You can search for articles using databases or indexes. Many provide the full text of the article, while some databases display a link to library holdings, i.e., does the Auraria Library provide access to this article?
Full text plus abstracts of international peer-reviewed journals, exhibition reviews, trade publications, and museum bulletins. Topics inlcude new artists, contemporary art, archaeology, architecture, art history, film, industrial design, landscape architecture, marketing, photography, pottery, and sculpture.
ARTstor is a digital library that contains hundreds of thousands of high-resolution images of art, architecture, and archaeological artifacts. Each image is accompanied by descriptive information. The Auraria Library's subscription to ARTstor also offers ArchiVision (architecture) and Shared Shelf (images created and shared by campus faculty).
Access the full-text of thousands of scholarly journals and books covering the humanities, social sciences, and business. Many journals extend to the first volume. Auraria Library has access to the JSTOR Archival Journals and Primary Sources Collection.
Includes two major art reference works, which contain bibliographies, articles, and images. Covers ancient to contemporary art and architecture. Oxford Art Online contains many images of art that are not available freely online. Limited to 6 simultaneous users.
Scholarly journals are one place where experts in illustration share information with each other. Most of the time, the most efficient way to find articles on illustration is to search in databases (which look through many journals for you). However, you can also search in specific journals on illustration.
These publications host annual competitions, open to students.
Exploring theses on illustration that past students have written can be helpful. You can see how others have written about their topics. You can also look at their bibliographies to find other materials that you may want to find. One word of advice: Don't follow the formatting that you see in other people's theses. Your advisor will tell you you are required to format yours.
Bibliographic citations to doctoral dissertations and masters theses from graduate schools and universities. Indexes from 1861 onward, provides abstracts from 1980 onward, and supplies 24-page previews from 1997 until the present. Includes full-text of the University of Colorado Systems dissertations on Dissertations & Theses @ University of Colorado System. Once you have identified the dissertation or thesis of interest, you can use Interlibrary Loan to borrow a copy.
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