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Contemporary Artists Index (CAI)

A resource developed and maintained by the Cleveland Institute of Art's Gund Library staff. CAI indexes approximately 20,000 artists, artists groups, photographers, craftspeople, designers, and design firms whose work appears in group exhibition catalogs. (Tip: Free access. Available to all. The index includes Gund Library call numbers. Titles from this database must be searched in our catalog for availability and call number location.)

Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945

In-depth research and documentation (apparatus) plus images for each American painting to 1945 in the Corcoran Gallery of Art. (Tip: Free access. Available to everyone.)

Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI)

An index to more than 500 design and craft journals on industrial and product design, architecture, interior design, furniture design, ceramics, glass, jewellery, metalsmithing, fashion and textile design, graphic design, etc. Covers publications from 1973 to present. 

Education Research Complete (EBSCO)

Provides citations and some full text access to journals, books and monographs, conference papers, and curricular materials relating to all areas of education. 

Education Resource Information Center (ERIC)

Premier national educational database sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI).  Provides abstracts with some full text coverage of journal articles, technical reports, program descriptions and evaluations, and curricular materials in the field of education. 

Encyclopedia Britannica

Authoritative articles providing background information on a range of world topics. Also includes Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, timelines, atlases, statistics, images, and video. 

GPO Monthly Catalog (Government Printing Office)

Indexes all types of U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments (Education, Defense, Labor, Office of the President, etc.). 

GreenFILE (EBSCO)

Indexing and abstracts for scholarly and general-interest titles covering global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.

International Bibliography of Art

Indexes more than 500 core scholarly journals, monographs, essay collections, conference proceedings and exhibition catalogues covering western art from late antiquity to the present, published from 2008 to the present. 

JSTOR

Provides full-text access to the back issues of hundreds of scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences. A list of JSTOR journals available through the Corcoran Library can be found here.

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