As a current student, faculty or staff member, you may click on any of the links below to access Pennsylvania College of Art & Design’s electronic resources.
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A core resource of scholarly information containing over 2,000 full-text journals.
Have a question? Ask Here PA is designed to provide fast answers to your questions. A librarian is available 24/7 and in most cases, you will receive your answer within 15 minutes. If the question involves lengthy research, an Ask Here PA librarian will get you started and/or provide a referral for you.
Pennsylvania College of Art & Design is a member of the Access Pennsylvania Database, a web-based union catalog and resource-sharing guide to member library collections.
You can search the database for books not available in the PCA&D Library collection. When you have located a book within the database, complete an online PCA&D Interlibrary Loan Request form. The librarian will process your request and contact you when the book has arrived.
Photographs, audio sound bytes, graphics and text covering more than 160 years of history.
The ARTstor digital Library provides more than one million images with tools for teaching and reasearch. Its collections comprise contributions from outstanding museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photoarchives, and artists and artists' estates from all over the world. Read the full list here.
The collections encompass a wide variety of subject areas, including art, architecture,music, religion, anthropology, literature, world history, American Studies, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, and more. Find sample subject guides here.
Click on the links below for additional ARTstor resources.
ARTstor Help
ARTstor Instructional Videos on YouTube
Live ARTstor-led Instructional Webinars
A comprehensive research database on American art that now covers international artists as well. There are nearly 200,000 artists in the database.
Tutorial series and curriculum resources provide short, easy-to-view and understand instruction and application tutorials. Also included is the 21st Century Skills Professional Development and Technology Integration solution, a valuable resource for developing skills to become globally competitive.
Full access on campus; remote access password provided by the librarian.
Contemporary Authors is a guide to current writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures and television. Biographical information is included.
Full access on campus.
A great place to start with access to 551 highly-regarded titles from over 70 publishers, covering every major subject.
An online bibliography composer and MLA/APA informational resource. Before getting started you might want to visit the Easybib Instructional Guide
For more MLA formatting help
How do I write an MLA formatted research paper?
EasyBib Citation Guide
FAQs About the MLA Handbook
EBSCOhost includes the following databases:
Academic Search Elite
A core resource of scholarly information containing over 2,000 full-text journals.
Art Full Text
Full text articles from more than 200 art publications, plus abstracting and indexing of more that 500 publications.
Art Museum Image Gallery (AMIG)
Thousands of high-quality art images and related multimedia
Biography Reference Center
A comrehensive collection of more that 461,0000 full-text biographies.
EBSCO eBooks
Full text electronic books
GreenFILE
A collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more
Points of View Reference Center
POV is a full-text database of essays covering multiple sides of 250 current issues.
Electronic Books
A collection of nearly 9,000 books that may be "signed-out" for viewing electronically. Many are avaialbe to download ofline to your laptop or eReader device, such as Sony or Nook. Access is available by going directly to the EBSCO eBook link or through the library's online public access catalog.
To download offline, you must first register and sign-in to your account.
For more information on EBSCO eBooks
How do I download eBooks to my offline device?
A collection of over 33,000 eBooks to read on your computer or freely download to your eReader, mobile device or other portable device.
Millions of books available to preview or read.
Required or recommended readings selected by the faculty for student access and placed on reserve. Copyright of all articles is the property of the posted copyright holder and content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or pasted to a list-serve without the copyright holder’s express written permission. However, users may print, download or email articles for individual educational use.
Continuously updated reference site with more than 7,500 articles and more than 23,000 biographies. In addition, Britannica Online includes World Data Analyst, Gateway to the Classics, Meriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Meriam Webster's Dictionary of Quotations, selected full-text articles from EBSCO and ProQuest journals, BBC & New York Times daily headlines, The Web's Best, World Atlas and Workspace, a research organizer.
Questions and answers about the most frequently asked questions. Information will be added on an ongoing basis.
The Pennsylvania College of Art & Design and Franklin & Marshall College have a library partnership that allows use of each other’s library by faculty and students enrolled in their respective institutions.
PCA&D students and faculty have access to the print book collection at both Franklin & Marshall libraries for borrowing and research purposes. On your first visit, you must have your PCA&D ID with current semester attending identifyer. At the circulation desk, you will be asked to complete appropriate paper work; then you will be issued a Franklin & Marshall ID for use in that library.
Full-text documents from thousands of news, business, legal, medical and reference publications.
With the ownership of a public library card from the Library System of Lancaster County, students, faculty and staff have remote access to many online services.
A card from the Library System of Lancaster County is required to use the system. A card application may be downloaded from the library system’s website.
POV is a full-text database of essays covering multiple sides of 250 current issues.
Webliography
Art and Design Career and Employment
Webliography of art and/or design career and employment opportunities
http://art.nmu.edu/department/AD_Career.html
Artchive
General fine art
http://www.artchive.com
Artlex
An art dictionary
http://www.artlex.com
Artnet Magazine
Artists, galleries, events, research, magazines and careers
http://www.artnet.com/index.asp?=N=1
Ask
Ask any question
http://www.ask.com
Big Think
Global forum for connecting people and ideas
http://bigthink.com
Directory of Open Access Journals
Free, full-text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals
http://www.doaj.org
eHow
How to do just about anything
http://www.ehow.com
Famous Quotes and Authors
Quotations and sayings from famous authors, poets, artists, politicians and others.
http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com
Festival Network Online
Craft shows, art fairs, music festivals and other related events throughout the United States
http://www.festivalnet.com/index.htm
Google Scholar
A convenient way to search for scholarly literature
http://scholar.google.com
How Products Are Made
http://www.madehow.com
Image Collections, Directories and Tutorials:
Art Images for College Teachers (AICT)
http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/html/index.html
Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture
http://decorativearts.library.wisc.edu/about.htm
Directory of Image Search Engines
http://www.search-engine-index.co.uk/Images_Search/htDir
Smithsonian Museum Archives Image Gallery
http://sirismm.si.edu/siris/sirisimagegallery.htm
WorldImages
http://worldimages.sjsu.edu
Librarians Internet Index
Index to a variety of subjects
http://www.lii.org
Museums
Google Art Project
Museums around the world
http://www.googleartproject.com/
Museums in the USA
Links to 1507 plus museums
http://icom.museum/vlmp/usa.html
Okanagan University College
Art History: A Preliminary Handbook by: Dr. Robert J. Belton
http://web.ubc.ca/okanagan/creative/links/arthistory.html
Open Science Directory
Art History: A Preliminary Handbook by: Dr. Robert J. Belton
http://opensciencedirectory.com
Study Guides and Strategies
http://www.studygs.net
Photography
Includes dictionary, articles, reviews and manuals
http://www.photonotes.org
smARThistory
Alternatives to teaching with an art history textbook
http://smarthistory.org
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
http://plato.stanford.edu
Sweet Briar College, Department of Art History
Resources for the study of art
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks4.html
Web Gallery of Art
The focus is European art, especially Renaissance
http://www.wga.hu/index.html
Wolfram MathWorld
The Web’s most extensive mathematics resource
http://mathworld.wolfram.com
World Wide Art Resource
Includes a link to Art History Research (Index of Artists)
http://www.wwar.com
Electronic Resources Disclaimer
The above list of URLs are links to other websites that are independently run and outside of the pcad.edu domain. The Pennsylvania College of Art & Design is not responsible for the privacy practices, activities, or content of such independent sites. None of these sites, nor any content available through links to and from them, have been screened, reviewed or endorsed by the Pennsylvania College of Art & Design.
Any links to external websites and/or non-Pennsylvania College of Art & Design information provided on pages or returned from Web search engines are provided as a courtesy. They should not be construed as an endorsement by the Pennsylvania College of Art & Design of the content or views of the linked materials. The materials on these independent sites are solely the responsibility and opinions of the specified author(s) and are not statements of advice, opinion, support or information from the Pennsylvania College of Art & Design.
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Library website updated August 2011