Chambers Library

Survey of Art History

Tonya Holt Reference & Instruction Librarian

Library Resources

(Find Articles) Databases Search for articles in periodicals (journals,

magazines and newspapers)

(Find Books) UCO Catalog Search for materials located in our library

(books, DVD’s, government publications, etc.)

Databases

Search for articles in periodicals Paid subscriptions not available on the

internet Accessible on and off campus

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Jane Student’s UCOnnect ID is jstudent

Jane’s birth date is June 17th, 1987. Her default PIN is 061787.

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Remote Access

Grove Art Online

Full text of the Grove Dictionary of Art N31 .D5 1996 in reference collection

Biographies, short articles & bibliographies Covers prehistoric art to present Links to art image collections on the web

Images vary in quality 3 user limit (except class time)

Art Abstracts

Citations and abstracts on various aspects of art and architecture

Sources from leading international art publications

Some full text

Effective Searches

Combine keywords using and to narrow your search

Artist Eyck* and Jan Van

Specific work Ghent* and altarpiece

Time Period/Location & medium/style Renaissance and panel* Egypt* and relief* Byzantine and mosaic*

Nested Searches

Combine synonyms using or to broaden your search Panel* or altarpiece*

Nest terms in parentheses for more specific result (panel* or altarpiece*) and Renaissance

More EBSCOhost Databases

Humanities International Complete Full text of hundreds of journals, books and

other published sources World wide coverage

Humanities Abstracts Cites articles from some of the best-known

scholarly journals and numerous specialized magazines

ARTstor

High quality images from various art collections

Information about each image Versatile viewing options Does not cover all time periods equally