Library Guides: Art History: Guide to online resources during COVID-19

ebooks

Below is a sampling of publications available online. Some publications are also discoverable from the UC Library Search portal. You can also view our general guide on finding eBooks at Berkeley.

Berkeley eBook packages:

ACLS Humanities E-Book Project

Overdrive ebooks and audiobooks (read more here)

Project Muse

ProQuest Ebook Central

Springer Electronic Book Package (read more here)

UC Press E-Books Collection (eScholarship Editions)

Yale Art & Architecture ePortal

Other Portals for Accessing eBooks:

Getty Research Portal

Google Books

HathiTrust Emergency Temporary Access Service (read more: https://news.lib.berkeley.edu/ETAS)

Internet Archive (register for an account to 'check out' books)

Open Access Museum Publications:

Art Institute of Chicago Publications

Detroit Institute of Arts

Getty Museum Publications

Guggenheim Publications

LACMA Publications

Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications

Museum of Modern Art, NY Publications

National Gallery of Art Publications

Smithsonian Books Online

Wildenstein Institute Publications

Textbooks with free temporary access:

Cengage

Redshelf

Vitalsource

List of other vendor free access during COVID-19:

https://tinyurl.com/vendorsupportedaccess

Film and Video

Art & Architecture in Video
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Over 600 streaming videos on art and architecture by BBC Worldwide, A&E Network, ArtHaus Musik, Landmark Media, and Filmmakers Library, among others.

BBC Landmark Video Collection
BBC documentaries on the natural world, including series such as Planet Earth, Life, and Blue Planet.

Heni Talks
"Stories of art from the world's leading experts"

Independent World Cinema: Classic and Contemporary Film
Includes over 400 documentary and feature films from select American distributors of independent and international film, including Milestone Films, Zeitgeist Films, Pragda, and Oscilloscope.
Kanopy
Kanopy is an on-demand streaming video service which provides access to more than 26,000 films, including titles from PBS, BBC, Criterion Collection, Media Education Foundation and more.
Socialism on film
This collection of films reveals war, history, current affairs, culture, and society, as seen through the socialist lens. It covers countries such as the USSR, Vietnam, China, Korea, much of Eastern Europe, the GDR, and Cuba. [1917-1989]

Sourced from the archives of the British Film Institute (BFI), Socialism on Film documents the communist world from the Russian Revolution through to the late 1980s. The digitized films cover all aspects of the socialist experience from everyday life and society to culture, the Cold War, memory and current affairs. Geographically the films deal with the Soviet Union alongside groupings of material on Vietnam, China, Korea, the German Democratic Republic, and Eastern Europe, Britain, Spain, Latin America, and Cuba.
Ubuweb
UbuWeb is an open-access educational resource for avant-garde material founded in 1996 by poet Kenneth Goldsmith. It offers visual, concrete and sound poetry, streaming videos, oral histories, and sound art archives.

Online Databases

Berkeley subscribes to many databases with online journal content. You can find a full list of the Berkeley databases at the A-Z database list. Below are a few of the recommended databases for Art History research.

Academic Search Complete
A multi-disciplinary database of scholarly and general interest journals, books, and reports. [1865 - present]

Articles from broad array of peer-reviewed journals, popular and trade magazines and news sources for nearly all areas of study; available in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian and Portuguese.
Art & Architecture Source
Covers 750 art journals including 470 peer reviewed journals, dissertations, reviews, and over 200 books related to art and architecture topics. Includes coverage from 1929 to present, including the complete former contents of Art Full Text and Art Index Retrospective databases. Some full text.

Formerly titled Art Source or Art Full Text
ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM)
Abstracts of the current literature of modern and contemporary art, photography and design. [1974 - present]

Indexes journals, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, and exhibition reviews. Coverage extends from artists and movements beginning with Impressionism in the late 19th century, up to the most recent works and trends in the late 20th century. Photography is covered from its invention in 1839 to the present.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
Indexes scholarly and professional journals covering architecture, architectural design, environmental design, furniture and decoration, interior design, historic preservation, history of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design. [1860s - present]

Can limit to articles containing plans, sections, elevations and other graphic attributes. Most citations are from articles published since 1930 (with selective coverage dating back to the 1860s).
Google Scholar
Search across many disciplines and sources including articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.

Lists journal articles, books, preprints, and technical reports in many subject areas (though more specialized article databases may cover any given field more completely). Can be used with "Get it at UC" to access the full text of many articles.

Setting Google Scholar for UC Content

International Bibliography of Art (IBA)
A successor to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA). (2008 - present)

This database covers international scholarship in European art from late antiquity to the present, American art from the colonial era to the present, and global art since 1945. Visual arts in all media are covered: painting, sculpture, drawing, video, installations, new media, decorative and applied arts, museum studies and conservation, archaeology, folk art and material culture, classical studies, antiques, architectural history. Over 500 core journals are indexed, as well as monographs, essays, conference proceedings, and exhibition catalogs.
JSTOR
Full-text access to over 1000 scholarly journals, including more than 2 million articles, from a wide range of disciplines. Current issues from journals (the most recent 3-5 years) are generally not available in JSTOR. [dates vary].

For more sophisticated search capabilities, go directly to JSTOR advanced search.
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (Dissertation Abstracts)
Index and full text of graduate dissertations and theses from North American and European schools and universities, including the University of California. (Dissertations & Theses - Proquest Digital Dissertations and Theses (PQDT) - Dissertation Abstracts - ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global) [1861 - present]

Indexes graduate dissertations from over 1,000 North American, and selected European, graduate schools and universities. Dissertations published since 1980, and master's theses since 1988, include brief abstracts written by the authors. Offers full text of most of the dissertations added since 1997 . It is possible to search a subset of dissertations produced by UC students by going to Dissertations and Theses @ University of California (available in full text).