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Art and Art History: Finding Articles

Research guide for Art and Art History

Finding Articles in Specific Journals

If there is a journal which is specifically on your area of interest, searching your topic in that journal might quickly bring you more relevant articles. 

Adbusters 
in the database, Points of View Reference Center 2014-present

Afterall: a Journal of Art, Context and Enquiry 
in the database, JSTOR 1998-2018

Afterimage (Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism) 
in the database, Academic Search Complete 1996-present 

Animation   
in the database, SAGE Journals 2006-present

Art on Paper 
in the database, JSTOR 1998-2009

Artforum International 
in the database, ProQuest Central 2002-present

Bookbird
in the database, ProQuest Central 2019-present

Communication Arts 
in Library Print Holdings 2 years ago-present

Creative Industries Journal 
in the database, Business Source Complete 2008-present

Creative Review 
in the database, OmniFile Full Text Mega 1997-2016

Eye: the International Review of Graphic Design 
in the database, ProQuest Central 2008-2016

Illustration 
in the database, OmniFile Full Text Mega 2006-present

Journal of Visual Art Practice 
in the database, Academic Search Complete 2001-present

Journal of Visual Culture 
in the database, SAGE Journals 2002-present

October 
in the database, Academic Search Complete 1997-12 months ago

Print Quarterly 
in the database, JSTOR 1984-2018

Print: America's Graphic Design Magazine 
in the database, ProQuest Central1997-2017

Tate Etc. 
in the database, ProQuest Central 2009-present

Visible Language 
in the database, ProQuest Central 2017-present

Visual culture in Britain 
in the database, OmniFile Full Text Mega 2004-12 months ago

Finding Articles in Library Databases

Some library databases are specifically focused on publications that examine art.  If your search words are returning too many irrelevant results in one of our larger multidisciplinary databases such as Proquest One Academic , EBSCO, or JSTOR, you can try your search in a database that has a smaller set of journals, including art journals, such as those below.