Journal Articles, Web Resources, & Art Collections: Fine Arts

ArtStor is a collection of images of art across many cultures and times. UPEI does not subscribe to the main database, but a significant portion is freely available to all as the Public Collections.

BHA and RILA cover European and American visual arts material published between 1975 and 2007.

This is a specialized database indexing both books (including exhibition catalogs) and articles.

It does not contain full text or links to the Library's full text or book collections, so use to identify resources and then look them up by title/author in OneSearch to check for access or place ILL requests.

Search millions of articles about drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. Diverse resource for serious fine arts students.

Places 10.4 million articles at the fingertips of serious students of drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. More than 250 journals covered in databases such as the Wilson Art Index and the Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) index are available in full text.

(Description provided by the database publisher, Gale/Cengage)

Provides access to archival issues of over 4,500 scholarly journals across most academic disciplines. Includes primary source materials.

The collections are the following: Arts & Sciences I to XV, Business IV, Hebrew Journals, Ireland, Life Sciences, Lives of Literature, Public Health, Security Studies, Sustainability, Global Plants, Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa, World Heritage Sites: Africa, and 19th Century British Pamphlets.

JSTOR also now includes over a half-million images from the ArtStor  "public collection", described as "images, videos, documents, and audio files from museums, archives, libraries, and faculty collections". Eventually all 1.3 million images currently accessible on the ArtStor platform will also be on the JSTOR platform.

Authentication note: If you create your own personal account within the UPEI institutional account, you can access everything UPEI has licensed by logging into that account directly from on or off campus without going through our proxy server. That is good for 365 days and can be easily renewed.

Faculty: If you want an entire class to have their own accounts, you can provide collections@upei.ca with a list of student email addresses, and we can upload them all in a batch - students will get email invites that they need to accept, but it makes the process much easier, if you want to use the collaborative research tools in the "JSTOR Workspace".

Oxford journals (about 240) and ebooks purchased from Oxford. This does NOT include the Oxford English Dictionary which is on its own platform.

What's in the Catalogue?

The Catalogue contains information about many of the print, borrowable, and reference materials at the Robertson Library. It contains

• print books (including reference books)
• equipment (laptops, chargers, etc)
• music (scores, CDs, vinyl, etc.) - see also Naxos Music Library
• videos (DVDs, VHS) - see also Video Resources
• most materials in the PEI Collection, and some materials in the University Archives.

What's not in the Catalogue?

Many of our resources are outside of the catalogue. These include:

• Ebooks - see OneSearch
• Journal articles or journals - see OneSearch
• Licensed content of databases - see OneSearch
• Most Open Access/OER works - see OneSearch
• Digital collections - see Island Archives
• Librarians - see Subject Librarians

Can I log in?

Yes, you can log in to the Catalogue to place holds or renew your borrowed items. Use your UPEI username and password.

Who supports the Catalogue?

The Metadata and Systems teams at the Robertson Library support the Catalogue. Contact Rosie Le Faive for metadata issues and Courtney Matthews for technical concerns.

The Catalogue has been self-hosted on Evergreen, an open-source ILS software, since 2008.