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Art and Photography library resources

Your Subject Librarian

Helen Rayner

Working hours: 9-5, Monday-Friday

Email: h.rayner@bathspa.ac.uk

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 Photography are listed below.

Databases for Art and Photography

  • : news, features, toolkits, case studies, practical guides and advice for arts professionals.
  • : offers access to over 170 illustrated art and design ebooks.
  • :  full text archive of 27 magazines in the fields of art and architecture from late 1800s to early 2000s. 
  • : 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.
  • : 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.
  • : full archive of Artforum International journal.
  • : a guide to art galleries, auction houses, art fairs and agents
  • : news and information service for art sector professionals.
  • : supports research and scholarship in the areas of art, art history, women’s and gender studies, and visual culture.
  • : 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. 
  • : a database of art images.
  • : articles on companies, brands and products. Also includes company reports and market research.
  • : all the guidance you need to reference resources in your academic work.
  • : articles, company profiles, market research reports and case studies of businesses. Watch the  to get started using the database. We recommend using the Google Chrome browser to access Euromonitor.
  • : an international newspaper database and a good source of exhibition reviews and articles about artists.
  • : covers all aspects of human impact on the environment
  • : art encyclopaedia.
  • : images from museums and galleries around the world, as well as journal articles from over 1,000 journals, on a wide range of subjects.
  • : a collection of feature films, short films and documentaries, free to stream. You can save clips and link to presentations.
  • : the full version of this essential reference resource.
  • : primary sources, articles, videos, ebooks and images relating to US popular culture from the 1900s - 2010s. 
  • : primary sources and images.
  • new stories and analysis giving a global view of business strategies and sponsorship deals across a range of sporting businesses and brands.
  • : a data platform with forecasts on over 400 industries. It also features many thousands of reports on a wide range of subject areas.
  • :  holds backfiles of 13 magazines from the UK, US and Canada with coverage spanning 1940 to the 2000s.  

 

 

If you're looking for a particular e-journal title, use our . Note that a single e-journal title may be held in several different e-journal collections (databases). Here is just a selection of relevant e-journals for Art and Photography:

We also subscribe to print journals, which you can locate via the , including:

  • Aesthetica
  • Afterall
  • Apollo
  • Art in America
  • Artforum
  • Art News
  • Art Papers
  • Art Review
  • British Journal of Photography
  • Cabinet
  • Elephant
  • Mix
  • Modern Painters
  • Modernist
  • Printmaking Today
  • Raw Vision
  • Selvedge
  • Surface Design
  • Studio Potter

 

  • : 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)
  • : Access to good-quality images of artworks from galleries and museums around the world. These can be used for study purposes.
  • : Profiling and supporting contemporary artists of the UK.
  • : local council planning pages.
  • : photographic image sources such as picture libraries and agencies.
  • : images and information from the Crafts Council, UK.
  • - access to services provided by Flickr, Fotopedia, Google Images, international museums and more.
  • : Access to good-quality images of artworks from galleries and museums around the world. These can be used for study purposes.
  • : Over a million illustrations from works of literature, philosophy, history and geography that are in the British Library’s collection. Mostly 18th and 19th
  • (ICA): The gallery’s website, which includes some artists’ videos.
  • : international open access and peer-reviewed journal for artistic research from all disciplines. 
  • (was Copac): Many university research library catalogues in one place – search for books or journals here.
  • : British artists’ videos, and listings of relevant events.
  • : materials information and design resource.
  • : Artworks and photographs from the library at the Wellcome Institute, reflecting its interest in health and medicine.
 
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Inter-Library Loans: for an article or book that we don’t have access to, apply for a copy from a non Bath Spa Library here.

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for free open access textbooks in most subjects.

for free, open access online journals.

for research repository content at universities (JISC).

for theses and dissertations (EBSCO).

: 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.