Museum Studies

Suggested Databases

For Museum Studies and related topics:

• America: History and Life
  Provides citations on the history and culture of the U.S. and Canada from prehistoric times to present day
• Anthropology Plus
  Provides extensive worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies.
• AnthroSource
  Developed by the American Anthropological Association and contains 100 years of anthropological material online.
• Art Full text
  Provides full text of articles on advertising art, antiques, archaeology, architecture and architectural history, art history, computers in art, crafts, decorative arts, fashion design, folk art, graphic arts, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, motion pictures, museology, non-western art, painting, photography, pottery, sculpture, television, textiles, and video.
• Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1987- ) (Available through Web of Science)
  Current and retrospective bibliographic information and cited references found in nearly 1,130 of the world's leading arts & humanities journals
• Historical Abstracts
  Provides citations of articles on world history from 1450 through present day including politics, diplomacy, military, economy, sociology, culture, religion, intellectual history, and the history of science, technology, and medicine (excludes United States and Canadian history, which are found in America: History and Life).
• Humanities Full Text (WilsonWeb)
  Full text plus abstracts and bibliographic indexing of the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities
• Humanities International Index (EBSCOhost Web)
  A comprehensive database covering journals, books and other important reference sources in the humanities
• J-STOR (full-text journals online)
• Project Muse
  Provides the full texts of articles relating to history, the arts, music, literature, ethics, education, political science, religion, language, philosophy, and psychology.