Architectural Studies

Provides a number of image collections relating to the arts, antiquities, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences.
NOTE: Effective August 1, 2024, the Artstor platform has been retired, and all Artstor content is now accessible through JSTOR.

“Features approximately 1.3 million freely accessible images, videos, documents, and audio files from library special collections, faculty research, and institutional history materials, as well as hundreds of thousands of open access images from partner museums.”

Features a comprehensive, scholarly art encyclopedia with worldwide coverage of Western and non-Western art from prehistory to the present. The database provides access to thousands of searchable images and links to additional resources. NOTE: Permits only eight simultaneous users.

Key reference for art; offers artist biographies as well as subject entries on artworks, genres, historical periods, and so on; includes Grove Art Online. The database also provides access to some 40,000 image links and 5,000 images contained within Grove Art Online.
NOTE: Permits only eight simultaneous users.

“The Graphic Design Archives at RIT [Rochester Institute of Technology] document and preserve the work of significant American graphic designers active from the 1920s to the 1950s. In addition, selected contemporary designers working in the modernist traditions are also included."