Visual Literacy in Databases
Here is a multidisciplinary selection of databases that contain information on visual literacy.
If you are looking for a list of art databases, explore the Art History & Visual Art guide.
- Art Full TextIndexes Art, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning journals. Reproductions of works of art appearing in periodicals are also indexed.
- Web of Science Core CollectionMultidisciplinary database of journal articles and conference proceedings, used for citation analysis of research. Includes access to EndNote Basic, a web-based version of EndNote.
- Education SourceEducation Source is the largest collection of full-text education journals for all levels of education from early childhood to higher education as well as multilingual education, health education and testing.
- ERIC (EBSCO interface)Most comprehensive education index, covering nearly 1000 journals, primarily American. Also indexes ERIC documents, including conferences, curricula, reports etc. ERIC (EBSCO) includes many links to full text.
- Communication & Mass Media CompleteA research and reference resource in the communication and mass media fields. Indexes and abstracts over 800 journals, and includes access to 500 full text journals.
- JSTOR CollectionIn addition to fully-searchable journal backfiles, also includes current issues for some titles as well as collections of primary-source documents such as their '19th century British pamphlets'.
- ARTbibliographies ModernProvides full abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art
Images in Databases
The list below offers a small selection of databases UBC Library subscribes to which contain images.
For a more comprehensive list of databases that contain images, click here.
For additional information, check out the Images - Finding & Using research guide.
- Artstor on JSTORA digital image library for the arts and sciences with an unparalleled range of images licensed for educational use at UBC.
- Oxford Art OnlineOxford Art Online is the access point for Grove Art Online, the Benezit Dictionary of Artists, the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and the Oxford Companion to Western Art.
- ArchivisionArchivision is a database of over 80,000 high quality, professionally photographed images of architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, archaeology, and design searchable within the MDID platform.
- Berg Fashion LibraryCovers interdisciplinary and integrated text, image, and journal content on world dress and fashion. Useful for researching or studying fashion, anthropology, art history, history, museum studies, & cultural studies.
- Medieval Family LifeFull-colour images of medieval manuscripts from the Paston, Stonor, Cely, Plumpton and Armburgh Papers. Includes, where available, searchable full-text transcripts from the principal printed editions.
- Vogue ArchivesContains the entire run of Vogue magazine (US edition) from 1892 to the present day, reproduced in high-resolution color page images.
- Index of Medieval ArtArchive of medieval art, describing and presenting iconographic subjects and images, without geographical limitation, from early apostolic times to the early modern era.
- Indigenous peoples North AmericaIncludes manuscript material, monographs, newspapers, photographs, motion pictures, and images of artwork drawn from a variety of repositories in the United States and Canada.
- North American Indian Thought and CultureAmerican and Canadian primary source materials. Mainly textual materials from American libraries (books, articles, pamphlets, oral histories). Indexed for place, event and individuals. Also audio, video, images.
- ClinicalKeyClinicalKey provides access to FirstConsult, top journals, best-selling medical and surgical books, thousands of medical videos, millions of images, and much more content across 12 distinct content types.