Part 1: Background Information
You will need to find an artist your group is interested in researching.
You can start by picking a specific art piece, culture, time period, medium, or artist, then investigate from there. Here are some websites with potential ideas:
- Wikipedia Lists of painters
- Wikipedia List of Art Media
- Art museum websites and collections
Part 2: Online Sources
Using Google, try to locate 2 to 3 potential sources from reputable sources. Pay attention to the language being used in these sources! The references and further reading sections on Wikipedia can be a great place to start, but Wikipedia itself is not a reliable online source. Remember, your sources need to have an actual person's name attached to them as the author! As you read through them, continue to add to your concept map and make note of which sources are most helpful.
Part 3: Databases for Literature Searching
Anthropology Databases:
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Anthropology Plus This link opens in a new windowAnthropology Plus is the world's most comprehensive, focused index of bibliographic materials from the late 1800s to today in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology; ethnology, archaeology, folklore, and material culture; and interdisciplinary studies. Beyond these disciplines, researchers and scholars in art history, demography, economics, genetics, geography, geology, history, psychology, religion, or sociology will all find relevant anthropological material.
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AnthroSource This link opens in a new windowA complete electronic archive of all AAA journals through 2003. Current issues for 11 of the AAA's peer-reviewed publications.
Art History Databases:
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International Bibliography of Art (IBA) This link opens in a new windowThe definitive resource for scholarly literature on Western art, IBA is the successor to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA), and retains the editorial policies which made BHA one of the most trusted and frequently consulted sources in the field. The database includes records created by the Getty Research Institute in 2008-09, with new records created by ProQuest using the same thesaurus and authority files.
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JSTOR This link opens in a new windowContains almost 1,000 full-text journals spanning multiple disciplines. Some journals go to back to the mid-1800's. There is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issues and the issues available in JSTOR.
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Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new windowBest database for world history. Lists scholarly articles from history journals. Allows you to search by journal name. Each article is summarized. Covers the history of civilization (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present.
