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Article Indexes/Databases

Academic Search Complete
Contains full text for nearly 3,180 scholarly publications and includes full-page images as well as color embedded images. Provides full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies

ArtBibliographies Modern
This index covers contemporary artists and events, concentrating on all aspects of art, design, and photography. Indexes articles from approximately 330 serials plus Festschriften (anthologies of articles dedicated to or honoring an individual, for example on a birthday), dissertations, exhibition catalogs, gallery publications, and artists' books. Includes abstracts and has good coverage of European artists and obscure artists. From 1969-1988, it covered art created since 1800, while in 1989, it became more narrowly focused on art since 1900 and dropped architecture.

Art Index
Art Index provides comprehensive abstracting and indexing for 313 leading international art
publications, including periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins. This database offers broad coverage of art topics, including advertising, archaeology, crafts, folk art, graphic arts, interior design, video, film, architecture, and art history.

Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)

Covering European and American art from late antiquity to the present, the Bibliography of the History of Art indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealer's catalogs, and articles from more than 2,500 periodicals. The Bibliography of the History of Art file is updated quarterly and covers 1973 to the present, with more than 469,000 records.

Book Review Digest Plus

Book review Digest Retrospective: 1905 - 1982

Business and Industry Database
Over 500 full-text trade and industry journals covering 190 countries.

Business Source Complete

Business database with full text for over 3,600 serials, including over 1,000 peer-reviewed business journals. Additional full text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more.

Colour Index International
This index provides technical information on color products and manufacturers. It is highly technical, but does provide information on textile manufacturers and suppliers, as well as information on dyes and pigments.

Design & Applied Arts Index
Contains over 130,000 annotated references from more than 500 design and craft journals published between 1973-2002, and data on over 50,000 designers, craftspeople, studios, workshops, and firms. All areas of design and craft are covered, including industrial design, vehicle design, architecture, interior design, environmental design, computer aided design, furniture design, ceramics, glass, jewellery, metalsmithing, silversmithing, goldsmithing, fashion design, textile design, embroidery, graphic design, typography, multimedia design, illustration, book design, photography, advertising, marketing, retail design, packaging, exhibition design, theatre design, design and craft history, design and craft theory, ergonomics, design for disability, design for the elderly, design and craft education and design management.

Design Abstracts Retrospective
Design Abstracts Retrospective (DAR), the retrospective of Design and Applied Arts Index, provides broad, international coverage on a wide range of subjects in the fields of design. This database includes a particular emphasis on European publications. In addition, access to Design ProFILES™ (DP) is included in the subscription; this is the largest collection of profiles of designers and design organizations of its kind.  DAR provides coverage of more than 100 design and design-related journals most of which have ceased publication, but which are distinctly important to the development of design concepts in the early 20th century.
Coverage: 1903-1986

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center (OhioLINK)
Online theses and dissertations from Ohio graduate students.

Ergonomics Abstracts
You'll see boxes for username and password, but you don't have to enter anything there to do a search. It's there if you want to personalize your use of the database. You can simply click on the word "SEARCH" in the pink box on the left side of the screen to begin searching.

Humanities International Complete

International Bibliography of Book Reviews

Nineteenth Century Masterfile

PsycINFO
PsycINFO, produced by the American Psychological Association, is a collection of electronically stored bibliographic references--most with abstracts or content summaries. It contains citations that PsycINFO has created in electronic form. Although the references themselves are all written in English, the covered literature includes material published in over 45 countries and written in 30 languages

ProQuest dissertations & theses (PQDT)
This database is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1861 to the present day and offering full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (UC Electronic)
Access to over 8,000 University of Cincinnati electronic dissertations and theses mainly from 1955 to the present. To acquire the dissertations electronically, users request the full text from UMI (ProQuest) and are sent a link and a password to access the dissertation.
Dissertations from 1997 forward are available in the OhioLINK ETD (Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center.

RefWorks
With RefWorks users can create their own personal database by importing references from online databases. They can use these references in writing their papers and automatically format the paper and the bibliography in seconds. As a web-based product, RefWorks is available to users across various platforms including Windows, Mac, Unix, etc. UC users can set up their free individual accounts.