Databases: Arts: Visual Arts

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).

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.

ARTstor VCU

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

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.

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.

British Periodicals II

Coverage: 1680s-1930s

Full-run coverage of more than 300 British journals relating to literature and the arts published from the 1680s to the 1930s. Provides access to almost 3 million pages with high resolution facsimile images.

Coloribus Advertising Archive VCU

Coverage: 1990-present

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

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.

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.

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.

Film Indexes Online VCU

Coverage: 1893-present

This collection indexes Film Index International, the American Film Institute Catalog, and the International Index to Film Periodicals. Searches can be conducted across all three or limited to specific resource.

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 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.

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

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.