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Category Guide : Visual & Performing Arts
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Academic Search Premier
Description: Multidisciplinary database that indexes and provides select full text access to popular magazines and scholarly journals. Includes Architectural Digest, Architecture Record, Art Bulletin, Art in America ArtForum International, Design Issues and Leonardo.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Grove Art Online
Description: Provides a comprehensive overview of the visual arts from prehistory to the modern era and includes 100,000+ images from The Bridgeman Art Library. Grove is a great source for obtaining background information on an artist, period or style and is universally recognized as one of the most significant visual arts reference resources available. The print version is titled The Dictionary of Art.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Search for this resource in the library catalog
Humanities Abstracts
Description: Indexed journals in art, classics, history, language, music, philosophy, and religion; with abstracts.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
1Academic Search Premier
Description: Indexes journals in the social sciences, humanities, general science, multicultural studies and education.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1975-present
Use to locate: Articles
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
2Art Full Text
Description: Indexes articles from periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins covering art published throughout the world. Also provides indexing for reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Indexing coverage begins 1984; abstracting coverage begins with January 1994; full-text coverage for selected periodicals begins in 1997.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1984-Present
Use to locate: Articles, Images
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
3Grove Art Online
Description: Provides a comprehensive overview of the visual arts from prehistory to the modern era and includes 100,000+ images from The Bridgeman Art Library. Grove is a great source for obtaining background information on an artist, period or style and is universally recognized as one of the most significant visual arts reference resources available. The print version is titled The Dictionary of Art. Limited to 5 simultaneous users.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Search for this resource in the library catalog
Use to locate: Encyclopedias, Images
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
4Grove Music Online
Description: Comprehensive encyclopedia on all things music-related. Limited to 5 simultaneous users.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Use to locate: Encyclopedias
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
5Humanities Abstracts
Description: Indexed journals in art, classics, history, language, music, philosophy, and religion; with abstracts.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1984-present
Use to locate: Articles
6International Index to the Performing Arts (IIPA)
Description: Indexes journals in dance, film, television, drama and theater; with abstracts and some full text. Limited to 4 simultaneous users.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1864-present
Use to locate: Articles, Reviews
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
7JSTOR
Description: The full text of more than 500 journals in business, social sciences, science, and the humanities. Searchable and browsable by date.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1900 to 2-5years ago
Use to locate: Articles, Reviews
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
1Grove Art Online
Description: Provides a comprehensive overview of the visual arts from prehistory to the modern era and includes 100,000+ images from The Bridgeman Art Library. Grove is a great source for obtaining background information on an artist, period or style and is universally recognized as one of the most significant visual arts reference resources available. The print version is titled The Dictionary of Art. Limited to 5 simultaneous users.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Search for this resource in the library catalog
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
2Grove Music Online
Description: Comprehensive encyclopedia on all things music-related. Limited to 5 simultaneous users.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
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1Variety
Description: One of the premier sources of show business and entertainment news.
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1Academic Search Premier
Description: Indexes journals in the social sciences, humanities, general science, multicultural studies and education.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1975-present
Use to locate: Articles
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
2Art Full Text
Description: Indexes articles from periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins covering art published throughout the world. Also provides indexing for reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Indexing coverage begins 1984; abstracting coverage begins with January 1994; full-text coverage for selected periodicals begins in 1997.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1984-Present
Use to locate: Articles, Images
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
3Grove Art Online
Description: Provides a comprehensive overview of the visual arts from prehistory to the modern era and includes 100,000+ images from The Bridgeman Art Library. Grove is a great source for obtaining background information on an artist, period or style and is universally recognized as one of the most significant visual arts reference resources available. The print version is titled The Dictionary of Art. Limited to 5 simultaneous users.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Search for this resource in the library catalog
Use to locate: Encyclopedias, Images
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
4Grove Music Online
Description: Comprehensive encyclopedia on all things music-related. Limited to 5 simultaneous users.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Use to locate: Encyclopedias
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
5Humanities Abstracts
Description: Indexed journals in art, classics, history, language, music, philosophy, and religion; with abstracts.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1984-present
Use to locate: Articles
6International Index to the Performing Arts (IIPA)
Description: Indexes journals in dance, film, television, drama and theater; with abstracts and some full text. Limited to 4 simultaneous users.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1864-present
Use to locate: Articles, Reviews
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
7JSTOR
Description: The full text of more than 500 journals in business, social sciences, science, and the humanities. Searchable and browsable by date.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1900 to 2-5years ago
Use to locate: Articles, Reviews
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
8Variety
Description: One of the premier sources of show business and entertainment news.
Restrictions: None
Use to locate: Journals
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