Use this guide to find key resources for Art History research.
Start with University of Sussex's Library Search – It searches across all subjects and includes the university’s collections and subscriptions.
For deeper research, explore the subject-specific databases and tools listed here. The best resource to use depends on your topic, the type of sources you need, and your stage in the research process.
This page highlights the key research databases recommended for Art History. See other pages for further resources, including additional research databases, image and artwork collections, and news and magazine archives.
An art research database covering a wide range of topics, from fine, decorative, and commercial art to photography, folk art, film, and architecture. Provides full-text access to over 320 periodicals dating back to 1977, an index of over 600 more periodicals (including 280 peer-reviewed journals), and abstracts for more than 14,0000 art dissertations. Art Full Text also indexes art reproductions from these periodicals, providing examples of various art styles and movements, and has its own subject-specific thesaurus.
Provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines primarily in the humanities and social sciences. Also includes research reports over 140 policy institutes on climate change, cybersecurity, energy policy, international relations, terrorism, and various public health issues. Primary sources are drawn from libraries, museums, archives, and historical societies around the world including Global Plants, 19th Century British Pamphlets and Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa. Thematic collections focusing on emerging areas of research includes Lives of Literature, Security Studies, and Sustainability.
Scopus is a multidisciplinary abstract and citation database, which provides access to academic journals, books, conference proceedings, and patents from 1788–present.
Advanced Features: citation analysis, author profiles, journal metrics; data export and analysis, search alerts.