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Art, Graphic Design & Art History: Articles & journals
How to find articles
- How to Find a JournalThis quick video will walk you through the process of finding journal articles.
- OSU Library Search: Limiting Your Search Results BasicsThis video will show you how to limit your search to journal articles.
Databases for Art History Research
Some of these research databases will only provide a citation to the article while others may provide a full-text version.
- Art & Architecture Complete Full-text coverage of 380 periodicals and 200+ books. Includes cover-to-cover indexing for 780+ academic journals, magazines, and trade publications; selective coverage for 70 additional publications; and 63,000+ images
- ArtForum Archive ArtForum contains 100,000+ pages and includes six decades of premier news, reporting and commentary about key developments in the art world. Its coverage spans all forms of contemporary art, including painting, sculpture, installation, body art, video/audio art, performance art and more.
- Bibliography of the History of Art Beginning in 1991, this bibliographical database covers European and American visual arts materials, including articles from over 1,200 journals that cover material published between 1975 and 2007.
- JSTOR Full-text access for over 17 million journal articles, books, documents, and research reports in a variety of disciplines. Use the Advanced Search Journal Filter to limit by subject Art & Art History and/or other subjects.
- Project MUSE Full text access for about scholarly journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press (43 titles). Coverage generally ranges from 1993 to present.
- America: History & Life Published since 1964, the index of literature covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present, with over 1,700 indexed journals dated as far back to 1910.
- Newspaper Source Plus Provides a full-text digital collection of the world's major news content. It includes millions of articles from newspapers, newswires, and news magazines. In addition, it offers television and radio transcripts and ongoing daily updates from popular news sources.
Not having much luck? Also try:
- Google Scholar With an OSU login, the Google Scholar interface allows users to search library holdings and peer-reviewed articles.
Selected Art & Design Journals
- Artforum Features on art, film, art criticism, book reviews, and exhibition reviews with an international scope.
- Art History Original articles on the historical and theoretical study of painting, sculpture, design and other areas of visual imagery.
- Art in America Essential journal on achievements and criticism of contemporary art, particularly in painting, sculpture, photography, and prints.
- Ceramics Monthly Ceramic art and pottery magazine
- Craft Arts International Essential journal for the study of contemporary craft.
- Design Quarterly Essential journal on interior design, engineering, art, architecture, and urban design.
- Different Visions An open-access journal devoted to progressive scholarship on medieval art.
- Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Articles on the arts from a philosophic, scientific, or theoretical standpoint, such as psychology, sociology, anthropology, and cultural history.
- Journal of Visual Art Practice Covers all aspects of fine art education.
- Journal Panorama Panorama, published by the University of Minnesota Libraries, is the first peer-reviewed, open-access online publication dedicated to American art and visual culture (broadly defined) from the colonial period to the present day.
Selected Museum Studies Journals
- Journal of Curatorial Studies (ILL only)
More journals
- All Art & Architecture JournalsAll journals with full text in art & architecture.
