Digital Resources

Libraries & Archives Digital Collections
Rich array of digitized content from the Libraries and Archives special collections.

Documents of 20th-Century Latin American and Latino Art
Primary sources and critical documents tracing the development of 20th-century art in Latin America and among Latino populations in the United States.

William J. Hill Texas Artisans and Artists Archive
Online archive that documents the lives, work, and products of Texas artisans and artists through 1900.

MFAH Collections
The Museum’s encyclopedic collection of nearly 80,000 works of art created throughout the world, from antiquity to the present.

AskART (on-site use only)
Online database with close to 300,000 artists and information ranging from biographies to auction records.

Britannica: Academic Edition (on-site use only)
Fact-checked online encyclopedia with hundreds of thousands of objective articles, biographies, videos, and images from experts.

The Chicago Manual of Style 18th Edition (on-site use only)
Provides recommendations on editorial style and publishing practices for the digital age.

Dictionary of Art Historians
Scholarly database to learn the background of major art historians of western art history.

Getty Vocabularies
Structured terminology for art, architecture, decorative arts, archival materials, visual surrogates, conservation, and bibliographic materials.

Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Thematic, chronological, and geographical exploration of global art history through The Met’s collection

Oxford Art Online (on-site use only)
Authoritative and comprehensive full-text resource devoted to the visual arts.

Art & Architecture Source, Art Index Retrospective & Art Abstracts (EBSCOhost) (on-site use only)
Full-text art research database covering fine, decorative, and commercial art, as well as architecture and architectural design.

ARTbibliographies Modern (on-site use only)
Specialist bibliography for the study of all forms of modern and contemporary art.

Art History Research net
Invaluable resource for research into the history of modern design and the applied arts.

Art Discovery Group Catalogue
Union catalog of more than 30 art libraries in the United States and Europe.

The Burlington Magazine Online Archive Index (full text article on-site only)
Comprehensive searchable article index for the monthly publication devoted to art of all ages and media.

Design and Applied Arts Index (​DAAI) (on-site use only)
Source for all aspects of design and crafts, from textiles and ceramics to vehicle design, advertising and sustainability from 1973 to the present.

Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture (public version)
Collection of electronic sources, image databases, and information on organizations, museums and research facilities related to decorative arts, with a particular focus on Early America.

Digital Public Library of America
Database of the collections of America’s libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions.

Getty Research Portal
Multilingual and multicultural union catalog of free digital copies of publications devoted to art, architecture, material culture, and related fields from a range of institutions across the world.

Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS)
Database of citations for books, journal articles, book chapters, conference papers, maps and atlases, and e-resources on Latin America annotated by scholars.

HathiTrust Digital Library
Partnership of academic and research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.

International Bibliography of Art (IBA) (on-site use only)
Resource for scholarly literature on Western art and successor to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA).

Internet Archive
Digital library site containing millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.

JSTOR (on-site use only)
Database of more than 12 million full-text academic journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.

Making of America
Digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.

OpenBibArt (on-site use only)
Database of nearly 1.2 million bibliographic records of periodicals, books, and exhibition and auction catalogues published between 1910 and 2007.

Print Council of America
Collection of entries for European and American prints, print publishers, drawings, and photographs, as well as Japanese prints and photographs.

WorldCat (on-site use only)
World’s largest catalog of library materials, including books, videos, maps, or other item of interest.

Yale Art & Architecture ePortal (on-site use only)
Authoritative ebook resource that features important works of scholarship in the history of art, architecture, decorative arts, photography, and design.

Artkhade (on-site use only)
Reference database with over 220,000 auction results from hundreds of auction houses around the world regarding the ancient art markets of Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas.

Artnet (on-site use only)
Prices of fine art, design works, and decorative arts culled from auction sales results.

AskART (on-site use only)
Millions of auction results for original paintings and sculptures since 1987 covering more than 300,000 artists.

Invaluable, formerly Artfact (on-site use only)
Online marketplace for fine art, antiques, and collectibles.

MutualArt (on-site use only)
Source of auction prices, personalized updates, and data on more than 500,000 artists.

Rare Book Hub (on-site use only)
Valuable resource for rare, antiquarian, and collectible books as well as manuscripts, letters, maps, posters, broadsides, photographs, and works on paper.

SCIPIO: Art & Rare Book Sales Catalogs (on-site use only)
Online list of auction and catalog records from North American and European sales.

Wildenstein Plattner Institute Sales Catalogs Database
Resource with over 21,000 pre-1945 sales catalogs, many annotated, for researching catalogue raisonnés, provenances, the history of collecting, and the art market.

artdaily.org
News stories events related to figures in the world of visual art, painting, photography, and sculpture.

Artnet News Pro (on-site use only)
Premium market coverage, analysis, and articles as well as subscription-only art-market columns.

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

Glasstire {Texas visual art}
Online magazine that covers visual art in Texas.

Houston Chronicle (on-site use only)
Print and online source for Texas news in English and Spanish.

Houston Press
Houston’s first free major arts, news, and entertainment weekly, with daily online editions.

New York Times (on-site use only)
Newspaper featuring breaking news stories, multimedia, reviews, and opinion articles.

AATA Online Abstracts of International Conservation Literature
Comprehensive database of more than 170,000 records of literature related to the preservation and conservation of material cultural heritage.

American Institute for Conservation
Information on conservation, from guidelines on how to select a conservator to guides on how to care for objects, as well as answers to many more common questions about conservation.

BCIN Bibliographic Database of the Conservation Information Network
Bibliographic resource for conservation, preservation, and restoration of cultural property.

CAMEO: Conservation & Art Material Encyclopedia Online
Comprehensive resource on the terms, materials, and techniques used in the fields of art conservation and historic preservation.

Archives of American Art
Widely consulted research center dedicated to collecting, preserving, and providing access to primary sources that document the history of the visual arts in America.

Art Inventories, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Provides information on more than 400,000 artworks in public and private collections worldwide.

Dialnet
Bibliographic database of articles, conference papers, book chapters, dissertations and other documents in the social sciences and the humanities published mostly in Spain and to a lesser extent in Latin America.

The Getty Provenance Index
Open access to millions of resources from dealer stock books, sales catalogs, and archival inventories, revealing information about the ownership and market histories of artworks.

Google Arts & Culture
Content from more than 2,000 leading museums and archives who have partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to bring the world’s treasures online.

The Handbook of Texas Online, Texas State Historical Association
Online resource documenting the rich and complex history of the state of Texas.

OpenGLAM
Free and open access to digital cultural heritage materials held by Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums.

The Portal to Texas History
Gateway to rare, historical, and primary source materials from or about Texas.