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Full text access to scholarly journals in languages and literature, as well as essential titles in the fields of music, film studies, folklore, performing arts, religion, and the history and study of art and architecture. There are 150 titles in this collection. No log in is necessary.
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*Sorry, there is no off campus access.
Tennessee Electronic Library (TEL)
Tennessee residents have access to 19 databases of magazines, newspapers, journals, and reference materials.
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Tennessee Electronic Library Tutorial: A simple guide for navigating the 19 databases in TEL.
* Remote access available, ask a librarian for password
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Wilson Omnifile Full Text/Art Full Text
Art Full Text is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from over 600 periodicals published throughout the world; full-text coverage for 298 periodicals is also included. Periodical coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. In addition to articles, Art Full Text indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Coverage begins in 1984.
Wilson OmniFile: Full Text Select Edition is a multidisciplinary, 100% full-text database providing full text articles, with their accompanying indexing and abstracts, from the following Wilson periodical databases: Art Full Text, Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Biological & Agricultural Index, Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, Library Literature & Information Science Full Text, Readers’ Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text.
*Remote Access Available with a password. ASK a librarian for User ID and Password by phone or email.
ARTstor is a growing repository of 300,000+ digital images and related data supporting interdisciplinary studies with special emphasis on collections of art, architecture and archeology. After simple online registration, you can access the database from anywhere.
ARTstor’s Youtube channel: Learn “ARTstor in 3 minutes” and access many other films that will help you easily navigate ARTstor’s digital library, create presentations, and access your professor saved images.
ARTstor Help Wiki: Find the answers to your ARTstor and OIV (Offline Image Viewer — ARTstor’s presentation creation software) questions, also participate in a user forum.
Bridgeman education
Bridgeman Education offers a unique and flexible way to search over 8,000 locations covering the world’s major museums, art collections and historical sites, providing access to over 300,000 images - all copyright-cleared for educational use - through a single website.
* on campus access only
The new home of Grove Art Online provides web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art, ed. Jane Turner (1996, 34 vols.) and The Oxford Companion to Western Art, ed. Hugh Brigstocke (2001). Oxford Art Online offers ongoing additions of new and updated articles, over 3,000 thumbnail art images and line drawings displayed in the text of articles, extensive image links, and sophisticated search and navigation tools.
*on-campus access only
Grove Art Online Guided Tour: A Microsoft Powerpoint presentation with options for watching it in your browser without using Powerpoint.
ASKART
Known also as the “artists’ bluebook,” AskART is an online database containing information on more than 120,000 artists from early 16th-century through the present. Access information about artists biographies, auction records, financial graphics, magazine ads(pre-1998) and images. Over 6,000 museums and dealers are also referenced.
*on campus access only
Rhizome
Rhizome is dedicated to the creation, presentation, preservation, and critique of emerging artistic practices that engage technology. Through open platforms for exchange and collaboration, Rhizome’s website serves to encourage and expand the communities surrounding these practices. Programs, many of which happen online, include commissions, exhibitions, events, discussion, archives and portfolios. Sign up to create a personal profile page, subscribe to Rhizome’s blog and newsletters, participate in discussion, post announcements and view job opportunities, browse art in the online archive, the ArtBase, find out about recent events and exhibitions, apply for a grant and view Rhizome grantees.
* On and off campus access. Off campus, just join the rhizome community with your Watkins email address.
For more information
For information on our databases, tips on searching, or an overview of the Library Catalog, take a look at our growing collection of online tutorials produced right here at the Library. You can find them on the Library How-to Videos or Frequently Asked Questions pages.