Library guide Art History: Databases, dictionaries and encyclopedias

Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon Online - Artists of the World Online contains information about visual artists throughout the world, from all eras. It includes biographic and bibliographic information, along with information about artistic works.

The Art Index contains references to international journal articles about art. There are also references to reproductions of works of art that appear in the journals covered.
Coverage: 1984 - present

The Art Index Retrospective contains references to international journal articles (criticism) about the arts. Also included are data from yearbooks and museum bulletins.
Coverage: 1929 - 1984

BHA and RILA cover European and American visual arts material.
Coverage: 1975 - 2007

The International Bibliography of Humanism and the Renaissance is a bibliographical database, containing information about publications from 1965 until 2001. The focus of this database is on the history and culture of 16th and 17th century Europe. It covers subjects from the history of religion, philosophy, science, arts and gender studies up to military and political history. The database does not provide direct access to the publications. Use the button Full-Text? to check whether the UB has access to it, or look up the title in RUQuest.
Coverage: 1965 - 2001

The International Directory of Arts (IDA) contains addresses and contact details of more than 150,000 universities, museums, organisations, antiquarians, etc in the field of art.

The International Medieval Bibliography is a bibliographical database which offers information about (new) publications on the Middle Ages. The focus is on publications about the late Antique period up to and including the late Middle Ages. The database does not provide direct access to the publications. Use the button Full-Text? to check whether the University Library has access to it, or look up the title in RUQuest.
Coverage: 1967 - present

Database of mediaeval manuscripts' scribes and owners.

RUQuest is a search engine for the collection of the RU University Library, Nijmegen, and for collections of other libraries worldwide.
RUQuest contains printed and digital books, periodicals, journal articles, book chapters and more.
Full text publications can be opened by clicking 'View full text'.
Tutorial: RUQuest

A searchable archive of journal articles, in which the articles are available in full texts and retrievable from the first volume of a journal to three, four or five years ago.
Self-teaching: How to search JSTOR
Related archive: Periodicals Archive Online

The Web of Science by Clarivate Analytics contains references of international journal articles from all scientific disciplines.
It includes data from eight citation indexes:
- Science Citation Index Expanded
- Social Sciences Citation Index
- Arts and Humanities Citation Index
- Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (CPCI-S)
- Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH)
- Book Citation Index - Science (BKCI-S)
- Book Citation Index - Social Science & Humanities (BKCI-SSH)
- Emerging Sources Citation Index
Chemical indexes:
- Current Chemical Reactions (CCR-EXPANDED)
- Index Chemicus (IC)
Citation indexes offer a unique search method to find later-published journal articles, in which a publication is cited.
Coverage: daily updates
Related: Journal Citation Reports

The Van Dale online dictionaries contain:

• Van Dale Groot woordenboek van de Nederlandse taal - de Dikke Van Dale
  
• Van Dale Groot woordenboek Hedendaags Nederlands
  
• Van Dale Dutch-English / English-Dutch
  
• Van Dale Dutch-German / German-Dutch
  
• Van Dale Dutch-French / French-Dutch
  
• Van Dale Dutch-Spanish / Spanish-Dutch
  
• Van Dale Dutch-Italian / Italian-Dutch
  
• Van Dale Dutch-Portugese / Portugese-Dutch
  
• Van Dale Dutch-Swedish / Swedish-Dutch
  
• Van Dale Taalhandboek Nederlands
  
• Van Dale Taalhandboek Engels
  
• Synoniemen
  
• Spellinghulp
  
• Juridisch (Fockema Andreae's Juridisch woordenboek)

Nexis Uni is a database with full text articles derived from Dutch newspapers (national and regional), foreign newspapers and Dutch news magazines.
Coverage: circa 1990 - present, daily updates
Manual: Help Topics for Nexis Uni