eJournals
CORE
Search over 20 million open access journal articles and research papers.
JOURNALTOCS
A searchable collection of scholarly journal Tables of Contents (TOCs). Individuals can sign up for free to follow up to 30 journals and keep up to date with the latest scholarly papers published online.
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3D TOTAL
3D resource website which has daily news, free model libraries, galleries, interviews, articles, and tutorials.
ABC TYPOGRAPHY
Virtual museum of typography including classical, 20th century, and modern typefaces, and there is a brief history to each typeface.
ACADEMIC EARTH
Collection of video lecturers by scholars from some of the top American universities
ART & ARCHITECTURE
Designed by the Courtauld Institute of Art, this website contains more than 40,000 searchable images and a network of over half a million links. There are in-depth articles and you can create your own image sets.
ART & ARCHITECTURE THESAURUS® ONLINE
From the Getty Research Institute, this thesaurus is a structured vocabulary of around 34,000 concepts, including 131,000 terms, descriptions, bibliographic citations, and other information relating to fine art, architecture, decorative arts, archival materials, and material culture.
ARTCYCLOPEDIA
A guide to museum-quality art on the Internet. Search by artist, artwork, or museum, browse artists by name, medium, subject, nationality, and browse by art movements. It also provides access to complete citable 2006 Encyclopedia Britannica articles on over 1,300 artists, this feature is only available directly through this website.
ARTLEX
Art dictionary with definitions for more than 3,600 terms used in discussing art/visual culture, along with thousands of supporting images, pronunciation notes, quotations and cross-references.
ARTSOURCE
Art and architecture resource gateway with websites sorted by categories.
AXIS
Resource for arts professionals and enthusiasts to research, commission and engage with contemporary artists. It hosts a directory of professional artists practising in the UK, comprising detailed biographies, images, film and audio clips, and is a designated umbrella body for the visual arts funded by Arts Council England, Arts Council of Wales and Scottish Arts Council.
BBC ARTS
Gateway to painting, photography, architecture, interactive and digital art, picture galleries and art reviews.
CDRI: COOPERATIVE DIGITAL RESOURCES INITIATIVE
The CDRI of the American Theological Library Association and Association of Theological Schools is a repository of digital resources. It provides access to digital images of woodcuts, photographs, slides, papyri, coins, maps, postcards, manuscripts, lithographs, sermons, shape-note tune books, and various forms of Christian art, architecture, and iconography.
COLLAGE
The City of London Libraries and Guildhall Art Gallery is host to COLLAGE, an image database containing over 20,000 works of art from its collections.
CRITICAL HISTORY OF 20TH-CENTURY ART
Book by Donald Kuspit serialised in artnet Magazine.
DATABASE OF VIRTUAL ART
Pioneering International digital installation art archive which documents this rapidly evolving field. The founder of this website is Oliver Grau, Professor for Image Science and Dean of the Department for Cultural Studies, Danube University Krems.
DIGITAL IMAGING PROJECT
Over 13,000 art historical images of sculpture and architecture from pre-historic to post-modern from around the world, by Mary Ann Sullivan at Bluffton University, USA.
GALLERY OF ART OF THE MUSLIM WORLD
Website featuring Islamic calligraphy, illumination, and painting, as well as Islamic metalwork, ceramics, and textiles from Iran, Syria, Egypt, Morocco, Al-Andalus, Turkey, Afghanistan, India and Indonesia.
GREATBUILDINGS.COM
Gateway to architecture around the world and across history, it documents a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects, with 3D models, photographic images and architectural drawings, commentaries, bibliographies, and web links, for famous designers and structures of all kinds. For up-to-the-moment coverage of the latest buildings, designers, ideas, and trends, GreatBuildings.com is cross-linked with ArchitectureWeek, the architecture magazine online, and Archiplanet, the community-created all-buildings collection. The website has Google Maps mashups throughout.
HERBERT F. JOHNSON MUSEUM OF ART CORNELL UNIVERSITY
The Johnson Museum has one of the finest collections of art in New York State and is recognized as one of the most important university museums in the country. Spanning the history of art, the Museum’s collections are especially strong in Asian art, nineteenth and twentieth-century American art, and the graphic arts.
MUSLIMHERITAGE.COM
An unique online Education Community run by the Foundation for Science Technology and Civilisation (FSTC Limited) in the UK to raise global awareness on the importance and relevance of Muslim Heritage. This website contains many articles on the architecture and arts of the Muslim world.
PUBLIC ART RESEARCH ARCHIVE
Sheffield Hallam University, UK, have been building up a research pool of material on public art, which initially covered Sheffield, but now extends to other parts of the UK and other European sites of interest.
TATE LEARN ONLINE
Watch over 300 hours of video, and discover artists from Turner to Hirst.
THE DESIGN COUNCIL
UK government funded design body.
THE FANTASTIC IN ART AND FICTION, CORNELL UNIVERSITY
Image-bank that provides a visual resource for the study of the Fantastic or of the supernatural in fiction and in art from the Cornell University Library witchcraft collection, the history of science collection, and a collection of Russian fables and fairy tales.
UNION LIST OF ARTIST NAMES® ONLINE
From the Getty Research Institute, this is a structured vocabulary containing around 120,000 records, including 293,000 names and biographical and bibliographic information about artists and architects, including a wealth of variant names, pseudonyms, and language variants.
UNIVERSAL LEONARDO
website on Leonardo da Vinci created by Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design. It explores the key concepts at the basis of Leonardo’s work and highlights the connections he made between art and science. Other features include a gallery of more than 100 images of his paintings, drawings, manuscripts and inventions.
VADS: THE ONLINE RESOURCE FOR VISUAL ARTS
This website offers students and academics visual arts images in a stunning collection of over 100,000 images. It contains collections as diverse as the National Inventory of Continental European Paintings, the Woolmark Company Archive, the Central Saint Martins Museum and Study Collection, a collection of photographs from the East End archival project, ‘Spanish Civil War Posters’, ‘Concise Art’, and ‘Posters of Conflict’ all from the Imperial War Museum, and the Design Council Archives and Slide Collection from University of Brighton and Manchester Metropolitan University. The image resources are free and copyright cleared for use in UK Higher and Further Education which can be incorporated into lectures, seminar presentations and essays.
WORLD WIDE ARTS RESOURCES
Art resource gateway for contemporary art, art news, art history, contemporary artist and gallery portfolios. There are over 200,000 works by over 22,000 masters in the in-depth art history section, which lists artists alphabetically, by century, by nationality, and by art movement.