This guide lists selected online, electronic and print information sources available to Kwantlen Faculty, students and staff. For a more extensive list of print resources, see our Western Arts guidepost. Check the Library Catalogue to find additional resources at KUC.

• Journal & Article Indexes
• Background Information
• Citation and Style Guides

• Web Resources
• Canadian Art
• Museums & Art Galleries

Other KUC Library Resources by Subject guides that may be of interest to Fine Arts students:
Interior Design | Interdisciplinary Design | Graphic Design, History, Fashion

Journal & Article Indexes

Background Information

Fine Art Article Indexes & Databases

• Art Index
• ARTstor
• Grove Art Online

Other Useful Indexes

• Academic Search Premier
• Canadian Business and Current Affairs CBCA (Business)
• Canadian Newsstand
• Canadian Periodical Index (CPI.Q)
• JSTOR

TIP for Advanced Researchers: Set up an alert for your favourite journal and you'll be notified when the latest issue is available electronically. For help with this, see our Search Alert guide.

Important Print Resources

• Janson's history of art : the western tradition 7th ed.
• Art History
• Elements of design : Rowena Reed Kostellow and the structure of visual relationships
• Encyclopedia of 20th century sculpture
• Atlas of World Art
• The Oxford dictionary of the Renaissance
• The concise Oxford Dictionary of art and artists
• Oxford Reference Online: Art & Architecture

Fine Art Journals

• Kwantlen's Fine Art Journal Collection - For print versions you will find the phrase "Kwantlen University College Print Journals after the title and a notation stating which campus it is on. The titles of the electronic versions are followed by a link to the article index which will open the journal directly.

Web Resources

Museums & Art Galleries

• Art and Architecture Thesaurus - from the Getty Museum.
• Art History Resources on the Web - divided by period, this site has links to short articles as well as images. Also included are links to museums, online journals and libraries.
• Art Through the Ages - a directory of links in the visual arts; organized in the same categories as Gardner's Art Through the Ages; covers antiquities to the 20th century; numerous links to webpages about specific movements and artists.
• Mother of all Art and Art History Links Page - from the University of Michigan.
• Voice of the Shuttle - Art and Art History Page.
• Artnet:
• The Getty Information Institute
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Timeline of Art History:
• MOMA's DADABASE
• Smithsonian Inititution Research & Information System (SIRIS)
• The Art Museum Social Tagging Project a research project whose participants are building a tagging tool, collecting tags, analyzing data, and engaging in discussion. We hope to apply what we learn to improving access to works of art.

TIP: Don't believe everything you read! Evaluate web sources very carefully for their accuracy, authority, and currency. Here are some evaluation criteria to help you

• American Memory a free/open collection from Library of Congress of still and moving images, prints, maps, written and spoken words, sound recordings and sheet music as well as links sites of historical collections
• Art Museum Network
• The British Museum
• Dia Art Foundation
• J. Paul Getty Museum
• Louvre Museum
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• MOMA: The Museum of Modern Art
• National Museum of Women in the Arts
• Smithsonian Institution The world's largest complex of museums and affliated collections - 136 million artworks, objects and specimens
• Tate Online: British and international modern art
• Uffizi Gallery
• Virtual Museum - links to museum web sites from around the world.

Listservs, Blogs & Associations

• Art History Research Centre - this site has listings of various listservs and newsgroups for different studies in the field.
• Eyelevel An Art blog from the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The name Eye Level imparts a sense of clarity to which the blog aspires.
• Resources of Scholarly Societies - Fine Arts - provides links to web sites of scholarly societies in Fine Arts.

Canadian Art

Citation Styles

• Canadian Art - online home of Canadian Art magazine.
• Canadian Museum of Civilization
• Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography
• Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art - database of images: over 400 Canadian artists represented.
• Cybermuse - database of images from the National Gallery of Canada and the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography.
• National Gallery of Canada
• Vancouver Art Gallery
• Virtual Museum of Canada - includes virtual exhibits of Canadian art, information about museums, etc.

• APA - American Psychological Assoc. guidelines
• MLA - Modern Language Assoc. standards