Oxford Art Online offers access to the most authoritative, inclusive, and easily searchable online art resources available today. Through a single gateway, users can access and cross-search Oxford’s acclaimed, regularly updated art reference works: the Grove Dictionary of Art and the Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Grove Art is the foremost scholarly art encyclopedia, offering global coverage of visual culture, composed and expanded in collaboration with thousands of scholars and specialists around the world. Benezit offers unique information about the sale and collection of artists’ work, and it is one of the most comprehensive and definitive resources of artists’ biographies available. In addition, users can search and access Oxford art reference titles including the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (2nd edition), The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.
Provides access to the entire text of The dictionary of art (1996) with constant additions of new material and updates to the text, plus extensive image links (Provided by Publisher).
The Artstor Digital Library is an extensive and representative visual resource of images for teaching and research in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Artstor build partnerships with museums, libraries, photographers, and photographic archives whose images are widely used in teaching and learning contexts. The Artstor Digital Library provides straightforward access to curated images from reliable sources that have been rights-cleared for use in education and research — you are free to use them in classroom instruction and handouts, presentations, student assignments, and other non-commercial educational and scholarly activities. And unlike results from Google or other search engines, images come with high-quality metadata from the collection cataloguers, curators, institutions, and artists themselves (Provided by Publisher)
The following are important databases for this subject area, however if you don't see what you're looking for, please go to the Database Directory for Arts Management and Museology to browse a wider selection.
Follow the links below to browse databases for specific types of resources.
You can use our Database Directory to browse a broader range of databases that are relevant to Arts Management and Museology as well as other subjects. The directory also allows you to identify databases that provide access to specific types of resources (e.g. Full Text Articles, Streaming Video, Patents, Theses and Dissertations, and much more).
The University of Manchester's research is internationally recognised. Go to Research Explorer, Manchester's research database, to discover the breadth of research produced by staff across the University.
Browse research publications from Art History and Cultural Practices (please note: whilst many of the publications listed are available to access/Open Access, some records are for forthcoming titles awaiting publication).
