Nineteenth-Century Art
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Reference works
Dictionary of Art (Grove) (Trexler Library Reference Room call # 703 T948d)
Artcyclopedia
A gateway to museum websites that sometimes contain critical bibliographies.
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:Getty Research Institute Library Catalog
A catalog of all materials held in the extensive art history collection of the Getty Library. Use this catalog to search, but to obtain the books, use Trexler Library's interlibrary loan form.University of Pennsylvania Library Catalog
Catalog of another great research collection. Use this catalog to search, but to obtain the books, use Trexler Library's interlibrary loan form.WorldCat
Catalog of books and documents in libraries throughout the world. Watch especially for the AREA LIBRARIES designation.
Scholarly journals and specialized art magazines via subscription databases
America History & Life or Historical Abstracts
Subscription databases, one in American history, one in non-U.S. history.Art Full Text
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.Biblography of the History of Art (BHA) and Répertoire de la litterature de l'art (RILA)
Free access via Getty Institute to two major art indexes. Request the full text by using Trexler Library's interlibrary loan.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.
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: 20 February 2011
