RESEARCH IN ART HISTORY AT SAINT ROSE Professor Flanigan

General References: 1) Oxford Art OnLine (former Grove Dictionary of Art) – this is an encyclopedia devoted to art, written by top scholars (much more reliable & thorough than Wikipedia) -available in hard copy in the reference section of CSR library [Ref 703 D554t 1996] -includes Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms and The Oxford Companion to Western Art -available on-line: Go to Neil Hellman Library Homepage Click Databases Click on O Click on Oxford Art Online Enter CSR username & password 2) James Smith Pierce, From Abacus to Zeus: A Handbook of Art History (7

th edition), 2004. This

book contains a glossary of art history terms, a summary of Greco-Roman heroes and myths, summary of saints, museum websites, and other useful stuff.[ Ref 707.22 P616f 1998]

To Find Books: 1) Neil Hellman Library at St. Rose – catalogue can be searched online Go to Neil Hellman Library Homepage 2) WorldCat - Contains all books published on a topic & their locations Go to Neil Hellman Library Homepage Click Databases Click on W Click on Worldcat Enter CSR username & password Note: use advanced search if you know author and/or title 3) Interlibrary Loan – for ordering books and articles not at CSR (may take c. 1 week) *articles will often be scanned and sent to your email electronically *books are mailed to CSR library & can be picked up at check-out desk Go to Neil Hellman Library Homepage Click on Interlibrary Loan Enter CSR username & password 4) University at Albany Library – much bigger collection, just down Western Ave. -request Direct Access Card to use this library & others at the CSR circulation desk To search their catalogue (or other local libraries) before going: Go to Neil Hellman Library Homepage Click on Find Books in Other Libraries To Find Scholarly Articles: 1) To find journals located at St. Rose’s library Go to Neil Hellman Library Homepage Click on Journal Finder Enter the name of the journal 2) Art Abstracts - Contains all references and some summaries of articles published on art (note: keep searches simple with minimal limits) Go to Neil Hellman Library Homepage Click Databases Click on A

Click on Art Abstracts Enter CSR username & password 4) JSTOR – an online database containing full-text articles in PDF format from major peer

reviewed periodicals that you may print out, latest volumes in this database are 4 years old

Go to Neil Hellman Library Homepage Click Databases Click on J Click on JSTOR Enter CSR username & password Click on Browse and then Architecture/ Art and Art History to see list of available journals Click on Search (or Advanced Search) to begin searching (limit to articles) Note: to view entire article do not click on article title; click on PDF -useful & reliable journals for art history available in JSTOR: Burlington Magazine Art Bulletin Art History Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes -if an article is not available in JSTOR, you may use Interlibrary Loan 5) Academic Search Premiere – similar to JSTOR with full articles scanned as PDF files that you can print out Go to Neil Hellman Library Homepage Click Databases Click on A Click on Academic Search Premiere Enter CSR username & password Click on Search to begin searching for articles on a topic -useful & reliable journals for art history available in Academic Search Premiere: Art History Art Bulletin Art Journal History of Photography Journal of Visual Culture ARTnews How to Cite Sources: There are a number of different formats for citing a source that you consult (APA, MLA, Chicago Style). Be sure to find out from your professor what style she/he prefers. Format guidelines for all of these formats can be found on the St. Rose Writing Center’s website: http://www.strose.edu/officesandresources/academic_support_center/writingsupport/handoutsandresources If you are still unsure about the format look up the work in WorldCat under the tab “cite this source” and you will find the hard work done for you.

To Find Images 1) College of Saint Rose Image Collection – a growing collection of images used in courses taught at St. Rose. You may place these images in a presentation and convert the presentation to PowerPoint. Go to Neil Hellman Library Homepage In Left Bar Click Image Collections Click on College of Saint Rose Image Collection Enter CSR username & password 2) ArtStor – contains thousands of images of art & architecture of varying quality, once you register, you may download an off-line viewer (similar to PowerPoint) from their site for creating your own presentations (n.b. you will have to turn off all pop-up blockers in order to see images because they appear as pop-ups) Go to Neil Hellman Library Homepage In Left Bar Click Image Collections Click on ArtStor Enter CSR username & password 3) Web Gallery of Art – Medieval to Romanticism (best for Renaissance) – don’t trust their descriptions http://www.wga.hu 4) Austrailian National University (ANU) Art Serv – lots of images, vary in quality, can zoom in http://rubens.anu.edu.au/ 5) Blufton Digital Image Project http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/index/index.html 6) Museum websites: Below are some of most useful: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York -- http://www.metmuseum.org/ Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York -- http://www.moma.org/ Whitney Museum of American Art, New York -- http://www.whitney.org/ Louvre, Paris -- http://www.louvre.fr/llv/musee/alaune.jsp National Gallery, London -- http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/