Art and Design
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Databases
We hold a selection of databases which contain full text and abstracts of e-journals. A full list of all our databases can be found on the Databases A-Z page. Key databases relevant for Art and Design are listed below.
Databases for Art and Design
- Art, Design & Architecture: the key online resource for art and design. Includes access to hundreds of journals. Select Full Text under the search box, and for the most academic articles, select Peer-Reviewed.
- Art Full Text: the key online resource for fine art. This database is also searchable directly from the Library’s Search box. Includes access to more than 300 journals.
- Artforum Archive: full archive of Artforum International journal.
- Bloomsbury Applied Visual Arts: offers access to over 170 illustrated art and design ebooks.
- Bloomsbury Berg Fashion Library: includes the Berg Encyclopedia of World Fashion and Dress; around 60 e-books; a colour image bank; plus articles and book chapters. Also includes the Fashion Photography Archive.
- Bloomsbury Fashion Business Cases: presents real-world fashion business cases, and tackles important issues such as sustainability, technology, and ethics. Tutorial
- Box of Broadcasts (BoB): an on-demand TV and radio service for education. This service allows students and staff to view, record, create clips and share broadcast programmes from over 60 TV and radio channels. Tutorial
- Bridgeman Education: a database of art images.
- Business Source Complete: articles on companies, brands and products. Also includes company reports and market research.
- Cite Them Right: all the guidance you need to reference resources in your academic work.
- Digimap: an online map and data delivery service offering a number of data collections, including Ordnance Survey, historical, geological and spatial data.
- Euromonitor: articles,company profiles, market research reports and case studies of businesses. Tutorial
- Fashion Photography Archive: see Bloomsbury Fashion Central.
- Fashion Studies Online: fashion videos about designers, major fashion weeks (London, Paris, Milan, New York) and interviews with leading fashion personalities.
- Grove Art Online: art encyclopaediacovering both Western and non-Western art.
- Gale OneFile: News: a UK newspaper database and a good source of exhibition reviews and articles about artists. Tutorial
- Harpers Bazaar Archive: the full run of this US magazine from 1867 to the current issue.
- Kanopy: a collection of feature films, short films and documentaries, free to stream. You can save clips and link to presentations etc.
- LinkedIn Learning: combines the quality video tutorials of Lynda.com with the professional network features of LinkedIn.
- Oxford English Dictionary: the full version of this essential reference resource.
- Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975: primary sources and images.
- Statista: a data platform with forecasts on over 400 industries. It also features many thousands of reports on a wide range of subject areas.
- Vogue Archive: the full run of the US edition of the magazine from 1892 to the current issue.
Electronic journals
If you're looking for a particular e-journal title, use our Journals A-Z. Note that a single e-journal title may be held in several different e-journal collections (databases). Here is a selection of relevant e-journals for Art:
- Afterimage
- American Art
- Animation Journal
- Animation Practice
- Aperture
- Architectural Record
- Art Bulletin
- Art Journal
- ArtNews
- Art Monthly
- Blackflash
- Computer-Aided Design
- Computer Arts
- Costume
- Fashion Practice
- Fashion Theory
- Flash Art
- Interior Design
- Interiors: Design, Architecture and Culture
- Journal of Artists’ Books
- Journal of Contemporary Painting
- Journal of Design History
- Journal of Interior Design
- Journal of Visual Arts Practice
- Photography and Culture
- Public Art Review
- Sculpture
- Source
- Sight & Sound
- Wallpaper
- Wired
Print journals
We also subscribe to print journals, which you can locate via the Journals A-Z, including:
- Adbusters
- Aesthetica
- Afterall
- Apollo
- Architectural Review
- Art in America
- Artforum
- Art News
- Art Papers
- Art Review
- Blueprint
- British Journal of Photography
- Cabinet
- Ceramic Review
- Ceramics Monthly
- Collezioni
- Crafts
- Creative Review
- Domus
- Drapers
- Elephant
- Embroidery
- Eye
- Frame
- Frieze
- Idea
- Mark
- Mix
- Modern Painters
- Novum
- Port
- Printmaking
- Raw Vision
- Selvedge
- Surface Design
- Studio Potter
- Text
- Uppercase
- Varoom
- View
- Vogue
- Zoom
Weblinks
- Ads of the World: An advertising archive showing videos and photographs from campaigns from around the world.
- Art UK: Images of artworks that are in public collections in the UK (over 3,200 public museums, art galleries, country houses, civic buildings and other institutions)
- Artcyclopedia: Access to good-quality images of artworks from galleries and museums around the world. These can be used for study purposes.
- Axisweb: Profiling and supporting contemporary artists of the UK.
- Craft Directory: images and information from the Crafts Council, UK.
- Creative Commons Search - access to services provided by Flickr, Fotopedia, Google Images, international museums and more.
- Europeana Collections: Access to good-quality images of artworks from galleries and museums around the world. These can be used for study purposes.
- Illustration Archive: Over a million illustrations from works of literature, philosophy, history and geography that are in the British Library’s collection. Mostly 18th and 19th
- Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA): The gallery’s website, which includes some artists’ videos.
- Inter-Library Loans: Found a really interesting article or book that we don’t have access to? Apply for a copy from a non Bath Spa Library here.
- Know Your Place: digital historical mapping project
- Library Hub Discover (was Copac): Many university research library catalogues in one place – search for books or journals here.
- Lux: British artists’ videos, and listings of relevant events.
- RIBA: Royal Institute of British Architects
- SCONUL Access: A scheme which allows many university library users to borrow or use books and journals at other libraries which belong to the scheme; it covers most of the university libraries in the UK and Ireland.
- Tate Gallery Collections
Search the entire Tate Gallery Collections. - Victoria & Albert Museum: Thousands of images from the gallery's collections.
- VADS: Visual Arts Data Service which provides access to good-quality images of artworks from galleries and museums around the world. These can be used for study purposes.
- Wellcome Collection: Artworks and photographs from the library at the Wellcome Institute, reflecting its interest in health and medicine.