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Kelly Cannon
Humanities & Business Librarian
phone: x3602
email: kcannon@muhlenberg.edu
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Reference works
Grove Dictionary of Art (call # 703 T948d)
Books (monographs, collected essays, exhibition catalogs)
Google Books
Previews of content. Use in conjunction with interlibrary loan.Trexler Library Catalog
Catalog of all books and documents in Trexler Library at Muhlenberg College.WorldCat
Catalog of books and documents in libraries throughout the world. Use in conjunction with interlibrary loan.
Periodicals (exhibition reviews in art magazines, scholarly criticism in art journals)
America History & Life or Historical Abstracts
Subscription databases, one in American history, one in non-U.S. history.Art Full Text ***RECOMMENDED***
A subscription database. Good starting place for art journals and art magazine, and includes the full text of many.
Here is a list of some art magazines and journals to watch for, all of which are indexed in this database. The library has a hard copy of these publications (in the event the full text is not available in the database). Click on the Get It link to indentify the location in the library:American art (peer reviewed)
The American magazine of art
Apollo
The Art bulletin
Art d'aujourd'hui
Art in America
Art journal (peer reviewed)
Artforum international
Artibus Asiae
ARTnews
Arts magazine
Bulletin - Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Burlington magazine (peer reviewed)
Contemporanea
The Connoisseur
Flash art
Gazette des beaux-arts
The International studio
Journal of contemporary art (peer reviewed)
Magazine of art
October (peer reviewed)
Winterthur portfolio (peer reviewed)JSTOR
A subscription database. An archive for many scholarly journals including some in art history.getting to the full text. . .
Once you have found the citation of a journal article you're interested in, click on the Get It link found next to the citation, or run a journal title search in Trexler Library's online catalog.
articles via interlibrary loan. . .
Journal articles not found in Trexler Library can be ordered on interlibrary loan.
Citing sources
For tips on citing print and electronic sources, visit Trexler Library's Citation Guides for Print and Electronic Resources.
For automated citation, try the shareware Zotero. Ask Kelly if you have questions about this.
annotated bibliographies. . .
For help in writing annotated bibliographies, visit Purdue's Online Writing Lab for a definition of an annotation and proper format.
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