Research Guides: ENGL 1A: Critical Thinking & Writing (Geriguis): Library Research

Find Art

Digital Collections: SCU Library Archives & Special Collections
Browse material digitized from among the holdings of Archives & Special Collections at Santa Clara University. We have scanned nearly 45,000 images and documents from our collections for you to access online.

ARTstor This link opens in a new window
This database provides more than 2.5 million high-quality digital images for educational and research use, related to art, architecture, and many other disciplines. Now available on the JSTOR platform.
In addition to reproductions of a wide range of works of art and architecture from all times and places throughout the world, this database also contains photographs and other images useful for study in many disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.

Calisphere
Search over 2 million items from the digital collections of California's libraries, archives, and museums.
Library of Congress Digital Collections (photos, prints, and drawings)
Search for digitized content from the Library of Congress.
Public Domain Image Archive
A collection of over 10,000 out-of-copyright works, free to browse, download, and reuse.

Find Articles

The Articles tab on the library homepage is one place you can search for individual articles from academic journals, newspapers, and magazines. Watch a video about how to use the articles tab, or about accessing articles you find.

After you have conducted a search, filter options appear to the left under "refine results" and include:

Peer reviewed
Format
Year of publication

Article Databases for Further Research

Grove Art Online This link opens in a new window
This database provides encyclopedia articles and images related to all aspects of Western and non-Western visual art.
Providing excellent coverage of the visual arts in all parts of the world, this database contains several reference works on art. Most important is Groves Dictionary of Art, the most highly respected encyclopedia of art in the English language.
Art Full Text (H.W. Wilson) This link opens in a new window
This database tells where to find articles and reproductions of works of art related to the visual arts, published from 1929 to the present.
The full text of articles in selected periodicals is available online from 1995, or later, to the present.
America: History and Life with Full Text This link opens in a new window
This database provides articles, books, book reviews, and dissertations on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present, and publication dates go from the late 19th century to the present.
Historical Abstracts with full-text This link opens in a new window
Contains articles, books, book reviews, and dissertations on the history of the world (except United States and Canada) from the 15th century to the present, and publication dates go from the 19th century to the present.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
This database provides access to images and the full text of articles in back issues of selected scholarly journals related to the humanities, social sciences, and life sciences.
Consult the online tables of contents for the years available, as coverage varies for each title.

Find Books

The Books tab on the library homepage allows you to find books and ebooks in our collection. Watch a video about how to use the books tab.

After you have conducted a search, filter options appear to the left under "refine results." You can use the format filter to limit your results to e-books (available online) or books physically in the library.