950 - present

Documents the entire spectrum of underground and independent North American and European comics and graphic novels. Includes over 75,000 pages of original material from the 1950s to today, along with interviews, commentary, theory, and criticism.

VCU Menorah Review

Coverage: 2003 - present

The VCU Menorah Review, established in 1984, explores a diverse range of issues related to Jewish life, culture, and history. The review features essays on recent scholarship in Judaic studies.

Vogue Archive VCU

Coverage: 1892 - Present

Image-rich primary source for the study of fashion, gender and modern social history. It presents a portrait of its era through photographs, articles, and advertisements. Contains every page of Vogue Magazine from 1892 to the present.

Voice of the Shuttle

Coverage: Pre-history - present

Voice of the Shuttle, established in 1994, provides a structured and briefly annotated guide to online resources for a wide range of academic disciplines in the humanities -- and points toward the transformation of those disciplines as they interact

Web of Science VCU

Coverage: 1965 - present

Citation databases including Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, and Social Sciences Citation Index for searches by cited reference, topic, and author.

WGSN (Worth Global Style Network) VCU

Coverage: 1998 - Present

Focusing on the areas and intersections of fashion, style, and commerce, WGSN provides a global view on trends in design. Its archive contains more than 5 million images from the runways, the street, retail outlets, and design sketches.

Wilson Web Databases VCU

Abstract databases covering arts, humanities, social sciences, and science topics.

World News Connection VCU

Compiled from thousands of non-U.S. media sources, covers significant socioeconomic, political, scientific, technical, and environmental issues and events.