Subject Specialist Librarian
Serena Vaquilar
Contact:
134 Purdy/Kresge Library
Phone: (313) 577-8368
Email: serena.vaquilar@wayne.edu
Research consultations available by appointment. Please email for times outside of appointment scheduler (above).
Phone: (313) 577-8368
Email: serena.vaquilar@wayne.edu
Research consultations available by appointment. Please email for times outside of appointment scheduler (above).
Glossary of Art Terms from MOMA
- Glossary of Art Terms from MOMAFrom the Museum of Modern Art, also includes links to lists of contemporary art Themes, as well as contemporary Artists.
Online Text Translators
These free translators can be helpful if art books are in foreign languages. Just knowing a few words can be helpful in identifying content. For instance, in German, VERLAG translates in English to PUBLISHER and KUNST translates in English to ARTIST.
- Babylon 9This resource can be downloaded for free.
Library Search Tools: QuickSearch
Use can use the QuickSearch box above the Guide to do your searching.
Library Search Tools: Classic Catalog
Good Article Databases for Social Issues Debate Topics
- Opposing Viewpoints This link opens in a new windowOpposing Viewpoints in Context is the premier online resource covering today's hottest social issues, from Offshore Drilling to Climate Change, Health Care to Immigration. Opposing Viewpoints in Context helps students research, analyze and organize a broad variety of data for conducting research, completing writing assignments, preparing for debates, creating presentations and more.
- CQ Researcher This link opens in a new windowThe CQ Library is a subscription-only service that provides Web access to CQ weekly and the CQ researcher.
Article Databases
- Art Abstracts This link opens in a new windowCovers more than 250 key international, English-language arts publications, includes periodicals, yearbooks, museum bulletins, competition and award notices, exhibition listings, interviews, film reviews, and so forth.
- Art bibliographies modern This link opens in a new windowModern and contemporary art, photography and design
- Art Index Retrospective This link opens in a new windowCovers 55 years of art journalism. Besides periodicals, users have access to data from important yearbooks and select museum bulletins. The Index helps users find contemporary art criticism at the time of its debut, track the body of work of an artist or movement, and find artist interviews and other commentary. Includes sources published in English as well as French, Italian, German, Spanish and Dutch.
- Arts & Humanities Database This link opens in a new windowThis database features hundreds of titles covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre and Cultural Studies. It is designed to complement the following indexes: ABM, Avery, BHA, BHI, DAAI, Index Islamicus, MLA, Philosopher's Index and RILM.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowProvides image and full-text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics, and other fields of the humanities and social sciences. WSU has perpetual access to the Arts and Sciences I-XV, Hebrew Journals and Sustainability Collections.
Images
- Artstor's Shared Shelf CommonsIncludes images from libraries, archives, and museums around the world.
- Life Magazine Photo ArchiveMillions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.
Stock Photos
Medical Images
- Historical Anatomies on the Web: in the Public DomainAll of the scanned works are in the public domain. The National Library of Medicine does not charge for the use of its images or require requests for permission. However, we ask that published images include the credit line "Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine."
- Medical Images: Duke University LibraryLinks to different types of medical image collections. Of particular note are the History of Medicine images which include historical illustrations.