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Databases A-Z
Find the best library databases for your research.
Yale University Press's authoritative eBook resource that features important works of scholarship in the history of art, architecture, decorative arts, photography, and design. Includes the Art Institute of Chicago's eBooks.
3 full text collections--ReVIEW, arts & architecture journals; Arts + Architecture ProFILES, biographical data on artists, architects, & designers; Research Source on The Poster--plus Design Abstracts Retrospective, indexing applied arts and design journals from 1900-1986.
**This is a temporary resource. Masterclasses, documentaries, interviews, content that can entertain, educate and inform: Artfilms streams thousands of videos from top artists and producers.
Vast sound archive freely available to download over 16,000 sound effects in WAV format for “personal, educational or research purposes” from animal sounds and talking dolls to the sound of furnace glass burners and rattling window frames.
Integrated text and image content on world dress and fashion throughout history. Includes the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, ebooks, an image bank, and more.
Brings together 4 renowned ornithological reference works published by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Covering the life histories of all breeding birds. Includes images, video, sound files, full-text articles.
Perpetual access to over 3,000 titles in all academic disciplines on the ProQuest eBook Central platform, provided by the Consortium of Academic & Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI). Select School of the Art Institute of Chicago in drop-down menu for access.
**This is a temporary resource. Trial available October 1 - 31, 2020. Over 500 videos featuring therapist demonstrating their methods and techniques, plus documentaries on the human condition.
**This is a temporary resource. An aggregated collection of Russian newspapers translated into English. Contains 3,547 issues dating from 1949 to the present. Access until December 15, 2020.
**This is a temporary resource. Accurate up to date and concise information on currently marketed drugs, those undergoing clinical trials, and pharmacological tools. With recently updated content on the latest COVID-19 clinical trial data, Dictionary of Drugs consists of 15,569 entries and 59,684 compounds.
**This is a temporary resource. Legal documents including case law, plus law review journals, and historical documentation in political science, criminal justice, religious studies, international relations, women’s studies, pre-law, and more.
Over 5,000 e-books on the humanities, in subjects such as archaeology, art & architectural history, film & media studies, literature, musicology, theater and dance, philosophy, religion, and sociology. All titles are peer-reviewed and in full-text.
**This is a temporary resource. Izvestiia (Известия) presents "the Kremlin’s newspaper of record," Izvestiia (Известия), from its founding in 1917 through present. Access until December 15, 2020.
**This is a temporary resource. Access to the English-language daily from the publisher The Yomiuri Shimbun, includes over 27,251 issues covering the period of 1955-present. Access until December 15, 2020.
**This is an expanded resource. Full text archive of all JSTOR content including scholarly humanities, arts, and social sciences journals. Note: does NOT include the most current 3-5 years.
Tip: Videos play best only in Firefox, Safari, IE, for embedding videos (may not load in Chrome). Curated collection from independent and international producers including selections from Criterion, Michael Blackwood and others.
Video-based tutorials on a wide range of software, including: 3D, video, photography, web design, graphic design, and more; all organized by subject software, and instructor.
**This is a temporary resource. A collection of 4,411 full-text issues of the Russian, English-language newspaper covering issues dating from 1930 to 2014. Access until December 15, 2020.
**This is a temporary resource. Access to 70 titles published by MuseumsEtc that address contemporary issues for museum and gallery professionals. Access until November 1, 2020.
**This is a temporary resource. Contains 4,481 full-text issues of the Russian illustrated magazine dating from 1923 to 2017. Access until December 15, 2020.
HD-quality contemporary performance films. Filmed at On the Boards, as well as peer theaters across the country, the performances present a snapshot of the best new works by current leaders in dance, theater and music.
Single platform for publications from 18 university presses including Cornell, Stanford, and Universities of Chicago, Illinois, Minnesota, New York and The British Academy. Covers titles published between 2018 and June 2021.
At this time, VDB has a selection of its collection available on Panopto. If faculty or students need other titles from our collection, please email info@vdb.org outlining your needs, and we will work to add those titles to Panopto. We will start with the most needed titles and will continue to add other requests as soon as possible.
This guide attempts to collect and curate the contributions of Black planners, scholars, artists, writers, organizers and practitioners from a variety of fields that are concerned with the process of organizing space and place in the urban environment.
The Black Metropolis Research Consortium (BMRC) gathers information about archival collections held by member organizations that document African American and African diasporic culture, history, and politics, with a specific focus on materials relating to Chicago. The searchable database includes records about collections that were processed or surveyed through the BMRC's Survey Initiative and Color Curtain Processing Project programs, as well as finding aids contributed from our members about relevant materials in their repositories.
Created and maintained by cartoonist MariNaomi as a way to spotlight marginalized comics creators. The databases are used by booksellers, librarians, academics, editors, book publishers, event organizers, readers, and more.
Eclectic collection of international advertisements, originally free from copyright restrictions. The IADDB foundation encourages advertisers to add their copyrighted material and asks anyone to add images, names, dates and all other kinds of information, to create a crowd-sourced collection of advertising documentation.
A platform that aims to “decentralize the study of fashion,” filling an important void in fashion scholarship. Founded in 2017 and relaunched in July of this year, the database is a response to a Euro-centric framework of fashion history and theory, with goals of amplifying BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) perspectives and broadening the traditional narrative.
At this time, VDB has a selection of its collection available on Panopto. If faculty or students need other titles from our collection, please email info@vdb.org outlining your needs, and we will work to add those titles to Panopto. We will start with the most needed titles and will continue to add other requests as soon as possible.
