Photography BA: Databases and Journals

Arts and Humanities is an International, multidisciplinary database that covers the world’s leading arts and humanities journals, plus relevant social and natural science journals. Coverage includes citations to articles, letters, editorials, meeting abstracts, errata, poems, short stories, plays, music scores, excerpts from books, chronologies, bibliographies and filmographies, as well as citations to reviews of books, films, music, and theatrical performances that are published in the covered journals.

a-n The Artists Information Company is a leader in research and information for and about contemporary visual arts practice. It offers vital online resources and information for art students, course tutors and researchers.

This online resource contains practical guides and toolkits to support artists at every career stage. Content covers all areas of visual arts practice and the development of your career as an artist. All material is useful for practising artists, students, HEI course leaders and tutors. a-n currently offers:

• Professional Practice resources, including practical guides, case studies, career profiles, interactive toolkits and video content 
• Extensive archive of published materials since 2000, including collections, best practice publications, arts advocacy materials, and learning resources 
• Research index of over 400 sectoral research papers 
• Events and job listings 

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Art Full Text is a foundational art research database providing full-text art journals and books. It covers fine, decorative and commercial art, as well as photography, film and architecture. It includes includes 1,110 active indexed and abstracted journals; 778 of them are peer-reviewed. It also includes more than 14,000 indexed art dissertations and more than 230,000 indexed art reproductions. 

ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM) is the premier source of information on modern and contemporary arts dating from the late 19th century onwards, including photography since its invention. It is the only specialist bibliography available for the study of modern and contemporary art. It covers all art forms, including fine art, digital art, crafts, design and photography, and features full abstracts and indexing from art journals published from the late 1960s onwards. 

The Arts Premium Collection encompasses cross-searchable databases with thousands of journal titles, ensuring deep searches of extensive collections in specialist subject areas not covered in more general databases. Subject areas include art, design, architecture, humanities, film/screen studies, music, performing arts, and more. With international coverage, and access to the definitive indexes in these fields, the Arts Premium Collection supports academic inquiry and is a rich source for comprehensive arts literature reviews. The collection includes:

• The Music and Performing Arts Collection, which includes the Music Periodicals Database and Performing Arts Periodicals Database
• The Screen Studies Collection, which includes the FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Database, AFI Catalog (AFI), and Film Index International (FII)
• The Art, Design and Architecture Collection, which includes the Arts  Humanities Database, ARTbibliographies, Design & Applied Arts Index, and International Bibliography of Art

The Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) is the world's most comprehensive bibliography of scholarly writing about the history of European and American visual arts from late antiquity to the present. This database indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealers' catalogs, and articles from over 4,300 periodicals. Available on the Getty Website from April 1, 2010, it includes BHA records from 1990-2007 and records from RILA covering 1975-1989.

full-text journal articles covering a wide range of subject areas. JSTOR is an archive database so does not include current content. Coverage includes: 19th & 20th century American Art, archaeology, art & art history, classics, economics, film, folklore, history, history of art, language & literature, music, performing arts, philosophy, political science, religion, social sciences, sociology, women's studies