LibGuides: Art & Design Research Guide: Articles

Finding Articles in Summon

Summon is a one-stop shop that searches across materials held at UMSL as well as through our online subscription databases. Results will include peer-reviewed research articles (print and digital) as well as news articles, books, and other materials.

Only want articles? On the results page, look on the left side of the screen for CONTENT TYPE. Underneath that, select the resource you want (e.g., Journal Article, News Article, Magazine Article, etc.)

Summon FAQs

You can also narrow your search results with other limiters:

Full Text Online
- Limits to results for which you can view the full text immediately online.
Scholarly & Peer-Reviewed Publications
- Limits to scholarly results. What is peer review?
Publication Date
- Limits by when the item was published. Use the slider bar or the links underneath to easily limit by a recent number of years.
Discipline
- Limits by your field of study.
Subject Terms
- Allows you to include or exclude a particular term(s) associated with your topic.

Art & Design Databases

Art Full Text
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Art Full Text is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals is also included. Periodical coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. In addition to articles, Art Full Text indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals.

Abstracting coverage begins in 1984. Full-text coverage begins in 1995.Topics covered include art history & criticism, architecture & architectural history, archaeology, antiques, museum studies, graphic arts, industrial design, landscape architecture, interior design, folk art, painting, photography, pottery, sculpture, decorative arts, costume design, television and video, motion pictures, advertising art, non-western art, textiles and much more.
Getty Research Institute
The Getty provides free access to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) and to the Répertoire de la litterature de l'art (RILA) through the BHA/RILA database which indexes European and American visual arts material published between 1975 and 2007. Also available are the Abstracts of International Conservation Literature (AATA), Photo Archive, Digital Collections and other research aids.

JSTOR
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JSTOR contains articles and books, usually at least 3-5 years old, from scholarly sources. Some journals & books are available from as far back as the 1800s. For more recent material, try using Summon or one of the individual databases. ** In response to the COVID pandemic JSTOR has extended free access to an extended list of journals until June 30, 2022. **
UMSL has access to the following JSTOR Collections:
- Arts & Sciences I (economics, history, political science, sociology, ecology, mathematics, and statistics)
- Arts & Sciences II (additional journals for many of the disciplines in Arts & Sciences I, plus journals in several additional disciplines: archaeology, classics, and African, Latin American, Middle Eastern, and Slavic studies)
- Arts & Sciences III i(languages and literature, music, film studies, folklore, performing arts, religion, feminist & women's studies, and the history & study of art and architecture)
- Arts & Sciences IV (business, education, and law, psychology, public policy and administration)
- Health & General Sciences (historical scientific journals, health sciences)
- Books at JSTOR (50,000+ titles)
- Early Journal Content (journals published in the United States before 1923 and published in other countries before 1870)
Researchers and students may also be interested in JSTOR's Data for Research beta site, a free, self-service tool that allows computer scientists, digital humanists, and other researchers to select and interact with JSTOR content. The Data for Research site contains a set of web-based tools, including:
- a powerful faceted search interface that can be leveraged to define content of interest through an iterative process of searching and results filtering
- word frequencies, citations, key terms, and ngrams utilized for conducting analysis of document-level data
- topic modeling (classification of subject headings at the article level), a powerful tool for content selection and filtering
- downloadable datasets containing word frequencies, citations, key terms, or ngrams associated with the content selected
- visualization tools
Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete is a scholarly, multidisciplinary full-text database, with several thousand full-text periodicals, most of which are peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for many more journals, monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.

The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full-text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.

This resource is partially funded by MOREnet, the Missouri Research and Education Network.
Project MUSE
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Project MUSE's Standard Collection provides full-text access to scholarly journal titles, primarily in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

You can look for material in two ways: "Search" to find a particular topic. By default only available content is shown. "Browse" to peruse all book and journal titles and tables of contents abstracted in MUSE. You can also uncheck the option "Only content I have full access to" when viewing your results to find abstracts of additional material.
If an item is not available through Project MUSE, it may be available in other UMSL collections or through Interlibrary Loan. Click the "Find Full-Text" link to check if the Libraries own a journal full text through another source (online or print). If the item is a book, check the UMSL Library Catalog under the book title or book author.
Wiley Online Library
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UMSL's collection of books from Wiley includes companion and reference works in the areas of Art, Business, Communication and Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, History, Literature, Museum Studies, Race and Ethnicity Studies, and Sociology. These books are linked in the catalog and through Summon. UMSL does not have access to all titles in Wiley's Online Library.

Arts & Letters Daily
Arts & Letters Daily is a web portal which links to a diverse array of news stories, features and reviews from across the humanities, each introduced with a short blurb or teaser. The site is owned by The Chronicle of Higher Education.
artnet
News, information on artists, galleries, auctions and events. Some features, such as the Pricing Database, require a subscription.
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
The Met’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History pairs essays and works of art with chronologies, telling the story of art and global culture through the Museum’s collection.
Artcyclopedia
Lists of top artists, news, articles, and links

Google Scholar

Can I use Google Scholar for academic research?

The short answer is yes! You can use Google Scholar to conduct scholarly research. However, there are situations in which a library database will be more efficient and useful.

How does Google Scholar compare to a library database?

May or may not provide you access to the full text. Look on the right side of the screen for an UMSL Libraries link or try the title in Summon.
Does not search materials in a particular discipline.
No easy way to sort results.
Fewer options to narrow your search with limiters.
Misses out on print materials.

Google Scholar may still provide you with valuable results, but we recommend also utilizing the library's resources to complete your research.

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