LibGuides: Contemporary art: E-Resources

E-Resources help

BoB: Box of Broadcasts This link opens in a new window
On demand TV and radio for education, with an archive of over 2 million TV and radio broadcasts. Accessible in the UK only

How to use BoB [videos]

Use the advanced search if you can't find what you are looking for.

Try some of these:

Artfilms (now Bloomsbury Video Library) This link opens in a new window
Artfilms streams 1000s of videos supporting the arts curriculum with content from top artists and producers specifically related to the creative arts. Masterclasses, documentaries, interviews: Content to entertain, educate and inform.

LinkedIn Learning This link opens in a new window
A huge range of video tutorials supporting learning in software, technology, creative and business skills – all free to University of Westminster staff and currently enrolled students.

Art Full Text This link opens in a new window
Index of journal articles from over 480 international publications about art, with summaries and selected full text articles.
ARTbibliographies Modern This link opens in a new window
Index of a wide range of publications about modern and contemporary art, design and photography. Includes summaries of journal articles, books, exhibition catalogues and reviews.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Google Scholar provides a fast and simple way to search for scholarly literature, including journal articles, books and theses.

You will need to set up the Library Link (Menu > Settings > Library links) in order to do that.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Archive of e-journals for the humanities, social sciences and sciences, not including the most recent issues from the past 3-5 years
FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Plus This link opens in a new window
Index of over 350 film and television periodicals with selected full-text for over 40 titles.

Find key journals for contemporary art on Library Search here.

Factiva This link opens in a new window
Access to global news sources including major world newspapers in different scripts and language, also includes company financial data.

How to access and use Factiva [video]

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VADS (Visual Arts Data Service) This link opens in a new window
Over 100,000 images relevant to visual art practice, contextual study and curation. Collections include the Design Council Archive, Imperial War Museum, London College of Fashion and Public Monuments and Sculpture Association.
Europeana This link opens in a new window
Multi-lingual online collection of millions of digitized items from European museums, libraries, archives and multi-media collections.
Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Over 250 online reference books, dictionaries and encyclopedias in a range of subjects.

Luxonline This link opens in a new window
Luxonline is an extensive, publicly available resource devoted to British film and video artists, which includes film and video clips, articles and tours.
UbuWeb This link opens in a new window
An independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts.
Arts on Film Archive This link opens in a new window
Over 450 documentary films from the Arts Council England collection, which focuses on 20th Century British artists and art movements, as well as architecture, theatre, poetry, music and dance.

Log in to stream videos.

Due to copyright restrictions the Arts Council England films can only be streamed to ac.uk domain addresses.