ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM) indexes and provides abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogues, dissertations, and exhibition reviews published since the late 1960s. ABM covers contemporary art and modern art from the late 19th century onwards. Subjects include: art history & theory, performance, installation, film & video, digital art, animation, body art, graffiti, textile design, jewellery, artist's books, theatre design, ceramics, glass, graphic design, fashion, photography, painting, printmaking, and sculpture.

Users can search the full text, browse and retrieve articles and view illustrations, photographs, and technical plans in detail and in context.
With deep backfile coverage, from the publications’ first issues through to this century, this is an essential resource for researching the history of the arts, from the late-19th to the 21st century, and accessing key primary sources for the study of culture and society.

This comprehensive resource covers fine, decorative and commercial art-forms. It includes many artists and all genres of art through access to full text articles from 1995 and indexes/abstracts from 1984 along with 200,000 art reproductions. It is also useful for research into fields as diverse as women’s, media or cultural studies as well as history, anthropology and industrial design.

Art Index Retrospective is an index to nearly 600 art periodicals published between 1929 and 1984. Coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch. In addition to articles, Art Index Retrospective indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in periodicals, and citations to over 25,000 book reviews.

ARTSTOR provides access to more than 2.5 million digital images that cover the arts, architecture, humanities, and the sciences from museums, photo archives, scholars and artists. In 2024, the ARTSTOR platform and content became available as part of the JSTOR platform as part of JSTOR's broader multimedia content offerings.

The definitive resource for scholarly literature on Western art, IBA is the successor to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA), and retains the editorial policies which made BHA one of the most trusted and frequently consulted sources in the field.

Oxford Art Online is the access point for the Grove Dictionary of Art and the Benezit Dictionary of Artists. In addition, users can access the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics and the Oxford Companion to Western Art.

Oxford Art Online includes full text articles in visual arts and art history, image links, thumbnail art images and line drawings. Coverage includes time periods, movement, medium, geography, styles, cultures and people.

Factiva is a current international news database produced by Dow Jones. Users have access to news and business information in 28 languages from 200 countries. Source documents include newspapers, magazines, newswires, media programs, websites, company reports and images from Reuters and Knight Ridder. Exchange rates, market indices, stock, fund, and corporate bond prices are also included.

Offers full text, abstracts, and bibliographic indexing of the most notable scholarly sources in the humanities, as well as specialized magazines. Among the disciplines included are literature and language, history, philosophy, archaeology, classical studies, folklore, gender studies, performing arts, religion, and theology. Content includes feature articles, interviews, bibliographies, obituaries, as well as original works of fiction, drama, poetry and reviews.

A collection of full-text and indexed abstract databases regarding Australian issues; includes Australian Public Affairs - Fulltext; Humanities & Social Sciences Collection; FAMILY - Australian Family & Society Abstracts Database; 'MAIS - Multicultural Australia and Immigration Studies.

A broad and comprehensive electronic archive of scholarly journal literature in full text, JSTOR has a moving wall which excludes the most current content for a period of between three to five years. It contains academic journals, images, and primary source materials in the social sciences, humanities, and sciences.

Project Muse is an e-journal collection of full-text scholarly journals in the humanities, arts and social sciences from leading University presses and scholarly societies.

A multidisciplinary database which provides access to 37 ProQuest databases, with a variety of content across more than 160 subjects including business, science and technology, health and medical, social science, arts and humanities, and international news. Contents include abstract, index, and full text articles.