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Introduction to Library Research
African American Art Research Guide
If you find a book or article for your paper, but we don't have it on campus, you can ask for it to be delivered to campus. Complete the request form, and be sure to give yourself plenty of time. Items can take as little as 2 days and as much as 2 weeks to arrive on campus.
To request a book, click on "loan."
To request an article, clock on "copy."
Example of an academic journal article (click on the pdf to view)
Art Full-Text
Indexes articles in the fields of art history, architecture, craft, design, landscape architecture, photography and video, and more.
Academic Search Premier
Indexes journal articles in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Includes some full-text.
International Index to Black Periodicals via Black Studies Center
Indexes scholarly articles in the humanities and social sciences about the Black experience in the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean. Click on the "Journals" link to access International Index to Black Periodicals.
JSTOR
JSTOR provides an image archive of important scholarly journal literature in nearly all the humanities and social sciences disciplines, international and foreign areas studies, and many of the sciences.
Project Muse
Provides full-text of scholarly journal literature in the sciences, social sciences and humanities.
More Article Databases | How Do I Find Articles? | How Do I Find an Article if it is not Full-Text? | How Do I Distinguish Different Types of Journals?
The hyperlinks listed below are subject headings found in the UNC-Chapel Hill Catalog. These headings can be used with other library catalogs such as WorldCat (OCLC), which includes the holdings of U.S. and international libraries.
African American art
African American artists
African American arts
African Americans in art
African american folk art
Outsider art -- Southern States
Ringgold, Faith
Grove Dictionary of Art Online
Contains articles on every aspect of the visual arts--painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography--from prehistory to the present day.
Web sites can be valuable sources of information. Keep in mind the importance of evaluating information you find on the web. In addition to using Google and other search engines, use resources developed by librarians such as:
The Stone Center Library's Guide to the Web
UNC Libraries tutorial on Evaluating Information includes a section on evaluating information on the web.
