Librarian - Carol Scamman
Email: cscamman@sfasu.edu
Phone: 936.468.1710
Office: 202e
Appointments Available
Subject Indexes | E-Text | Websites
Academic Search Complete (Ebsco) is a multidisciplinary index giving access to articles in over 8000 journals with many available in full text.
Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale Cengage Learning) is a general database with indexing for journal, magazine and newspaper articles, with many of the articles available full text.
Wilson Select Plus (FirstSearch) is a general database that contains full text articles from popular and scholarly journals and magazines.
Art Abstracts (Ebsco) indexes more than 200 international arts publications.
Arts and Humanities Search (First Search) covers articles in literature, language, art and the performing arts.
Contemporary Women's Issues (Firstsearch) provides full text access to information on women from journals, newsletters, research reports, and fact sheets.
Fine Arts and Music Collection more than 100 full-text journals and magazines providing resources in drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.
Databases for Advanced ResearchAmerica: History and Life (Ebsco) gives citations and abstracts for articles dealing with history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
Dissertations & Theses (ProQuest) includes bibliographic citations for dissertations and theses world wide from 1861 to the present with full text access available for the newer titles and abstracts available for the older titles.
WorldCat (FirstSearch) is a catalog of books, audiovisuals and other materials owned by libraries worldwide.
Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA )
Available for search by appointment with a librarian. The library has older volumes in paper N 7510 .B53x (v. 1, 1991- v. 9,1999).
NetLibrary is a collection of electronic books (eBooks) especially selected to meet the needs of the university curriculum.
Online Books: Art
TIDES for Teachers
A product of the Steen Library’s Digital Projects Department, TIDES (Teaching Images Digital Experiences) contains a wide variety of images from museums including paintings, sculptures, and Mexican folk art, as well as videos featuring interviews with traditional artisans. TIDES also offers K-12 lesson plans, many of which are focused on art.
Art cyclopedia: the fine art search engine
The Art cyclopedia is a searchable index of high-quality images of paintings, sculptures and other great works of fine art that can be viewed online. Where possible, artists are classified by movement (e.g. cubism, impressionism), by medium (e.g. photography, sculpture), by subject matter (e.g. landscapes, still life), and by nationality. The site also includes art news and a comprehensive list of art museum sites worldwide.
The Getty Provenance Index ® Databases
The databases contain indexed transcriptions of material from auction catalogs and archival inventories of western European works of art, and contain nearly 1,000,000 records that cover the period from the late 16th century to the early 20th century. The databases are available free of charge via the Web. Other specialized databases are available from the Getty website.
The Varo Registry of Women Artists http://www.varoregistry.com/
The Varo Registry is an electronic registry of artwork by contemporary international women artists.
Voice of the Shuttle: Art & Art History Page
Has links to art auctions, images, artists and works, cartography, design, journals & zines, art history and art studio programs, and much more. Related pages link to archaeology, architecture, and photography. VoS is woven by Alan Liu.
TIDES
A product of the Steen Library’s Digital Projects Department, TIDES (Teaching Images Digital Experiences) contains a wide variety of images from museums including paintings, sculptures, and Mexican folk art, as well as videos featuring interviews with traditional artisans. TIDES also offers K-12 lesson plans, many of which are focused on art.
TIDES Photographic Collections
Historical images from East Texas museums includes tintypes and daguerreotypes.
Research Online Image Resources
A really useful collection of images and museum links. This was created for theatre designers, but is valuable for artists and art historians.
Museums Around the World
Museums listed by country. Well-annotated.
Victorian Web
The Arts in Victorian Britain, brought to you from Brown University.
WebMuseum
Virtual museums and exhibits from all over the world. Includes the WebMuseum Famous paintings collection.
TIDES Mexican Art showcases digital images and descriptions of Mexican folk art, murals, and artisans.
TIDES Mexican Muralists features murals by Diego Rivera, Antonio Gonzales Orozco, Jose Clemente Orozco, and many others.
TIDES Aztec and Mayan Art includes digital images of architecture, sculpture, Mayan ruins, and more.
