Art Abstracts and Art Full Text

Art Abstracts: Covers all aspects of art, from archaeology to performing arts, from film to landscape architecture. It includes references to articles, reviews, exhibition listings and other types of material. The database contains some 400,000 records from over 300 art journals and is updated monthly. Journals are indexed from 1984 and include abstracts from 1994 onwards.

Art Full Text: Accessed from the same place - provides a number of journals in full text dating from 1997.

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Important Notes

This database does provide some full text and many entries include abstracts. If full text is not available, you will need to check the Library catalogue and/or journals web pages to find out whether a particular book or journal is held. If not, you may want to apply via interlibrary loans for a copy.