Instructor: Anne Mcclanan
Librarian: Sharon Elteto

Art Full Text. http://wilsonweb2.hwwilson.com/autologin/
"Art Full Text provides indexing and abstracting of art periodicals published throughout the world. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals is also included. In addition to articles, Art Full Text indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals."
Coverage:
Indexing - 1984 - present
Abstracts - 1994 - present
Full Text - 1997 present (list of journals included in full text)

Art Index Retrospective: http://wilsonweb2.hwwilson.com/autologin/ Comprehensive, retrospective indexing from Art Index from 1932-1984. All personal names, uniform titles, organization
names, topical terms, and geographic names have been reconciled with current Art Index headings. The file size is currently over 400,000 records, citing articles and reproductions from 420 periodicals.
Coverage: 1929 - 1984.

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals: http://eureka.rlg.org/tmp/auto.19759.htm
"The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals indexes more than 1,000 periodicals published worldwide on archeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation, as well as architecture. Coverage reaches from the 1930s (with selective coverage dating back to the 1860s) to the present. The Avery
Index to Architectural Periodicals, with more than 229,000 records, is updated daily."

The Grove Dictionary of Art: contains 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts - painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography - from prehistory to the present day. Compiled over a period of 15 years, it represents the work of more than 6,800 scholars from around the world, each writing on his or her own specialist field of study. Good for censorship in art. http://www.groveart.com/index.htm

Historical Abstracts: Provides citations and abstracts for articles from 2,000 journals published worldwide in history, the social sciences, and related humanities. Includes citations to new books reviewed in key English-language history and review journals and to relevant dissertations. Good for witches. http://sb2.abc-clio.com:81/

JSTOR: Provides online full text access to backfiles of many scholarly journals (see list). JSTOR provides access to the complete backfile of the journals excluding the most recent five years. Multidisciplinary. http://www.jstor.org/cgi-bin/jstor/gensearch

Finding Books:http://www.lib.pdx.edu

Subject Headings
Art, Italian--Italy--Venice--Catalogs.
Art--Italy--Venice--Catalogs.
Art, Italian--Italy--Venice.
Architecture--Italy--Venice.

Finding Journals
Journals are shelved by call number. To find the call number for a journal go to online catalog: http://www.lib.pdx.edu. Put title of journal into box and click on PERIODCIAL TITLE:

On Reference:

D114 .D5 1982
Dictionary of the Middle Ages / Joseph R. Strayer, editor in chief.

D114 .E53 2000
Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages / edited by Andre Vauchez in conjunction with Barrie Dobson and Michael Lapidge

DF521 .O93 1991
The Oxford dictionary of Byzantium / Alexander P. Kazhdan, editor in chief

Websites

Time Out Venice Site http://www.timeout.com/venice/

Medieval Sourcebook: Pope Innocent III: License to Venice to Trade With The Saracens, 1198
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1198popevenz.html

Medieval Sourcebook: The Chronicles of Venice: How the Doges Were Chosen
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/dogesvenice.html

Byzantines in Renaissance Italy
http://orb.rhodes.edu/encyclop/late/laterbyz/harris-ren.html

The Fourth Crusade
http://orb.rhodes.edu/textbooks/crusade/fourthcru.html

Medieval Sourcebook: The Fourth Crusade 1204: Collected Sources
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/4cde.html

ST MARK, EVANGELIST, PATRON SAINT OF VENICE Feast: April 25
http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/STMARK.HTM

Student Help

Selecting Sources
Popular or Scholarly, which do I use?
Research Survival Guide
Ask A Librarian
Student "How to" Corner
Off Campus Access to Library Databases
Citing Sources

PSU Library Online Catalog Vikat: http://vikat.pdx.edu/
Vikat is the Portland State University online catalog for books. Use VIKAT to search for books by keyword, author, title, subject. VIKAT locates journals by periodical title, not by subject. Boolean operators can limit or expand searches depending on which one is used.

Boolean Operators

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