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Recommended Databases: Photography and Film

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FIAF International Film Archive via SilverPlatter
Acclaimed international compendium of information on film and television from International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF). MORE DETAILS...

1972+
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ABI-Inform via ProQuest Direct
Covering business and management as well as related functional areas. Abstracts: 1971+, Full text: 1991+. MORE DETAILS...

Abstracts: 1971+
Full text: 1991+

America: History and Life
A complete bibliographic reference to the history of the U.S. and Canada. Covers Popular Culture, Multicultural Studies, Gender Studies, Anthropology, Literature, Sociology, etc. MORE DETAILS...


1964+

AMICO Library
Nearly 50,000 works of art digitized and cataloged by 30+ participating museums. The AMICO library presently consists of works from all over the world. MORE DETAILS...

AP Photo Archive
Contains more than 800,000 photographs. Images from significant news and features events of the 20th century, etc. MORE DETAILS...

ARTbibliographies Modern
Covers current literature of modern art, photography and design. MORE DETAILS...

1974+

Art Full Text via WilsonWeb
Covers the world of the arts such as art history, graphic arts, interior design, architecture, video and more. MORE DETAILS...


Abstracts: 1994+
Full text: 1997+
Art Index Retrospective via WilsonWeb
Spanning 55 years of art journalism from around the globe from 1929 through 1984. MORE DETAILS...

1929-1984
Arts & Humanities Search via FirstSearch
Online version ISI's Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Covers world's leading arts and humanities journals in a broad range of disciplines and more. MORE DETAILS...

1980+
Current Contents Connect
A multidisciplinary current awareness Web resource providing access to complete bibliographic information from over 8,000 of the world's leading scholarly journals and more than 2,000 books. MORE DETAILS...

1998+

Design & Applied Arts Index
An international index to present design and applied arts journals. MORE DETAILS...


1973+
Dissertations & Theses via Proquest
The database includes citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester; those published from 1980 forward also include 350- word abstracts, written by the author. Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. Of the millions of titles listed, UMI offers over 1.8 million in full text.

The database represents the work of authors from over 1,000 North American graduate schools and European universities. MORE DETAILS...

Grove Dictionary of Art Online
The 34-volume Dictionary of Art is now online. Covers all aspects of the visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the 1990s.
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RIT Archives Photography Collection
Online archive of images of RIT academics, student activities, and the campus.

Sirs Renaissance
Select full-text articles covering cultures, architecture, philosophy, religion and visual arts. MORE DETAILS...


1992+

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