Contemporary Art: Find Journal Articles

Useful for art scholars, artists, architects and designers, this contains full text journals, books and images. A good starting point for research in art, design, and architecture.

Essential for comprehensive research in modern and contemporary art, art history, design and crafts. Sources include articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogues and reviews, PhD dissertations.

Due to the impact of the COVID-19 virus, this database contains expanded access to journals and primary sources until 30 June 2023

• List of freely accessible titles and collection information offered by JSTOR

JSTOR is a digital library containing digitized back issues of academic journals. It now encompasses books and other primary sources in the humanities and social sciences.

When you use Google Scholar, you will often find results that aren’t freely available in full-text. You can link Google Scholar to the Library's databases to access full-text articles by following these how to setup and use Google Scholar instructions.

Currently Google Scholar is not available from China. This includes using the University’s VPN. We recommend using Library Search to find information for your study or research. You can use Library Search to access the Library’s large collection of online and physical resources, such as ebooks and journal articles. For more help on finding scholarly information for your assignments, please check out the library’s Assignment support page.

Includes Grove Art Online, Oxford Companion to Western Art, Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms and Encyclopedia of Aesthetics.