• Books in Miller Library:
  
  
  • Reference:
    
    
    • Online:
      
      
      • The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
      • Oxford Art Online
        
        
    • Print:
      
      
      • Dictionary of Women Artists
      • North American Women Artists of the 20th Century
      • A Biographical Dictionary of Women Artists in Europe and America Since 1850
      • Encyclopedia Of World Art
        
        
• Books in the main collection:
  
  
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    • Fine Arts = N's , particularly NC
    • start with major headings and then skim the subheadings, e.g.:
      
      
      • Women Artists
      • Women Sculptors
      • Women Artists Biography
      • Feminism and Art
        
        
      • and individual artists as subjects, e.g., Okeeffe, Georgia
      
      
      
  • keyWord search in the title, contents, series, etc., e.g.:
    
    
    • Georgia Okeefe
  
  

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  • For books not in the library, order through Interlibrary Loan
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• Academic Search Premier
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• Art Abstracts
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  • focuses on a broad range of art topics, including advertising, archaeology, crafts, folk art, graphic arts, interior design, video, film, architecture and art history
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• Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHSearch)
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• Check journal titles in Journal Finder, the library's list of full-text electronic periodicals
  
  
• For articles not in the library, order through Interlibrary Loan
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• National Gallery of Art
  

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• Lexis-Nexis Academic
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• Washington Post (1877-1992)
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• Art Museum Network
  
  
• Art Institute of Chicago
• Louvre Museum
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• National Gallery of Art
• National Museum of Women in the Arts
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• Art History Resources on the Web (Sweet Briar College)
• Mother of all Art and Art History Links Page (U. Michigan)
  
  
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• Google Books
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• Hacker Online
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• RefWorks
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