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Title and Description	Some Fulltext	Coverage
ACLS Humanities E-Book (formerly History E-Book Project)
Digital collection of 2,200 full-text titles in the humanities offered by ACLS in collaboration with fourteen learned societies, nearly 100 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan�s Scholarly Publishing Office.
Art Abstracts (WilsonWeb)		1984-current
Index with abstracts to articles on all aspects of art. Indexes major English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as European periodicals in a number of different languages. Indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Provides access to a wide range of bibliographies, notices of competitions and awards, reports of conferences, exhibition listings, review articles, interviews, and film reviews.
Art Index Retrospective (WilsonWeb)		1929-1984
Indexing of art related materials published from 1929-1984. Includes articles, reviews, reproductions. Provides international coverage for all aspects of the visual arts. Limited to 1 user at a time.
ARTBibliographies Modern (CSA)		1974-current
Indexing and abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, and exhibition reviews about late 19th- and 20-century fine arts, decorative arts, design, and photography.
Arts & Humanities Search (FirstSearch)		1980-current
Index to articles, bibliographies, editorials, letters, reviews, and more in leading arts and humanities journals and selected articles from social science and science journals.
ARTstor
Collections of art images and descriptive information as well as software tools for viewing and analyzing images. Special tools are available for instructors. For general inquiries, contact Thomas Hill, Art Librarian, (thill@vassar.edu). Faculty who would like more information on ARTstor's advanced utilities should contact Sarah Goldstein, Visual Resources Curator (sagoldstein@vassar.edu). Requires Flash Player 6 or higher. Pop-up blocking software must be disabled or set to allow pop-up windows from www.artstor.org and cookies must be enabled.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (CSA)		1930-present, selective back to 1860s
International coverage of scholarly and popular periodicals in architecture, architectural sculpture, city planning, and landscape architecture. Limited to 5 simultaneous users.
Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) (CSA)		1973-current
Covers European and American art from late antiquity to the present. Indexes and abstracts articles, books, conference proceedings, dissertations, and art exhibition and dealer's catalogs. Includes and extends coverage of Repertoire d'Art et d'Archeologie and RILA (International Repertory of the Literature of Art) Limited to 5 simultaneous users.
British Humanities Index (CSA)		1962-current
Indexes over 320 arts and humanities journals and weekly magazines published in the UK and other English speaking countries, as well as quality newspapers published in the UK.
History E-Book Project (now ACLS Humanities E-Book)
Digital collection of 2,200 full-text titles in the humanities offered by ACLS in collaboration with fourteen learned societies, nearly 100 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan�s Scholarly Publishing Office.
Humanities E-Book (formerly History E-Book Project)
Digital collection of 2,200 full-text titles in the humanities offered by ACLS in collaboration with fourteen learned societies, nearly 100 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan�s Scholarly Publishing Office.
Index of Christian Art (Princeton University)		Early apostolic times to A.D. 1400
Documents works of art in all media produced from apostolic times through the 15th century with Christian themes or for ecclesiastical settings. Entries include bibliographies, scholarly commentaries and images.
Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database (NYU)
Annotated multimedia listing of prose, poetry, film, video and art related to medicine.
Luna Insight
Software tool for building, publishing, searching and presenting collections of digital images and other media via the web. The Vassar College system currently contains ten different collections with over 200,000 images including art from prehistory to contemporary, architectural photographs, images from Colonial America, historical maps from the Americas and Asia, and select items from the National Palace in Taipei.