Articles and Databases

Indexes articles in journals received by the British Museum's Department of Ethnography library. Particular emphasis is given to social and cultural anthropology and the archaeology of Eastern and Central Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

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Record of antiquarian map trade appraisals derived from over 20,000 dealer and auction catalogs from the last 25 years.

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Contains the Associated Press's current year's photo report and a selection of images from their vast negative and print library.

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Provides researchers with comprehensive access to information about collections of manuscripts and archives.

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A selective guide, from Columbia University, to archives and manuscript collections. Includes national libraries, state archives and libraries, college and university collections, and society archives.

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A national gateway to descriptions of archives in UK universities and colleges.

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A tool to locate artist papers and gallery records.
 

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UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, provides a list of links to archives around the world with a Web presence.

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Provides information and detailed indexing to manuscript collections from over 5,000 U.S. repositories.

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Indexes resources in archaeology and anthropology on the Internet. Includes region-specific archaeological Websites and those dedicated to a particular subject area such as archeometry, ceramics, and lithics.

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Provides access to the tables of contents of journals, primarily in the humanities and social sciences, published in Latin America.

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Provides a structured vocabulary of around 125,000 terms, scope notes, and other information for describing fine art, architecture, decorative arts, archival materials, and material culture.

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Indexes and abstracts articles from an international selection of periodicals including French, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, and English-language journals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins.

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Indexes articles in periodicals, yearbooks, and museum publications, 1929-1984.

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Covers twentieth-century art, design, and photography movements.

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A comprehensive index of artists represented at hundreds of museum sites, image archives, and other online resources.

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Provides access to more than 4 million auction records -- some with images -- covering the fine and decorative arts such as sculpture, painting, prints, photographs, collectibles and jewelry.

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A collection of nearly 2000 electronic French texts, including classic literary works, nonfiction, and technical writing.

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Includes auction sales results from 1980-89, searchable by artist's name, dates, nationality, century, the title, description, medium, or dimensions of a picture, the auctioneer, date of sale, lot number, sale estimates, and the hammer price in pounds, dollars or local currency.

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Contains fine arts auction records -- many with images --from international and national auction sales. Database is updated daily with records from 1989 to present, searchable by artist's name.

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ARTstor is a nonprofit resource that provides more than one million digital images in the arts, architecture, and other fields in the humanities and sciences.

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ArXiv is an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, and quantitative biology.

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AskArt covers American artists providing biography, images, citations, museums owning their work and galleries representing the artist's work.

Available only in Room 300, the Art & Architecture Division.

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A collection of websites providing information about a wide variety of professional and trade associations, cultural and art organizations, political parties and advocacy groups, labor unions, academic societies, and research institutions.

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ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials provides the full-text access to major religion and theology journals. ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials contains full-text journals in English and other major European languages, and covers all aspects of religion.

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The Atlanta Constitution (1868-1945) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.

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The Atlanta Daily World had the first black White House correspondent and was the first black daily in the nation in the 20th century

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Covers every change in the size, shape, location, name, organization, and attachment of each U.S. county and state from the creation of the first county in 1634 through 2010.

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Listen online to audio books in many different categories: fiction, non-fiction, classics and even Spanish language audio books! There are 1,000 books in the collection. These books are always available, never on hold, and no need to download.

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Auto/Biography is an international and interdisciplinary journal addressing theoretical, epistemological, and empirical issues relating to autobiographical and biographical research.

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Indexes articles on architecture in its broadest sense, including archaeology, decorative arts, interior design, furniture, landscape architecture, and city planning from 1930s to present.

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