Databases, Periodicals and Sources
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As of the 1st November 2005, the Open University Library simplified the way it controls access to its electronic resources. OU students now only need use their Open University Computer Username (OUCU) and password to access the majority of Library online resources. This replaces the old dual password system of personal ATHENS usernames and OUCUs.
Adobe Acrobat Reader
To read articles in .pdf format, you need this.
Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
Full text of over 3000 journals, including Scientific American, and abstracts and indexing of over 4,000. Requires OU password
American Historical Review
Not just American history - frequent articles on the Renaissance
Art Abstracts
Abstracts and indexes 300 international English-language periodicals; also yearbooks, museum bulletins, exhibition listings. 1984 onwards.
Art History - Journal of the Association of Art Historians
Published by Blackwells
ARTbibliographies Modern
Abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews; covers artists, art movements, art history and theory, design and photography. Principally 1974 onwards, though some entries date back to the late 1960s.
ArticleFirst
Index to 12,600 journals.
ATLA Religion Database
Summaries of articles from nearly 1,430 journals and full text of over 30 journals (some dating back to 1949).
Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Title, keyword citation searching of 1,400 journals. Citation searching allows you to find articles that have cited key papers and authors in their bibliographies. Available within the ISI Web of Science database.
Bibliography of the History of Art
Abstracts of the literature of the history of visual art and material culture in Europe and the New World.
Blackwell Synergy
Full-text online access to Blackwell's journals to which the OU subscribes.
British Humanities Index
Abstracts from over 400 newspapers, weekly magazines and academic journals dating back to 1984.
Cambridge Journals Online
Cambridge University Press journals (including Medieval Philosophy and Theology). It seems the OU doesn't subscribe to this any more.
CAMIO (Catalog of Art Museum Images Online)
Paintings, sculpture, photographs, decorative and utilitarian objects, installations, architecture, jewellery and textiles dating from 3000 BC to the 21st Century
Confraternitas
The Society for Confraternity Studies
Dictionary of National Biography
50,000 biographies from the earliest times to the year 2000.
Directory of Open Access Journals
The directory contains information about open access journals, i.e. quality controlled scholarly electronic journals that are freely available on the web.
Early Christian Writings
Early Christian Writings: Gnostic Gospels, apocryphal Acts, pseudepigrapha epistles, and documents of ancient Christianity like the Gospel of St Thomas and the Protevangelium of James.
Early English Books Online
Page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.
ERIC
References to journal articles, books, theses, conference papers, research reports; online thesaurus.
Getty Provenance Index
Art works ownership data from sales catalogs, archives, museum files.
Grove Dictionary of Art
Internet version of the Grove Dictionary of Art. Requires OU password.
Index to Theses
Index of UK and Irish theses accepted from 1716 onwards. (Full texts are available from the British Library)). Requires OU password
Ingenta
Abstracts and index
Institute of Historical Research
Over 40,000 records providing details of books and articles, UK university lecturers, UK current and past research, and evaluated links to web sites and on-line resources
The Internet Medieval Sourcebook
A collection of primary sources from Late Antiquity to the Reformation
JSTOR
Archive of 117 core scholarly journals from first issues (some in the 1800s).
Liber Liber
Lots of full texts (in zipped files) from 1300-1500 (Villani, Alberti, etc.)
Music in Art
International Journal for Music Iconography (in the NAL)
NotesAccess
Full texts of Cennini, Alberti, Vasari
Oxford Companion To Christian Art And Architecture by Peter and Linda Murray
E-book via NetLibrary - requires OU password
Oxford Dictionary Of Saints by David Farmer
E-book via NetLibrary - requires OU password
Oxford Reference Online
Oxford University Press reference books and dictionaries which can be searched as a single resource.
Oxford Text Archive
Currently more than 2500 resources in over 25 different languages and expanding. Texts you never knew you even needed! No password required.
Oxford University Press
Art History Journals. Some online availability
PapersFirst
An index of papers presented at conferences, all of which are available from the British Library Document Supply Centre. 1993 onwards.
Periodicals Contents Index
PCI Full Text searches back volumes of periodicals as well as the latest issues. It holds the contentpages of thousands of periodicals, published from the latter part of the eighteenth century to the latter part of the twentieth century and provides links to scanned articles and to COPAC. Requires OU password
ProceedingsFirst
An index of conference publications, all of which are available from the British Library Document Supply Centre. 1993 onwards.
Project Muse
Full text of 200 journals.
ProQuest Dissertation Abstracts UMI
1.6 million dissertations. Coverage is from 1861 onwards. Requires OU password
Renaissance Society of America
Publisher of Renaissance Quarterly
David Stork's website
A critical examination of claims made by David Hockney on the purported use of optical devices by early Renaissance painters
Studies in Iconography
Published by the University of Michigan. Look here to see what there is: the periodical is in the National Art Library.
SwetsWise
A collection of over 3500 of the journals to which the OU subscribes.
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
Most literary texts written in Greek from Homer to the fall of Byzantium. Click on the link to the TLG, then on "Search the TLG" on the left side bar. This will then take you to the login screen.
Warburg and Courtauld Institutes - Journal
Tempting but expensive
Zetoc Electronic Table of Contents
Access to the British Library's electronic table of contents to over 20,000 current journals. Choose 'Search the zetoc database' and then 'Conference Search'.