Oxford LibGuides: Art History for Continuing Education short courses: Free online resources

Useful web resources for your subject

There are many good quality, freely available resources on the internet including:

Guidance on finding free 'open access' scholarly materials
Our guide to finding free open access scholarly materials covering SOLO; Databases A-Z; open access search engines such as CORE and BASE; out of copyright book services and more
ArtCyclopedia
7,500 + artists with links to images online.
ArtSource
A gathering point for resources on Art and Architecture.
Google Art Project
Explores museums from around the world with hundreds of artworks photographed in extremely high resolution.
Modern Art Oxford
Oxford's Museum of Modern Art
National Art Gallery
The research and reference library based at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Web Gallery of Art
The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism, Romanticism periods (1000-1850), currently containing over 29.000 reproductions.
WebMuseum
A gallery of art images from the Louvre (and other museums).

The following key resources provide free access to high quality academic resources.

Open Access materials via SOLO
Guide to access free open access scholary resources on SOLO and beyond
MyJSTOR
If you register for MyJSTOR you will get access to 6 free JSTOR articles per month. This has been extended to 100 per month during the COVID-19 pandemic
BASE
Bielefed Academic Search engine is highly recommended. Use the 'Advanced Search' to exclude disserations and book reviews.
CORE
Another highly recommended open access search engine from the Open University and JISC.
Directory of Open Access Journals
Use the 'Journals' search to discover journals in your field which are fully open access (i.e. all of the articles are free)
OAPEN Open Access Books
You can search OAPEN directly but you'll also find all of the OAPEN books on SOLO. After searching in SOLO refine your search to 'Show only...Open Access'
DOAB Directory of Open Access Books
You can search DOAB directly but you'll also find all of the DOAB books on SOLO. After searching in SOLO refine your search to 'Show only...Open Access'
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg provides access to over 60,000 out of copyright books. These will be mainly older publications.
Scholarly resources at your UK Public Library