Includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and the Britannica Book of the Year. You can also use EB Online to search an Internet directory that includes more than 130,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors. -- Also includes: Enciclopedia Moderna, Escolar Online, Encyclopaedia Universalis Junior, Encyclopaedia Universalis, Britannica Online Japan -- Simultaneous Users: Unlimited
Comprehensive reference source for images and information relating to the visual arts, including painting, photography, architecture, graphic and decorative arts from prehistory to the present.
This work provides comprehensive, up-to-date information on all aspects of this fundamental area of the visual arts. It examines the historical and current uses of materials and techniques in a wide range of areas from painting and sculpture to non-traditional media such as digital and video art.
The Avery Index covers the current iterature of architecture and design. It provides indexing to more than 1000 U.S. and foreign journals, 75 percent of which are not indexed in any other source.
BAR (British Archaeological Reports) Digital Collection provides access to over 3,000 e-books of academic archaeological research, encompassing all periods from prehistory, through classical archaeology, to 20th century archaeology around the globe. The collection includes monographs, edited collections of paper, excavation and site reports and conference proceedings.
Oxford Academic Books provides full-text online access to electronic books published by the Oxford University Press and its partner publishers. Oxford Academic hosts electronic books in Oxford Scholarship Online, University Press Scholarship Online, Oxford Handbooks Online, and Oxford Medicine Online collections. The Classical Studies Subject area includes key titles in the discipline, including essential scholarly works by leading classical scholars on Greek and Latin literature and culture, and Ancient History.
Catalog link. Spanning almost one thousand years, from the first Olympic Games in 776 BC to the death of Marcus Aurelius in AD 180, this reference work presents more than 2,500 entries on the civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome. Covers key aspects of ancient Greek and Roman life and literature, such as science, social structure, philosophy, and religion.
This text includes substantial entries from all disciplines on the topic of ancient Egypt. Among the multitude of subjects covered are religion and mythology, medicine, art, archaeology sociology, trade and commerce, dialects, and agriculture.
This handbook provides an authoritative guide to the full range of archaeological activities past and present. It will give the reader a sense of the history of the subject and of the main theoretical debates, as well as a taste of the excitement generated by archeological exploration.
ARTstor has been reabsorbed back into JSTOR, but you can still find all the image resources there!
JSTOR is a multidisciplinary image database supporting education and research in art, architecture, the humanities.
JSTOR coverage spans a variety of disciplines, with a focus on the humanities and social sciences. The included content is comprehensive for archival and historical materials in the collection’s scholarly titles. The most recent 3-5 years of each journal is not available directly via JSTOR, however the USF Libraries provides access to current issues of a majority of these titles in other database and e-journal subscriptions.
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 journal articles on architecture, 1934-present. Coverage includes history, landscape architecture, city planning, historic preservation, and interior design. No full text.
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.
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.
A scholar-curated library of discipline-based subject modules, OBO is designed to help busy researchers find reliable sources of information in half the time by directing them to exactly the right chapter, book, website, archive, or data set they need for their research. All citations are linked through to your collection via OpenURL, full-text via DOIs, or to the web via links to OCLC, WorldCat, and Google Books, allowing users to locate quickly full-text content directly from OBO.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global is a comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world. Full-text coverage spans from 1743 to the present.
Offers access to eBooks from Cambridge University Press. Selected books are available in full text to USF-affiliated users. -- USF has purchased more than 2700 titles published online in 2012, 2013, and 2014. In order to access these titles, check the box "Limited to your access" in the search screen.
AVI (Attic Vase Inscriptions / Attische Vaseninschriften) is an extended and web-based continuation and development of Henry R. Immerwahr's CAVI (Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions).
The BAPD is the world's largest database of ancient Greek painted pottery (‘Greek vases’). It contains records of more than 130,000 ancient pots and 250,000 images.