Monographic Sources

• The Libraries' book collection includes works that offer comprehensive treatments of art related topics. Use PILOT, our online catalog to find books in our collection as well as links to the full-text of electronic reserve items and other valuable information on the Internet.
• To search the catalogs of other Pennsylvania Libraries, and to borrow from them directly, choose Books and More/ PALCI from our web page. (To borrow items, log in using your 16-digit I-card number.)
• For more resources, search WorldCat for bibliographic records from libraries across the county. Materials found there are often available via Interlibrary Loan.

Specialized Indexes

• Art Abstracts-- indexes and abstracts journals from more than 313 periodicals worldwide, as well as yearbooks, museum bulletins, and reproductions.

General Indexes

• EBSCO Host--access to the full-text of over one thousand periodicals and newspapers, the bibliographic references to thousands more, and links to Internet sites and information on local holdings of periodicals.
• Searchbank/Infotrac-- access to the full-text of over one thousand periodicals and bibliographic access to thousands more.
• Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe- full-text database includes the last twenty years of local, national, and international newspapers and many other useful sources.
• Project MUSE -- provides more than 100 full-text online scholarly journals from academic presses covering the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others.

Electronic Journals

• To determine if we have access to a journal in electronic format, check IUP Libraries Electronic Journals Search under the journal title.

Older articles
Full-text electronic indexes are quite convenient—but many will not pick up older literature--to search for articles in older journals, try these titles in the Index Area.

• Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts. [INDEX] AM1 .A7
• Art Index. [INDEX] N1 A 78
• ARTBibliographies Modern  [INDEX] N1 A79

Internet Sources
Search the Internet through subject directories and search engines available through Infopeople's Best Search Tools.

Useful sites include:

• AskART.com - Over 25,000 North American artists - painters, sculptors, and illustrators - are listed in this searchable resource.
• WebMuseum, Paris--artists index -- site includes information on mostly European art, from Gothic to 20th Century, and more than 150 artists with biographical information and images of their work.

• University of California at Berkeley Citation Page