Art Source Ultimate
Art Source Ultimate is the largest full-text art research database covering essential topics in art studies. Promoting interdisciplinary research across fine art, design, craft, media and material studies, Art Source Ultimate supports researchers studying fine art, art history and graphic design as well as industrial design and interior design.
Focus on Visual Arts
Art Source Ultimate is the largest full-text art research database covering essential topics in art studies. Promoting interdisciplinary research across fine art, design, craft, media and material studies, Art Source Ultimate supports researchers studying fine art, art history and graphic design as well as industrial design and interior design.
Strengthen Exposure to Open Access Journals
Art Source Ultimate includes rigorous curation and indexing of open access (OA) journals, which has resulted in a growing collection of 546 active global OA journals. Once validated and certified for inclusion, these OA journals are treated with high-quality subject indexing and sophisticated, precise/accurate full-text linking.
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Full-Text Art Journal Databases – International Content Compared
With content published from over 60 countries worldwide, Art Source Ultimate offers researchers, students and historians an unparalleled global perspective of art topics. Its breadth and depth make it a core resource for rigorous scholarship, comparative research, and informed professional practice across the visual arts disciplines.
Unique Full-Text Art Journals
Art Source Ultimate includes 909 active full-text journals not available in any version of Academic Search.
The Highest Quality Subject Indexing
EBSCO has the premier and most highly regarded scholarly vocabularies curated by subject matter experts, covering all disciplines and major publishers.
EBSCO believes in breaking down barriers to information through Enhances Subject Precision (ESP) mapping, bridging the gap between content and end users through inclusion of natural languages.
EBSCO databases support all learning types though textural and visual subject browse and information literacy training through subject access points in more than 30 languages. Watch video to learn more.
Art Source Ultimate includes 1,249 active indexed and abstracted journals. 939 of them are peer-reviewed.
Subjects Covered
- Advertising art
- Antiques
- Archaeology
- Art history
- Ceramics
- Contemporary art
- Costume design
- Crafts
- Decorative arts
- Drawing
- Fiber art
- Folk art
- Graphic art
- Industrial design
- Museology
- Non-western art
- Painting
- Photography
- Printmaking
- Sculpture
- Video art
