Bibliographies & indexes
Art Full Text and Art Abstracts
Art Full Texts offers full text plus abstracts and indexing of an international array of peer-selected publications on both Western and non-Western art, new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, and feminist criticism. Available from any computer in SOAS; also available for SOAS staff and students off-site using an institutional ID and password.
ABZU: Archaeological Sites
Index of Reports on Archaeological Sites in the Near East and Related Material. A comprehensive list of academic resources from the Research Archives of the Oriental Institute, Chicago.
BCIN: the Bibliographic Database of the Conservation Information Network
The Web's most complete bibliographic resource for the conservation, preservation and restoration of cultural property. It now contains nearly 200,000 citations, including the first 34 volumes of the Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts (AATA), published between 1955 and 1997.
Catalog Kid
The Catalog kid is the largest distrubutor of art, antique and post auction catalogues from Christie's, Sotheby's, etc. A very useful site to find past auctions. Searchable by subject, keywords and auction houses.
Modern Chinese Literature and Culture Resources Centre: Visual Arts
English language bibliographies of visual arts of China, Hong Kong and Taiwan since 1894, containing bibliographies on propaganda art; popular and folk art; woodcuts; cartoons; exhibitions and catalogues; architecture; photography; fashion; advertisements; and the avant-garde. Includes a small number of links to online resources for each subject, images and a discussion list. Part of the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at Ohio State University.
SCIPIO: Art and Rare Book Sales Catalogs
Provides bibliographic access to auction sales catalogues from all major North American and European auction houses as well as important private sales. Off-site access for SOAS students and staff using a ULRLS Library Card obtainable from the Senate House Library.
http://www.ulrls.lon.ac.uk/resources/databaseauth.asp?user=ul
Textile Arts of the Islamic World: Working Bibliographies
Compiled by the Eastern Hemisphere Curatorial Department at the Textile Museum, Washington DC and offers over 50 bibliographies of interest to anyone pursuing studies of textile arts of the Islamic world. Most of the materials cited are available from the the Arthur D. Jenkins Library at the Textile Museum
http://www.lib.umich.edu/area/Near.East/Textiles/Textiles.html
Worldwide Books: Exhibition Catalogues and Other Books on Art
Database of international museum and gallery catalogues published from the 1960s to the present and American trade and university press art books published since 1992, including forthcoming titles.
