The MFAH libraries maintain a broad selection of subscription databases as well as free online resources devoted to art research. Access to these resources is freely available to MFAH members, docents, and the general public in the reading rooms of both the Hirsch and Powell Libraries. Below is a selection of these resources. Please note some of these sources must be accessed onsite.

AskART

The Chicago Manual of Style (Onsite use only)

Encyclopaedia Britannica (Onsite use only)

Merriam-Webster Unabridged (Onsite use only)

Oxford Art (Grove Dictionary of Art) (Onsite use only)

Art Abstracts & Art Retrospective, Wilson Web, EBSCO host (Onsite use only)

ARTbibliographies  Modern (Onsite use only)

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (Onsite use only)

Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) (Onsite use only)

DAAI: Design & Applied Arts Index (Onsite use only)

JSTOR (Onsite use only)

WorldCat (Public verson)

Artfact (Onsite use only)

Artnet (Onsite use only)

AskART (Onsite use only for auction data)

Blouin Art Sales Index (Onsite use only)

SCIPIO: Art & Rare Book Sales Catalogs (Onsite use only)

Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808 - 1980 (Onsite use only)

Houston Chronicle

HoustonPress

The New York Times

Harris County Public Library

Houston Public Library

The Menil Collection Library

Rice University Fondren Library

University of Houston

University of Texas at Austin Libraries

artlibraries.net (Union catalog of more than 30 art libraries in the US and Europe)

The British Library

Library of Congress

Archives of American Art

Art Inventories, Smithsonian American Art Museum

Documents of 20th-century Latin American and Latino art

The Getty Provenance Index Databases

Payments to Artists Database