Spencer Art Reference Library—Online Resources
Public access terminals in the library provide access to the LEONARDO online library catalog for the holdings of the Spencer Art Reference Library and the Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering, and Technology in Kansas City, and other online resources such as reference works, periodical indexes and abstracting services, auction databases, and Spencer Art Reference Library research guides.
Specialized online research titles accessible in the library include:
- AATA Online: Abstracts of International Conservation Literature
- Accessible Archives (Godey’s Lady Book, 19th Century African American Newspapers & more)
- America: History and Life
- APS Online (American Periodical Series)
- ArchiveGrd (OCLC)
- Art Abstracts & Art Index Retrospective
- Art Sales Index
- ArtBibliographies Modern
- Artfact
- ArticleFirst (OCLC)
- ARTNET
- Artprice
- AskArt
- Bibliography of Asian Studies
- Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)
- CAMIO: Catalog of Art Museum Images Online (OCLC)
- Design and Applied Arts Index
- Dissertation Abstracts Online
- Encyclopaedia of Islam
- Firstsearch (OCLC Worldcat, ArticleFirst, and other sources)
- Helibrunn Timeline of Art History: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Historical Abstracts
- Historical New York Times Online
- Index to 19th Century American Art Periodicals
- Lugt’s Répertoire des Catalogue de Ventes
- OAlster (OCLC)
- Oxford Art Online (Grove Art Online & other titles)
- Prices4Antiques
- SCIPIO (OCLC/RLG union list of art & rare book sales catalogs)
- World Almanac (OCLC: Funk & Wagnall's Encyclopedia & 4 world almanacs)
- WorldCat (OCLC)
Library staff can provide reference assistance to individuals and class groups in using the LEONARDO online catalog and the online resources.
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