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Interdisciplinary Research

Art research at Carnegie Mellon is highly interdisciplinary and often requires investigation outside those areas commonly designated as "art." To become familiar with resources available in other disciplines, art researchers are encouraged to begin by consulting the Art and Drama Librarian, Mo Dawley.

• Multidisciplinary Databases for Art
  • Images
  • Periodicals/News
  • Reference
• Open-Web Gateways
  • Evaluating Web Resources

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Multidisciplinary Databases for Art

Carnegie Mellon Libraries: Databases by Subject
Includes subject-specific periodical indexes, some of which contain the full-text of articles.

Carnegie Mellon Libraries: General/Reference: Interdisciplinary Databases and Virtual Reference Shelf
Includes links to databases as well as general reference works and guides such as almanacs, dictionaries and encyclopedias; biography; citing resources, college catalogs and rankings, telephone directories, tax forms, conversions, maps travel and weather, statistical resources, funding resources, news and current affairs, government information and more.

18th Century Collections Online
Scanned images from a diverse collection of 18th century printed material including books, directories, Bibles, sheet music, advertisements, sermons; collections on the French Revolution and woman writers; editions of the works of Shakespeare.

Images

Visual Resources Collection
Image databases to which the libraries subscribe; subject librarians image guides and suggested images links on the free-web

ARTstor: Interdisciplinary uses
A guide sheet for using the ARTstor image database (CMU subscription)for various disciplines

Periodical Literature and News Databases

Proquest Direct (up-to-date news: selected years; selected full-text or PDF)
ABI Inform Global, Business Dateline, Historical New York Times (50% complete), Historical Wall Street Journal (50% complete). National newspapers include New York Times, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Wall Street Journal.

InfoTrac (selected full-text)
Access to selected years of scholarly journals, business and trade journals, and other news sources.

Lexis-Nexis Academic (full-text)
Access to business, legal and general medical/health information; continually updated news items, background information on current issues, company financial information, company and industry news, law reviews, federal case law, accounting and auditing tax information, and access to quick information through online reference resources and directories. Also has a section that includes full-text of several health newsletters and abstracts of articles in major medical journals.

WilsonSelect Plus (Full-Text and PDF)
800+ periodicals covered in five periodical indexes: Readers Guide Abstracts, Social Sciences Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, General Science Abstracts and Wilson Business Abstracts.

Reference

Oxford English Dictionary
The history and origin of the English language.

Oxford Reference Online
Over 100 full-text reference works, language and subject dictionaries accessible in one search. Includes general reference, arts, language, science and medicine, humanities and social sciences business and professional sources.

Biographical Information Online
Databases across disciplines available to Carnegie Mellon users. Some full-text.

The Environment: A Multidisciplinary Research Guide
Databases, links and other resources across for those wishing to begin environmental research in the the arts, humanities, social and applied sciences.

Credo Reference (formerly X-Refer plus)
Online full-text encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations by well-known publishers and a some independent sources. Includes references for the arts as well as the humanities, social sciences, medicine, religion, science and technology. Search all databases at once or separately. Images and audio (e.g. pronunciation) for some sources.

Sage e-Reference
A searchable collection of more than 60 scholarly encyclopedias in the social sciences: anthropology, communication, education, geography, history, law, management, politics, psychology, and sociology. New interdisciplinary titles are continuously added to the collection.

Open-web gateways

AHDS (Arts and Humanities Data Service)
A rich archive of digital resources for the visual arts, performance,
history, archaeology, language, literature, and linguistics.

Eserver.org
An excellent interdisciplinary site for information, links and full-text publications in the arts and humanities; originally developed through the English Department at Carnegie Mellon as the English Server, and now hosted at Iowa State University.

Voice of the Shuttle
"Woven" by Alan Liu, Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. A substantial compilation of resources covering all disciplines in the humanities. The Art and Art History Page includes museums and galleries, art theory and politics, art and technology, image resources, journals, zines, art history department programs and syllabi, and conferences.