Art and Architecture  

Library catalogues

SOLO
Oxford's union catalogue for the holdings of university, departmental and college libraries as well as e-resources available to Oxford researchers.

COPAC
Union catalogue for the holdings of UK university libraries.

WorldCat
Massive union catalogue of countless libraries worldwide. Useful for finding books and archival materials beyond Oxford.

Databases

OxLIP+
Access to online resources and databases in all subjects.

Search guides

SOLO

OxLIP+

IT @ Oxford

Library passwords

OUCS (Oxford University Computing Services) 

Copyright

Intellectual property law  

All-topics searching

• Allgemeines Kunstlerlexikon
  International Database of Artists Online successor to Thieme-Becker. Information on visual artists from A as in ANDERS A. to Z as in ZZÜRCHER, from the classical era up to the present, and from every country in the world. Covers painters, graphic designers, sculptors, architects, designers, photographers, calligraphers, craftsmen, etc. NOTE: You need to search under the German spelling of the artist – e.g., Tizian, NOT Titian, Dürer, NOT Durer.
  
  
• Art Abstracts (including Art Full Text)
  Covers publications 1984 – present. Abstracts available from 1994. Full text coverage varies with journal title. Wide-ranging index to Western-language journal articles, book reviews and images in mainstream archaeology, architecture, conservation and  "fine" and "decorative" arts periodicals. All geographical areas and all periods (ancient – contemporary).
  
  
• ARTstor
  Union collection of image collections worldwide. Approaching 1,000,000 images covering all periods, all geographic areas and all types of art, architecture and archaeology as well as other subject areas in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Hisitory of Medicine and Science. Contributing collections include libraries, museums and archives, including the Bodleian’s Western Manuscripts and Incunabula collection. All periods, all geographic areas.
  
  
• Bridgeman Education
  300,000+ images of objects from museums, galleries and private collections, as well as buildings and monuments. Images cover visual culture worldwide, from pre-History to the present day. Media covered include photography, fine art, engravings, sculpture, architecture, the decorative arts, artefacts and applied arts. It addresses the interests of such disciplines as art, architecture, archaeology, anthropology, & ethnography, history, science & medicine. All periods, all geographic areas.
  
  
• Dictionary of National Biography (DNB)
  Full-text extended essays not only on British people but also non-Brits. who spent time in the UK. Excellent resource for finding biographical information on artists, art historians, patrons, collectors and dealers. People still alive are excluded.
  
  
• Oxford-Grove Dictionary of Art (Oxford Art Online)
  Full-text extended essays (and bibliographies) on most aspects of the art world. Frequent updates. All geographical areas and all periods.
  
  
• Smithsonian Institution Collections Search Center (US)
  Access to 2 million+ museum, archive, library and research holdings and collections across the Smithsonian's various sub-entities. Includes: Archives of American Art, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, National Museum of the American Indian, National Portrait Gallery, and Smithsonian American Art Museum.
  
  
• TLS Reviews (Times Literary Supplement)
  Electronic version of the TLS, 1902-1990.
  
  
• VADS (Visual Arts Data Service)
  Union collection of UK-based image collections (although not all the objects are British). Contributing collections include libraries, museums and archives, including the Bodleian’s John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera. Periods covered: Medieval – Modern.
   

Theses & dissertations

• Dissertations & Theses Humanities & Social Sciences
  

        Dissertations / theses written for academic institutions in Ireland, North America (Canada & the US), the UK & other countries.
  
  

• Index to Theses
  Index to theses and dissertations written for academic institutions in the UK and Ireland. This database links direct to EThOS, the British Library's central clearing house for requesting & accessing UK PhD theses.

ArtLex: Dictionary of Visual Art