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Below are links to various websites of potential interest to Courtauld students and staff. The list is selective rather than comprehensive and you are encouraged to email serials@courtauld.ac.uk with any suggestions for additional links or amendments.

 

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Blogs • Images & Multimedia  •  Museum Resources  •  Online Journals & other publications  • Open Access Repositories  •  Other Online Resources •  Reference Management

 

BLOGS

 

Note RIN, the Research Information Network, has put together a guide entitled Social Media: A guide for researchers, which discusses resources such as blogs, wikis, social bookmarking etc.

 

• All things visual (University of Chicago)

• Amateur d'art "par Lunettes Rouges" (Le Monde)

• Art Fag City

• Art History Newsletter

• Art:21

• artblog (Roberta Fallon & Libby Rosof)

• artloversnewyork

• Artopia: John Perreault's Art Diary (ArtsJournal)

• ArtsJournal: AJBlogs

• Bad at Sports: Contemporary Art Talk

• Bloggy (ArtCal)

• Culture blogs (Guardian)

• Edward_Winkleman

• Henri Art Magazine

• Idiom

• Intute: Arts and Humanities Blog

• James Wagner

• London Painting

• Miniaturaitaliana: il sito dedicato alla miniatura italiana e al libro antico

• Modern Art Notes: Tyler Green's Modern & Contemporary Art Blog (Artinfo)

• Modern Kicks

• MTAA-RR (M.River & T.Whid)

• Muse: the Apollo Blog (Apollo)

• New Art: notes on installation art, performance, theatre, cinema, painting, sculpture, digital art, and more

• NEWSgrist: where spin is art

• Qu'est-ce que l'art (aujourd'hui) ? (Le Monde)

• Rhizome at the new museum

• Shane Lavalette

• Sit down man, you're a bloody tragedy

• Tom Moody

• Two coats of paint

• Views and Reviews (Courtauld Research Forum)

• Wooster Collective: a celebration of street art

 

You may find the Internet for Image Searching tutorial, created by JISC Digital Media and Intute, of some use in understanding copyright issues related to images (Discover..) and in identifying useful online collections of images (Tour..).

 

• AHDS Visual Arts

• Art & Architecture (The Courtauld Institute of Art)

• ArtBabble

• Bassano Fashion Photography (Museum of London)

• BBC: Your Paintings - beta

• Ben Hartley (1933-1996): the Notebooks

• Bildarchiv Foto Marburg (Philipps-Universität Marburg)

• British Cartoon Archive (University of Kent)

• Church Plans On-Line

• Collage (Guildhall Library)

• Corpus Narratologica: an index of medieval narrative art

• The Courtauld Gallery: multimedia

• Dunbarton Oaks Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives

• Flickr (look out for groups such as the Victoria and Albert Museum group)

• Google Art Project

• Google Images

• Gothic Ivories (The Courtauld Institute of Art)

• Grand Versailles Numérique

• Hunterian Online Photo Library (University of Glasgow)

• Images (University of Minnesota)

• Images of Medieval Art and Architecture (University of Pittsburgh)

• Kunsthistorisches Museum: Picture Gallery

• LUDOS: Leeds University Digital Objects (University of Leeds)

• Luxonline

• The Machiel Kiel Photographic Archive (Netherlands Institute in Turkey)

• Mandragore : base iconographique du département des Manuscrits (BnF)

• Manuscripta Mediaevalia

• Manuscripts Online

• MoMA Multimedia

• MOTCO: UK Directory and Image Database - Antique Maps, Prints & Books

• National Gallery of Art: Videos & Podcasts

• National Gallery Picture Library

• NICE Paintings: the National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (vads)

• OCAIW: Orazio Centaro's Art Images on the Web
  
• Open Collections (licensed datasets from several cultural institutions)

• Oxford Digital Library (University of Oxford)

• Parker Library on the Web (Corpus Christi College, Stanford University Libraries & Cambridge University Library) - beta version available freely until October 1, 2009 only

• Perpetual Art Machine: the Video Art Portal

• Philip de László Catalogue Raisonné Online

• Réunion des musées nationaux : agence photographique

• RIBApix (Royal Institute of British Architects)

• Rossetti Archive: the complete writings and pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti - a hypermedia archive

• Smithsonian Photography Initiative
  
• Studite Digital Library: Study and creation on Byzantine bookbinding

• tank.tv: innovative work in film and video - subscribe first, then access archive freely

• Tate Channel: podcasts

• UbuWeb: Film & Video

• VADS: the Online Resource for Visual Arts

• VBS.TV: Art Talk

• Video Pool

• ViewFinder (English Heritage)

• Web Gallery of Art

• YouTube (look out for channels such as the CourtauldInstitute channel)

 

museum resources

 

• Atlas: the database of the exhibited works of art (Louvre)

• CAN: Australian cultural heritage online

• CODART: Dutch and Flemish art in museums worldwide

• Culture24

• Guggenheim publications 1937-2011

• Joconde : catalogue des collections des Musées de France

• La Fayette: Database of American Art (Louvre)

• The Museum of Modern Art PS1 Archives 

• National Gallery London: Collection Online

• Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

• Royal Academy Collection

• Tate online research publications (including J.M.W. Turner's sketchbooks)
  

 

online journals & other publications

 

• 1000 Words Photography: Contemporary Photography Magazine Online

• Aesthetics

• Archive

• Art Knowledge News

• Art Quarterly

• Artclair : le Journal des Arts

• Artdaily: the first art newspaper on the net

• Arte, individuo y sociedad

• Artforum index (June 1962-December 1968)

• artreview - beta

• ArtsJournal: the daily digest of arts, culture & ideas

• Body, Space & Technology Journal

• Book Arts Newsletter

• CeROArt - Conservation, exposition, Restauration d'Objets d'Art

• Chto Delat Newspaper

• Conservation Bulletin: A Bulletin of the Historic Environment (English Heritage)

• Contemporary Aesthetics

• Crossings: Electronic Journal of Art & Technology

• Ctrl+P: Journal of Contemporary Art

• DEMéter: Revue Electronique du Centre d'Etude des Arts Contemporains

• Dialogue

• ENCATC Journal of Cultural Management and Policy

• eSharp

• Etudes photographiques

• Flusser Studies

• The Fluxus Reader

• Forum: the University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture and the Arts

• Foucault Studies

• The Heroic Age: A Journal of Early  Medieval Northwestern Europe

• International Journal of Education & the Arts

• Journal of Art Historiography

• Journal of Illustration Studies

• Kritikos: Journal of Postmodern Cultural Sound, Text and Image

• kunst texte

• lens culture: contemporary photography magazine

• Media Art Net

• National Gallery Technical Bulletin

• NCSE (Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition) - beta

• Newsletter of the Institute of Modern Russian Culture (IMRC)

• Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide: a Journal of Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture

• Papers of Surrealism

• Peregrinations: International Society for the Study of Pilgrimage Art

• Philament: an Online Journal of the Arts and Culture

• Porticvm: revista d'estudis medievals

• Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

• RIHA Journal

• Seachange

• Tate Papers

• tout-fait: the Marcel Duchamp Studies Online  Journal

• Universes in Universe Magazine

• Working Papers in Art & Design

 

To find out more about institutional repositories, you may want to visit Charles Bailey's Institutional Repository Bibliography.

 

• archivsystem ask23 (Hochschule für Bildende Künste)

• ART-Dok: Digital Repository Art History

• BSB-Ink Online (Bayerische StaatsBibliothek)

• Digital Collections (University of South Carolina)

• Digital Library Production Service (University of Michigan)

• Electronic publications Faculty of Arts (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)

• EThOS ( Electronic Theses Online Service) - Beta (British Library)

• Les Bibliothèques Virtuelles Humanistes (Centre d'études Supérieures de la Renaissance)

• Library & Archives Canada

• OhioLINK Digital Media Center (OhioLINK)

• Online-Publikationen (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg)

• OpenDOAR: the directory of open access repositories

• OPUS-Datenbank: Elektronische Hochschulschriften (Universität der Künste Berlin)

• Perseus Digital Library (Tufts University)

• Registry of Open Access Repositories

• ResearchGATE

• Royal College of Art Collections

• Sherpa-Leap Repositories (University of London)

• SOAS Research Online (School of Oriental & African Studies)

• The Warburg Institute Library Digital Collection

• WSU Libraries Digital Collections (Washington State University)

 

other online resources

 

• A Database

• Art Hist: information network for art history

• Art in Context (Carnegie Mellon University)

• The art world in Britain 1660 to 1735

• Artcyclopedia: the Fine Art Search Engine

• Arthistoricum.net: Virtual Library for Art History

• Artist Files Revealed: Online Directory

• Artists' Papers Register

• Artupdate

• The British Academy PORTAL
  
• British Art History Resources (The Walpole Society)

• British History Online

• BUBL LINK: Catalogue of Internet Resources: History of Art

• Catalogue of 15th-century books in the Bodleian Library (University of Oxford)

• The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler (University of Glasgow)

• Culture Quarter London

• DEEP: Dart-Europe E-theses Portal

• Designinform: internet sources of biographical information

• Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

• e-flux
• The Elements of Drawing: John Ruskin's teaching collection at Oxford

• The Getty Provenance Index Databases

• The Getty Research Institute

• Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes (IRHT) (CNRS)
• International Foundation for Art Research: Catalogues Raisonnés Database

• Internet Medieval Sourcebook (Fordham University Center for Medieval Studies)

• Intute: Arts and Humanities

• KIT-Bibliothek: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie

• London's Past Online: a bibliography of London history

• Mapping Sculpture - Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951

• The Medici Archive Project

• MutualArt - beta

• National Fine Art Education Digital Collection

• Old Bailey Online: the Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London's Central Criminal Court, 1674 to 1913

• re-title: visual artist directory

• Researching Historic Buildings in the British Isles

• smARThistory

• Society of Architectural Historians: Resources

• TDX: Tesis Doctorals en Xarxa

• ticTOCs Journal Tables of Contents Service

• UbuWeb

• Understanding British Portraits
  

• Victoria Research Web: Scholarly Resources for Victorian Research

• Voice of the Shuttle: Art History (maintained by Alan Liu of the University of California)

• Whistler Etchings Project

• Yale Center for British Art

 

reference management

 

• Zotero