World Arts Libraries and Databases Online
Online Arts and Literary Archives
A Website Directory
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Art Librarians Society of North America (ARLIS/NA)
Established to fulfill the need among art librarians for better communication and cooperation, and to provide a forum for ideas, projects, and programs.
ArLiSNAP blog
Designed for the busy art librarian or librarian to be, the Art Library Students & New ARLIS Professionals (ArLiSNAP) Web site provides:
A blog to discuss issues that affect librarians in the arts and humanities.
A place where new ideas are nurtured, supported, and developed.
Current art news and art-related RSS feeds.
Resources specifically geared towards your needs such as scholarships, fellowships, job postings, professional organizations, and more.
ARLIS UK & Ireland
The Art Libraries Society. Founded in 1969 ARLIS/ became an educational charity in 1995. It aims to promote all aspects of the librarianship of the visual arts, including architecture and design.
ARLIS Directory of Art, Architecture and Design Resources
The Directory lists more than 250 organisations that have books, magazines, archives and other material on art, architecture or design.
The database includes names, addresses, opening hours, web site addresses and details about access.
Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA)
Artstor
A non-proft digital image library for education and scholarship. The ARTstor Digital Library provides thousands of images related to American Studies ranging from colonial times to the present, including photography, architecture, decorative arts, graphic design, painting and sculpture.
Australian National University Institute of the Arts Library
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BAM (Portal for Libraries, Archives and Museums)
BAM is a common Internet service of libraries, archives and museums in Germany. The BAM portal presents information about published materials, archival records and museum objects.
At present, BAM allows a common search of more than 30 million digital records.
Benediktinerstift Admont, Austria.
Bibliotheque Nationale de France
Virtual tour, illuminated manuscripts. Includes Gallica, an online French classic texts database. Includes literature, history, politics and periodicals, internet resources. Banque d'images - picture collection.
Bridgeman Art Library
A comprehensive source for art images for publication.
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Citizendium.org
The Citizendium scholarly community, a global group of collaborators, is hoping to create the most reliable and largest encyclopedia that they can. If an "approved" or "certified" version of an article is available, that version will be presented to the public by default; in that case, viewing unapproved versions will require further mouseclicks for the public, and such versions will be clearly labelled as unapproved, and users will be instructed not to rely upon them. The Citizendium will be owned and ultimately controlled by a non-profit organization.
Columbia University, Avery Architecture and Fine Arts Library.
Cultivate Interactive
Articles on internet library systems and new library technologies. Funded under the European Commission's Digital Heritage and Cultural Content (DIGICULT) programme.
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Library databases, subcription databases,
catalogues and search engines.
See also Image Databases
Artbibliographies Modern
Artbibliographies Modern (ABM) provides full abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art, with more than 13,000 new entries being added each year. Entries date back as far as the late 1960s.
Artstor
A non-proft digital image library for education and scholarship. The ARTstor Digital Library provides thousands of images related to American Studies ranging from colonial times to the present, including photography, architecture, decorative arts, graphic design, painting and sculpture.
Database of visual arts, design images. Visual Arts Data Service, UK.
The VADS image collection provides over 100000 art and design images from university and college art collections, museums and archives across the UK.
Discovering Collection
Thousands of overview essays, critical analyses, biographies, primary sources, creative works and multimedia elements.
DOAJ. Directory of open access journals.
Categorized, searchable links to free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.
EBSCO
A premium research database service. EBSCO serves thousands of libraries and other institutions with premium content in every subject area.
Intute
Web resources for education and research. Intute provides free access to high-quality internet resources for education and research.
JISC Collections (UK)
A membership organisation that supports the provision of digital content for education and research in the UK.
Look-Here!
The Look Here! Project is developing a community of expertise in the creation, management, and use of digitised library, museum, and archive collections for learning, teaching, and research in the creative arts. Part of the JISC e-Content Programme, the project seeks to develop skills and strategies to support digitisation in its partner institutions and the wider arts education sector.
Open J-Gate
is an electronic gateway to global journal literature in open access domain. Open J-Gate provides seamless access to millions of journal articles available online. Open J-Gate is also a database of journal literature, indexed from 3000+ open access journals, with links to full text at Publisher sites.
Open WorldCat (OCLC)
Do a quick search of more than 1.3 billion items in 10,000 libraries worldwide with OCLC's WorldCat.
Taylor and Francis
Taylor & Francis Group partners with researchers, scholarly societies, universities and libraries worldwide to bring knowledge to life. As one of the world’s leading publishers of scholarly journals, books, ebooks and reference works their content spans all areas of Humanities, Social Sciences, Science and Technology.
Thomson Gale
A world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses. Best known for its accurate and authoritative reference content as well as its intelligent organization of full-text magazine and newspaper articles, the company creates and maintains more than 600 databases that are published online, in print, as eBooks and in microform.
Dib-Lib Forum
Digital libraries. A community developing the global digital library. Links to digital library sites, articles on developing digital libraries.
Digital Librarian
A library resource guide created by librarians. Selected internet resources, including arts.
Dutch University Institute for Art History (DUIA)
in Florence: the online library catalogue offers not only access to the catalogue of the DUIA, but also to the catalogues of other libraries that are, just like the DUIA, part of the IRIS-consortium: Berenson of Villa I Tatti (Harvard University) libraries of the Galleria degli Uffizi, the Fondazione di Studi di Storia dell'Arte Roberto Longhi, the Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento and the Opificio delle Pietre Dure. Over 200, 000 art historical titles.
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Europeana
The European digital library, museum and archive gives users direct access to some 2 million digital objects, including film material, photos, paintings, sounds, maps, manuscripts, books, newspapers and archival papers.selected from content already digitised and available in Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections.
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Gigablast Search Engine.
Gigablast offers a variety of features including topic generation and the ability to index multiple document formats, enabling visitors to easily refine their search based upon related topics from search results. Gigablast indexes PDF, Microsoft Word, Power Point , Excel and Postscript documents.
Google Book Search
Search the full text of books in major university libraries around the world.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, libraries, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
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The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
The Internet Archive (Archive.org)
A digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Providing free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public. The Library of Congress.
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Libcat
A guide to library resources on the internet. Public databases and bibliographies, libraries on the internet.
LibSite
A website dedicated solely to librarians, LibSite provides access to key information at a glance: Navigating the site has been transformed to offer vital information at librarians’ fingertips with new resources and sections introduced. LibSite provides information about all of Taylor & Francis Group’s products and services from just one place.
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Melk Abbey, Austria.
MICHAEL (Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe)
The MICHAEL portal offers access to digital resources from collections across Europe. It enables worldwide access to Europe's cultural heritage, bringing together unique digital collections from museums, libraries and archives in one central portal. France, Italy and the United Kingdom have completed national inventories for MICHAEL.
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National Libraries of the World -
a web index and address list from The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA).
NetLibrary
Supporting librarians with quality ebook content.
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OCLC. Online Computer Library Center
A nonprofit membership organization serving 40,102 libraries in 76 countries and territories around the world. A the leading global library cooperative, helping libraries serve people by providing economical access to knowledge through innovation and collaboration.
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Semantic search engines
Arts and Humanities Libraries,Literary Archives,Art History Libraries
See also: ManuscriptsA
American Library in Paris
AustLit and Literary Archives
Information on relationship between AustLit and archival information infrastructure.
Ryerson and Burnham Libraries, The Art Institute of Chicago
The research library collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, including primary source collections on American architecture.
Berenson Electronic Network
Shared Online Public Acess Catalog: Biblioteca Berenson, Library of the Uffizi, Library of the Fondazione Roberto Longhi, Library of the Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento, Library of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure, Library of the Dutch Institute of Art History.
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Bibliotheque Mazarine, Paris.
Bibliotheque Nationale de France
Virtual tour, illuminated manuscripts. Includes Gallica, an online French classic texts database. Includes literature, history, politics and periodicals, internet resources.
Bodlean Library, Oxford University
Early journals, manuscripts, Chinese and Japanese books, images, catalogues.
Bridgeman Art Library
A comprehensive source for art images for publication.
British Library, London.
Collections, exhibitions, online library sevices Magna Carta, Beowulf, sound archives, manuscripts, music, Oriental, India, Hispanic, early printed books, Slavonic texts.
British Literary Manuscripts Online, c. 1660–1900
British Literary Manuscripts Online, c. 1660-1900 is the first release in Gale’s British Literary Manuscripts Online series. This extensive digital archive includes hundreds of thousands of pages of poems, plays, essays, novels, diaries, journals, correspondence and other manuscripts from the Restoration through the Victorian era. These documents can now be accessed by students, instructors and researchers everywhere.
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Cambridge University Library
Manuscripts, maps, music, rare books, pamphlets. Arabic, Persian and Turkish collections, Irish collections, Chinese, Japanese and Korean collections. The Modern Humanities Research Association.
Chester Beatty Library, Dublin
Manuscripts and ancient works of art from Islam, East Asia and the West.
Chinese libraries and museums.
Columbia University, New York
Individual music and arts libraries. Journals, images, texts, rare books and manuscripts.
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Dresden. Saxon State Library Treasures.
Dutch University Institute for Art History (DUIA), Florence (Italy),
also known as Nederlands Interuniversitair Kunsthistorisch Instituut (NIKI) or Istituto Universitario Olandese di Storia dell'Arte (IUO). Founded in 1958, the Institute has played an important role among cultural scientific institutes in Florence. The Institute is administered by Utrecht University and five other Dutch universities. Its library focuses on Italian, Dutch and Flemish art, and includes an online catalogue.
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Files
Findthatfile.com
Findthatfile.com's mission is to provide the most comprehensive file search on the Internet. Common searches are for PDFs, Documents, Audio, Video, RAR and ZIP compressed files, Fonts, and much much more.
They search as deeply as possible to identify the most relevant data from over 300 million files. This means they open each file, identify its author, title, contents and text extracts.
Frick
Collection Art Reference Library, New York.Findthatfile.com's mission is to provide the most comprehensive file search on the Internet. Common searches are for PDFs, Documents, Audio, Video, RAR and ZIP compressed files, Fonts, and much much more.
They search as deeply as possible to identify the most relevant data from over 300 million files. This means they open each file, identify its author, title, contents and text extracts.
Frick Fine Arts Library.University of Pittsburgh
A non-circulating research collection serving the Department of the History of Art and Architecture, and the undergraduate needs in fine arts and studio arts courses.
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The Getty Museum Research Library, Los Angeles.
The Group for Literary Archives and Manuscripts (GLAM)
The Group for Literary Archives and Manuscripts (GLAM) was established in 2005 to bring together archivists, librarians, curators, writers, researchers, and anyone else with an interest in the collecting, preservation, use and promotion of literary archives and manuscripts in Britain and Ireland.