Art and Design

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 Design are listed below.

Databases for Art and Design 

• Art, Design & Architecture: 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.
• Art Full Text: 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.
• Artforum Archive: full archive of Artforum International journal.
• Bloomsbury Applied Visual Arts: offers access to over 170 illustrated art and design ebooks.
• Bloomsbury Berg Fashion Library: includes the Berg Encyclopedia of World Fashion and Dress; around 60 e-books; a colour image bank; plus articles and book chapters. Also includes the Fashion Photography Archive.
• Bloomsbury Fashion Business Cases: presents real-world fashion business cases, and tackles important issues such as sustainability, technology, and ethics. Tutorial
• Box of Broadcasts (BoB): 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. Tutorial
• Bridgeman Education: a database of art images.
• Business Source Complete: articles on companies, brands and products. Also includes company reports and market research.
• Cite Them Right: all the guidance you need to reference resources in your academic work.
• Digimap: an online map and data delivery service offering a number of data collections, including Ordnance Survey, historical, geological and spatial data.
• Euromonitor: articles,company profiles, market research reports and case studies of businesses. Tutorial
• Fashion Photography Archive: see Bloomsbury Fashion Central.
• Fashion Studies Online: fashion videos about designers, major fashion weeks (London, Paris, Milan, New York) and interviews with leading fashion personalities. 
• Grove Art Online: art encyclopaediacovering both Western and non-Western art.
• Gale OneFile: News: a UK newspaper database and a good source of exhibition reviews and articles about artists. Tutorial
• Harpers Bazaar Archive: the full run of this US magazine from 1867 to the current issue.
• Kanopy: a collection of feature films, short films and documentaries, free to stream. You can save clips and link to presentations etc.
• LinkedIn Learning: combines the quality video tutorials of Lynda.com with the professional network features of LinkedIn.
• Oxford English Dictionary: the full version of this essential reference resource.
• Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975: primary sources and images.
• Statista: a data platform with forecasts on over 400 industries. It also features many thousands of reports on a wide range of subject areas.
• Vogue Archive: the full run of the US edition of the magazine from 1892 to the current issue.

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

• Afterimage
• American Art
• Animation Journal
• Animation Practice
• Aperture
• Architectural Record
• Art Bulletin
• Art Journal
• ArtNews
• Art Monthly
• Blackflash
• Computer-Aided Design
• Computer Arts
• Costume
• Fashion Practice
• Fashion Theory
• Flash Art
• Interior Design
• Interiors: Design, Architecture and Culture
• Journal of Artists’ Books
• Journal of Contemporary Painting
• Journal of Design History
• Journal of Interior Design
• Journal of Visual Arts Practice
• Photography and Culture
• Print
• Public Art Review
• Sculpture
• Source
• Sight & Sound
• Wallpaper
• Wired

We also subscribe to print journals, which you can locate via the Journals A-Z, including: 

• Adbusters
• Aesthetica
• Afterall
• Apollo
• Architectural Review
• Art in America
• Artforum
• Art News
• Art Papers
• Art Review
• Blueprint
• British Journal of Photography
• Cabinet
• Ceramic Review
• Ceramics Monthly
• Collezioni
• Crafts
• Creative Review
• Domus
• Drapers
• Elephant
• Embroidery
• Eye
• Frame
• Frieze
• Idea
• Mark
• Mix
• Modern Painters
• Novum
• Port
• Printmaking
• Raw Vision
• Selvedge
• Surface Design
• Studio Potter
• Text
• Uppercase
• Varoom
• View
• Vogue
• Zoom

• Ads of the World: An advertising archive showing videos and photographs from campaigns from around the world.
• Art UK: 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)
• Artcyclopedia: Access to good-quality images of artworks from galleries and museums around the world. These can be used for study purposes.
• Axisweb: Profiling and supporting contemporary artists of the UK.
• Craft Directory: images and information from the Crafts Council, UK.
• Creative Commons Search - access to services provided by Flickr, Fotopedia, Google Images, international museums and more.
• Europeana Collections: Access to good-quality images of artworks from galleries and museums around the world. These can be used for study purposes.
• Illustration Archive: Over a million illustrations from works of literature, philosophy, history and geography that are in the British Library’s collection. Mostly 18^th and 19^th
• Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA): The gallery’s website, which includes some artists’ videos.
• Inter-Library Loans: Found a really interesting article or book that we don’t have access to? Apply for a copy from a non Bath Spa Library here.
• Know Your Place: digital historical mapping project 
• Library Hub Discover (was Copac): Many university research library catalogues in one place – search for books or journals here.
• Lux: British artists’ videos, and listings of relevant events.
• RIBA: Royal Institute of British Architects
• SCONUL Access: 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.
• Tate Gallery Collections
  Search the entire Tate Gallery Collections.
• Victoria & Albert Museum: Thousands of images from the gallery's collections.
• VADS: Visual Arts Data Service which provides access to good-quality images of artworks from galleries and museums around the world. These can be used for study purposes.
• Wellcome Collection: Artworks and photographs from the library at the Wellcome Institute, reflecting its interest in health and medicine.