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The InscriptiFact Project is a database designed to allow access via the Internet to high-resolution images of ancient inscriptions from the Near Eastern and Mediterranean Worlds.

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The 1963 Complete digital edition offers Albers' plates and supplemental videos on the "History of the Interaction of Color," "Josef Albers as a teacher," and "Color in practice."

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The definitive resource for scholarly literature on Western art, IBA is the successor to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA), and retains the editorial policies which made BHA one of the most trusted and frequently consulted sources in the field.

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ILEJ is a joint project by the Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford, conducted under the auspice of the eLib (Electronic Libraries) Programme.

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Access the world'€™s leading scholarly literature in the social sciences, arts, and humanities and examine proceedings of international conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions.

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JSTOR

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A growing full text collection of core social science, humanities, and science journals and books.

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The Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents database, or LAPTOC, provides open electronic access to the tables of contents of journals published in Latin America and the Caribbean between the years 1994 and 2009.

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Left Index

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Focused on the political, social, economic and cultural issues of the Left, the Left Index has been under production since 1982 and contains nearly 60,000 records (many with abstracts since the year 2000).

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Collection of 600 hundred photographs and print images in books and albums, from the 19th to the early 20th centuries, associated with the former New World colonies of Spain and Portugal.

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The Marks Project is a no-fee research hub of American Studio Ceramics and a free marks registry for contemporary American ceramic artists.

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NINES has developed an innovative, federated online publishing model and the software system to support it. Listed below are the important 19th-century scholarly projects, journals, and archives.

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Oxford Art Online

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Grove Art Online provides web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (1996, 34 vols.) with annual additions of new material and updates to the text, plus extensive image links and all the sophisticated search advantages possible with an online reference source.

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The OED Online contains the complete text of the 20-volume Second Edition, first published in 1989, together with its 3-volume Additions Series, published in 1993 (volumes 1 and 2) and 1997 (volume 3).

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Oxford Journals

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Provides access to a search interface that retrieves articles across all Oxford titles; searches can be limited to specific subject categories.

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The Oxford Text Archive (OTA) collects, catalogues, preserves and distributes high-quality digital electronic texts and other literary and language resources for research and teaching.

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Paul R. Williams (1894-€“1980), the renowned African-American architect in Southern California, is the subject of this collaboration of individuals and organizations in which the American Institute of Architects Memphis and the University of Memphis are the core institutions.

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Indexing, abstracts, and much full-text coverage for performing arts periodicals since 1864.

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Contains every issue (1938-1957) of the pioneering photo-journalism newspaper that was read by an estimated 80% of the British population at its peak.

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Projekt DYABOLA

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DYABOLA provides access to subject catalogs of publications on the history of art and the ancient world.

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Covers both new designers and the development of design and the applied arts since the mid-19th century, surveying disciplines including ceramics, glass, jewelry, wood, metal smithing, graphic design, fashion and clothing, textiles, furniture, interior design, architecture, computer aided design, Web design, computer-generated graphics, animation, product design, industrial design, garden design, and landscape architecture.

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ProQuest Research Library is a multi-disciplinary index suitable for both undergraduates and graduate students.

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This is a free online database that provides comprehensive information on public art in North America.

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Readers'€™ Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 provides indexing of over three million articles from more than 550 leading magazines, including full coverage of the original print volumes of Readers'€™ Guide to Periodical Literature.

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SAH Archipedia

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Encyclopedia of the built world published by the Society of Architectural Historians and the U. of Virginia Press containing histories, photos, and maps for over 16,300 structures and places in 17 states.

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Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), Online Media Archive of lectures recorded at the school since 1974. The archive includes over 600 videos spanning more than 1000 hours of footage.

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The online version of the printed Sweets Catalog File (In AFA Reference,Call No. TH455.S7864), this free website (with ads) allows searching by word or the MasterFormat 2004. Includes links to articles in Architectural Record.

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Beginning with the first underground comix from the 1960'€™s to the works of modern sequential artists, this collection will contain more than 75,000 pages of comics and graphic novels, along with 25,000 pages of interviews, criticism, and journal articles that document the continual growth and evolution of this art form.

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List and description of about 69 Information services and Documentation centres located at Headquarters and field offices, as well as virtual Clearing Houses.

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The World Digital Library is a cooperative project of the Library of Congress, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and partner libraries, archives, and educational and cultural institutions from the United States and around the world.

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Sponsor of an annual contest for the best in photojournalism, and now in multimedia as well, this site includes the images of the winners of the most recent 2-3 years of the awards.

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WorldCat is an online union catalog of materials held by OCLC member libraries.

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