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Keyword vs. Subject Searching
Step 1: Start your search process with a list of keywords that describe the main concepts of your topic or question.
Step 2: Use these keywords for your initial searches.
Step 3: Use the Subject Heading links in the Library Catalog record to refine your search.
EXAMPLE
The following databases will help you find articles on your topic:
- Art Full Text and Art Index RetrospectiveComprehensive resource for art literature: articles, indexing and abstracting of journals, and art dissertations; covering fine, decorative, and commercial art, folk art, photography, film, and architecture. Includes indexing of publications, and citations of book reviews. Indexing of art reproductions provides examples of styles and art movements, including works by emerging artists.
- BHA and RILA This link opens in a new windowCurrent literature of European and North and South American art. Traditional fine arts (architecture, sculpture, painting, drawing and prints), decorative and applied arts, industrial design, popular and folk art, photography, and contemporary new media. Citations from publications on the performing arts (costumes and scenography) and related titles from music, history and literature. BHA incorporates the complete contents of International Repertory of the Literature of Art (RILA) and Repertoire d'Art et d'Archeologie (RAA).
- Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index This link opens in a new windowIndex of journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages.
- Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Index of academic historical journals on the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, etc.
- Index of Medieval Art This link opens in a new windowRecords works of art produced from early apostolic times up to A.D. 1550 (extended in the case of the Morgan and Princeton Library projects to include this manuscript holdings up to the middle of the sixteenth century). Particular emphasis and focus on art of the western world until recent years. Both text and images included when possible.
- International Bibliography of Art (IBA) This link opens in a new windowResource for scholarly literature on western art, and successor to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA).
- International Medieval Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Interdisciplinary bibliography of the European Middle Ages, covering Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. Periodicals and miscellany volumes (conference proceedings, essay collections, Festschriften, and exhibition catalogues).
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowLarge and important archive for academic journals, books, and primary sources in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Many journals do not have current issues.
- Klapp Online- Bibliography of French Literature This link opens in a new window
Bibliography of French literature with annual updates.
- ProQuest This link opens in a new window
Search all ProQuest databases simultaneously. Includes arts, humanities, social sciences, news, and science and technology.
- WorldCat (FirstSearch) This link opens in a new window
Catalog of books, manuscripts, websites, internet resources, maps, computer programs, musical scores, films, slides, newspapers, journals, magazines, sound recordings, articles, chapters, papers, and videotapes available at libraries worldwide. Cross-search OCLC databases: ArchiveGrid, ArticleFirst, Ebooks, ECO, ERIC, GPO, MEDLINE, OAIster, PapersFirst, ProceedingsFirst, WorldCat, and WorldCatDissertations.
What is 
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FindIt@VU provides direct links from a database citation to the fulltext of the article (if available) and other supporting resources.
- Burgundian Netherlands: Court Life and PatronageHeilbrunn Timeline of Art History-Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Burgundian Netherlands: Private LifeHeilbrunn Timeline of Art History-Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Closer to Van EyckDetailed exploration of the restored Ghent Altarpiece and other works.
- Digitized Medieval ManuscriptsThese maps were designed to help scholars and enthusiasts explore and discover digitized medieval manuscripts made available all over the world.
- France, 1400–1600 A.D.Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History-Metropolitan Museum of Art
- The MournersMetropolitan Museum of Art Exhibition
- Musée de ClunyParis, France
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de DijonDijon, France
- Patronage at the Early Valois Courts (1328–1461)Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History-Metropolitan Museum of Art
