Research Guides: Remote Learning with Online Library Resources: Open Access Books + Articles

(March 17) REDSHELF and VITALSOURCE - major textbook providers have opened up free access for students until the end of term. Refer to their websites for details -- check to see if your texts are available -- these are large providers of textbooks for classes.

Titles included: Gardner's Art Through the Ages,....

Vital Source Access:
1. Visit Vitalsource’s Bookshelf login page and follow the instructions to create an account. Students must use their institutional email address.
2. Once they confirm their email, they can sign in and search for books by title, ISBN, author.
3. When they find the title, just hover over it and click ‘borrow’. Users can borrow up to 7 titles.

Art + Design Online
Tumblr collection of websites of art, architecture + design images, books, films, photography + more
Canadian Online Art Book Project
growing collection–all original works commissioned by the Art Canada Institute–by the country’s leading art experts on Canadian artists.
George Mason OER Metafinder Search
A one-stop searchbox for Open and Affordable Educational Resources.
Getty Publications Virtual Library
More than 300 books available virtually from Getty's backlist.
Independent Voices
Open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of many libraries.
Japanese Art Exhibition Catalogs via Getty
900+ catalogs digitized by the Getty Research Institute (GRI) and the Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties (TNRICP).
Latsis Foundation eLibrary
"The Museums Cycle" and other publications about the fields of arts, culture and history.
Met Publications: Read Online
There are more offerings that may or may not be accessible online through the Met Publications homepage.
OAPEN Arts Titles
OAPEN offers open access, peer-reviewed books. The link above specifically narrows their offerings to Art titles, but they offer more disciplines and subjects if desired.
OASIS
Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool that makes discovery of open content easier. OASIS currently searches open content from 57 different sources, from SUNY.
OE Global (OCW Consortium)
The OpenCourseWare Consortium is a collaboration of higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model.
OSCI: Museum Collection Catalogs
The Getty Foundation's Online Scholarly Catalogue Initiative (OSCI) offers digital museum catalogues from various institutions (including the Art Institute of Chicago).
Project Gutenberg - Art Bookshelf
Selected art books and books about artists: practical methods & specialties, general art and art history works, plus visitor guides to art expos, galleries, and museums.
Public Books Database
The Public Books Database catalogs academic presses who have made material freely available as a result of COVID-19, promising routine updates as new items are available.
The Seen
Chicago’s International Journal of Contemporary & Modern Art, features in-depth writing on exhibitions, as well as highlight essays, artist profiles, and reviews.
Smithsonian Books Online
Books digitized by the Smithsonian Libraries. Many are Public Domain works unless otherwise noted.
Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME)
TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem) seeks to address this problem by moving us toward a new, more sustainable system in which monograph publishing costs are met by institutionally funded faculty book subsidies. These publication grants make it possible for presses to publish monographs in open access editions, which increases the presence of humanities and social science scholarship on the web and opens up knowledge to a truly global readership.
WAC Clearinghouse (Writing Across the Curriculum)
Articles and books of interest to the writing-across-the-curriculum community, providing a wide range of Web-based resources for instructors who wish to use writing in their courses.

Materials provided to us by Professor David J. Getsy

A selection of hard-to-find and out-of-print catalogues, books, and texts by other authors.

Extended Sensibilities: Homosexual Presence in Contemporary Art, curated by Dan Cameron, New Museum of Contemporary Art, 1982 [full catalogue]
Lucy Lippard, Get the Message?: A Decade of Art for Social Change, New York: E.P. Dutton, 1984 [full book]
Special issue: “Postposttranssexual: Keywords for a 21st-Century Transgender Studies,” ed. Susan Stryker and Paisley Currah, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 1.1-2 (2014) [complete double issue]
The SPIT! Manifesto Reader: A Selection of Historical and Contemporary Queer Manifestos, ed. Carlos Motta, John Arthur Peetz, and Carlos Maria Romero, London: Frieze Projects, 2017
Frank O’Hara, What’s With Modern Art?, edited by Bill Berkson, Austin, Texas: Mike & Dale’s Press, 1999 [complete chapbook]

[Additionally, the majority of Getsy's essays are available for download as PDFs here.]