These two sites are sources of high-quality, well-cataloged images. They will be useful for finding other works by your chosen artist(s), or works by other artists working in similar styles and/or addressing similar themes.
Refer to our Quick Guide for Using Digital Images for tips on file size and format.
Art, Architecture and Design
Art & Architecture Library Open House
The Art & Architecture Library will be holding its annual open house on Wednesday, February 17 from 3-5 pm. It will be an occasion for staff, students, and faculty to mingle, view the latest exhibitions, eat cake (!), and celebrate the Library's role in the study and practice of the visual arts at Stanford. Please join us!
Anna Fishaut, Art & Architecture Library
Sociological Abstracts
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Description: Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences, including such fields as demography, policy and planning, economic development, and women's studies.
America, History and Life
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Description: The definitive index of scholarly journal literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present.
Types of material covered: Journal articles and reviews only.
Dates covered: Some journal coverage dating back to 1964.
SLE Reference Sources
Reference sources can be a good source of preliminary information on a topic and a means to collect useful keywords. They also often contain bibliographies that cite key texts and thinkers associated with a specific topic. The online resources listed here are a small sample of the reference materials Stanford has to offer; many are in print form and can be found by searching Socrates or SearchWorks or by physically browsing the libraries' reference areas.
Tips for using reference sources:
SLE Online Sources
In the academic world the term “database” usually refers to specific resources that retrieve items—usually from the periodical literature—not usually listed in a library’s online catalog. Databases are typically oriented toward specific subjects, and therefore they can go into far more specificity than Stanford's own online catalog (SearchWorks/Socrates) can. While journal articles are the most common items to be included in databases, many also include citations (i.e., listings for and descriptions of) for book and exhibition reviews and for chapters or essays within anthologies.
SLE Finding Books
SearchWorks is Stanford’s online catalog/database for on-campus library resources: books, magazine and journal titles (but not the individual articles within them; for a discussion of these see the "Finding Articles" section), e-books, DVDs, etc. SearchWorks allows for two main methods of searching: the Basic Search, which is the default mode, and the Advanced Search, which can be accessed by clicking on "Advanced" underneath the search box.
SLE Reserve Readings
The following books are on two-hour reserve at the Art & Architecture Library. Please ask for them at the Circulation Desk.
Survey Texts
Hartt, Frederick, and David G Wilkins. History of Italian Renaissance Art : Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. 6th ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007.
PsycINFO
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Description: Contains citations and summaries 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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