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Fine Arts Library Internet Resources: Research Tools These sources have been recommended by staff and faculty. If you would like to see a favorite site included, please let us know. IUCAT/Databases: The main search page of the IU Libraries has many databases of interest to the art researcher: online library catalogs, encyclopedias, indexes, etc. Access is currently available only to the IUB campus or users connecting via IUB's PPP modem pool. For more information on some of these resources, see the Fine Arts Library home page. ArtLex Over 3,100 definitions of art terms. Contemporary Art Criticism: Selected Sources A research guide created by Tom Jacoby, Art and Design Librarian for the University of Connecticut Libraries. DADABASE: Online Catalog of the Museum of Modern Art Library The Library's holdings, including records for MOMA's artist files. Dictionary of Art Historians Searchable database of art historians. Provides nationality, dates, bibliography, and a brief summary of their approach to the study of art. Smithsonian Institution Research Information System SIRIS offers many searchable databases. Of most use to art researchers are: Smithsonian Libraries catalog, which includes the National Museum of African Art and the National Museum of American Art/National Portrait Gallery the Freer Gallery of Art Library catalog; the Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture; Archives & Manuscripts catalog, which includes the Archives of American Art and Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives of the National Museum of African Art; Research/Bibliographies, which includes the Museum Studies Program Bibliography. ULAN: Union List of Artist Names Use ULAN to find basic information on artists (nationality, dates of birth and death). Entries include references to printed biographical dictionaries in which more information can be found. Words of Art: An Online Glossary of Theory and Criticism for the Visual Arts Not comprehensive, but has useful definitions of various art movements, theories, and terms. xrefer: The Web's Reference Engine An online search engine providing full-text access to electronic editions of reference works. Fine Arts works included are The Encyclopaedia of the Renaissance, The Oxford Dictionary of Art, The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Art Terms and The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Art and Artists. Last updated: 2 August 1999. URL:http://www.indiana.edu/~libfinea/reftools.html Comments: libart@indiana.edu Copyright 1997, The Trustees of Indiana University