345-102 MQ: African Worldviews Through the Arts (Lortie): Selected Library databases

This database contains the entire Grove Art Encyclopedia, with peer-reviewed articles by nearly 7000 scholars around the world, including images, biographies, and links to additional resources.

Encyclopedia Britannica is a general encyclopedia that contains brief information on a wide range of subjects. It's a good starting point for any type of research.

Gale eBooks is a collection of over 300 specialized reference sources on a wide range of topics. Of particular interest is the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, The Encyclopedia Judaica, the New Catholic Encyclopedia, The African American Almanac, and the Encyclopedia of World Biography.

JSTOR, a multidisciplinary archival database that covers a wide range of arts, science, and social science disciplines. Includes access to: Archival Journal Collections (Arts & Sciences I-XV, Business IV, Hebrew Journals, Ireland, Life Sciences, and Public Health Journals), Thematic Collections (Lives of Literature, Security Studies, and Sustainability), and Primary Source Collections (19th Century British Pamphlets, World Heritage Sites: Africa, Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa, and Global Plants).

EBSCO is a collection of ten databases that you can search simultaneously, each with its own strengths. For this course, however, we recommend that you only use Academic Search Complete. It is a multidisciplinary database that contains research in a wide range of academic disciplines, including Art criticism and history.When searching EBSCO, don't forget to click on "Full-Text" and "Peer Reviewed."