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Art 226 Research Project (PDF)	Research Rescue!
Art 226 Reserve Readings	Ask a Librarian
Art 226 Syllabus (PDF)	Art Research Guide

How to Find:
Images | Books | Book Chapters | Journal Articles | Exhibition Reviews | Web Sites | Citing Sources

Access ARTstor images

ARTstor < about > How to Access ARTstor from Off Campus

Image Databases

ARTstor < about > Artwork Image Database | How to Access ARTstor from Off Campus

accessCeramics.org - < about > contemporary ceramics image database

Bridgeman Art Library Free Database of Images Offers over 100,000 art images from major international museums, galleries and auction houses.
Visual Collections: Images of Art, History, and Culture < about > Mix of free and licensed image collections compiled by David Rumsey
French National Organisation of Art Museums < about > Free database of art Images from French Museums
Joconde Free database of Images from the museum collections of France including archaeology, fine arts, decorative arts and more.

Finding Books

Using Catalogs to locate books:

1.) Ariadne

• Search by Keyword
• Find and Use Subject Headings
• Browse the shelves by Call Number

2.) MeLCat

• Search by Keyword
• Find and Use Subject Headings
• About MeLCat

3.) WestCat - Western Michigan's catalog

• Search by Keyword
• Find and Use Subject Headings
• Browse the shelves by Call Number
• Waldo Library: Hours and How to get to Western

4.) WorldCat and 5.) Interlibrary Loan

• Search by Keyword
• Find and Use Subject Headings
• Order item through Interlibrary Loan

Books in the Kalamazoo College Library - Oversize Collection!

• Many art books are larger than standard book size. All books that do not fit on standard library shelves are located in the Oversize Collection,
  on the Third Floor of the Library, outside the College Archives.
  Always check the regular area for art books - Call Number N's - and check the Oversize Collection shelves!

Library of Congress Classification and what it means for Ceramic Arts:

Class N - Fine Arts

Subclass NK1-(9990) Decorative arts

NK3600-(9990) Other arts and art industries

NK3700-4695 Ceramics

Class T - Technology

Subclass TT1-999 Handicrafts. Arts and crafts

TT697-927 Home arts. Homecrafts
      Including sewing, embroidery, decorative crafts

See also: Library of Congress Classification...

Using Subject Headings

• Search by Keyword and look for Subject Headings in individual records.
  Then.... Try words from the Subject Heading in a Keyword search

Library of Congress Subject Headings in Ariadne:

• Ceramics
• Pottery
• Clay
• Glazing Ceramics
• Glazes
• Potters
• Pottery craft
• Slips (Ceramics)
• Art pottery
• Ceramic sculpture
• Porcelain
• Decorative Arts

Online Art Reference Sources

Grove Dictionary of Art < about > (FT)
Oxford Art Online < about > includes the Grove Dictionary of Art
Oxford Companion to Western Art < about > (FT)

Useful Reference sources in the Library - General Art:

• The Dictionary Of Art, Ref. N31 .D5 1996
• The Oxford Dictionary of Art, Ref. N33 .O93 2004
• The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Ref. N33 .O923 2001
• The Art Atlas, Ref. N5300 .A77 2008
• Atlas of World Art, Ref. N5300 .A85 2004

Useful Reference sources in the Library - Ceramics and Pottery:

• The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts, Ref. NK28 .G76 2006
• The Penguin Dictionary of Decorative Arts, Ref. NK30 .F55 1989
• An Illustrated Dictionary of Ceramics, Ref. NK3770 .S38 1974b
• Illustrated Dictionary of Practical Pottery, Ref. TT919.5 .F68 2000
• The Potter's Dictionary of Materials and Techniques, Ref. TT919.5 .H35 1997
• Illustrated Dictionary of Pottery Form, Ref. TT919.5 .F67

Don't forget to use Bibliographies contained in reference books, annotated bibliographies, circulating books, and journal articles!

Finding Book Chapters, also called Book Articles:

To find chapters within books, do a keyword search on your topic, whether your topic is an idea, a period of history, or a person. A keyword search will search multiple fields of the record for a book, such as title, author, contents note, etc.

Example: ceramic figurines

A keyword search on ceramic figurines returns 1 record, for the following book:

Mesoamerican Figurines : small-scale indices of large-scale social phenomena / edited by Christina T. Halperin, F1219.3.P8 M47 2009

In keyword search in Ariadne, you can also search for your topic specifically in the contents note field, where chapter titles are listed. To search the contents note field, your search would look like this:

Example: n:handbuilt

You can also find book chapters in Art Abstracts and other indexes.

Note: Don't forget to use Print and Online Bibliographies

 Finding Journal Articles

Off-Campus Access to Licensed Resources

Scholarly Journals and Popular Magazines/Newspapers

Scholarly Journals (Art History)

• Authors are scholars or researchers in their fields.
• Authors cite their sources in footnotes, endnotes, and bibliographies.
• Individual issues have little or no advertising.
• Articles must go through a peer-review process.
• Articles usually report original scholarly research.
• Most illustrations are charts, figures, or graphs.
• Authors use the specialized language or jargon of the discipline.

Popular Magazines (Time, Newsweek)

• Authors are free lance writers or magazine staff members.
• Authors may mention sources, but rarely cite them in notes or bibliographies.
• Individual issues contain many advertisements.
• There is no peer review process. Articles are reviewed by editors or publishers.
• Illustrations are numerous and colorful.
• Articles are meant to inform and entertain an educated audience.
• Language is written for the general adult audience (no specialized jargon).

Scholarly or Not?
Ulrich's Periodicals Directory Online < about >
Ulrich's Periodicals Directory (Ref. Desk Z6941 .U5)
Look for section called "Document Type"
Document Type MUST say "Academic/Scholarly Publication" to be considered scholarly!

Don't forget to use Bibliographies contained in reference books, annotated bibliographies, circulating books, and journal articles!

Journal List

What Journals does the Library Own?

• In paper - Check Ariadne - search on your discipline or subject area, and in Step 2, limit the location to "Periodicals"
  • Or - Search Ariadne for a specific journal - enter the journal title into the Ariadne Title Search
• Online - Check Online Journals at K - to find out what online journals the Library subscribes to

Is a particular journal covered in a specific Index?

Ulrich's Periodicals Directory Online < about >

Do you have access to a journal?  

1.) Ariadne (print)

• Title search on Title of the Journal to locate print journal

2.) Online Journals at K

• Title search on Title of the Journal to locate article in a Full Text Database

3.) WestCat - Western Michigan's catalog

• Title search on Title of the Journal
• Waldo Library - Hours and How to get to Western

4.) Interlibrary Loan

• Order item through Interlibrary Loan
• Use *only* when the journal is not available through Ariadne or Online Journals at K

Journal Indexes

Advanced Search Help

Art Abstracts < about >
Art Abstracts provides abstracting and indexing for 400+ international art publications, both English and foreign-language, including periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins. Art Abstracts covers contemporary art around the world, with emphasis on Canadian, Latin American, and Asian arts, new artists, exhibition reviews, non-Western art, and feminist criticism. Topics include art history, archaeology, architecture, folk art, graphic arts, advertising, decorative arts, crafts, industrial and interior design, museology, film, video and photography. Feature articles are indexed, as well as bibliographies, notices of competitions and awards, reports of conferences and exhibitions, book and film reviews, and significant editorials and letters to the editor. Each also notes art reproductions used to illustrate articles and advertisements, under the artists' names.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index < about > (from Web of Knowledge)
Provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information and cited references found in nearly 1,150 of the world's leading arts & humanities journals. Cited reference searching. Includes indexing for Art History, Art Criticism, Art Journal, and ARTnews.
Coverage: 1993 - Present

Humanities Abstracts < about >
Bibliographic index that covers English language periodicals in the humanities. Feature articles are indexed, as are interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, and reviews of plays, operas, ballets, dance, musicals, movies, television and radio. Offers detailed abstracts.
Coverage: Indexing - 1984 - present; Abstracting - 1994 - present.

America: History and Life < about >
America: History and Life is a bibliography of articles on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
Coverage: Indexing 1964 - present, Over 1,700 journals covered.

Historical Abstracts < about >
An index to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life).
Published since 1955. Over 1,700 journals are covered in the database.

Social Sciences Abstracts < about >
Indexes and abstracts a wide range of interdisciplinary fields covered in social sciences journals.
Coverage: Indexing 1983- present, Over 625 periodicals.

Social Sciences Citation Index < about >
Coverage: Indexing 1993 - present. Over 1,900 periodicals.

See the Art Research Guide: Using Indexes and Databases to help select an Index.

Full Text Databases

Online Journals at K - Search and Find which journals the K Library subscribes to online!

Online Journals at K - Art Periodicals

Online Journals at K - Ceramics titles

JSTOR < about > 53 titles in the Arts, with a wide range of topics.
Art and Art History titles in JSTOR

Proquest < about >
Proquest Research Library is a fulltext database providing access to over 2,000 periodicals. Graphics are included with the fulltext for many articles. Users may search the entire database or select specific subject modules (examples include Arts, Women's Studies and Humanities). Users also may select to search peer-reviewed journals only.
Some Art journals in Proquest:

• African Arts
• Art Bulletin
• Art History
• Art Journal
• Ceramics, Art and Perception
• The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
• Oxford Art Journal

OmniFile < about >
Contains indexed and abstracted articles in html full text. The database is comprised of records from Readers' Guide Abstracts, Social Sciences Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, General Science Abstracts and Business Abstracts.
(Please note that each periodical can begin on a different month and year.)
Coverage: 1994-Present.
Some Art Journals in OmniFile:

• Art Bulletin
• Art Criticism
• Art Issues
• Art Journal
• Ceramics, Art and Perception
• Ceramics Technical
• Journal of Modern Craft

Academic OneFile < about >
Contains peer-reviewed, full-text articles from leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text.
Some Art Journals in Academic OneFile:

• Art Bulletin
• Art Journal
• Ceramics, Art and Perception
• Ceramics Technical
• Journal of Modern Craft

Expanded Academic ASAP < about >
Expanded Academic ASAP includes journals and periodicals covering a wide variety of disciplines, from social science, humanities and politics to medicine, general interest and science. 3,500 titles are peer reviewed, over 5,2000 indexed, and 3,000 are full-text.
Some Art Journals in Expanded Academic ASAP:

• African Arts
• Art Bulletin
• Art Journal
• Journal of Modern Craft
• Woman's Art Journal

Project Muse < about > Beware! Project Muse includes very few journals specifically in the Arts.
Project MUSE offers the full text of Johns Hopkins University Press scholarly journals via the world wide web. Journals from these disciplines are included: the humanities, social sciences and mathematics.

Exhibition Reviews

In the New York Times:

You may search the New York Times for full text articles on exhibition reviews in these databases:

See all dates of Kalamazoo College Library access to the New York Times here: New York Times Online

New York Times Online < about > from Gale
Full text of all New York Times articles. 1985 - present.
You must be in Michigan to access this database. Updated daily

And

The New York Times Online in America's Newspaper Collection < about > from NewsBank
Full text of all New York Times articles. 1985 - present.

ProQuest -
New York Times 1851- 3 yrs. ago (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) < about >
Full Text of the New York Times from 1851- 3 yrs. ago; all articles in PDF format.

In one of the search boxes, put in the name of an artist or an art topic you are searching for.
In another search box, try the word exhibition or the word review to find exhibition reviews.

Exhibition Reviews in other sources:

These Art Periodical Indexes will include Exhibition Reviews:

Art Abstracts < about >
Art Abstracts provides abstracting and indexing for 400+ international art publications, both English and foreign-language, including periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins. Art Abstracts covers contemporary art around the world, with emphasis on Canadian, Latin American, and Asian arts, new artists, exhibition reviews, non-Western art, and feminist criticism. Topics include art history, archaeology, architecture, folk art, graphic arts, advertising, decorative arts, crafts, industrial and interior design, museology, film, video and photography. Feature articles are indexed, as well as bibliographies, notices of competitions and awards, reports of conferences and exhibitions, book and film reviews, and significant editorials and letters to the editor. Each also notes art reproductions used to illustrate articles and advertisements, under the artists' names.

 Websites

To find Web sites, use search engines and web indexes. See Web Indexes and Directories. See also Web Sites by Subject and Finding Web Sites on Art.

WorldCat < about >
WorldCat contains bibliographic citations for high-quality Web sites on a variety of subjects. When you search WorldCat for Web sites, remember to check the box for "Internet Resources" in the section called "Limit type to". Sites are selected according to a collection development policy that emphasizes quality, authoritativeness, and durability.

See the Following Web Sites:

• American Ceramics Magazine Online, 2010 issue
• Archie Bray Foundation Past Exhibitions - slide shows of contemporary ceramics
• Ceramics Today - links to many useful sites (site not available at times)
• Ceramics Art and Perception - online ceramics magazine
• Ceramic Review - online ceramics magazine
• The Studio Potter online ceramics magazine
• Crafts Study Centre Images - select Ceramics to see the Ceramics collection
• Interpreting Ceramics online journal of Ceramics from the University of Cardiff
• The Schein-Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art at Alfred University
• American Museum of Ceramic Art
• National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts
• Ceramics Resources from the Smithsonian Institution links to museums, exhibitions, and bibliographies on ceramics
• SOFA - Sculpture Objects & Functional Art

• Timeline of Art History (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
  Chronological, geographical, and thematic concentrating on the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art pre-history to the present.
• Art & Architecture Thesaurus Online
  Courtesy of the Getty Center, Los Angeles
• Artcylopedia (John Malyon, Alberta, Canada)
  Free-web encyclopedia of thousands of links to artists and their work with introductory biographies for each artist.
  Includes a glossary and handy gateway to museum links worldwide.
• Mother of All Art and Art History Links Pages
  Sponsored by the School of Art and Design, University of Michigan.
• Art History Resources on the Web (from Chris Whitcomb at Sweet Briar College, Virginia)
  Text and images from pre-history to the present. Very extensive free-web resource.

Use these points to evaluate the credibility of Websites:

1. Accuracy
How reliable is the information? Are there editors and fact checkers?
2. Authority
What are the author's qualifications? Is the publisher reputable?
3. Objectivity
Is the author trying to sway opinion? Is the information free from bias?
4. Currency
Is the publication date indicated? Is the source up to date?
5. Coverage
Does the site cover the topic comprehensively, or are there information gaps?