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The resources in this guide are recommended starting points for your research projects. Consider your research questions, keywords, and "dream sources" that we discussed in the library workshop and select resources to explore. If you're not finding what you need in this guide, try the following:
Consult the Databases A-Z list to find resources relevant your broad subject area.
Use Discover to search the Vassar Libraries' collections (books, media, and more), alongside article literature.
If you know the title of a journal, newspaper, or magazine and you're wondering if Vassar has access to it, use our Journals tool.
A full text database of French language materials. At present, ARTFL's main corpus, ARTFL-FRANTEXT, consists of nearly 3,000 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing. The eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries are about equally represented, with a smaller selection of seventeenth century texts as well as some medieval and Renaissance texts. Genres include novels, verse, theater, journalism, essays, correspondence, and treatises. Subjects include literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy. In most cases standard scholarly editions were used in converting the text into machine-readable form, and the data contain page references to these editions. The FRANTEXT corpus is updated as new high-quality digital texts become available.
With approximately 300 collections composed of over 2.5 million images (and growing), scholars can examine wide-ranging material such as Native American art from the Smithsonian, treasures from the Louvre, and panoramic, 360-degree views of the Hagia Sophia in a single, easy-to-use resource.
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The Myrtle Tyrrell Kirby Fashion Plate Collection comprises 650 images of nineteenth-century fashion plates from the Macpherson Collection of the Ella Strong Denison Library at Scripps College. The full-color fashion plates in the Kirby collection were culled from a variety of women's periodicals and other mass-circulating works published between 1789 and 1914. The images are primarily from France, Britain, America, and Spain, and depict scenes of nineteenth-century middle- and upper-class life with an emphasis on the leisure practices of bourgeois women, men, and children. A number of plates also derive from trade journals for tailors, who used the images to create made-to-order garments for fashionable men.
French language newspapers, journals and magazines held by the National Library of France. Includes more than 1500 periodicals, most from France, French territories, or former French colonies. Most of the titles come from Europe (Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Great Britain, Russia), but there are also papers from Argentina, Algeria, Vietnam and the United States. Contents date from 1631 to 1950 and include notable titles such as Le Petit Parisien, Le Journal, and Le Matin
Subscribed access includes introductory and contextual articles, video and audio content, as well as advanced functionalities and search tools.
Art Abstracts™ is a comprehensive resource for art information featuring high-quality indexing and abstracting of over 600 periodicals dating back to 1984, including 280 peer-reviewed journals, as well as indexing and abstracting of over 13,000 art dissertations, and indexing of almost 200,000 art reproductions, which provide examples of styles and art movements, including works by emerging artists. The database covers mostly English language published articles in fine, decorative and commercial art, folk art, photography, film, and architecture, and also includes a database-specific thesaurus. For earlier years see Art Index Retrospective, which can be searched at the same time by checking both titles under Databases from the search form.
A comprehensive resource for art information featuring high-quality indexing of over 600 primarily English language art and architecture periodicals published from 1929-1984, including 280 peer-reviewed journals, as well as indexing of over 13,000 almost art reproductions, which provide examples of styles and art movements, including works by emerging artists. The database covers fine, decorative and commercial art, folk art, photography, film, and architecture, and also includes a database-specific thesaurus. Continued by Art Abstracts.
Provides full text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, architecture and art history and other fields. Consult the online tables of contents for holdings, as coverage varies for each title, but usually ends several years before the current year.
Covers literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, etc. Contains current full text scholarly journals which cover these fields and a significant collection of recent scholarly books.
