Museum Studies Resources
 Museum Studies: Library Research TipsMuseum Studies is MULTIDISCIPLINARY. There isn’t one place to look! There are museums on just about every topic you can think of, so you might consider resources relating to natural history, biology, history, archaeology, anthropology, material culture, art, motor sports...the list goes on and on... There are historic buildings and sites, living history interpretive sites, landscapes and zoos... Museum work can involve research into conservation, preservation, marketing, administration, exhibitions, visitor studies, volunteerism, nonprofit studies, education.... You will explore various subject databases to find articles for your museum studies topic. You will become creative when thinking about the search terms you use and how you combine your terms. Some examples: specific objects/artifacts for researching items for cataloging or exhibition (e.g. stagecoach; basketry; photography); material culture; cultural heritage; cultural property, repatriation, NAGPRA, cultural sensitivity, ownership, ethics, education. Use your imagination and think outside the box! Use the tabs above to start your search, and if you get stuck feel free to contact me. For general tips on library research and reference sources, check the links in the left sidebar. Finding ArticlesIndexes and Full-Text articles for Museum Studies and related topics:
You can search several of the indexes/databases all at once by using MetaSearch. Finding Books & Media IUPUI LIBRARY CATALOG tips for finding books and mediaIUCAT = For finding books and media relating to your topic Basic Search: If you know the author or title of the book you want, use the "author" or "title" keyword searches. For general searching try searching museum or museums as a "keywords anywhere." Notice more IUCAT search options in the menu box to the right of the Basic Search box: Advanced Keyword Search Search "Subject" using the following specific subject terms :
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Other Web Sites of InterestCultural Heritage Search Engine, a preservation and conservation database: "a search engine about the conservation of cultural heritage, restoration and maintenance of the architecture, preservation of the urban landscape." The Getty Conservation Institute "works internationally to advance the field of conservation through scientific research, field projects, education and training, and the dissemination of information in various media." Index of Native American Museum Resources on the Internet. "This site is constructed primarily to provide information resources to the Native American community and only secondarily to the general community. The information is organized, insofar as possible, to make it useful to the Native American community and the education community. The information presented here is the product of much cooperative work." Indiana Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology "promotes the conservation of Indiana's cultural resources through public education efforts, financial incentives including several grant and tax credit programs, and the administration of state and federally mandated legislation." The Institute of Museum and Library Services "is an independent federal grant-making agency dedicated to creating and sustaining a nation of learners by helping libraries and museums serve their communities." The Museum Informatics Project "is a collaborative effort at the University of California, Berkeley to coordinate the application of information technology in museums and other organized, non-book collections. MIP staff work with faculty, collections managers, and curators to develop data models, system architectures, and demonstration and production systems as bases for coordinated and integrated approaches to the application of information technology in museums and archives. MIP assists museums and archives to broaden access to primary academic collections and data by scholars, students and the public." The National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH) "is a diverse nonprofit coalition of arts, humanities and social science organizations created to assure leadership from the cultural community in the evolution of the digital environment." PotWeb: is projected to be an online catalogue of the entire ceramic collection from the Ashmolean, Britain's oldest public museum, which has one of the finest collections of ceramics in the world. UNESCO's World Heritage Centre "seeks to encourage the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity." US. Department of State International Cultural Property Protection. " The United States Department of State is responsible for implementing the Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act. This is the enabling legislation for the 1970 UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property." Journal ListsA list of current IUPUI journal subscriptions for Museum Studies:
In addition, we have access to electronic journals through several other sources. For example Electronic Journals by Title is a current list of journal titles we have online access to. If you do a keyword search in this list for the term "museum" you'll see a long list of museum-related titles. Or, you can search by individual title or subject categories. Directory of Open Access Journals J-STOR (full-text journals online) Project Muse Also check for journal holdings by journal title in IUCAT. |
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