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Academic Search Premier EBSCO
Search over 8,500 journals, magazines, newspapers and reference books from 1975. Full text available.

ArchiveGrid OCLC
Search for detailed descriptions of archival collections.

Art Index Fulltext EBSCO
Search over 600 journals in the fields of art, design, film, media, photography, etc. Full text available.

ArticleFirst OCLC
Search an index of articles from the contents pages of journals. Citations only - no full text articles

ARTstor ARTstor
Search over one million images in the areas of art, architecture, design, photography, the humanities and social sciences.

Britannica Online Academic Edition Encyclopedia Britannica
Search Encyclopedia Britannica plus Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, periodicals and many other research tools.

CAMIO OCLC
Search for images in the Catalog of Art Museum Images Online. Includes images from the Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

Ebsco eBook Collection  EBSCO
Search over 15,000 eBook titles.

Expanded Academic ASAP Gale
Search over 4,270 scholarly journals and general interest periodicals. Full text available.

MasterFILE Premier EBSCO
Search nearly 1,700 full text periodicals, more than 500 reference books, over 107,000 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 510,000 photos, maps & flags. Full text available.

OAISter OCLC
Search for digital resources from open archive collections.

Oxford Art Online Oxford University Press
Search Grove Dictionary of Art, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. Full text available.

PapersFirst OCLC
Search for papers presented at conferences worldwide. Citations only - no full text articles.

Points of View Reference Center EBSCO
Search for essays that present multiple sides for more than 270 current topics. Full text available.

ProceedingsFirst OCLC
Search an index for worldwide conference proceedings. Citations only - no full text articles.

WorldCat OCLC
Search a catalog of over one billion items in more than 10,000 libraries throughout the world, including the CVA Library.

WorldCat Dissertations and Theses OCLC
Search for dissertations and theses available in libraries worldwide.