Where to Find Resources (by type)

Tumblr collection of websites of art, architecture + design images, books, films, photography + more.

growing collection–all original works commissioned by the Art Canada Institute–by the country’s leading art experts on Canadian artists.

A one-stop searchbox for Open and Affordable Educational Resources.

More than 300 books available virtually​ from Getty's backlist.

900+ catalogs digitized by the Getty Research Institute (GRI) and the Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties (TNRICP).

"The Museums Cycle" and other publications about the fields of arts, culture and history.

There are more offerings that may or may not be accessible online through the Met Publications homepage.

Exhibitions from MoMA's founding in 1929 to the present are available online.

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.

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.

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.

Indexes and links to millions of books and archival materials available to read free online. Hosted by the UPenn Library.

The Getty Foundation's Online Scholarly Catalogue Initiative (OSCI) offers digital museum catalogues from various institutions (including the Art Institute of Chicago).

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.

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.

Chicago’s International Journal of Contemporary & Modern Art, features in-depth writing on exhibitions, as well as highlight essays, artist profiles, and reviews.

Books digitized by the Smithsonian Libraries. Many are Public Domain works unless otherwise noted.

Collection available through the Internet Archive

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.

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.