Finding Articles
Museum Studies is very interdisciplinary. The databases listed in this box cover a wide array of disciplines that might have scholarship related to the field.
- America: History and Life This link opens in a new windowAmerica: History & Life is the definitive index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. This authoritative database provides indexing of more than 1,800 academic journals dating back to 1954, with some coverage for titles back to the early 20th century. The database also includes citations and links to book and media reviews. Strong English-language journal coverage is balanced by an international perspective on topics and events.
- Anthropology Plus This link opens in a new windowAnthropology Plus brings together into one resource Anthropological Literature from the Tozzer Library, Harvard University and Anthropological Index from The Library of the British Museum Department of Ethnography (Museum of Mankind), incorporating the former Royal Anthropological Institute Library.
- Art Abstracts/Art Index Retrospective This link opens in a new windowArt Abstracts (1984 to the present) and Art Index Retrospective (1929-1984) provide citations and abstracts to articles in periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins relating to archaeology, architecture, art history, city planning, crafts, films, graphic arts, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, museology, photography, and related fields.
- Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts This link opens in a new windowAATA Online is a comprehensive database of over 130,000 abstracts of literature related to the preservation and conservation of material cultural heritage—broadly interpreted to include works of art, cultural objects, museum collections, archives and library materials, architecture, historic sites, and archaeology.
- Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals This link opens in a new windowThe Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals covers architecture, urban design, historic preservation, and urban planning history. It indexes the international scholarly and popular periodical literature as well as the publications of professional associations, U.S. state and regional periodicals, and the major serial publications on architecture and design of Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Australia.
- Canadian Heritage Information Network This link opens in a new windowA collection of online resources related to art history, archaeology, art conservation, history, museum studies, intellectual property, and the natural sciences.
- Bibliographic Database of the Conservation Information Network This link opens in a new windowThe Conservation Information network (CIN) is the product of international collaboration. It is intended to facilitate the retrieval and exchange of information concerning conservation and restoration of cultural property.
- Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new windowHistorical Abstracts covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women’s history, history of education, and more – essential for libraries supporting upper-division and graduate research. This authoritative database provides indexing of more than 2,300 academic journals in over 40 languages dating back to 1953, with some coverage for titles back to the early 20th century.
- Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new windowOxford Art Online is a gateway into art research. It includes Grove Art Online and Benezit Dictionary of Artists. The full text of each of these two components may be cross-searched or searched separately. The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms are also available on a separate platform.
- Education Source This link opens in a new windowFull-text and indexing/abstracting of education journals. The database covers all levels of education — from early childhood to higher education — as well as all educational specialties such as multilingual education, health education, and testing.
- APA PsycINFO This link opens in a new windowThe world’s largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. It provides access to books, book chapters, journal articles, dissertations, and technical reports in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas.
- Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new windowSociological Abstracts provides access to the world’s literature in sociology and related disciplines, both theoretical and applied. The database includes abstracts of journal articles selected from over 1,700 serial publications, abstracts of conference papers presented at various sociological association meetings, relevant dissertation listings from Dissertation Abstracts International, enhanced bibliographic citations of book reviews, and abstracts of selected sociology books.
- AGRICOLA (Agricultural Online Access) This link opens in a new windowCitations to agricultural literature acquired by the National Agricultural Library (NAL). It includes journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audio-visual materials, and technical reports.
- Biological and Agricultural Index Plus This link opens in a new windowCitations to articles in biology, agriculture, and related sciences published in some 380 periodicals, ranging from scientific journals to popular publications.
- Academic OneFile This link opens in a new windowA premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles for academic libraries from the world’s leading journals, this comprehensive resource covers the physical and social sciences, technology, medicine, engineering, the arts, technology, literature, and many other subjects. Provides millions of articles from over 17,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sources, including Nature, The Economist, and The New York Times, in PDF and HTML full-text formats. In addition, thousands of podcasts and transcripts from NPR and CNN and videos from BBC Worldwide Learning are also available.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowJSTOR is a digital library of more than 2,000 journals and more than 25,000 books in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Included are peer-reviewed scholarly journals, literary journals, and academic monographs. JSTOR includes material in more than 75 disciplines including area studies, the arts, business and economics, history, the humanities, law, medicine and allied health, science and mathematics, and the social sciences.
- Project MUSE Journals This link opens in a new windowProject MUSE is a provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community. MUSE is a trusted source of complete, full-text versions of scholarly journals from many of the world’s leading university presses and scholarly societies, with over 120 publishers currently participating.
Journals give you the ability to search for articles on a specific topic or event. It can be an easier way to find relevant information because you are usually not sifting through a large pool of results. If you visit the E-Journals page, you can bring up a list of all the journals with subject content related to this area. You can also search for a specific journal title from the E-Journals page or in DELCAT.