Introduction and Welcome!
Art 2211 Library Research Guide for Professor Gotham's course, Art Histories Before 1400 CE.
This guide contains links to resources on a variety of art-related resources.
See the blue menu on the right to find books, articles, and museum sites related to the study and appreciation of art. If you need additional help, stop by the Reference Desk or contact references services for assistance.
To access Library online resources, you need to know your COD MyAccess username and password.
To get print books from the Library, you'll need your library card number, which can be obtained using this online form. Student and Staff ID Cards can be activated online.
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Agenda
- Getting help
- Library cards
- Off campus assess to databases
- Assignment overview
- Keywords
- Searching
- Work on your own projects
Searching Tips
General suggestions for searching:
Keywords - if you're not finding what you're searching for, try another keyword.
Concepts - Identify the concepts that you'll want to search, more broadly such as Culture, Social, Politics of the setting in which the art was created.
Concepts more specific to the object could include the art movement or period, for example Traditional African Art, Eastern Mediterranean, Islamic arts, Romanesque, Gothic, and Renaissance.
Sources - No one database has everything - for this research project, you'll likely want to try several COD Library sources, such as the Library Catalog, JSTOR, Oxford Art Online, and Academic Search Ultimate.
Using the Library From Off Campus
Access Online Resources
You'll need your COD MyAccess username and password to access the COD Library's databases. Materials accessible include ebooks, scholarly and peer-reviewed articles, magazine and newspaper articles, films, and sound recordings.
