Arts and Humanities Resources

https://www.nybooks.com/
Excerpts from the print edition as well as selected articles from the past issues of the review that bills itself as the "world's leading forum for intellectual discourse." Includes the well known classified ads.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/index.html
“The ultimate guide to great art online” where users can search for individual artists’ work at museums worldwide.

https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/aat
From: Getty Research Institute Contains art vocabulary and terms. Can be used as a dictionary particularly to get suggestions for synonyms or terms related to your word or phrase.

https://www-bloomsburyphilosophylibrary-com.proxy.alumni.jhu.edu/
From the website: Features thousands of critical biographical entries on individuals who have contributed to the history of thought and philosophy.  A global history that covers a broad range of traditions, subjects, schools of thought, and regions.

https://www-ravmilim-co-il.proxy.alumni.jhu.edu/
Rav-Milim's Hebrew dictionary, the printed version of which was published in Hebrew. It combines an innovative approach in lexicography, advanced knowledge in linguistics and up-to-date computer technology.

http://americanartists.org/
An electronic magazine that focuses on the biography and autobiography of writers, painters, sculptors,musicians, and other artists. It also presents new and reprinted works by these artists as well as articles about them. Nice listing of famous artists from Avery to Monet to Whistler.

https://artdaily.com/
"First Art Newspaper On The Net"

http://www.artsjournal.com/
Weekday digest of arts and cultural journalism -Each day Arts Journal combs through more than 180 English-language newspapers, magazines and publications featuring writing about arts and culture.

https://doaj.org/about/
This independent database contains over 15,000 peer-reviewed open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities. Open access journals from all countries and in all languages are welcome to apply for inclusion.

https://www.openlibhums.org/
"The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is a charitable organisation dedicated to publishing open access scholarship with no author-facing article processing charges (APCs). We are funded by an international consortium of libraries who have joined us in our mission to make scholarly publishing fairer, more accessible, and rigorously preserved for the digital future."

https://www.proquest.com/pqrlalumni?accountid=44369
ProQuest's Alumni Research Library contains over 5,300 journal titles across all subject disciplines, including arts, business, education, humanities, literature, political science and psychology. For many of these journals, citations and abstracts are available from 1971 to the present. Full text coverage varies by journal, bhttp://proxy.alumni.jhu.edu/login?user=1548590&url=https://www.proquest.com/pqrlalumni?accountid=44369ut typically begins with the mid-1990s. Also includes citations and abstracts to the New York Times. Browse a list of titles included in ProQuest Research Library. (Please note: due to publisher restrictions, some journals are not available in the alumni.) Click here to view a short video [2:13] with search tips!

https://www-amexplorer-amdigital-co-uk.proxy.alumni.jhu.edu/
From Adam Matthew, publisher. Primary resources generally from the National Archives, UK. Subjects span African, Asian, European and Latin American studies, French, German, Italian and Spanish language and literature, history, humanities, Jewish studies, Middle East studies, Political Science.

https://artfl-project.uchicago.edu/content/artfl-frantext
Comprising more than 3,600 French language texts spanning from the 12th through the 20th centuries, 215 million words and 675,000 unique word forms.

https://www-bloomsburyphilosophylibrary-com.proxy.alumni.jhu.edu/
From the website: Features thousands of critical biographical entries on individuals who have contributed to the history of thought and philosophy.  A global history that covers a broad range of traditions, subjects, schools of thought, and regions.

https://link.gale.com/apps/BLM?u=jhu_alum
Presents facsimile images of literary manuscripts, including letters and diaries, drafts of poems, plays, novels, and other literary works, and similar materials. From Gale Cengage Learning.

https://britishonlinearchives.com/
BOA provides researchers in the humanities and social sciences with access to unique collections of primary source documents. The JHU subscription includes: Antigua, slavery and emancipation in the records of a sugar plantation,1689-1907; Colonial Africa in official statistics,1821-1953; Slavery in Jamaica, records from a family of slave owners,1686-1860; South Africa in records from colonial missionaries,1819-1900; and The West Indies: slavery, plantations and trade,1759-1832.

https://shs-cairn-info.proxy.alumni.jhu.edu/
Founded in 2005 by four Belgian and French academic publishers, Cairn.info offers the most comprehensive online collection of francophone publications in social sciences and humanities.

https://go-gale-com.proxy.alumni.jhu.edu/ps/start.do?p=GDCS&u=jhu_alum
Primary sources from over 24 databases covering everything from literature to historic newspapers to public health archives to Indigenous Peoples of North America and more. Searchable separately or all at once.

https://go-gale-com.proxy.alumni.jhu.edu/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=jhu_alum
Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Combining Gale Group's core literary databases in a single online service, the Literature Resource Center covers more than 175,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors. 

https://muse-jhu-edu.proxy.alumni.jhu.edu/
Project MUSE offers over 800 quality journal titles from 120 scholarly and nonprofit publishers. As one of the academic community's primary electronic periodicals resources, Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others. Project MUSE is setting the standard for scholarly electronic journals in the humanities and social sciences. This resource is also available as a Hopkins KnowledgeNET primary resource.

https://www-ravmilim-co-il.proxy.alumni.jhu.edu/
Rav-Milim's Hebrew dictionary, the printed version of which was published in Hebrew. It combines an innovative approach in lexicography, advanced knowledge in linguistics and up-to-date computer technology.

https://journals-sagepub-com.proxy.alumni.jhu.edu/
Provides full-text access to over 1,000 scholarly and professional journals spanning a wide range of subject areas including business, humanities, social sciences, and science, technology, and medicine.

http://sk.sagepub.com.proxy.alumni.jhu.edu/
Sage's eBook platform, where you will find a range of SAGE eBook and eReference content. Also contains CQ Press ebooks, including Historic Documents of 2020, The CQ Press Guide to Radical Politics in the Unites States, Guide to U.S. Elections, 7th ed., Washington Information Directroy 2022-2023, Congress A to Z, Vital Statistics on American Politics 2017-2020, State Rankings 2017: A Statistical View of America, State Rankings 2018: A Statistical View of America

http://www.acls.org/
The American Council of Learned Societies is a private non-profit federation of sixty-seven national scholarly organizations. The mission of the ACLS, as set forth in its Constitution, is "the advancement of humanistic studies in all fields of learning in the humanities and the social sciences and the maintenance and strengthening of relations among the national societies devoted to such studies."

https://forarthistory.org.uk/
This Association was formed in the UK in 1974 to promote the study of art history. It represents the interests of art and design historians in all aspects of the discipline, including art, design, architecture, photography,film and other media, cultural studies, conservation and museum studies.

http://www.collegeart.org/
Founded in 1911, the College Art Association promotes excellence in scholarship and teaching in the history and criticism of the visual arts and in creativity and technical skill in the teaching and practices of art. CAA includes among its members those who by vocation or avocation are concerned about and/or committed to the practice of art, teaching, and research of and about the visual arts and humanities. Over 13,000 artists, art historians, scholars, curators, collectors, educators, art publishers, and other visual arts professionals are individual members. Another 2,000 university art and art history departments, museums, libraries, and professional and commercial organizations hold institutional memberships.

http://www.mla.org/
The best known organization for the study of modern languages and literature. International, academic, huge, often controversial, always in the news. Many discussion groups, committees, subsocieties. Graduate students may join.

http://www.sharpweb.org/
Created in 1991 to provide a global network for book historians, SHARP members include professors of literature, historians, librarians, publishing professionals, sociologists, bibliophiles, classicists, booksellers, art historians, reading instructors, and independent scholars. The web site includes links to conferences, prizes and other information.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/index.html
“The ultimate guide to great art online” where users can search for individual artists’ work at museums worldwide.

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/
The Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) contains catalog records and digital images representing a rich cross-section of still pictures held by the Prints & Photographs Division and, in some cases, other units of the Library of Congress. The Library of Congress offers broad public access to these materials as a contribution to education and scholarship.

https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/policies-and-documents/image-resources
The Metropolitan Museum of Art implemented an Open Access policy in 2017, which makes images of artworks it believes to be in the public domain widely and freely available for unrestricted use, and at no cost, in accordance with the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) designation and the Terms and Conditions of this website.

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/
Explore 749,667 items digitized from The New York Public Library's collections. This site is a living database with new materials added every day, featuring prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more.

https://www.newberry.org/
A world-renowned independent research library in Chicago, the Newberry offers readers an extensive noncirculating collection of rare books, maps, music, manuscripts, and other printed material spanning six centuries. Its staff provides award-winning service and supports a rich array of programmatic opportunities. With their new Open Access Policy, the Newberry’s Digital Collections are now available for re-use without licensing or permission fees!

https://www.openlibhums.org/
"The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is a charitable organisation dedicated to publishing open access scholarship with no author-facing article processing charges (APCs). We are funded by an international consortium of libraries who have joined us in our mission to make scholarly publishing fairer, more accessible, and rigorously preserved for the digital future."

https://www-fulcrum-org.proxy.alumni.jhu.edu/heb
The American Council of Learned Societies Humanities Ebook Collection is a collection of over 5,700 scholarly books, from over 125 publishers, sold as a subscription package to over 800 library subscribers. ACLS HEB is a collection curated by scholars for scholars; members of ACLS learned societies nominate books for inclusion, and Michigan Publishing licenses them and pays royalties to contributing publishers.

http://aldaily.com/
A service of the Chronicle of Higher Education, Arts and Letters Daily is an updated report of news and reviews in philosophy, aesthetics, and literature, including breakthroughs, ideas, criticism, culture, history, music, art, disputes and gossip. Arts and Letters Daily is noteworthy for the lengthy list of links running down the left side of the page, to English language media sources around the world.

https://www.doabooks.org/
A joint service of OAPEN, OpenEdition, CNRS and Aix-Marseille Universite; a growing collection of 34,000+ academic peer-reviewed books from over 400+ publishers

https://www.hathitrust.org/
A collection of digital documents (books, journals, and more) made available by a partnership of over 50 research institutions and libraries. The main mission is to serve as a digital preservation repository with a highly searchable interface.

https://www.newberry.org/
A world-renowned independent research library in Chicago, the Newberry offers readers an extensive noncirculating collection of rare books, maps, music, manuscripts, and other printed material spanning six centuries. Its staff provides award-winning service and supports a rich array of programmatic opportunities. With their new Open Access Policy, the Newberry’s Digital Collections are now available for re-use without licensing or permission fees!

https://www.openlibhums.org/
"The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is a charitable organisation dedicated to publishing open access scholarship with no author-facing article processing charges (APCs). We are funded by an international consortium of libraries who have joined us in our mission to make scholarly publishing fairer, more accessible, and rigorously preserved for the digital future."

https://ota.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/repository/xmlui/
Since it paved the way as the first electronic text archive in 1976, the OTA has grown to 2500 texts from all eras. Readers should take the time to read through the screens (click through several before you get to the list of titles in the catalogue), which offer a great deal of helpful information. In most cases, multiple formats will be available. If you want to read online immediately, choose HTML or ASCII. For those who wish to use the SGML TEI versions, software is available for reading online (if you don't know what this is, and you simply want to read the text, we recommend HTML instead). Complete edition information available for all texts.

https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/
This spectacular collection of Greek and Roman texts allows readers to view and read Greek texts (font tools may be downloaded) as well as Latin; many texts include links to English translations. Most texts are "special Perseus-edited editions of the Loeb Classical Library." Also provided are Greek and Latin grammars, background works on classical literature and history, collections of art and archaeological images, atlases, etc. An incomparable resource for readers interested in the ancient world.

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/vwwp/welcome.do
"The goal of the Victorian Women Writers Project is to produce highly accurate transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century, encoded using the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). The works, selected with the assistance of the Advisory Board, will include anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, religious tracts, children's books, and volumes of poetry and verse drama. Considerable attention will be given to the accuracy and completeness of the texts, and to accurate bibliographical descriptions of them." HTML versions of the texts are available; use these unless you have special software for viewing SGML. A landmark project; standard editions suitable for scholarly work.

https://curiosity.lib.harvard.edu/women-working-1800-1930?utm_source=library.harvard
Part of Harvard's Open Collections Program, this website documents the history of working women in the United States. It includes books, pamphlets, catalogs, diaries, letters, magazines, photographs and more from Harvard University's library and museum collections. It currently contains over 500,000 digitized pages and images.