Library Guides: Art Education: Articles & Databases

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Subjects: Architecture, Art (Contemporary), Art and Architectural History, Art Education, Arts, Campus: University Park, Graphic Design, Landscape Architecture

Top Picks

LionSearch This link opens in a new window
an integrated search of books, e-books, research articles, newspaper articles, and other publications.
Art Full Text & Art Index Retrospective This link opens in a new window
Articles and reviews in art magazines for all cultures and eras. Full texts often provided, but keyword searches only hit titles, abstracts, etc. Not covered in LionSearch.
Indexes hundreds of international art magazines, including English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as some published in other languages. Indexing is available for publications 1929+; abstracting for 1994+, and Full Text is often available for 1997+ but keyword searches do not explore the full texts – only the titles, subject headings, & etc.. Not covered by LionSearch.
ERIC (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Education scholarship: excellent flexible coverage of journal articles and reports. Not fully covered in LionSearch. Good search features including categories for target audience, educational levels, etc.
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) is the major database for education literature, sponsored by the U.S. Department. of Education. The same database content is available on many platforms.

Handbook of Research and Policy in Art Education, 2004
Encyclopedic articles on issues in art education with extensive bibliographies. (e-book or book)
International Encyclopedia of Art and Design Education, 2019
Pedagogy, curriculum, history & philosophy.

Other Important Article Sources

The following important indexes to articles are mostly covered by LionSearch, but sometimes searching them separately is helpful:

ARTbibliographies Modern This link opens in a new window
Covers art of the late 19th-century to now.
ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM) indexes publications about art from the late 19th century to the present, providing full abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews. Approximately 12-13,000 new entries are added each year. Entries date back as far as the late 1960s.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
An excellent collection of scholarly journals in arts and humanities disciplines. Covered in LionSearch but more of words are searchable here.
JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization that provides a trusted archive of important scholarly journals and a selection of scholarly books. Content in JSTOR spans many disciplines, primarily in the humanities and social sciences. While indexing for JSTOR articles is covered in LionSearch, the full text of the articles is not searched in LionSearch. Search JSTOR itself to ensure detailed coverage of full texts.
ProQuest Education Journals This link opens in a new window
An easy-to-use slection of good education journals.
ProQuest Education Journals provides access to over 785 journals, more than 615 in full text, including all aspects of education, with coverage since 1991.
PsycINFO (via ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Good for topics that overlap with psychology. Covered in LionSearch, but with better search features including the methodologies employed, like "Literature Review" or "Systematic Review."
PsycINFO provides access to international literature in psychology and related disciplines. Unrivaled in its depth of psychological coverage and respected worldwide for its high quality, the database is enriched with literature from an array of disciplines related to psychology such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work. Nearly all records contain nonevaluative summaries, and all records from 1967 to the present are indexed using the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms.