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 Articles
Indexes and Full-Text articles for Museum Studies and related topics:
Anthropology Plus is the world's most comprehensive, focused index of bibliographic materials from the late 1800s to today in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology; ethnology, archaeology, folklore, and material culture; and interdisciplinary studies. Beyond these disciplines, researchers and scholars in art history, demography, economics, genetics, geography, geology, history, psychology, religion, or sociology will all find relevant anthropological material.
Anthropology Plus unites two premier indexes created in two hemispheres. The result is extensive, worldwide coverage of core journals plus local and lesser-known journals. Together, Harvard University's highly respected Anthropological Literature database and the United Kingdom's Anthropological Index (Royal Anthropological Institute) provide a uniquely broad and rich resource for education and research in anthropology and related fields
AnthroSource is a fully integrated information resource.
Its powerful search engine makes precision research quick and easy.
AnthroSource is more than a content collection. It is an evolving, interactive repository of research and communications tools designed to bring the most credible and relevant of anthropological scholarship together in one place and to support a strong community of scholars, teachers, and students in the field.
Art Full Text is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals is also included. Periodical coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. In addition to articles, Art Full Text indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Indexing coverage begins 1984; abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. The abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source articles. Full-text coverage begins in 1997.
Humanities Abstracts Full Text contains abstracting and indexing coverage for all 500 periodicals included in Humanities Index as well as the full text of over 160 periodicals, offering instant access to information from publications such as: American Journalism Review; American Poetry Review; Art Journal; Asian Folklore Studies; Canadian Journal of History; Central European History; Contemporary Review; Dance Magazine; Film Criticism; Journal of Popular Culture; Opera News; Perspectives of New Music; Scandinavian Studies; World Literature Today. Subjects: Archeology; Art; Communications; Drama; Film; Folklore; History; Humanities; Language; Literature; Music; Philosophy; Photography; Religion.
Humanities International Index™ is a comprehensive database covering journals, books and other important reference sources in the humanities. It provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracting for over 1,900 titles and contains more than 1.6 million records. Formerly the American Humanities Index, this database contains bibliographic records from a multitude of U.S. and international journals, books and reference works. Humanities International Index provides citations and abstracts for articles, essays and reviews, as well as original creative works including poems, fiction, photographs, paintings and illustrations.
JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible. Content in JSTOR spans many disciplines in the humanities and sciences. For more information about JSTOR, please refer to: http://www.jstor.org/
Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.
Project MUSE is managed by the Johns Hopkins University Press, in collaboration with the participating publishers and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library at the Johns Hopkins University, to offer the full text of JHUP scholarly journals via the Web.
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 : - Interpretation of cultural and natural resources
- Cultural property
- Historic sites
- Museums - Periodicals
Popular Museum Studies Titles The Official Museum Directory (American Association of Museums) AM10.A2 O4 (The latest year is in REFERENCE; older editions in 3rd floor bookstacks.) Museums: A Place to Work (Jane R. Glaser) AM7.G55 1996 (3rd floor bookstacks) Careers in Museums: A Variety of Vocations (American Association of Museums) AM7.C374 1994 (Philanthropic Studies Libary, 2nd floor) Museum Careers: A Practical Guide for Students and Novices (N. Elizabeth Schlatter) AM 7.S27 2008 (3rd floor bookstacks)
Web Resources
Related IUPUI Links Local Museums/LibrariesProfessional Organization LinksOther 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 Lists
A list of current IUPUI journal subscriptions for Museum Studies:Bulletin of the Association for Living Historical Farms and Agricultural Museums
Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals
Curator
Exhibitionist
Journal of Museum Education
Journal of the History of Collections
Muse (Canadian Museum Assn.)
Museum (American Association of Museums; formerly Museum News)
Museum History Journal
Museums and Social Issues
Museums Journal
Proceedings of the Association for Living Historical Farms and Agricultural Museums
Visitor 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
This is another list of free online journals. Search keywords museum or museums or browse related subject lists. J-STOR (full-text journals online)
High-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. Includes full-text articles relating to Museum Studies. Project Muse
Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers. Includes full-text articles relating to Museum Studies. Also check for journal holdings by journal title in IUCAT.
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