Contemporary Art
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Exhibition reviews and feature articles
newspapers and other popular periodicals via subscription databases
LexisNexis Academic ***RECOMMENDED***
A reliable source from full text newspapers from around the world. From within the database, choose: News.specialized art magazines (and art journals) via subscription databases
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. Includes journals such as Art in America and Artforum.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.
The following journals are located in hard copy on C level of the library (located just past the 900s Dewey section) arranged alphabetically by journal title:
American art
The American magazine of art
Apollo
The Art bulletin
Art d'aujourd'hui
Art in America
Art journal
Artforum international
Artibus Asiae
ARTnews
Arts magazine
Bulletin - Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Burlington magazine
Contemporanea
The Connoisseur
Flash art
Gazette des beaux-arts
The International studio
Journal of contemporary art
Magazine of art
October
Winterthur portfolioarticles via interlibrary loan. . .
Journal articles not found in Trexler Library can be ordered on interlibrary loan.
evaluating the quality of a periodical
Periodicals vary tremendously in the depth and rigor of their articles. One evaluative tool is Ulrichsweb.
artscentric e-zines
Exhibition catalogs and other thematically related books
Trexler Library Catalog
Catalog of all books and documents in Trexler Library at Muhlenberg College. Some useful subject headings are:WorldCat
Catalog of books and documents in libraries throughout the world. Watch especially for the AREA LIBRARIES designation.
Search engines
Scholarly (use with discretion)
Google Scholar
An open-access web crawler that looks for content it identifies as "scholarly." Emphasis is on books and journal articles. Intended as a "federated search" to search across disciplines (weighted toward sciences and social sciences). Not always full text. Check our Journal Locator (see above) to see if Muhlenberg has access to the full text.Intute
The service is created by a network of UK universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in the database and write high quality descriptions of the resources.
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.
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Last modified: 12 February 2011
