• Check out our audio-visual resource page for videos and musical recordings.
• Oxford Art Online (Grove Art Online) has performance art and dance.
• Oxford Music Online (Grove Music Online) has thousands of scholarly & biographical articles, audio & visual examples, and images related to music.
• For research on particular artists or performances check try the USIC Search (search box at top of the page). type in your keywords, and limit to Full Text to find performance reviews or artist interviews. Check out our guide on how to use the USIC Search, or make an appointment with us.

Oxford/Grove Art Online 
A comprehensive art encyclopedia. Go to Tools and Resources for added features including timelines, pronunciation guides, and a visual search.

Art and Architecture Online
Full-text of 100s of journals and 1000s of images from visual arts, film, urban studies, archeology, etc.

Multidisciplinary e-Resources

JSTOR
Full-text journal articles, e-books, primary sources from the 16^th century to 2019. Includes academic resources in humanities and sciences.  Select Content I Can Access (it will NOT be underlined if selected).

Project Muse 
Articles and books in the humanities and social sciences.  Limit to full text by clicking the button next to Only content I have access to after your search. 

History Encyclopedias

Modern World History
Good for background information and primary sources from the mid-15th century to the present.

World History: The Modern Era (SY2324 discontinued)
Includes speeches, photographs, historical maps, videos, articles, and interviews from 1500 to the present.

Current Magazine Subscriptions

Browse color current issues of the below art magazines.

• Sora - Art Almanac, Art Asia Pacific, et al. 
• Flipster - ArtNews, Art in America & Communication Arts. 
• PressReader - International art magazines. 

Check out our e-resource guide for more research tools!

Note: Stop by and see a Librarian when you are stuck. The Help sections of the databases will have useful information too.

There are many print books on specific artists and movements. Search your artist's name or era/movement in Destiny. If you find a book from the bookroom, follow these instructions. We will try to buy an article or book, if you need it and can't find it in our library. Request a journal article or book under our Services tab.

Visual Arts Reference Books

Find all our reference books about visual art in the 700s of the reference section. There are several helpful books listed below. 

• Arts and Humanities Through the Eras by Edward Bleiberg Call #: REF 700 ART - This five-volume set helps students and researchers understand the various disciplines of the humanities in relation to each other, as well as to history and culture.
• What Great Paintings Say by Rose-Marie Hagen Call #: REF 759 HAG - Discusses trends and lifestyles reflected in great works of art.
• Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography (Volumes 1-4) by Helene E. Roberts (Editor) Call Number: REF 704.9 ENC - "...compares the uses of iconographic themes from mythology, the Bible and other sacred texts, literature, and popular culture in works of art through various periods, cultures, and genres..."

Museums, galleries, and other organizations digitize images, feature essays, and publish exhibition notes online. Below are only some examples.

General Art History and Art Sites

• SmartHistory
  Essays, textbooks,& videos by 500+ art historians, artists, and curators writing with a non-colonial lens. Has AP specific examples.

• Google Cultural Institute Collections
  Discover artworks, collections, and stories from all around the world.

• Art21
  Chronicles contemporary art and artists.

Museum Sites

• British Museum

• Metropolitan Museum of Art

• Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei

• Taipei Fine Arts Museum  

AI can assist you with your research in a number of ways including ideation in the early stages of question formulation, summarizing a long journal article, and extracting related concepts across a range of articles.  AI is not always correct. You should always ask your teacher before using AI for an assignment, and always check any content that you find through AI for accuracy and reliability.   

Perplexity Ideate on a topic, find papers, images, and video on related topics.  

Cite AI when you use it to generate content, but not when you use it to find papers.  To cite an AI we use footnotes, but we do not cite AI in the bibliography. 

A Guide to Citing ChatGPT and Other AI has been created for you, based on information provided by the Chicago Manual of Style. 

This section contains materials to help you learn how to cite sources, recognize academic sources, and use resources such as Google Scholar to support your search for articles and ebooks.  Begin at this first link to learn how to cite books in print, articles, encyclopedias, speeches, blogs and more!  

• Citation Guide:  Beginners Guide to Citing in Chicago Style Manual - Learn how to cite different types of sources such as books in print, encyclopedias, articles, and more!  
• Zotero has an easy online citation generator, zbib.org.  Always check your generated citation (from zbib or any databases) against the Chicago Manual.
• Tips and tricks on creating annotated bibliographies 

HELPFUL DOCUMENTS

• Guide to recognizing academic sources
• Using Google Scholar - A quick how-to-guide

• The Next Level Research Guide is also place to learn how and where to find academic journal articles and research books at school or at home.