LibGuides: Art and Photography: Databases

Art Full Text (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Full-text articles from academic journals and magazines on everything to do with Art, including a focus on artists and their individual works. Contains books too. Invaluable resource as it has full-text articles from hundreds of Non-Open Access periodicals.
JSTOR Journals and E-books (including Artstor Images) This link opens in a new window
(Arts and Sciences)
A digital archive of journals, often starting with the very first issues. Subjects covered include Art, Visual & Performing Art, African American Studies, Asian Studies, and Literature. Contains books too.
JSTOR is an archive service for journals and therefore does not include the most recent three years for each journal on the platform.
Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Find articles from academic journals as well as magazines. Covers all subject areas.
Bloomsbury Applied Visual Arts Core Collection This link opens in a new window
A collection of e-books which combine visual inspiration with practical advice on idea generation, research techniques, portfolio development and more, across the main visual arts disciplines including Fashion and Textiles, Design and Illustration, Photography, Film and Media, Architecture and Interiors, and Marketing and Advertising. After logging in, select your area from "Explore Disciplines" to browse e-books by key topics and the different aspects of your discipline.
Taylor And Francis Online Journals This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to journals covering humanities, theatre and literature.
Duke University Press: Art and Art History Collection This link opens in a new window
This e-book collection contains over 170 titles in the Art and Art History in the fields of Photography, museum studies, and visual culture. It also includes volumes of artists talking about their own work.
Cambridge Companions Online This link opens in a new window
Access all the Cambridge Companions, from Abelard to Zola. Browse the list of writers, artists, philosophers, or search by topic.
IngentaConnect This link opens in a new window
It has a range of full text electronic journals with full text articles to only subscribed titles.
Cambridge University Press Journals This link opens in a new window
This is a digital archive of journals published by Cambridge University Press. Full text articles from journals we subscribe to in the humanities and social sciences.
Oxford Journals Archive This link opens in a new window
This is a digital archive of journals published by Oxford University Press. Full text access to journals we subscribe to in the humanities and social sciences.

Getty Publications Virtual library
It offers free access to a few hundred books published by the Getty in the fields of art, photography and the humanities to read online.

Courtauld Books Online This link opens in a new window
It is an open access series of online scholarly books published by the Courtauld Institute of Art, and freely available to read online.
Bloomsbury Fashion Photography Archive This link opens in a new window
The Fashion Photography Archive is a fully searchable and meticulously indexed resource, containing 750,000 high-quality runway, backstage and street style images that have never before been published online. These include: international runway shows from the 1970s until 2000, including key designers such as McQueen, Gaultier, Westwood, Chalayan, Galliano and more; rare backstage and front row shots from fashion shows of the past forty years; and, street-style images from fashion cities around the world.
Wiley Online Library: Journals This link opens in a new window
The database provides access to the full text of Wiley and Blackwell Science journals. Subject areas include Art and Humanities including Theatre and Literature – and NOT only the sciences.
Project MUSE Humanities Collection This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text access to humanities, arts, literature and theatre e-journals. Contains freely available e-books.
Humanities International Complete (HIC) This link opens in a new window
Find journal articles and book references on all aspects of the humanities. The most recent years are not in full text.
Communication And Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
Covers full-text journal articles in all aspects of communications and mass media; including radio, television, journalism and digital media.

The Library subscribes to many more databases across all subject areas, here is an A-Z list of all databases.

When using images, you must be mindful of copyright. You can find out more about finding and using images on our copyright webpages.

Bridgeman Education This link opens in a new window
It is an excellent image database of over 800,000 free and copyright-cleared images for use in education with worldwide coverage of the visual art culture of civilisations from prehistoric times to the present.
For further information see the User Manual or the Subjects Guide
Artstor This link opens in a new window
It features millions of high-quality images and media from some of the world’s top photo archives, museums, libraries, scholars, and artists, including rare materials not available anywhere else. All content is rights-cleared for education and research.
Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) This link opens in a new window
A collection of over 100,000 images covering advertising, architecture, art history, crafts, design, dress, fashion, fine art, graphic design, industrial design, jewellery, painting, photography, posters, public monuments, textiles, sculpture, shoes, stained glass. The image resources are free and copyright cleared for use in UK Higher Education.

Flickr Creative Commons
The area within Flickr where users have chosen to upload their content with a Creative Commons licence.
Smithsonian Open Access image collection
More than 2 million 2D and 3D images from the Smithsonian collections, made available for use and sharing on a Creative Commons licence. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centres, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.

BoB : On Demand TV And Radio For Education This link opens in a new window
BoB National is a shared online off-air TV and radio recording service for UK higher and further education institutions. BoB enables staff and students to choose and record any broadcast programme from 60+ TV and radio channels.
(initial registration required where you need to enter your university email address)
LinkedIn Learning This link opens in a new window
LinkedIn Learning (formerly Linda.com) is an online learning platform to help people learn business, software, technology and creative skills to achieve personal and professional goals through access to a searchable video library of courses.
Credo Reference Academic Core Premium Collection This link opens in a new window
Encyclopaedias and reference books – wide range of topics and subject areas. Gives an overview and introduction to topics. (Full text)
Lexis+ This link opens in a new window
Newspaper articles, UK broadsheets and tabloids. 1980s-present day. Once you’ve accessed this database, make sure you select News on the menu bar near the top of the screen.
OnlineNewspapers.com This link opens in a new window
Online newspaper directory covering thousands of newspapers listed by country and region.
EThOS: E-Theses Online Service This link opens in a new window
Search for theses submitted in the UK. Search by topic, institution or author. Create an account and download digitised theses in full text.

Artists' Books is a unique collection of works of art in many forms and shapes. All artists' books are listed on our online catalogue. The collection can be viewed in the Special Collections at Old Castle Street Reading Rooms.