LibGuides: Art History: Open access

Open Educational Resources for Art History

UNESCO defines open educational resources (OERs) as "... teaching, learning or research materials that are in the public domain or released with an intellectual property license that allows for free use, adaptation, and distribution."

Below are a selection of quality OERs for Art History:

Art History resources in the OER Commons include lecture notes, video, audio and open access textbooks.
Arts textbooks through College Open Textbooks are open licensed and peer reviewed.
Art History courses through Open Culture include video and audio lectures from the world's leading universities.
Art History textbooks through Open Textbook Library are open licensed and peer reviewed.
Art History resources through MERLOT include online courses, tutorials, reference materials, open access textbooks and journal articles, and videos.

For more information on OERs please see the Open Education Resources library guide.

Open access

arthistoricum.net
Open access publishing platform for scholarly e-books from the fields of art history, photography, and design. This cost-free service is aimed at art historians and scholars throughout the world. The platform has access contains OA monographs and journals, and includes ART-Dok - arthistoricum.net's digital repository and publication platform.
The Australian Art Catalogue Index 1847-1900
Art Index, designed and built by the DX Lab, is powered by data from the Australian Art Exhibition Catalogue Index, 1847—1900. This index was compiled by State Library of New South Wales volunteers between 1989 and 2019 from the Library's catalogue. The Art Index lists over 18,000 artworks exhibited in Australia by Australian-based artists between 1847 (the first documented art exhibition supported by a catalogue in Australia) and 1900. This information is compiled from published art catalogues in the Library's collections. There are over 2000 artists represented in the data set. The entries detail artwork titles, formats, exhibitions, artists, price and more.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
An independent, community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. All funding is via donations, 40% of which comes from sponsors and 60% from members and publisher members. All DOAJ services are free of charge including being indexed in DOAJ. All data is freely available.
Getty Research Portal
Access to digitized art history publications, rare books, and related literature.
HathiTrust Digital Library
A digital preservation repository and highly functional access platform. It provides long-term preservation and access services for public domain and copyright content from a variety of sources, including Google, the Internet Archive, Microsoft, and in-house partner institution initiatives.
MetPublications: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
MetPublications is a portal to The Met's comprehensive publishing program with over 1,500 titles, including books, online publications, and Bulletins and Journals from the last five decades.
Smarthistory
Smarthistory is an open art history resource, with 1800+ essays and videos. With 503 contributors from 201 colleges, universities, museums, and reseach centers, Smarthistory is the most-visited art history resource in the world.