• Books in Miller Library:
  
  
  • Reference:
    
    
    • Online:
      
      
      • A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
      • Graffiti (Wikipedia)
      • Grove Dictionary of Art
        
        
    • Print:
      
      
      • Encyclopedia of contemporary American culture
      • The guide to United States popular culture
      • Handbook Of American Popular Culture
      • St. James encyclopedia of popular culture
    
    
• Books in the main collection:
  
  
  • Subject search; uses Library of Congress subject headings, e.g.:
    
    
    • Graffiti (2 entries)
    • Hip-hop -- United States (1 entry)
    • Popular Culture -- United States (128 entries)
    • Street Art (2 entries)
      
      
  • keyWord search; searches the title, contents, series, etc.; e.g.:
    
    
    • Graffiti (6 entries)
    • Hip-hop (10 entries)
    • Popular Culture -- United States (196 entries)
    • Street Art (22 entries)
      
      
  • Author search
    
    
    • e.g., Chuck D
      
      
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  • For books not available in the library, please order through Interlibrary Loan
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• Multi-disciplinary:
  
  
  • Academic Search Premier
    • 4,500+ general and academic journals (3,600+ peer-reviewed)
    • scholarly, multidisciplinary database
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    • two components: OmniFile Full Text Mega; Humanities & Social Sci Retro
    • OmniFile Full Text Mega: indexing begins in 1982, abstracts in 1984, and full-text in 1994
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    • 1,750 journals are full-text
      
      
• Arts:
  
  
  • Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHSearch)
    • indexes 1,300+ leading arts and humanities journals
    • indexes articles, bibliographies, editorials, letters, reviews, and more
    • coverage from 1980+
    • mostly citation; some full-text
      
      
  • ARTstor
    • image library covering art, architecture and archeology
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  • JSTOR
    • indexes 440+ scholarly journals
    • complete run of all journals except for the most recent 3-5 years
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  • Project MUSE
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    • coverage from 1983+
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• Check journal titles in Journal Finder, the library's electronic full-text holdings
  
  
• For articles not available in the library, please order through Interlibrary Loan
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• Lexis-Nexis Academic
  • 5,900+ news, business, legal, medical and reference publications
  • national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources
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• New York Times (1851-2001)
  • the complete newspaper (text, graphs, photos, etc.) in digital form

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• @149st
  • Recommended sites
• Art Crimes: The Writing on the Wall
  • Graffiti links
  • Alt.Media links
  • Art links
  • Hip-Hop links
• Google Directory's Graffiti links
• U.S. Dept. of Justice anti-graffiti publications:
  • Graffiti
  • Youth in Action
• Yahoo! Directory's Graffiti links

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• Hacker Online
  • citation examples