Art, Graphic Design & Art History: Home
The Edmon Low Library offers books, research databases, and journals online and in print for researching art and design. Get help via chat or contact the librarian with your research questions.
Start with:
- How to Find and Check Out a Book This quick video will walk you finding books.
- OSU Library Search: Limiting Your Search Results Basics This video will show you how to limit your search to journal articles.
- How to find images on JSTOR Images ARTstor is now JSTOR Images. This site provides an overview of searching for images on the new platform.
- How to use interlibrary services This video will explain how to check out a book from another library via OSU Libraries.
Next, find content:
- 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.
- JSTOR Full-text access for over 17 million journal articles, books, documents, and research reports in a variety of disciplines.
- JSTOR Images With approximately 300 collections composed of over 2 million images, scholars can examine wide-ranging material such as Native American art from the Smithsonian, treasures from the Louvre, and panoramic, 360-degree views of the Hagia Sophia in a single, easy-to-use resource. Get help Searching: Images on JSTOR
- Oxford Art Online The most comprehensive online reference resource for all aspects of the visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the 1990s. Over 40,000 links to important art images in galleries and museums around the world. Sophisticated search capabilities and one-click cross-referencing. Annual additions of new material and updates to the text.
Then try:
- Archivision The Archivision Digital Research Library is currently comprised of over 100,000 images of (landscape and regular) architecture, archaeological sites, gardens, urban design, and art.
- Archives of American Art Since 1954, the Archives of American Art have collected and preserved more than 20 million letters, photographs, diaries, financial records, audiovisual recordings, and more in order to provide primary sources that encompass the last 200 years of U.S. visual arts. The collection is updated every year, as new art is produced, and older items are digitized.
- Archives of Sexuality and Gender The Archives of Sexuality and Gender houses both personal and historical collections that explore the growth of the LGBTQ community since 1940. With interviews, gay and lesbian newspapers, and periodicals, the Archive explores topics such as the AIDS Crisis, the Stonewall Riots, and how these events affected both individuals and organizations in the LGBTQ community at that time.
- Black Studies Center Consisting of scholarly journals, historical indexes, and reference books, the Black Studies Center provides information from the Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, the Black Studies Periodicals Database, The Chicago Defender (1910-75), the Black Literature Index, 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.
- OpenBibArt: History of Art Bibliography OpenBibArt reviews the literature on arts from Late Antiquity to the present day, providing access to close to 1.2 million of records (not full text) of periodicals, books, exhibition and auction catalogues, published between 1910 and 2007. It is a collaboration between the INHA, GRI, and the Inist-CNRS.
Also check out:
- African American Newspapers (1827-1998) The database provides online access to 282 U.S. newspapers that cover the African American experience from 1827 to 1998.
- Indigenous Newspapers in North America Including national periodicals to local community and student publications, the database contains a diverse collection of print journalism from the indigenous people of U.S. and Canada. It contains more than 9,000 individual editions published between 1828-2016, with 45 unique titles that are bilingual and indigenous-language editions, such as the Hawaiian, Cherokee, and Navajo languages.
- Bloomsbury Fashion Business Cases Bloomsbury Fashion Central is a vibrant online platform catering to interdisciplinary fashion and dress research. Peer-reviewed content features major reference works, scholarly eBooks, case studies, lesson plans, and exclusive articles. With curated images, runway photos, and video content, it offers a comprehensive educational resource endorsed by industry and academic experts.
- Ethnic NewsWatch A collection of over 3.5 million full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, that explores the perspectives of minorities since 1942.
- Latin American Newspapers A collection of more than 55 fully searchable Latin America newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries.
- 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.
- New York Times Historical Explore a comprehensive collection of archive materials from The New York Times, spanning from 1851 to four years before the current year. This collection contains a diverse array of content including front page stories, full articles, advertisements, obituaries, editorials, sports, cultural insights, letters to the editor, and more.
- New York Times Online - NYTimes.com Unlimited access on NYTimes.com and the NYTimes app. Must register to access. Click here for more info.
- Times (London) Digital Archive, 1785-2014 A full-text collection of the daily published The (London) Times from 1785 to 2014.
- Vogue Archive The Vogue Archive offers the entire collection of U.S. Vogue from 1892 to the present, featuring articles, editorials, covers, and ads. Its precise indexing includes company and brand names, dress items, and image contributors. Indexed full-page photos are provided by Conde Nast, making it valuable for research in art, design, fashion history, and more.
- Women's Wear Daily Archive An archive of the Women’s Wear Daily magazine (WWD), with daily publications from its first issue in 1910 to 2021.
- World Newspaper Archive Representing the largest fully searchable collection of historical newspapers from around the globe, the World Newspaper Archive was created in partnership between Readex, a division of NewsBank, and the Center for Research Libraries to advance research opportunities across a wide range of academic disciplines.
