tips
for online searching :: engines
& directories::
dictionaries
& thesauri :: other
useful tools & sites
INTERNET TOOLS FOR RESEARCH & WRITING
Tips for Online Searching
Finding
Information on the Internet: a Tutorial [UC Berkeley, Teaching
Library]
Search Engines
& Directories
Digital Librarian
'A Librarian's choice of the best of the Web' mainteained
by Margaret Val Anderson, Cortland, New York. In particular, see
the Images,
Art and
Architecture
sections.
Google
Scholar
Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly
literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints,
abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.
Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic
publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and
universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the
web.
Often full-text content cited in Google Scholar results is available
to UC Davis users through electronic journal and database subscriptions
that the UC Davis Library has licensed and paid for. The University
of California has arranged specialized linking to assist you in
locating print and electronic versions of cited content. Click
on the hotlinked “UCe-links” phrase (from the Shields
Library web page), from which you can link to full-text, check
the library catalog to see if we own a book or journal, or request
a journal article we don’t own.
Google
Maps
Google Maps is a Google service offering powerful, user-friendly
mapping technology and local business information. Google Maps
provides satellite imagery (or a satellite image with superimposed
map data), pan and zoom capabilities, scroll wheel zooming, draggable
maps as well as detailed directions.
INFOMINE
INFOMINE is a virtual library of Internet resources relevant to
faculty, students, and research staff at the university level.
It contains useful Internet resources such as databases, electronic
journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online
library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, and
many other types of information.
INFOMINE is librarian built. Librarians from the University of
California, Wake Forest University, California State University,
the University of Detroit - Mercy, and other universities and
colleges have contributed to building INFOMINE. (source: http://infomine.ucr.edu/about/)
Infopeople
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive builds a digital library of Internet
sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Provides access
to the Wayback Machine which locates archived versions of inactive
web sites.
Internet
Scout Report
A team of professional librarians and content experts locate,
research, and annotate these resources for the reports. Their
main goal is to provide academics, researchers, librarians, and
the K-12 community with a fast, convenient way of staying informed
of valuable online information without having them do sorting
or searching themselves.
Librarians'
Internet Index
Provides a well-organized point of access for reliable, trustworthy,
librarian-selected Internet resources.
Online
Reference Shelf [UC Davis, Shields Library]
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Dictionaries & Thesauri
General
Art, Architecture & Art History
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The
Getty Vocabularies
The three Getty vocabularies are intended to provide
terminology and other information about the objects, artists,
concepts, and places important to various disciplines that
specialize in art, architecture and material culture.
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Art
& Architecture Thesaurus Online
The AAT is a structured vocabulary currently containing
around 128,000 terms and other information about concepts.
Terms in AAT may be used to describe art, architecture,
decorative arts, material culture, and archival materials.
The focus of each AAT record is a concept. Currently
here are around 34,000 concepts in the AAT. In the
database, each concept's record (also called a subject
in this manual) is identified by a unique numeric
ID. Linked to each concept record are terms, related
concepts, a parent (that is, a position in the hierarchy),
sources for the data, and notes. The temporal coverage
of the AAT ranges from Antiquity to the present and
the scope is global.
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Union
List of Artist Names
The ULAN includes proper names and associated information
about artists. Artists may be either individuals (persons)
or groups of individuals working together (corporate
bodies). Artists in the ULAN generally represent creators
involved in the conception or production of visual
arts and architecture. Some performance artists are
included (but typically not actors, dancers, or other
performing artists). Some donors are included.
The ULAN is a compiled resource; it is not comprehensive.
The ULAN grows through contributions. Information
in the ULAN was compiled by the Getty Vocabulary Program
in collaboration with many institutions.
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Getty
Thesaurus of Geographic Place Names
The TGN includes names and associated information
about places. Places in TGN include administrative
political entities (e.g., cities, nations) and physical
features (e.g., mountains, rivers). Current and historical
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Grove Dictionary of Art
UC Davis IP Addresses only
Grove Art Online provides web access to the entire text
of The Dictionary of Art, ed. Jane Turner (1996, 34 vols.)
and The Oxford Companion to Western Art, ed. Hugh Brigstocke
(2001). [GDA] offers ongoing additions of new and updated
articles, over 1,500 thumbnail art images and line drawings
displayed in the text of articles, extensive image links,
and sophisticated search and navigation tools. (source:
http://www.groveart.com/grove-owned/art/about.html)
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Other Useful Sites & Tools
Art
History Research Centre
Leif Harmsen's newsgroups, mailing lists, library catalogues,
indexes, schools, collections, and other art web cites.
Art
History Resources on the Web [Sweet Briar College]
artcritical.com
An online magazine of art and ideas
Artcyclopedia
Artifact
Artifact forms part of the Resource Discovery Network (RDN)
www.rdn.ac.uk which is the UK’s free national gateway to
Internet resources for the learning, teaching and research community
via a series of subject-based information gateways (or hubs).
The RDN is primarily aimed at Internet users in UK further and
higher education but is freely available to all.
artnet
magazine
artnet is the place to buy, sell and research fine art online.
artnetweb
artnetweb is a network of people and projects investigating
new media in the practice of art. A well-made site, presenting
artists' web projects, a slide registry, press clippings on
art subjects, directories of arts organizations and galleries,
classified ads and catalogue sales.
Artsource
Listings of art historical sites, bibliographies, and links
to interesting places, including the Smithsonian Institution's
libraries and archives.
Center
for Land Use Interpretation
The Center produced public exhibits on themes and regions for
galleries and museums, conducts lectures and educational field
trips. It also supports the Land Use Database and the American
Land Museum.
Digital
Art Source
Digital Art Source started as an effort to make links to new
media art and this area of culture available and easier to find.
Since 1999, it has been administered and supported by Scott
Weiland and Tom Dominick. Digital Art Source is an edited portal
to new art media.
euromuse.net
The public access portal for the Network of European Art and
Cultural History Museums.
Franklin
Furnace
"Franklin Furnace's mission is to present, preserve, interpret,
proselytize and advocate on behalf of avant-garde art, especially
forms that may be vulnerable due to institutional neglect, their
ephemeral nature, or politically unpopular content. Franklin
Furnace is dedicated to serving artists by providing both physical
and virtual venues for the presentation of time-based visual
art...." (source: http://www.franklinfurnace.org/about/about.html).
FF has developed The
Unwritten History Project Online Database to further this
cause.
Journal
of Contemporary Art
Artists' projects and portfolios with transcripts of group discussions
among art professionals.
Mother
of All Art and Art History Links Page [School of Art &
Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor]
Musee
Links to more than 37,000 museums
MuseumStuff.com
Has a database containing over 20,000 museum-related resources.
Rhizome.org
"Rhizome is based in a wide and diverse community of new
media artists, curators, critics and enthusiasts. Our commitment
to open-access structures, our community's shared interest in
new media and their utilization of Rhizome as an on-line forum
for exchange, combines to create an environment that naturally
encourages the development of connections and understanding
between people from a wide range of backgrounds, geographic
areas, and disciplines." (source: http://rhizome.org/info/3.php)
Timeline
of Art History [Metropolitan Museum of Art]
Victorian
Web: Arts in Victorian Britain [Brown University]
Voice
of the Shuttle [English Department, UCSB]
VoS' mission has been to provide a structured and briefly annotated
guide to online resources that at once respects the established
humanities disciplines in their professional organization and
points toward the transformation of those disciplines as they
interact with the sciences and social sciences and with new
digital media. VoS emphasizes both primary and secondary (or
theoretical) resources, and defines its audience as people who
have something to learn from a higher-education, professional
approach to the humanities (which in practice has included students
and instructors from the elementary school, high school, and
general population sectors).
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