Baroque and Rococo Art

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Baroque and Rococo Art

• Resources and Research Strategies
• October 4, 2005
• Dr. Alice Beckwith, ARH 306
• Janice Schuster
• Coordinator of Reference Services
• Phillips Memorial Library
• Providence College
• 401-865-2631 office 401-865-2581 reference desk
  jschustr_at_providence.edu
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• MSN PCLibChat_at_hotmail.com
• IM available Monday-Thursday 10am-11pm
  Friday-Saturday 10am-8pm Sunday 12noon-11pm

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To be covered today

• About the library collections and services
• Getting started Find your way guide to
• Art Art History
• Art reference source online
• Grove Art online
• Locating articles (databases and Article Linker),
  images, and additional resources

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About the library Collections

• 350,000 books and bound periodical volumes
• 1,600 current print periodical titles
• Access to over 23,000 full-text electronic
  journals.
• Over 100 bibliographic and full-text electronic
  databases.

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About the library Services

• Reference assistance 401-865-2581
• Email reference reference_at_providence.edu
• Individualized research appointment
• refappt_at_providence.edu
• IM a PC librarian
• AIM, Yahoo PCLibChat
• MSN PCLibChat_at_hotmail.com
• Available Monday-Thursday 10am-11pm
• Friday-Saturday 10am-8pm
• Sunday 12noon-11pm

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Getting started Find your way guide to Art
Art History

• Brief, introductory guide to research in art and
  art history

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Art Reference Source online Grove Art Online

• Online access to the entire text of
• The (Grove) Dictionary of Art
• (PC also has in print REF N 31 D5 1996, 34
  volumes)
• and The Oxford Companion to Western Art
• Includes new and updated articles

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Locating articles Databases Art Abstracts

• Covers more than 250 key international
  English-language arts publications
• Includes periodicals, exhibition listings,
  interviews, etc.

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Locating articles DatabasesBibliography of the
History of Art

• Access to articles, art-related books, conference
  proceedings, dissertations, and art exhibition
  and dealers's catalogs
• Covers European and American art from late
  antiquity to the present

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Locating articles Databases JSTOR

• Access to complete backfiles for approx. 300
  journal titles in the humanities, social
  sciences, and sciences

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Locating articles Databases Academic Search
Premier

• Access to scholarly journals including art and
  art history and related disciplines

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Locating articles DatabasesHistorical
Abstracts

• Access to sources on the history of the world
  from 1450 to the present (excluding the United
  States and Canada, which are covered in America
  History and Life)
• Includes some references to art topics

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Locating articles Article Linker

• Shows options for locating the full text of an
  article
• Full text article might be available
• Online
• In print journals at the library
• From other HELIN libraries via interlibrary
  loan

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Locating images ARTstor

• A repository of hundreds of thousands of digital
  images and related data

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Locating additional resources WorldCat

• Access to books and other materials in libraries
  worldwide
• Provides additional options for your research

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If you need further help

• always feel free to ask!
• Janice Schuster
• 401-865-2631 office 401-865-2581 reference desk
  jschustr_at_providence.edu
• IM AIM, Yahoo PCLibChat
• MSN PCLibChat_at_hotmail.com