Art Full Text indexes major English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins in the arts, as well as expanded coverage of European, Latin American, Canadian, Asian and other non-Western art, new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, and feminist criticism. Provides access to a wide range of bibliographies, notices of competitions and awards, reports of conferences, exhibition listings, review articles, interviews, and film reviews. Indexing (1984- ), Abstracting (1994- ), select Full Text (1997- ). Subjects Covered: Advertising Art, Antiques, Archaeology, Architecture and Architectural History, Art History, Computers in Art, Crafts, Decorative Arts, Fashion Design, Folk Art, Graphic Arts, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Motion Pictures, Museology, Non-Western Art, Painting, Photography, Pottery, Sculpture, Television, Textiles, and Video.
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Provides access to over 50 years of citations from hundreds of the leading art periodicals and magazines. Periodical coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch. In addition to articles, Art Index Retrospective indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in the periodicals covered.
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Contains digital art images, museum reproductions, and photograph collections documenting the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, design, anthropology, ethnographic and women's studies, as well as many other forms of visual culture. Images are international in scope and coverage includes a wide variety of civilizations, time-periods and media. The images are drawn from different sources, such as museums, archaeological teams, photo archives, slide collections, and art reference publishers. The database is updated with new images on a regular basis.
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Indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealers' catalogs, and articles from over 4,300 periodicals. Subjects covered include: art of Europe and the Americas (4th century to modern) architecture and industrial design decorative and applied arts drawings painting popular and folk art prints and sculpture.

American National Biography contains biographical portraits of more than 17,400 men and women -- from all eras and walks of life -- whose lives have shaped the United States. The database also features thousands of illustrations, more than 80,000 hyperlinked cross-references, links to select web sites, and powerful search capabilities. Also has following Special Collections: American Indian Heritage, Asian Pacific American Heritage, Black History, Hispanic Heritage, Women's History.
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Biography in Context delivers research support with nearly a million biographical entries spanning history and geography. It's a curriculum-aligned resource that offers media-rich content in context that's updated daily to meet the needs of today's user. In it you'll find:

• 600,000+ biographies covering more than 525,000 individuals
• 170 award-winning Gale reference titles
• 50,000 new or updated bios added annually in addition to daily updates to account for awards and events
• Integrated reference material, periodical information and multimedia content
• Hundreds of hand-crafted topic pages covering the highest-interest features

It includes the Lives & Perspectives Collection of 160,000 in-depth biographies drawn from reference sources such as American Men & Women of Science, Encyclopaedia Judaica, Governments of the World , Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History and nearly 40 other respected titles from Macmillan Reference USA, Charles Scribner's Sons and Gale. The full-length biographies offer records of the lives of some of the most notable and influential figures in history, world culture, science, religion, health, government, and more. The simultaneous user limit for this resource may result in temporary delays.

Featuring retrospective coverage from Biography Index back to its first publication in 1946, Biography Index Past and Present combines retrospective coverage with current indexing to produce a comprehensive biographical resource for students, scholars, media professionals, book clubs, and all researchers seeking biographical information. Content includes over a million article and book citations. Entries on individuals reflect the perspective of the time when they were written. Also includes current books of individual and collective biography which are cited each year, as well as biographical material in otherwise non-biographical books. Also contains citations to interviews, obituaries, collections of letters, diaries, memoirs, juvenile literature, book reviews, bibliographies and exhibition reviews.
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