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Librarian for: Art, Art History, and Arts and Administration
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Start your research by defining a topic:

Begin your library assignment by learning about broad areas of possible research.  Reading an article in an online encyclopedia will help you to narrow and focus your ideas before you begin to search for books and articles.

• Grove Dictionary of Art and Oxford Art Online (including the Oxford Companion to Western Literature, the Dictionary of Aesthetics and the Consise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms) 
  
• Performing Arts, Oxford Reference Online. -  Includes full-text, searchable versions of a number of Oxford reference sources for theater and opera.

Find journal articles:

This box is searching the following databases, but you can search them one at a time too.  You can also find other worthwhile databases on the OneSearch advanced page.

Art Abstracts  provides access to the content of leading art and design journals covering all aspects of art, art history and theory, as well as other related areas including some performance, theater and film.

ArtBibliographies Modern  provides access to essays and chapters on contemporary art from journals, exhibition catalogs, and books on modern art from the late 19th century.

Gender Studies Database covers the full spectrum of gender-focussed scholarship in many formats.

JSTOR  is an online archive of over 400 academic journals.  All articles in JSTOR are peer reviewed.

You may also want to try:
Google Scholar   Here you can find articles that are archived in free open access online archives like the Scholars Bank. Get more information about Scholars Bank.

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Looking for Articles in Journals and Magazines presents strategies for using journal indexes and databases.

Scholarly vs. Popular provides you with clues about how to distinguish the difference between scholarly (aka peer-reviewed or refereed) and popular journal articles.

Find books:

UO WorldCat, also available on the catalog tab on the UO Libraries' homepage, locates books, journals, videos and other library materials at the UO, Summit libraries and in libraries around the world. Materials owned by the UO are listed first on the results list, followed by Summit and then by libraries elsewhere.

UO Libraries   You may also begin your search in the local catalog. The local catalog will provide access to some materials which do not appear in UO WorldCat.  To see whether a search in UO Worldcat or at the UO Libraries will serve your needs best, consult this chart.

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