Article Databases
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SummonSummon searches many broad scholarly databases at one time!
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Education Databases (EBSCOHost) This link opens in a new windowFor research in the field of Education, use this resource to search the ERIC, Health and Psychosocial Instruments, Teacher Reference Center, and Education Source databases simultaneously.
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ERIC - ProQuest This link opens in a new windowThe ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature. The ERIC database corresponds to two printed journals: Resources in Education (RIE) and Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). Both journals provide access to some 14,000 documents and over 20,000 journal articles per year.
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Teacher Reference Center This link opens in a new windowTeacher Reference Center provides indexing and abstracts for 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.
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PsycINFO This link opens in a new windowContains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law.
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PTSDpubs This link opens in a new windowThe PILOTS: Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and includes citations to literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health issues results from traumatic events, for populations ranging from children to adults.
Google Scholar can be found in the middle of the navigation bar at the top of this page. Click on "Link to Your Wayne State Account" and SAVE each time you enter this database.
The databases below focus on more specialized areas of Art Therapy:
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CINAHL Ultimate This link opens in a new windowCINAHL Ultimate is a full-text database for nursing and allied health research. It offers full-text access to a substantial portion of the most frequently cited journals in the CINAHL index, surpassing other databases. Providing 1,815 active full-text journals, this database covers over 50 nursing specialties. Additionally, it features full-text quick lessons, evidence-based care sheets, continuing education modules, nursing instructional videos, and more.
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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.
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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. JSTOR invites you to explore an AI Interactive Research Tool in beta. Developed in collaboration with the academic community, this tool employs AI and other technologies to empower people to deepen and expand their research with JSTOR’s trusted corpus.
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Child Care and Early Education This link opens in a new windowResources in the collection examine the child care and early education experiences of children birth through age 8 and -- when addressing school-age child care -- through age 13. The collection brings together original research, syntheses, datasets, and other research-related resources from the wide range of social science disciplines and professional fields that study early care and education.
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ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global Closed Collection - full text This link opens in a new windowPQDT offers access to 3 million citations to dissertations and theses from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works. Over 80,000 new dissertations and theses are added to the database each year.
Finding and Requesting Full-Text Articles
How to find full-text articles when you already have a citation:
How to access full-text articles from a library database using Article Linker (Link to Full-Text):
Art Lesson Plans & Learning Activities
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Crayola for EducatorsWhile this page does promote Crayola products, it also includes a collection of lesson plans and technique ideas.
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KinderArtOver 800 free lesson plans are available on this site, along with teaching tips and articles related to art education
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Picturing AmericaThe Picturing America Teachers Resource Book and online reproductions of notable American art gives participants the opportunity to learn about our nation's history and culture in a fresh and engaging way. The program uses art as a catalyst for the study of America: the cultural, political, and historical threads woven into our nation's fabric over time.
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The Getty (Education)Search the Getty's Lesson Plan database for fine art and art in the curriculum, searchable by grade level and content area.
Internet Resources
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Art Corps DetroitArtsCorpsDetroit is a community-based program at Wayne State University that offers service-learning courses and volunteer opportunities for students and others who want to help revitalize the urban community through the arts.
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Art Images for College TeachingA free-use site for education, this site is organized into five primary chronological and cultural groupings. Images can be enlarged and each contains brief captions and descriptive information.
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Arts Education PartnershipA national coalition of arts, education, business, philanthropic and government organizations that demonstrate and promote the essential role of the arts in the learning and development of every child and in the improvement of America's schools.
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CreativeManyShaping opportunities for the creative economy of arts, culture, creativity and design in Michigan
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Data Arts: Data Collection on Arts and CultureSee "Data At Work" under Learn for reports on different cultural institutions and activities.
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Eyes on Art Teacher's GuideSuggested web-based learning models for studying art on the world wide web, created to relate to the 2001 California Department of Education's Visual Arts Content Standards.
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Museums and Cultural Institutions in MichiganFrom Wikipedia. A sortable list by name, location or type.
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STEM to STEAMThe objectives of the STEAM movement are to: transform research policy to place Art + Design at the center of STEM;
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The Nation's Report Card: The ArtsThe NAEP arts assessment measures students' knowledge and skills in creating, performing, and responding to works of music, theatre, and visual arts.
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The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards National CatalogThe National Catalog of the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards annually showcases the accomplishments of creative teens who have dedicated themselves to their craft and received national recognition for their efforts.
Reading in the Content Area
To search for articles on Reading in the Content Area for art education, go to the ERIC database and search for "content area reading" AND art.
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Arts Edge (Kennedy Center)The mission of ARTSEDGE is to help artists, teachers, and students gain access to and/or share information, resources, and ideas that support the arts as a core subject area in the K-12 curriculum. Includes extensive links to art ed sights.
Art of Indigenous Cultures: Inclusion in the K-12 Curriculum (AED 5890)
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Native Art, Native Voices: A Resource for K-12 Learners (Minneapolis Institute of Art)Lesson Plans, Artist Interviews, Essays, and 112-page pdf of curriculum ideas
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Art: Indigenous Education K-12 (University of British Columbia)This Canadian website features interesting education objects from the Pacific Coast and all over Canada. NOTE: Canada uses the subject heading "First Nations;" while the U.S. Library of Congress subject heading is "Indians of North America"
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National Museum of the American Indian (Smithsonian)Especially worth exploring are "Online Resources" and the Education dropdown which has a section on "Lessons & Resources"
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15 Native American Museums in Michigan for Cultural Education by Matt Heffner (awesomemitten)Sorry for the ads, but this recent article does link to Michigan Museums that feature indigenous collections (some included within larger museums).
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National Museum of African American History & Culture (Smithsonian)The "Learn" tab is especially rich with online resources for educators, students, and families.
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Zekelman Holocaust Center - Educator ResourcesThese resources support the Museum's educational philosophy of “Safely Explore, Prepare and Conclude” (SPEC), and are designed to engage students and foster critical and compassionate thinking so that they better understand the events of the Holocaust and see the victims as people, not just numbers.
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Arab American National Museum - for EducatorsResources for enhancing the understanding of Arab American history, arts, culture and contributions.
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Art History Teaching Resources (AHTR)A peer-populated platform for educators, this website includes lesson plans, video introductions to museums, book reviews, image clusters, and classroom and museum activities.
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Getty Research PortalWorldwide access to an extensive collection of digitized art history texts from a range of institutions. This multilingual and multicultural union catalog affords researchers the ability to search and download complete digital copies of publications devoted to art, architecture, material culture, and related fields.
ADDITIONAL DATABASES:
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Art Abstracts This link opens in a new windowIncludes international periodicals, yearbooks, museum bulletins, exhibition listings, interviews, film reviews, etc.
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Arts & Humanities Citation Index This link opens in a new windowA multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities
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eHRAF World CulturesWe will try to set up a formal trial of this database.
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Art Index Retrospective This link opens in a new windowArt journalism from periodicals, art yearbooks and select museum bulletins. Includes contemporary art criticism at the time of its debut, the body of work of an artist or movement, artist interviews, etc.
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MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new windowCurrent scholarship in the modern languages, literatures, and folklore.
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Art bibliographies modern This link opens in a new windowModern and contemporary art, photography and design
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Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) and Répertoire de la litterature de l'art (RILA)In 2010 the Getty Research Institute made these database available for free online. They cover American and European visual arts from 1975-2007. RILA covers the years 1975-1989. 1200 journals are indexed in BHA. Click to see the Journals indexed in BHA.
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Iter bibliography This link opens in a new windowLiterature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Citations for books, journal material (articles, essays, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts, encyclopedia entries, and discographies)
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SCIPIO: Art and Rare Book Sales/Auction Catalogs This link opens in a new windowBibliographic access to auction sales catalogs from all major North American and European auction houses, as well as private sales. Includes information on the provenance of art objects and rare books, the history of collection, and contemporary and historical market trends.
Wayne State's Art & Art History Librarian, Serena Vaquilar, maintains a Research Guide for Art & Art History here.