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Arts Management and Museology: Databases

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Databases provide access to high quality peer-reviewed journal articles, conference proceedings, book chapters, dissertations and many other resources. 

These databases have been especially selected for this subject area. When carrying out your research for a piece of work, you will need to search more than one database to find all of the journal articles relevant to your topic, as each database covers different journal titles.

Database Spotlight

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Artstor

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)

Essential databases

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.

 

Key database categories

Follow the links below to browse databases for specific types of resources.

Database Directory

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).

Database Directory: Arts Management and Museology

Research at the University of Manchester

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).

 

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