LibGuides: Art History: Article Databases

Recommended databases for articles

Identify articles in scholarly journals or popular magazines by looking up your search terms in one of the selected databases below.

You also can find a complete list of online databases organized by subject on the Library's A-Z List of Databases.

Use your Oakton username and password to login from a non-campus computer.

Academic Search Ultimate EBSCO
Provides a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with around 10,000 full-text periodicals - of which more than 9,000 are peer-reviewed journals.
ACLS Humanities E-Books
Collection of approximately 4,300 full-text ebooks from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).
American History Online - Infobase
Spans more than 500 years of political, military, social, and cultural history, highlighting the important people and events of the American experience.
Ancient and Medieval History Online - Infobase
Explores the pre-modern world with in-depth focus on Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, Africa, Europe, the Americas, and Asia.
Modern World History Online - Infobase
Covers the people, places, and events in the broad expanse of history-from mid-15th century to the present.
Grove Art Online (Oxford Art Online)
Oxford Art Online provides access to Grove Art Online, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.
Humanities Source Ultimate EBSCO
Includes more 1,200 journals in full-text. Provides articles, essays and reviews, as well as original creative works including poems, fiction, photographs, paintings and illustrations.
Nexis Uni
Provides access to full-text news, business, and legal publications using a variety of flexible search options. Access over 15,000 news, business, and legal sources.

The Art Story
According to their About page, "The Art Story is your guide to understanding and enjoying the best of the visual arts.
Whether you are interested in - an artist (Picasso, Michalengelo, or Kara Walker), an art movement or artistic direction (Impressionism, Performance, or Baroque), or even an art concept (The Readymade, Renaissance Humanism, or Collage) - we have specialized pages covering your topic of interest.

Each page is written to get you the information you need quickly. We focus on what is important about each topic, and what makes it interesting, striving to present you with the perfect summary."
The Dictionary of Art Historians
The Dictionary of Art Historians is a free, privately funded biographical dictionary of historians of western art written and maintained by scholars for the benefit of the public.
Khan Academy Art History
A searchable website of articles, videos, and quizzes about different topics and periods of art history.

Length: 3:27. Hit play and watch full screen or on YouTube.

Length: 2:24