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Art and Architecture Source

Covers a broad range of related subjects, from fine, decorative and commercial art, to various areas of architecture and architectural design. Provides full text access to journals and books; an image collection, art reproduction records, and includes periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Spanish and Dutch. Designed for art scholars, artists, designers, students, and general researchers.
Historical Abstracts
Provides English language abstracts of scholarly literature from 1955 to present (journal articles, articles in collections, dissertations, book reviews) on world history from 1450, excluding North America. Includes full-text links to 420,000 journals.
JSTOR

JSTOR is a collection of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences digitized in most cases back to the first date of issue. Includes selected books, primary sources and other materials for academic work.
World Newspaper Archive, South Asia
Features titles published in India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka during the colonial era, 1864-1922. Titles include such key publications as: Amrita Bazar Patrika (Calcutta), Bankura Darpana (Bankura, India), Madras Mail (Madras), Tribune (Lahore, Pakistan) and the Ceylon Observer (Sri Lanka). Languages include English, Bengali, and Gujarati.
Project MUSE
Provides digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community. Offers full-text versions of scholarly journals and books from many of the world's university presses and scholarly societies.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals

Offers a comprehensive listing of journal articles on architecture since 1934 covering the history and practice of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, historic preservation, and interior design and decoration.
Academic Search Complete
Provides full-text, peer-reviewed journals, as well as indexing and abstracts for monographs, reports, and conference proceedings. Features content going back as far as 1887.

Journals - Art and Material Culture of the IOW

These art & material culture journals cover a broad range of time and places. For journals specific to certain geographic regions, see the above tabs for Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.

Art History
Peer reviewed journal - publishes essays, critical reviews, and special issues that engage with path-breaking new developments and critical debate in current art-historical practice.
World Art
Publishes research on the cultural translation of art practices, art discourses, and what art means to people everywhere across time, place and culture.
Burlington Magazine
Journal for art historians and connoisseurs, covering all time periods and places. NOTE: Online articles only available up to 2013. The library has a print subscription for the most recent issues.
Eighteenth-Century Studies
Publishing the best of current writing on all aspects of eighteenth-century culture. The journal publishes different modes of analysis and disciplinary discourses that explore recent historiographical, critical, and theoretical ideas
Oxford Art Journal
Peer reviewed journal of critical art history, with a focus on political analysis of visual art, covering themes from Antiquity through contemporary practices.
Journal of the History of Collections
Dedicated to the investigation and documentation of all aspects of collecting activity, ranging as far back as the earliest Renaissance cabinets and beyond.
Journal of Material Culture
Explores the relationship between artefacts and social relations. It draws on a range of disciplines including anthropology, archaeology, design studies, history, human geography and museology.

Journal of Asian Studies
JAS publishes the very best empirical and multidisciplinary work on Asia, spanning the arts, history, literature, the social sciences, and cultural studies.
positions: asia critique
Peer-reviewed journal that develops theoretical, philosophical, historical, and critical approaches to offer a fresh approach to Asia scholarship.
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
The Journal of Southeast Asian Studies is one of the principal outlets for scholarly articles on Southeast Asia (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, East Timor, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam).
Archives of Asian Art
Peer reviewed journal devoted to the art and architecture of South, Southeast, Central, and East Asia. Articles discuss premodern and contemporary visual arts, archaeology, architecture, and the history of collecting.

Ars Orientalis
Peer reviewed journal covering the history of the art and archaeology of the Middle East and Asia. Issues through 2014 are available online; most recent issues available in print at Fenwick Library.
Muqarnas
The first academic journal devoted to art, architectural history, archaeology, as well as all aspects of Islamic visual and material cultures, historical and contemporary.
Hawwa: Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World
The journal, published three times a year, is interdisciplinary and focused on gender issues in the Middle East and the Islamic World.
International Journal of Middle East Studies
Focuses on the area encompassing the Middle East and adjacent geo-cultural regions from the seventh century to the present. This area includes North and Sub-Saharan Africa, the Arab, Turkic and Persianate worlds, the Mediterranean and Balkans, Central, South and Southeast Asia and areas to which peoples from these lands have migrated or settled.

African Arts
Peer reviewed journal - presents original research and critical discourse on traditional, contemporary, and popular African arts and expressive cultures.
NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art
Nka focuses on publishing critical work that examines the newly developing field of contemporary African and African Diaspora art within the modernist and postmodernist experience and therefore contributes significantly to the intellectual dialogue on world art and the discourse on internationalism and multiculturalism in the arts.
Journal of East African Studies
Publication of the British Institute in Eastern Africa, which aims to promote fresh scholarly enquiry on the region from within the humanities and the social sciences, and to encourage work that communicates across disciplinary boundaries.
African Studies Review
ASR publishes the highest quality African studies scholarship in all academic disciplines.