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Asian Art : Home

A guide for researching Asian art.

Background and Image Resources

ARTstor
Comprehensive digital library containing images of artworks, photographs, architecture, decorative arts, rare books, and items from popular culture. Images may be viewed live in ARTstor or offline in ARTstor's downloadable image viewer.

Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Useful resource for background information on art in Asia.
Asia for Educators
Online reference source for Asian art and history.

Oxford Art Online
Limited to 8 concurrent users.
A comprehensive online reference resource for all aspects of the visual arts worldwide, from prehistory to the 1990s. Formerly known as Grove Dictionary of Art.

The 45,000 articles of the print version of the Grove Dictionary of Art are accessible with added searching capability, additional context and authority of links to museums and other collections that may offer more information about the piece, the artist, and related works. Searches can be done by article heading, full text, contributor, caption, or combinations of these using concept, pattern, boolean and expert options. In addition, researchers may choose the Bridgeman Art Library from the main page to search a database of more than 100,000 images. In 2008, this resource expanded to include The Oxford Companion to Western Art, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, and the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics.

Freer and Sackler Galleries
Research resources and publications on Asian art.

Core English Language Resources

Bibliography of Asian Studies
References western-language books, chapters in edited volumes, journal articles, conference proceedings, anthologies, and Festschriften on all parts of Asia. Allows browsing by subject, journal title, or by country/region or search by topic. Covers the social sciences as well as the humanities.

CrossAsia Fulltext Search
The CrossAsia Fulltext Search is built from textual resources hosted in the CrossAsia Integrated Textrepository (ITR). It is open to all users. Its aim is to help users find texts and sources relevant to their research questions by performing comprehensive fulltext searches across databases. Search hits are displayed as short text snippets with their basic metadata. Access to the complete texts and images is restricted. To access the text in its original database context links are provided for CrossAsia users (in red) as well as for users with other access modes (in grey). Search results can be filtered by subject, time, author and other data as far as provided by the original metadata.

Digital Dictionary of Buddhism
Digital Dictionary of Buddhism is an online dictionary on Buddhism with entries in a variety of languages, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Sanskrit. It provides a convenient entry mode to a comprehensive list of Buddhism-related terms with good cross-referencing. It is an unreplaceable reference tool for students of Buddhism and art history of East Asia.

Core Japanese Language Resources

The following databases are available for use by current Georgetown students, staff, and faculty as well as any patrons in Joseph Mark Lauinger Library. When accessing the databases from off-campus, log in with NetID and password. http://www.library.georgetown.edu/off-campus-access

CiNii Articles & Books
Abstracts, table of contents and full-text available in some journals
JapanKnowledge
JapanKnowledge is a portal to Japanese encyclopedias, dictionaries and databases. Contents include Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, a largest Japanese language dictionary that contains 500,000 entries and 1,000,000 examples, Rekishi Chimei Taikei, a largest historical & geographical dictionary that consists of 51 volumes, contains 200,000 entries, and updated from printed version (1979-2005), Kôdansha Encyclopedia of Japan, the largest encyclopedia in English about Japan, Nihon Dai Hyakka Zensho, one of the largest encyclopedia in Japanese (31 volumes), Jitsû, one of the best dictionaries about history and culture of Kanji, Imidas and Gendai Yôgo no Kiso Chishiki, dictionaries of current words, e-book of Tôyô Bunko series, e-journal of Shûkan ekonomisuto and etc.

Koseisha Zasshi Kiji Sakuin Shusei Database
A complete index database to the major perdiocals published in Japan from Meiji to the present. Searches can be done in Japanese.
Yomidasu Rekishikan
Includes Yomiuri shinbun 1874 to the present: image format from 1874 to 1989; full text 1986 to the present, along with the English edition: the Daily Yomiuri (Sept. 1989- to the present), both searchable by article, keyword, subject category, and issue. Charts and photographs are not included. Also includes biographical information on 26,000 people

Kikuzo II
Kikuzo II Visual for Libraries is a news retrieval service from the publisher of Japan’s second largest circulation newspaper, Asahi shinbun 朝日新聞. Coverage includes over 8,000,000 full-text articles as of January, 2009 from 1945 to the present. Currently viewable are full-text articles from 1985 to the present, clipped images from 2005 to the present, and entire page images from 1945 to 1989. It is searchable by keyword in the full-text module from 1985 to the present and in the page image from 1945 to 1984. The page image between 1985 and 1989 is searchable only by date. Eight (8) simultaneous accesses are shared among the consortium of currently ten (10) participating institutions.

Core Chinese Language Article Databases

CNKI Integrated Database
The largest and most comprehensive electronic database published by CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure), this is an all-rounded access to resources in Chinese language including CAJ (China Academic Journals covering 10 major academic disciplines from 1994 onward ); CJP (Century Journal Project, 1915-1993), China Doctoral Dissertations Full-Text Database (from 1999 onward), China Master's Thesis Full-Text Database, China Proceedings of Conference, China's Core Newspapers, and more.

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Single database searching or cross-database federated searching option is available.

Dacheng
Dacheng (大成老旧刊) provides full-text access to over 140,000 issues in nearly 7,000 periodicals published before 1949. The database is a rich resource to researches in modern Chinese history, literature, politics, law, sociology and economics.
Taiwan Electronic Periodical Services
TEPS offers full text (PDF) for periodicals published in Taiwan. It covers topics in humanities, natural science, applied science, medical & life science, and social science.

Duxiu读秀
读秀 is an aggregated search engine created by SuperStar Digital Library. It searches journals, newspapers, conference proceedings and books, and yields relevant pages for reading.

Art Article Databases

Art Full Text
Search for articles on fine arts, decorative and commercial art, folk art, photography, film, and architecture. Covers wide range of art journals back to 1984 and indexes dissertations and art reproductions. Art Index Retrospective covers the same material from 1929-1984.
Art Index Retrospective
Covers a wide range of topics in art history, from advertising art, antiques, and archaeology to sculpture, television, and textiles. Periodical coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch. In addition to articles, Art Index Retrospective indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals.
Artbibliographies Modern
Abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, dissertations and exhibition reviews. Covers the current art history literature of modern art, photography, and design. Scope extends from artists and movements beginning with Impressionism in the late 19th century, up to the most recent works and trends in the late twentieth century. A particular emphasis is placed upon adding new and lesser-known artists and on the coverage of foreign-language literature.
Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)
For material published after 2007 see the International Bibliography of Art (IBA).
International Bibliography of Art
The International Bibliography of Art (IBA) is the definitive resource for scholarly literature on western art, and is published exclusively by ProQuest. IBA is the successor to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA), and includes the most recent index records that were created by the Getty Research Institute as part of BHA. These records were created in 2008-2009, and cover scholarship up to 2009, including retrospective records for material published in previous years.
Project Muse
Provides access to scholarly journals in the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics and many others. Full text is available for titles marked with a green arrow.

General Databases

If you are having trouble finding what you are looking for above, broaden your search in one of these databases.

Academic Search Premier
Full-text publications from all academic areas of study, including the sciences, social sciences, humanities, education, computer science, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
Humanities Full Text
Indexes the major scholarly English-language journals in the humanities (including history and literature). For articles published before 1984, use Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective.
JSTOR
Full text (in PDF format) of selected, important scholarly journals in a number of fields. Note: journals in JSTOR usually do not include the most recent three to five years.
ProQuest Central
Combines several of the Library's heavily used databases, including ProQuest Research Library, into one easy-to-search interface. Thousands of journals, newspapers, magazines, dissertations, working papers, and other scholarly content on a very broad range of topics and sources.

Major News Aggregators

Nexis Uni
Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) provides access to more than 17,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis. Nexi Uni has three primary collections: 1) full-text access to thousands of news sources in the U.S. and abroad back to the 1970s; 2) aggregated economic data on businesses, corporations, and industries in the U.S. and abroad; 3) full-text legal documents, including U.S. Federal and State court cases, and law reviews from the late 18th century to present.
Factiva
Limited to 5 concurrent users.
Provides worldwide full-text coverage of local and regional newspapers, trade publications, business newswires, media transcripts, news photos, business-rich websites, investment analyst reports, market research reports, country and regional profiles, company profiles, and historical market data.
ProQuest News & Newspapers
Searches all ProQuest newspaper databases: Alt-PressWatch, Ethnic NewsWatch, GenderWatch, Latin American Newsstand, ProQuest Civil War Era, ProQuest Historical Newspapers, ProQuest Newsstand, and The Wall Street Journal.
Press Reader
This resource contains the full text and color photos and images of 225 newspapers from all over the world. Issues are kept on file for 60 days. Printing is not available for most papers.
NewsBank
Includes Access World News, America's Historical Imprints, Electronic Image Editions, and Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports and Index.

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Writing & Citing

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RefWorks
RefWorks is an online research management, writing, and collaboration tool designed to help researchers gather, manage, store, and share information and generate citations and bibliographies. Note: If you would like to use the legacy edition of RefWorks, please click here. If you are asked for a Group Code when using Write-n-Cite, ask us. The code can be sent only to Georgetown email addresses.

Georgetown University Writing Center
The Georgetown University Writing Center is a free writing resource open to all Georgetown students. Graduate and undergraduate students trained in teaching writing are available to assist you at any stage of your writing process. The Writing Center offers assistance in topic development, general organization, guidance on paper revisions, and specific or recurring structural problems with writing.
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Art Terminology

Below are definitions of types of resources you may encounter in databases like HoyaSearch, BHA, and ARTbibliographies Modern, including reasons why you might consider using them.

Catalogue raisonné

Exhibition catalogue

Museum catalog (or collection catalog)

Auction (or sales) catalog

Document the sale of a given artwork on a specific date.
Citations for them sometimes appear in library catalogs, bibliographies, or art-related databases.
Often contain such high-quality illustrations that you may be able to examine artists' signatures or other artist marks.
Georgetown University Library does not actively collect auction catalogs; however, you will find them in the collections of local museum libraries, like the National Gallery of Art and Smithsonian Institution Libraries.
Use ArtNet.com to search for auction records by artist. (Please see a Reference Librarian for password.)

Consult an auction catalog when:

You would like to determine the relative monetary value of an artist's work (at the time of the sale).
You wish to find an illustration of an artwork that is privately owned.
You would like to track the provenance of an object (if the buyers' and sellers' names are included in the auction record).

Monograph

A monograph is a book on a single subject. For the history of art, you will find monographs about artists, individual artworks, movements, time periods, and themes. In databases like BHA, you may encounter citations for particular types of monographs called festschriften - a book of essays written in honor of a scholar. Essays in a festschrift usually focus on subject matter of particular interest to the honored scholar; they are excellent resources for essays on well-defined topics.

Consult an monograph when:

You are beginning your research and would like to explore what scholarship is already available on your topic.
You would like to expand your own bibliography by examining what sources an author used in his/her research.
You are simply interested in learning more about an artist, artwork, movement, period, or theme.

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