The AAT is a structured vocabulary of more than 125,000 terms, scope notes, and other information for describing fine art, architecture, decorative arts, archival materials, and material culture. The coverage of the AAT ranges from Antiquity to the present, and the scope is global.
Browse the ACLS Humanities E-Book title list in WATSONLINE
ACLS Humanities E-Book is a digital collection of over 1700 full-text titles offered by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) in collaboration with twelve learned societies, nearly 90 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the Humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars. ACLS Humanities E-Book includes titles from authors such as Erwin Panofsky and Meyer Schapiro. ACLS Humanities E-Book is also working with the College Art Association to publish reprints in its series, Monographs on archaeology and the fine arts, starting with those that are out of print.
This online edition of the Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon International Artists Database is the most extensive, up-to-date and authoritative art-history reference database. It contains information on visual artists from all over the world and throughout the ages, from antiquity to the present. The database makes the complete articles from all published volumes of the Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon (AKL) searchable, plus gives access to short biographical information (index data) extracted from articles in the AKL and the well-known reference works Thieme-Becker (A to Z) and Vollmer (A to Z). For the part of the alphabet not yet covered by the AKL, it contains short biographical information from the AKL’s Bio-Bibliographical Index A-Z (AKL Index). For the letters of the alphabet of the included AKL volumes, the database also includes artist entries from the AKL editorial archive relating to artists who did not meet the dictionary’s inclusion criteria (AKLArchiv).
This resource features nearly 18,000 biographies, thousands of illustrations, and the ability to search by name, occupation, birthplace, life dates, and contributor. Occasionally, recently deceased individuals who are considered noteworthy will be added in quarterly updates, though most individuals are included within two to four years of their death.
Britannica Online includes the complete Encyclopaedia Britannica, as well as Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and the Britannica Book of the Year.
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British History Online is the digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. To access premium content, click on State Papers in the top menu bar.
The Chicago Manual of Style Online is completely searchable and easy to use, providing quick answers to your style and editing questions.
China Academic Journals (CAJ) provides full-text electronic versions of selected articles from over 600 Chinese academic periodicals from 1915 to the current issue.
Recently added to our CAJ subscription (covering journals published from 1994-current) is the Century Journals Project (CJP), representing the single largest retrospective digital collection of 20th century Chinese journals. The CJP journals have content from 1915 through 1993.
Our subscription to CAJ/CJP is for Series F which includes literature, history and philosophy. All journals are fully searchable.
A database of names, descriptions, and characteristics of over 165,000 places in the world.
A biographical dictionary of historians, museum directors and scholars of art.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography contains 50,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2001.
The TGN is a structured vocabulary of more than 1,000,000 geographic names, including vernacular and historical names, coordinates, and place types, focusing on places important for the study of art and architecture.
The online version of the print Lexikon des Mittelalters, the standard encyclopaedia for medieval studies, published between 1977-1999. It deals with all branches of Medieval Studies and covers the period from 300 to 1500 AD/CE for the whole of Europe and parts of the Middle East and North Africa. This database also includes the International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages-Online (IEMA), a supplement to the Lexikon.
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This resource includes the complete and searchable Grove Dictionary of Art on a new platform (May 2008) with new content, functionality and partnership links.
Oxford Art Online replaces Grove Art Online which included the Grove Dictionary of Art and The Oxford Companion to Western Art - and adds The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art.
The OED Online contains the complete A-to-Z sequence of the Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, its three-volume Additions Series, and material from the revision program, which represents the latest progress towards the Third Edition. It is possible to select how entries are displayed by turning pronunciations, etymologies, variant spellings, and quotations on and off.
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Oxford Music Online is a gateway into music research. It includes Grove Music Online as well as The Oxford Dictionary of Music and The Oxford Companion to Music. It is fully searchable.
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Oxford Reference Online brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world’s biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource. The Premium Collection contains over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. It is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database of these books, giving users access to a comprehensive information resource. Key titles in the Oxford Companions Series and the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations are also included. Please note that Oxford Reference Online also includes maps and illustrations, as well as various subject timelines.
Rhizome.org is an online platform that supports the global new media art community. Our programs support the creation, presentation, discussion, criticism, and preservation of contemporary art that uses technologies in significant ways. Founded in 1999, the Rhizome ArtBase is an online archive of new media art containing some 1600 art works, and growing. The ArtBase encompasses a vast range of projects by artists all over the world that employ materials including software, code, Web sites, moving image, games and browsers to aesthetic and critical ends.
Please note that though most of Rhizome.org is IP-authenticated, some of their services require a Rhizome login. All MMA staff can create a Rhizome account for free by signing in with their Museum email at the Rhizome Sign Up page.
The Timeline of Art History is a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated especially by the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection. First launched in 2000, the Timeline now extends from prehistory to the present day. The Timeline will continue to expand in scope and depth, and also reflect the most up-to-date scholarship.
The ULAN is a structured vocabulary containing around 259,000 names and other information about artists. Names in ULAN may include given names, pseudonyms, variant spellings, names in multiple languages, and names that have changed over time. The temporal coverage of the ULAN ranges from Antiquity to the present and the scope is global.
Merriam-Webster’s Third New International Dictionary Unabridged, the largest and most comprehensive American dictionary, searchable online.
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This CD-ROM comprehends the complete Library Edition of The Works of John Ruskin, including digitized images of all plates (some color) and figures. It allows you to search rapidly through the entire text (which is over nine million words in length). More than 2,000 images are included.
A union catalog of academic, public, and special libraries’ holdings. Over 100 million bibliographic records are included.
WorldCat.org is a free Web-based version of the WorldCat subscription database. It searches all the records in WorldCat, but the displayed results are restricted to those of participating member libraries. Additionally, WorldCat.org offers less sophisticated searching options than the full subscription database.
