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Rohrbach Library's Articles & Databases link to a vast online library of credible, well-organized information.

Art Databases

Art Full Text and Retrospective This link opens in a new window Art Full Text (1929-current) is the full-text version of Art Index featuring full-text articles, abstracting and indexing of an international array of peer-selected publications, podcasts, and page images. The database covers fine, decorative, and commercial art as well as photography, folk art, film, architecture, and much more. In recent years, coverage of Latin American, Canadian, Asian, and non-Western art has expanded greatly, along with its material on new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, and feminist criticism. KU's subscription also includes the backfile (Art Index Retrospective)
Art Source This link opens in a new window Art Source™covers a broad range of related subjects, from fine, decorative and commercial art, to various areas of architecture and architectural design. Providing over 600 full-text journals, more than 220 full-text books, and a collection of over 63,000 images, it is designed for use by a diverse audience, including art scholars, artists, designers, students and general researchers. It incorporates the H.W. Wilson databases Art FullText and Art Index Retrospective.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index This link opens in a new window Arts & Humanities Citation Index, accessed via Web of Science, provides researchers with access to the bibliographic and citation information they need to find research data, analyze trends, journals, and researchers, and share their findings. Covers over 1,160 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as selected items from over 6,000 scientific and social sciences journals, with coverage available to 1975.
Artstor This link opens in a new window Artstor provides 2+ million high-quality images and digital asset management software to enhance scholarship and teaching.
The Artstor website will be retired on August 1, 2024. Artstor’s content, key resources, and functionality are moving to JSTOR.

When using Arts & Humanities (part of Web of Science), you may need to go to the editions drop-down menu & select Arts & Humanities Citation Index.

General Databases

One Search This link opens in a new window A unified, customized index of Kutztown University’s information resources. Essentially allows the researcher to search almost all of the library's databases with one search.
Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window Comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 11,000 full-text periodicals.
Research Library This link opens in a new window Research Library provides access to full-text journals across a wide range of subject areas, including business, education, literature, political science, and psychology with 2,600 active Research Library sources-- over 1,700 are available in full text. Over 1,600, in full image. Coverage 1971 to the present.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window JSTOR offers full-text journal coverage in the social sciences and humanities. Examples of disciplines covered are: history, economics, Asian studies, classics, archaeology. African, Latin American, Slavic, Middle Eastern studies, the literary cultures of many different countries. The lag time in publication ranges from 3 and 5 years. Updated in an ongoing basis.

Encyclopedias/Reference

Grove Dictionary of Art Online This link opens in a new window The Grove Dictionary of Art Online contains the entire print edition with the added benefits of fully searchable text, more than 100,000 image linked and constant updates.
Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window The gateway to Oxford’s art reference works, including the peer-reviewed, regularly updated Grove® Dictionary of Art and the Benezit Dictionary of Artists

Newspapers

Newsbank - Access World News This link opens in a new window This collection includes 12,000+ sources including international/national/local, 181 image editions and a variety of specialized subject specific content like business/health trade journals, broadcast transcripts, etc.

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