Architecture, Fine Arts & Music

AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive [AccuNet/AP] Searchable archive of historical and contemporary Associated Press photographs from the nineteenth century to the present. Brief stories available for most contemporary photos 48 hours after publication. Also included are maps, charts, logos and other graphics produced for the AP. Includes photos of famous art and architectural works and their creators. WARNING! Use Internet Explorer. Netscape Navigator 6.2 is not supported by this database.

Architectural Publications Index (API), 1980 - present. (Royal Institute of British Architects) International coverage; updated daily, a free index produced by the RIBA library. Indexes over 200 highly respected architectural periodicals as well as books and other information from the RIBA library.

Art Full Text [H.W. Wilson Co.] indexes and abstracts articles. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals is also included. Also indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Indexing coverage begins 1984; abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. Full-text coverage begins in 1997. Access to this database is limited to 4 simultaneous users. If you can't get in, please try later.

Art Index Retrospective [H.W. Wilson Co.] Cumulation of bibliographic citations from Art Index volumes 1-32 published between 1929-1984. Coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, foreign art journals, and reproductions of works of art in art journals. Access to this database is limited to 4 simultaneous users. If you can't get in, please try later.

ARTstor [ARTstor] Non-profit ARTstor's collection provides over 300,000 high quality images of works of art from curated collections and associated data. For more complete information on copyright and on limitations to access and use of this collection, see the ARTstor web page Terms and Conditions. Need to access a shared folder? Click here for instructions.

Avery Index to Architectural Publications [Ebsco] A comprehensive guide to the literature of architecture and design surveying more than 2500 journals covering the U.S., Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. Coverage begins in the 1930s with selective coverage back to the 1860s

Encyclopedia of Popular Music [Oxford UP] Fourth edition. Features a broad musical scope covering popular music of all genres and periods from 1900 to the present day, including jazz, country, folk, rap, reggae, techno, musicals, and world music. Thousands of additional entries cover popular music genres, trends, styles, record labels, venues, and music festivals. Key dates, biographies, and further reading are provided for artists covered, along with complete discographies that include record labels, release dates, and a 5-star album rating system.

Grove Art Online [Oxford UP] Provides access to more than 45,000 reference book articles on the fine arts (painting, sculpture, and architecture) and the decorative arts (ceramics, textiles, jewellery, interior design, etc.) and biographies. Includes links to images from museums and other sites including The Bridgeman Art Library. Updated annually.

Grove Music Online [Oxford UP] Provides access to the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz with links to sound archives and illustrations. Updated annually.

Naxos Music Library [Naxos] Audio library; includes over 8800 titles (over 130,000 tracks) by nearly 7,000 composers plus notes on composers, selections in the library, fundamental music terms, pronunciation guide, operatic librettos and more. Musical genres include: classical, world/folk, contemporary, New Age, Chinese and jazz. Musical categories include: ballet, chamber music, choral, composers, concertos, educational, film music, instrumental, musicals, opera/operatta, orchestral, vocal and collections. Browse the collection or use the Advanced Search to look for a title, composer, instrument, genre, period, etc. Users must log out when finished using the collection.

NYPL Digital Gallery [New York Public Library] Images of over 275,000 maps, architectural plans, drawing, photographs, etc. from image collections of the New York Public Library. May be used free of charge for scholarship, research and teaching. Commercial or for profit use is prohibited without prior permission of NYPL. Due to copyright restrictions only images in the public domain (pre-1923) are available in the database.