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Art & Architecture Article Databases
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Art & Architecture E-Resources (All)Link here to a complete listing of E-Resources (e.g., full text databases, citations, image databases, etc.)
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Art and Architecture CompleteArt & Architecture Complete provides full-text coverage of over 370 periodicals and more than 220 books in the literature of art and art history, interior and landscape design, antiques, and more. In addition, it offers indexing and abstracts for more than 780 academic journals, magazines and trade publications, over 220 books, and features an Image Collection of over 63,000 images. (This database is included in Art Source.)
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Art Full-Text and Retrospective IndexIndexes and offers full text for a wide array of journals in the fields of art history, architecture, craft, design, landscape architecture, museology, photography and video, and much more. Art Index Retrospective gathers the citations from volumes 1-32 of the printed Art Index published between 1929 and 1984. Full-text is available for many citations. (These databases are included in Art Source.)
Latin American Digital Collections - Texts, Images, Media
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Classic Mexican Cinema OnlineA collection of film catalogs, arts magazines, and other rare ephemera related to Mexican cinema from its beginnings in the late 1890s to its Golden Age (1930s to 1960).
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Digital Library of the CaribbeanA cooperative digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean. dLOC provides access to digitized versions of Caribbean cultural, historical and research materials currently held in archives, libraries, and private collections.
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ICAA Documents of 20th-century Latin American and Latino ArtProvides access to primary sources and critical documents tracing the development of twentieth-century art in Latin America and among Latino populations in the United States.
Iconography, Mythology, & Symbolism - Latin America
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An Illustrated Dictionary of the Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the MayaInlcudes bibliographical references.
The 1993 edition is available in Davis Reference and in the Rare Book Collection.
Article Databases: Latin American Culture
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HAPI, Hispanic American Periodicals IndexCurrently indexes over 380 journals and includes the contents of over 675 journals dating back to our start in the 1970s. Approximately 80% of currently indexed titles include links to full text sources - and many of those are freely available through open access policies.
Library Catalogs
UNC Libraries Catalog
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WorldCatOCLC's WorldCat is the world's largest union catalog containing of millions bibliographic records for items in the collections of thousands of libraries from many countries. This database includes all the records cataloged by OCLC member libraries in several hundred languages.
Digital Collections - Texts, Images, Media
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GallicaThe French aggregator for the European Digital Library, Europeana. Developed and maintained by the Bibliotheque Nacional de France, Gallica provides access to over one million items, including books, manuscripts, scores, audio files, and more. While Gallica is not exclusively dedicated to Medieval and Early Modern works, it maintains a very strong collection in this time period. The interface is accessible in both English and French.
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Hathi Trust Digital LibraryPartnership of major libraries, Google, and Internet Archive providing millions of fulltext books and volumes of journals and other serials covering all subject and in many languages.
Note: To download full PDFs of public domain & open access items: Click 'Login' and then select University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as the HathiTrust Partner Institution. Then enter your Onyen/Password on the resulting page, before being returned to the HathiTrust site. -
Monumenta Germaniae Historica DigitalContains digital images of the complete text of all published volumes of Monumenta Germaniae Historica up to the year 2010.
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EuropeanaEuropeana provides one search for texts, videos, sound, and images from many European museums, archives, and libraries. It does not include collections outside of Europe, commercial projects, or websites otherthan libraries and museums.
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Project GutenbergDownloads of over 30,000 titles.
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Digital Public Library of AmericaThe Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. It strives to contain the full breadth of human expression, from the written word, to works of art and culture, to records of America’s heritage, to the efforts and data of science.
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Archives Portal EuropeProvides access to information on archival material from different European countries as well as information on archival institutions throughout the continent.
Images
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ARTstorA digital library of over 2 million images and media files covering the arts, architecture, humanities, social sciences, and sciences with tools for teaching, research and study. See ARTstor's complete list of available collections. Anyone can browse ARTstor collections using a computer on UNC campus. In order to view full size images and download or save content, however, you must first register for an ARTstor user account. For more information, see the library's ARTstor guide.
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Ackland Art Museum Collections SearchFrom here you can search our database of records for every object in the permanent collection, including those on long-term loan to the Museum.
Open Access Image Collections
Using Images and Fair Use Standard:
Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for the Visual Arts (College Art Association)
These institutions offer free downloading of images of artworks from their collections which are in the public domain:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Getty Museum & Research Institute Open Content Program
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C
The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD
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ARTstorA digital library of over 2 million images and media files covering the arts, architecture, humanities, social sciences, and sciences with tools for teaching, research and study. See ARTstor's complete list of available collections. Anyone can browse ARTstor collections using a computer on UNC campus. In order to view full size images and download or save content, however, you must first register for an ARTstor user account. For more information, see the library's ARTstor guide.
Images in ARTstor with the IAP tag can be used for publishing and educational use, without the need to request additional permissions from contributing museums. More info about the IAP program can be found here: https://support.artstor.org/hc/en-us/articles/360021187714-Images-for-Academic-Publishing
Writing About Art & Architecture
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A Short Guide to Writing about Art by Call Number: N7476 .B37 2015 (Art Library Reserve)
Background & Biographical Info
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Oxford Art OnlineProvides a single portal for searching across several major art encyclopedias and dictionaries, including Grove Art Online, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. Entries include bibliographies for further research, images, and often examples of artists' signatures.
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Heilbrunn Timeline of ArtCompiled by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's curatorial, conservation, and education staff, covers pre-history to the present day. Contents arranged chronologically, geographically, and thematically
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New Catholic Encyclopedia (online)Scholarly work covering persons and subjects related to Catholicism and the humanities.
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St. James Guide to Hispanic Artists: Profiles of Latino and Latin American ArtistsIllustrated, comprehensive resource containing biographical and career information on 375 prominent Latino and Latin American artists of the past century.
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Women Artists of Color: A Bio-critical SourcebookAn excellent resource which includes African-American artists as well as Latino, Asian Pacific and Native American. Biographical essay and exhibition, collection lists and bibliography for about 25 artists.
Managing Your Citations & Bibliographies
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Citing & Writing (University Libraries)An intro to resources available from the University Libraries and the Writing Center. Includes links to Zotero, RefWorks, and Endote.
Librarian
Interlibrary Loan
Can't find a book or article you need at a UNC library? Try Interlibrary Loan!
Latin American Art & Visual Culture
José Clemente Orozco, Mexican, 1883-1949
El franciscano (The Franciscan) (1929)
Lithograph
Yale Art Gallery Collection Online
For more resources, see our related guides Art & Architecture and Latin American Art & Architecture.
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