Research Guides: MATX Media Art & Text: Articles & Texts

Interlibrary Loan

If you can't find what you need at VCU, try these resources to borrow from other libraries.

ILL (Show Me How)
Via Interlibrary Loan, you can order books, articles, and various items that VCU does not own.
WorldCat (via FirstSearch)
Consolidated catalog of items held by libraries worldwide.

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VCU access only
RALC (Show Me How)
The Richmond Academic Library Consortium is a group of Richmond area libraries which have agreed to extend limited borrowing privileges to students, faculty, and staff of any RALC school. See also information about VIVA Universal Borrowing across Virginia!

Citations, tables of contents, and whole or partial books from throughout the history of printing.

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Try the Design or Contemporary Art Guides for additional resources.

ARTbibliographies Modern (Proquest)
Abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art.

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(1974 - present) VCU access only
Art Full Text
Citations, abstracts, and selected full-text for articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Also indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Includes selected full-text. Abstracts, 1994+; full-text, 1997+.
Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI)
International index to articles in more than 450 design and craft journals. Also contains data on designers, craftspeople, studios, schools, workshops, and firms.

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Major areas of coverage include:
Product design
Interior design
Graphic design
Ceramics
Glass
Jewellery
Textiles
Furniture
Fashion and clothing
Illustration
Typography and type design
Metalsmithing
Retail design
Architecture
Industrial design
Sustainability
Advertising
Packaging
Theatre
Vehicles
Exhibitions
Book design
Web design
Computer aided design
Computer graphics
Animation
Garden design
Landscape architecture
Urban design
Education
Design management
Inclusive design
Universal design
Design history

(1973 - present) VCU access only

ABELL (Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature)
The Modern Humanities Research Association's index of critical scholarship on English-language literature. Citations and selected full text.

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(1920 - present) VCU access only
Literature Resource Center
Literature reference database. Includes Contemporary Authors Online, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select (v. 95 forward), and Dictionary of Literary Biography Online, and other similar materials.

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MLA International Bibliography
The Modern Language Association of America's index of critical scholarship on literature, language, linguistics and folklore. Citations only.

Access World News
Full text for newspapers, newswires, blogs, transcripts, and more. Sources include not only major national and international newspapers, but also local and regional sources.
Communication and Mass Media Complete
Indexing and abstracts for over 300 journals, and selected priority coverage of over 100 more, for a combined coverage of over 400 titles in the communication and mass media fields. Includes full text for nearly 200 journals.
FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals (Film Indexes Online)
Indexes international periodicals, with full-text of 50+ periodicals. Also includes TV periodicals indexing for 1979-1998 and silent film information.
Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text
Contains indexing and abstracts, as well as full-text articles and chapters from journals and books relating to the field of film and television.
Sociological Abstracts
Abstracts of articles from international sociology journals, conference papers, books, and dissertations. Database includes Social Planning/Policy & Development Abstracts (SOPODA) which focuses on policy issues.

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(1963 - present) VCU access only

America: History and Life
Article abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations covering the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. (Limited coverage 1954 - 1962).

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(1963 - present) VCU access only
Humanities Abstracts
Citations to articles from English-language periodicals. Periodical coverage includes some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines.

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(1984 - present) VCU access only
Humanities International Complete
Providing full text of hundreds of journal articles, books and other published resources from around the world, Humanities International Complete (HIC) includes all data from the Humanities International Index.

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(Ancient - Present) VCU access only
JSTOR
Searchable backfiles of core journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. (Backfiles end 3 - 5 years prior to current date).

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Contains digitized copies of complete runs of hundreds of scholarly journals, many of which contain illustrations and art reproductions. Select the "caption" feature (in the Advanced search) to limit your search to image captions.
New York Times
More than a newspaper for an American city, the New York Times is an international record of national and world news, as well as personal stories of how events affect individuals.

Dissertations may be useful sources for researching the state of the field and the bibliographies can often provide a wealth of new sources.

Try the History guide for more tips on finding primary sources.

Archive of Americana
Combined interface for searching Early American Imprints I & II (1639-1819), American State Papers (1789-1838), and the U.S. Congressional Serial Set (1817-1980).

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(1639 - 1980) VCU access only
British Periodicals
British Periodicals offers searchable facsimile images for nearly 500 journals dating from the 17th to the 20th century. This resource contains Collections I-III covering historical, artistic, and popular periodicals.
Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimiles of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 -- more than 125,000 titles.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
With over 136,000 titles and 26 million pages, ECCO contains every published text of historical significance from Great Britain and Colonial America during the 18th Century.

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Coverage: (1700 - 1800)
Nineteenth Century Collections Online
Digital archive of primary source collections from the "long" 19th century. Includes monographs, newspapers, manuscripts, diaries, letters, maps, statistics and more.
Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive
Presents the history of slavery alongside efforts and actions to end it, drawing from thousands of documents, some very rare, in a comprehensive, conceptual, and global way.

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(1500 - 1865) VCU access only