• Books in Miller Library:
  
  
  • Reference:
    
    
    • Online:
      
      
      • ARTstor
      • Encyclopaedia Britannica
      • Grove Dictionary of Art Online
        
        
    • Print:
      
      
      • Dictionary of Chinese and Japanese Art
      • The Oxford Companion to Western Art
      • The Pengin Dictionary of Art and Artists
      • International Dictionary of Art and Artists
      • The Dictionary of Art
      • Encyclopedia Of World Art
        
        
• Books in the main collection:
  
  
  • Subject search
    
    
    • uses Library of Congress subject headings
    • Fine Arts = N's ,
    • start with major headings and then skim the subheadings, e.g.:
      
      
      • Art, Japanese
      • Art -- Japanese Influences
      • Motion Pictures -- Japan -- History
        
        
      • and individual artists as subjects, e.g., Whistler, James McNeill (25 entries found)
      
      
      
  • keyWord search in the title, contents, series, etc., e.g.:
    
    
    • whistler, james mcneill (14 entries found)
  
  

• Books outside Miller Library:
  
  
  • Other libraries:
    
    
    • U of MD libraries
    • U of DE
    • Library of Congress
      
      
  • WorldCat
    • most distinguished database of catalogued books in the world
    • searches over 52 million records held by academic libraries worldwide
      
      
  • For books not in the library, order through Interlibrary Loan
    • free, online order form, budget 1-2 weeks

• ARTstor
  • image library covering art, architecture and archeology
  • 300,000 high-definition images dating from 3000 BC to the present
  • zoom
    
    
• Academic Search Premier
  • 4,500+ general and academic journals
  • coverage 1985
  • mostly full-text
    
    
• Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHSearch)
  • indexes 1,300+ arts and humanities journals
  • indexes articles, bibliographies, editorials, letters, reviews, and more
  • mostly citation; some full-text
  • coverage from 1980+
  
  
• JSTOR
  • 440+ scholarly journals
  • complete run of all journals except for the most recent 3-5 years
  • full-text
    
    
• Project MUSE
  • 250+ scholarly journals, primarily in the humanities
  • coverage from 1983+
  • mostly full-text
    
    
• WilsonWeb
  • 3,500+ general and academic journals
  • 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
  • Humanities & Social Sci Retro: index only, 1907-1984
  • 1,750 journals are full-text
    
    
• 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
  • free, online order form, budget 1-2 weeks

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• Japanese Art
  • Freer and Sackler Galleries, The Peackock Room
    
    
• National Gallery of Art
  

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• New York Times (1851-2001)
  • the complete newspaper (text, graphs, photos, etc.) in digital form
    
    
• New York Times (1851-2001)
• the complete newspaper (text, graphs, photos, etc.) in digital form
  
  

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• Google Directory's Illustration links
• Yahoo! Directory's Illustration links

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• Hacker Online
  • formatting examples