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Art and Architecture Complete This link opens in a new window
Why search here?
Art and Architecture Complete covers all areas of visual arts and architecture.
What’s included?
This comprehensive database indexes more than 1500 journals, about 370 of them are available as full text, in addition to providing about 200 e-books and a collection of about 63000 images. (as of August 2023)
Bloomsbury Video Library This link opens in a new window
Why search here?
This platform enables you to research and stream videos on the visual arts and performing arts, film, history, and more.
What’s included?
Bloomsbury Video Library features content from filmed performances and fiction films to documentaries and instructional videos.
ARTbibliographies modern
Why search here?
ABM has a special focus on all categories of modern and contemporary art, including photography and design.
What’s included?
ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM) is an important reference database for modern and contemporary art, featuring articles from national and international specialized journals.
Art Index Retrospective This link opens in a new window
Why search here?
The database covers all art categories, including design.
What’s included?
This database provides references to around 600 publications, i.e. gives an overview of articles, yearbooks and museum periodicals published between 1929 and 1984. (as of August 2023)
DAAI - Design and Applied Arts Index This link opens in a new window
Why search here?
DAAI focuses on graphic design, industrial design and all categories of applied arts (from industrial design, furniture, ceramics, glass and jewelry to fashion, textile arts and book art).
What’s included?
DAAI is a reference database for abstracts and bibliographic records from journals, reviews and exhibition catalogs on the subject of design and applied arts published from 1973 onwards. The database contains 212000 records, with around 1200 being added each month. (as of August 2023)
Database Info System (DBIS) This link opens in a new window
Why search here?
The databases are organized in subject areas and presented in a brief description along with their database type and a link to the relevant database.
What’s included?
DBIS is an online index of the databases licensed by the Library. In addition, it’s possible to search for free-access scientific databases available on the Internet.
Kunst und Kunstwissenschaft (Art and Art Studies, OLC-SSG) This link opens in a new window
Why search here?
This particular database focuses on art studies, contemporary art and architecture from 1945 onwards as well as on European art history until 1945.
What’s included?
This reference database facilitates your search for articles from more than 400 journals, specifically showing which articles were published on those subjects from 1993 onwards.
ThingStor This link opens in a new window
Why search here?
A material culture database, ThingStor documents historical, “real” objects as they appear in American and English literature and visual art during the long 19th century.
What's included?
Currently tracking nearly 1000 objects, ThingStor offers an ever-expanding online gallery and vetted empirical information of materials cited in high and low fiction or paintings.
Portals
Dexigner
Website for designers and creatives, publishing design news, events, competitions, and resources
Disposable America
A collection of material culture related research and essays by graduate students at the University of Delaware that explore production, consumption, and waste in the U.S.
artdiscovery.net
art-focused research experience within the WorldCat environment. Selected art library catalogues are searchable alongside additional content from a multitude of additional sources, promising more comprehensive results in a global setting, frei zugänglich
Bard Graduate Center Craft, Art and Design Oral History Project
online archive of oral history interviews of contemporary craftspeople, artists and designers
Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
Designlexikon International
Largest German online encyclopedia on the subject of design in the World Wide Web. Over 700 designers from the turn of the century to the present are presented here. More than 150 company portraits trace the history of design. More than 150 style and technical terms clarify the background of certain developments. More than 800 links refer to homepages of designers, companies, associations and museums.
