The gateway to Oxford’s art reference works, including the peer-reviewed, regularly updated Grove® Dictionary of Art and the Benezit Dictionary of Artists
IBA is the successor to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA), and retains the editorial policies which made BHA one of the most trusted and frequently consulted sources in the field. The database includes records created by the Getty Research Institute in 2008-09, with new records created by ProQuest using the same thesaurus and authority files.
This citation index covers European and American art and architecture from late antiquity to the present. Art and architecture related books, conference proceedings, dissertations, and exhibition catalogs. Coverage: 1974-2009.
Kubikat is the collective catalog of four of the leading German scholarly research institutes in the field of art history. Kubikat currently contains more than 1.7 million records including 900,000 articles in scholarly periodicals, conference papers, commemorative volumes and exhibition catalogs. Link is to English version of catalog search.
Abstracts, citations, and some full text for books and journals in fine art, architecture, design, decorative and commercial art, etc. Coverage from 1921 forward.
Abstracts and citations for articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, and exhibition reviews on modern and contemporary art. Coverage: 1974-present.
Abstracts and citations covering multiple art topics from western and non-western cultures. Includes records for journal articles, books, and book reviews published between 1929 and 1984.
The Index of Christian Art presents images and information relating to the iconographic traditions of the medieval world to the year 1400. Includes non-Christian and secular works.
Arts, humanities, and sciences database providing some full text access to journals, books, and primary source materials. Select coverage from 17th century to present. May not include most recent years.