Resources for Art & Media

Subject Librarian: Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design

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    Art, Design + Media
    ARTbibliographies Modern (CSA), Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (CSA), DAAI: Design and Applied Arts Index (CSA), JSTOR, National Art Library catalogue and University of Dundee Library catalogue.

    Art, Design + Media images
    Luxonline - British based film and video art and SCRAN.

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• Electronic resources password information

• Internet Databases
  
  • ADIT: Art & Design Index to Theses "The first comprehensive index of postgraduate research theses in art and design in the UK. Includes abstracts."
  • Art Full Text  . Also Art Index Retrospective. Articles from journals covering fine, decorative and commercial art, both historical and contemporary. Full text from articles published since 1997, abstracts from 1994 and index from 1929. Off campus select Shibboleth login, then the UK Higher Education group and then the University of Dundee.
  • Art bibliographies Modern. Full abstracts of journal articles, books and exhibition catalogues, in modern and contemporary art.
  • Art Libraries: UCABLIS: search for art resources across the catalogues of art libraries in Scotland (includes the four art colleges and all universities)
  • arlis.net: "The arlis.net service is designed to help users to locate art, architecture and design publications, plus related materials. The service currently includes a database of periodical titles, a related directory of art library resources in general, and links to other sources of information."
  • FIAF International Film Archive. Index to journal articles on film published since 1972, and television since 1979.
  • Genesis: "Database with descriptions of women's history collections from museums, libraries and archives in the United Kingdom, and guide to sources that provides access to a wide range of international web resources on women's history."
  • Getty Bibliography of the History of Art "Please note that there will be no additions to the database in the immediate future, the last entries having been added mid-2009."
  • NEXIS. Includes online UK and international newspapers.

• Museums and Galleries
  
  • Museums and galleries in the UK
  • Museums and galleries: international

• Online Publications
  
  • a-n The Artists Information Company. Much more than the monthly newsletter, this on-line resource for practising artists includes AN Newsletter, publications and advice on professional practice, job opportunities, news items and much more... For off campus access go to the Login via your host institution, and select University of Dundee.
  • Book Arts at the Centre for Fine Print Research, University of the West of England, Bristol. "All of our artists’ books projects, news, events, lectures, essays, papers, symposia and exhibitions are archived online"
  • The Digital Artists Handbook: "is a new, up to date, reliable and accessible source of information that introduces artists to different tools, resources and ways of working related to digital art."
  • Electronic books
  • Fine Art e-journals available through University of Dundee Library
  • Northings: Arts and Culture in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland
  • Read More: Journal for Critical Writing: "Read More is Horsecross Arts Ltd, Perth, own journal for critical writing, established in 2007 with the aim to provide in-depth analysis of contemporary art through one issue - one work - one essay."

• Art Organisations
  
  • The Artists Organisation
  • Arts Council England
  • Association of Art Historians
  • Creative Scotland
  • Institute of International Visual Arts (inIVA)
  • International Sculpture Center
  • Public Art Resource+Research Scotland (PAR+RS): "Public Art Resource+Research Scotland (PAR+RS) is a new initiative that aims to promote excellence and innovation within public art."
  • Public Monuments and Sculpture Association: includes the database for the National Recording Project which is recording all public sculpture in the UK
  • Scottish Society for Art History

• Art Encyclopaedias and dictionaries
  
  • Artcyclopedia
  • ArtSigns: online British Sign Language (BSL)/English language glossary containing videos of BSL translations and text descriptions for approximately 2000 terms used in art and design
  • World Wide Arts Resources

• Image Collections
  
  • Art Images for College Teaching: a free-access, free-use for education collection, with emphasis on ancient, medieval and renaissance European art
  • Art Museum Image Gallery  . 100,000 images from museums and galleries worldwide which may be downloaded for educational use. Off campus select Shibboleth login, then the UK Higher Education group and then the University of Dundee.
  • Arts on Film Archive: "The archive offers a complete database and an on-line video streaming of all 450 films made by the film department of Arts Council England between 1953 and 1998 and several films produced till 2003 by the dance Department of ACE."
  • BBC Archive: collections of themed audio, video and still images from the BBC's vast archives. Please note these programmes are not provided in a downloadable format.
  • BFI (British Film Institute) Screenonline: the definitive guide to Britain's film and TV industry. On-campus access only
  • Box of Broadcasts. "BoB is an off-air recording and media archive service. BoB is available to staff and students of member institutions of the British Universities Film & Video Council that hold an ERA+ licence. This TV scheduling service allows you to record TV and radio programmes that are scheduled to be broadcast over the next seven days as well as retrieving programmes from the last seven days from a selected list of recorded channels." Type 'University of Dundee' then login with your username and password.
  • Bridgeman Education. "Bridgeman Education database offers access to over 200,000 images. Images should not be made available on the internet or used for publication or lectures outside the University of Dundee. All downloaded images from Bridgeman should have the following credit "Copyright The Bridgeman Art Library - London, New York, Paris." For off campus access click on Login, then on login via UK Access Management Federation, and enter University of Dundee.
  • British Artists' Film and Video Study Collection: "is dedicated to documenting the achievements of British moving-image artists. It contains over 4000 video copies of artists' works, approximately 5000 still images, files on 450 artists, a library of over 1000 books and magazines, a collection of historical posters and publication materials, and documentation relating to key artist-led organisations, public funding bodies, etc."
  • Capital Collections: the Image Library of Edinburgh City Libraries and Museums and Galleries
  • Demarco Digital Archive: "the digital archive comprises photographs plus documents, publications and other printed material either created or gathered by Richard Demarco. The digital records are drawn from the Demarco archives held by the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the Demarco European Art Foundation."
  • Google Art Project: "Explore museums from around the world discover and view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels, and even create and share your own collection of masterpieces."
  • Internet for image searching (VTS): on-line tutorial
  • JISC MediaHub. JISC Media Hub provides a single point of access to video, image and sound resources from many different providers, including Associated Press, the Biochemical Society Archive, Channel 4, Culverhouse Classical Music, Gaumont, Getty, Imperial War Museum, ITN, Reuters, Royal Geographical Society, St Georges Hospital Medical School and Wellcome. It includes television news, documentary films, still images and classical music, and covers a wide range of academic subjects. The content is licensed for educational and research use, and access is provided via an easy-to-use interface, which can cross-search all the available collections. Log in via the UK Federation and select the University of Dundee.
  • Luxonline: online resource on British-based artists working in film and video
  • New York Public Library Digital Gallery: NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 550,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more........Images may be freely downloaded for personal, research, and study purposes only
  • Scotland on Screen: "provides free access to films from the Scottish Screen Archive with accompanying learning resources ........ The films document over a century of Scottish lives on film, with particular reference to social, economic and environmental change."
  • SCRAN - Scottish Cultural Resources Network. A digital cultural and historical resource. Over 300,000 images, movies and sounds from museums, galleries, archives and the media downloadable for educational purposes. A major resource on the material culture of Scotland. Select Shibboleth login, then the University of Dundee, and login with your username and password.
  • Technical Advisory Service for Images: advice on finding and using digital images
  • Victoria & Albert Museum Collections: "You may search here for 45,000 works and 72,000 images from the V&A collections ... You are welcome to use the information and the images for personal use and educational purposes in print or on the web."
  • Visual Arts Data Service (VADS): digital images from UK collections which may be downloaded for educational use
  • Web Gallery of Art: "a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture from 1100-1850 ... The Web Gallery of Art is copyrighted as a database. Images and documents downloaded from this database can only be used for educational and personal purposes. Distribution of the images in any form is prohibited without the authorization of their legal owner."
  • Wellcome Images: "allows unlimited access to a vast catalogue of medical images, manuscripts, and illustrations exploring the meaning of medicine, its history and current practice. All content has been made available under a Creative Commons Licence, which allows users to copy, distribute and display the image, provided the source is fully attributed and it is used for non-commercial purposes."
  • Your Paintings: "Your Paintings is a website which aims to show the entire UK national collection of oil paintings, the stories behind the paintings, and where to see them for real. It is made up of paintings from thousands of museums and other public institutions around the country."

• Artists' websites
  
  • Links to individual artists' websites

• Other Internet Resources
  
  • 24 Hour Museum
  • Art In Context: information on over 11,000 artists worldwide and where to find their work
  • ARTINFO: "The online destination of Louise Blouin Media, the world's leading cultural media group. ......offers breaking news, profiles of top and emerging artists, stories about collectors and collecting, gallery round-ups from around the world, the best of student art, market trends and analysis, and detailed coverage of art fairs."
  • Artist Books 3.0 "The Artist Book 3.0 forum is for artists, curators, librarians, students, and researchers interested in artist books and the book arts."
  • Artists' Books Web Resources "These pages provide information on the collection of artists' books held in the National Art Library and access to a Visual Database of a selection of artists' books in the collection. They also provide information on the origins and development of artists' books, interviews with contemporary book artists, a bibliography for further reading, and weblinks to other sources of information."
  • Artists' Papers Register
  • Axis
  • British Film Institute
  • The Complete Index to World Film since 1895
  • Cove Park: "an international centre based in Scotland for the arts and creative industries, Cove Park runs an annual programme of residenies for artists working in all art forms"
  • Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society
  • Database of Virtual Art
  • Dundee Public Art Programme
  • Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation: provides assistance to young artists
  • Fine Art Forum: images of work from UK Art Schools
  • Intute: Creative Arts: a guide to quality Internet resources in the arts
  • MICHAEL: Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe. "Explore the European digital cultural heritage. Through the multilingual MICHAEL service you can find and explore digital collections from museums, archives, libraries and other cultural institutions from across Europe"
  • New Media Scotland: agency enabling arts activity shaped by new technologies
  • Public Art Online: "A unique public art information site which provides guidance and examples of public art practice from around the UK and internationally"
  • Public Art Research Archive: records of permanently sited public art in the UK, with artists' pages
  • Scotland's Artists : a directory of visual artists in Scotland
  • Scottish Ironwork Foundation
  • Sculpture Scotland

• Non-Internet Resources (CD-ROMs available at Duncan of Jordanstone Library)
  
  • Albers interaction of colour
  • Bibliography of the history of art
  • Re:search art and design imaging Dundee

• Also available
  
  • Artists' books collection (series of books shelved at Duncan of Jordanstone Library)
    For further details and locations, please consult the Library catalogue

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