World Arts Libraries, Databases and Archives Online
Online Art Image Libraries
A Website Directory
|
|
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
B
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.
C
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.
D
Databases, subscription databases, catalogues
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.
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.
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.
E
Europeana Libraries
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.
Europeana Libraries
The Europeana Libraries project is working to make 5 million digital objects from 19 leading European research libraries freely accessible on The European Library and Europeana websites. Spanish civil war photographs, Ottoman manuscripts, historic medical films and thousands of theses, journals and academic articles are among the digital resources that Europeana Libraries is working with.
The European Library.org
Designed to meet the needs of the research community worldwide, our online portal offers quick and easy access to the collections of the 48 National Libraries of Europe and leading European Research Libraries. Users can cross-search and reuse over 11,655,504 digital items and 107,101,285 bibliographic records. To facilitate further research, links are also provided to other websites in the Europeana group.
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.
Europeana Libraries
The Europeana Libraries project is working to make 5 million digital objects from 19 leading European research libraries freely accessible on The European Library and Europeana websites. Spanish civil war photographs, Ottoman manuscripts, historic medical films and thousands of theses, journals and academic articles are among the digital resources that Europeana Libraries is working with.
The European Library.org
Designed to meet the needs of the research community worldwide, our online portal offers quick and easy access to the collections of the 48 National Libraries of Europe and leading European Research Libraries. Users can cross-search and reuse over 11,655,504 digital items and 107,101,285 bibliographic records. To facilitate further research, links are also provided to other websites in the Europeana group.
G
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.
I
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.
L
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.
M
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.
N
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.
O
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.
S
Semantic search engines