Art & Art History Subject Guide — Art & Art History Sources

Launched in May 2014, the Art Discovery Group Catalogue (ADGC) offers an art-focused research experience within the OCLC WorldCat environment. Researchers may search within this specialized subset of Worldcat data to hone in on a vast trove of art-historical literature held in an ever-increasing number of the world’s finest art libraries. These art library records are searchable alongside additional content from a multitude of sources in the large metadata pool derived from thousands of commercial and freely-accessible collections, portals and repositories provided by OCLC as the WorldCat Central Index.

ART-Dok is the full-text server of the Specialised Information Service for Art, Photography and Design, arthistoricum.net and is provided by Heidelberg University Library. The publication platform offers scholars worldwide the opportunity to make their publications from the field of Art History accessible online free of charge and in electronic form according to the principles of Open Access. The documents will be stored and their long-term availability guaranteed by using persistent identifiers (URN, DOI) and metadata (OAI-PMH). They are accessible through various international library catalogues and search engines.

A free online platform for collecting and discovering art. Artsy's search engine and database draw connections and map relationships among works of art

The CONNECTICUT ARTISTS database aims to provide information about the visual artists who have lived or worked in Connecticut from early times to the present. Such a project will always be a work in progress. Because the CONNECTICUT ARTISTS database is in an early phase, however, certain points should be kept in mind.

Hyperallergic is a forum for serious, playful, and radical thinking about art in the world today. Founded in 2009, Hyperallergic is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

Collective catalog of four of the leading German scholarly research institutes in the field of art history:
Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence, Max- Planck-Institut; Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich; Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte / Centre allemand d'histoire de l'art in Paris; Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte in Rome

A century of western bibliography on art history
OpenBibArt is a bibliographic database born out of a collaboration between the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art (INHA), the Getty Research Institute (GRI) and the Institut de l’Information Scientifique et Technique of the CNRS (Inist-CNRS).

OpenBibArt reviews the literature on arts from Late Antiquity to the present day, providing access to close to 1.2 million of bibliographic records of periodicals, books, exhibition and auction catalogues, published between 1910 and 2007.