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"Notre Dame Libraries license and pay for access to most of these resources. They are intended for your individual educational use only. Excessive use, such as downloading entire journal issues, is prohibited by contract and may result in loss of access for the entire Notre Dame community." [ Acceptable Use Policy]
AP Archive
Type: Reference
Description: "The AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive is an electronic library containing the AP's current photos from their 50 million image print and negative library, as well as charts, graphs, tables, and maps from the AP's graphics portfolio."
Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.
Architectural Elements. Traditional Construction Details
Type: Reference
Description: A collection of 1,300 CAD-compatible traditional standard details searchable by name, category, CSI division, appropriate project types, and other categories, ready for downloading and customizing.
Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.
Architectural Graphic Standards
Type: Reference
Description: Based on and contains all information from the printed 10th ed. of Architectural Graphic Standards.
Users: Licensed for 3 simultaneous users.
Art Full Text
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1984- (Indexing); 1994- (Abstracting); 1997- (Selected full-text)
Description: Indexes and abstracts articles on archaeology, architecture, art, motion pictures and photography in international periodicals (including full-text of selected periodicals). Titles covered are English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. Art Full Text also indexes reproductions of works of art in these periodicals.
Art Index Retrospective
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1929-1984
Description: Cumulates citations to the printed version Art Index, vols. 1-32 (1929-1984), citing articles from periodicals published worldwide, yearbooks, museum bulletins, and indexing reproductions of works of art appearing in indexed periodicals. Topics include archaeology, architecture and architectural history, art history, decorative arts, graphic arts, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, museology, painting, photography, and sculpture.
Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.
Art Theorists of the Italian Renaissance
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Description: Collection of treatises on art and architecture printed and published between 1470 to 1775 and structured around the two Italian editions of Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists, with translations mostly from the publication period; contains approximately 4,000 images.
Users: Licensed for four concurrent users.
ARTbibliographies Modern
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1974-
Description: Provides abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, and exhibition reviews on modern and contemporary art (dating from the late 19th century onwards) including photography, performance art, video art, computer and electronic art, theater arts, etc., as well as painting, printmaking, sculpture, and drawing.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1930s-
Description: Indexes over 2,000 international periodicals on architecture, archeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation published from the 1930s to the present, with selective coverage back to the 1860s.
BHA: Bibliography of the History of Art
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1973-
Description: Indexes over 4,000 international periodicals on European and American art from antiquity to the present.
DYABOLA
Type: Reference
Description: The online subject catalogue of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) in Rome, the most comprehensive library in the world devoted to classical studies. Organized as a hierarchical tree of 32,000 subject and key words, with entries to books and journal articles in classical archaeology, Egyptian archaeology, archaeology of the Near East, Byzantine art history, epigraphs, numismatics, classical history, and antique social and legal history.
Great Buildings Collection
Type: Reference
Coverage: 1 CD-ROM
Mode of access: Available on the public AFS workstation in the Architecture Library. Select the Great Buildings CD-ROM icon.
Description: Multimedia CD-ROM-based designer's library of architecture. Represents more than 750 important buildings from around the world and throughout history. Includes photographic images, drawings, videos, textual commentary, interactive 3-D models of the buildings, and bibliographical references. Searchable by geographic location, historical period, architectural characteristics, and keyword. Also includes DesignWorkshop lite, a three-dimensional modeling program for architectural design and related endeavors.
Grove Dictionary of Art Online
Type: Reference
Description: Contains articles on all aspects of the visual arts from prehistory to the 1990s; art and culture of Asia, Africa, Europe, the Americas and the Pacific, with links to images and additional information in museum and other art-related web sites.
Users: Licensed for five concurrent users.
Index of Christian Art Database
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: Dating from Early Apostolic times to 1400 A.D.
Description: Based on The index of Christian art, a thematic and iconographic index of early Christian and medieval art objects to 1400 begun at Princeton University in 1917. The database contains records of works indexed by the archive since 1991. No images are presently available.
Users: Licensed for 6 simultaneous users.
International Medieval Bibliography Online
Type: Indexes & Articles
* Click on "Enter databases", then select International Medieval Bibliography - online.
Coverage: 1967-
Description: Indexes articles, notes, and similar literature on medieval subjects in journals, Festschriften, conference proceedings, and collected essays. Covers all aspects of medieval studies within the date range of 400 to 1500 for the entire continent of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa for the period before the Muslim conquest and parts of those areas subsequently controlled by Christian powers. Includes more than 300,000 articles published 1967- , all of which are fully classified by date, subject and location.
Librairie des Ducs de Bourgogne
Type: Data/Statistics/GIS
Coverage: v.1 CD-ROM
Mode of access: CD-ROM in Medieval Institute Reference (Rm. 715)
Description: Each CD-ROM contains two complementary databases: a textual database and an image bank. The textual database consists of all the descriptive notes of the manuscripts. The image bank comprises the reproductions of all illustrations. In addition, there is a series of background articles relating to the history of the Burgundy Library, important persons, or stylistic trends.
NetLibrary E-book Collection
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Description: A collection of electronic books available for reading and searching via the Internet. Book titles include both those academic titles specifically acquired by Notre Dame and a public domain collection of thousands of works including Project Gutenberg titles.
Users: One concurrent user per title. Preview mode allows access for 15 minutes. Check-out mode allows access for 2 hours at a time.
Perseus Project: Art and Archaeology.
Type: Reference
Description: Presents the art and archaeology section of the Perseus Project at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. Contains a search engine for the Project. Notes that the Project contains a library of classical art objects, sites, and buildings. Allows users to search the Project for architecture, coins, vases, and sculpture.
RIBA Library
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: The Royal Institute of British Architects' British Architectural Library is the largest and most comprehensive resource in the United Kingdom for research and information on all aspects of architecture. The RIBA library catalogue is a searchable database of more than 200,000 records, with abstracts, describing journal articles, books, drawings, photographs, manuscripts and archives.
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