As a current student, faculty or staff member, you may click on any of the links below to access Pennsylvania College of Art & Design’s electronic resources.
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►FLU INFORMATION RESOURCES
EBSCOhost Publishing provides support via continuously updated, evidence-based clinical information from DynaMed and Nursing Reference Center, EBSCO's clinical and nursing point-of-care databases, along with patient education information in 17 languages from Patient Education Reference Center.
Flu Information Resources
Academic Search Elite
A core resource of scholarly information containing 2,025 full-text journals, 1,563 of which are peer-reviewed.
Full access on campus; remote access available with password provided by the librarian.
Academic Search Elite
Access PA/Ask Here PA
Have a question? Ask Here PA is designed to provide fast answers to your questions. A librarian is available 24/7 and in most cases, you will receive your answer within 15 minutes. If the question involves lengthy research, an Ask Here PA librarian will get you started and/or provide a referral for you.
Full access on campus.
Ask Here PA
Access PA/Interlibrary Loan
Pennsylvania College of Art & Design is a member of the Access Pennsylvania Database, a web-based union catalog and resource-sharing guide to Pennsylvania library collections.
You can search the database for books not available in the PCA&D Library collection. When you have located a book within the database, complete an online PCA&D Interlibrary Loan Request form. The librarian will process your request and contact you when the book has arrived.
Inter-Library Loan Catalog
AP Images
Photographs, audio sound bytes, graphics and text covering more than 160 years of history.
Full access on campus; remote access with password provided by the librarian.
AP Images
ARTstor
A digital library of hundreds of thousands of images of art, architecture and archeology. Critical data about each image includes such information as creator, title and object date. To access remotely, you must first register on campus through the link below.
Full access on campus; remote access available as a registered user.
ARTstor
AskArt
A comprehensive research database on American art that now covers international artists as well. There are nearly 200,000 artists in the database.
Full access on campus.
AskArt
Atomic Learning
Tutorial series and curriculum resources provide short, easy-to-view and understand instruction and application tutorials. Also included is the 21st Century Skills Professional Development and Technology Integration solution, a valuable resource for developing skills to become globally competitive.
Full access on campus; remote access with password provided by the librarian.
Atomic Learning
EasyBib
An online bibliography composer and MLA/APA informational resource.
On campus and remote access available as a registered user; ask the librarian for the “coupon code” to register.
EasyBib
EBSCOhost
Electronic databases include EBSCOhost Web (Academic Search Elite, History Reference Center, ERIC, Book Collection: Nonfiction, Professional Development Collection, Teacher Reference Center, GreenFile and Lexi-PALS Drug Guide), Consumer Health Complete, Novelist Plus and Points of View.
Full access on campus; remote access available with password provided by the librarian.
EBSCOhost
Electronic Books/NetLibrary
A collection of nearly 13,000 books that may be signed out for viewing electronically. Access is available by going directly to the NetLibrary link below or through the library's online public access catalog. To access remotely, you must first register on campus through the link below.
Remote access available with registration.
eBooks
Electronic Reserves
Required or recommended readings selected by the faculty for student access and placed on reserve. Copyright of all articles is the property of the posted copyright holder and content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or pasted to a list-serve without the copyright holder’s express written permission. However, users may print, download or email articles for individual educational use.
Access is available only on campus.
eReserves
Encyclopedia Britannica Online Academic
Continuously updated reference site with more than 7,500 articles and more than 23,000 biographies. In addition, Britannica Online includes World Data Analyst, Gateway to the Classics, Meriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Meriam Webster's Dictionary of Quotations, selected full-text articles from EBSCO and ProQuest journals, BBC & New York Times daily headlines, The Web's Best, World Atlas and Workspace, a research organizer.
Full access on campus; remote access available with password provided by the librarian.
Encyclopedia Britannica
FAQs about the Library
Questions and answers about the most frequently asked questions. Information will be added on an ongoing basis.
Access is available only on campus.
FAQs
Franklin & Marshall College Library
The Pennsylvania College of Art & Design and Franklin & Marshall College have a library partnership that allows use of each other’s library by faculty and students enrolled in their respective institutions.
PCA&D students and faculty have access to the collections at both Franklin & Marshall libraries for borrowing and research purposes. On your first visit, you must have your PCA&D ID with you. At the circulation desk, you will be asked to complete a form, and then you will be issued a Franklin & Marshall ID for use in that library.
Franklin & Marshall College Library
Journal on Excellence in College Teaching
A peer-reviewed journal published at Miami University by and for faculty to increase student learning through effective teaching, interest in and the enthusiasm for the profession of teaching, and communication among faculty about their classroom experience.
Full access on campus.
Journal on Excellence in College Teaching
LexisNexis Academic
Full-text documents from thousands of news, business, legal, medical and reference publications.
Full access on campus.
LexisNexis Academic
Library System of Lancaster County
With the ownership of a public library card from the Library System of Lancaster County, students, faculty and staff have remote access to many online services.
A card from the Library System of Lancaster County is required to use the system. A card application may be downloaded from the library system’s website.
LSLC
Points of View Reference Center
POV is a full-text database of essays covering multiple sides of 250 current issues.
Full access on campus; remote access available with password provided by the librarian.
POV Reference Center
Wilson Web Databases
Art Museum Image Gallery (AMIG)
Resource of art images and related multimedia
Wilson Biographies Plus Illustration
Thousands of in-depth, full text profiles with up-to-date bibliographies. Includes links to full text articles, abstracts, book review excerpts, images and more.
Full access on campus.
AMIG & Biographies Plus Illustration
Webliography
Art and Design Career and Employment
Webliography of art and/or design career and employment opportunities
http://art.nmu.edu/department/AD_Career.html
Artchive
General fine art
http://www.artchive.com
Artlex
An art dictionary
http://www.artlex.com
Artnet Magazine
Artists, galleries, events, research, magazines and careers
http://www.artnet.com/index.asp?=N=1
Ask
Ask any question
http://www.ask.com
Directory of Open Access Journals
Free, full-text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals
http://www.doaj.org
eHow
How to do just about anything
http://www.ehow.com
Famous Quotes and Authors
Quotations and sayings from famous authors, poets, artists, politicians and others.
http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com
Festival Network Online
Craft shows, art fairs, music festivals and other related events throughout the United States
http://www.festivalnet.com/index.htm
Google Scholar
A convenient way to search for scholarly literature
http://scholar.google.com
How Products Are Made
http://www.madehow.com
Image Collections, Directories and Tutorials:
Art Images for College Teachers (AICT)
http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/html/index.html
Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture
http://decorativearts.library.wisc.edu/about.htm
Directory of Image Search Engines
http://www.search-engine-index.co.uk/Images_Search/htDir
Smithsonian Museum Archives Image Gallery
http://sirismm.si.edu/siris/sirisimagegallery.htm
WorldImages
http://worldimages.sjsu.edu
Librarians Internet Index
Index to a variety of subjects
http://www.lii.org
Museums in the USA
Links to 1507 plus museums
http://icom.museum/vlmp/usa.html
Okanagan University College
Art History: A Preliminary Handbook by: Dr. Robert J. Belton
http://web.ubc.ca/okanagan/creative/links/arthistory.html
Open Science Directory
Art History: A Preliminary Handbook by: Dr. Robert J. Belton
http://opensciencedirectory.com
Study Guides and Strategies
http://www.studygs.net
Photography
Includes dictionary, articles, reviews and manuals
http://www.photonotes.org
smARThistory
Alternatives to teaching with an art history textbook
http://smarthistory.org
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
http://plato.stanford.edu
Sweet Briar College, Department of Art History
Resources for the study of art
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks4.html
Web Gallery of Art
The focus is European art, especially Renaissance
http://www.wga.hu/index.html
Wolfram MathWorld
The Web’s most extensive mathematics resource
http://mathworld.wolfram.com
World Wide Art Resource
Includes a link to Art History Research (Index of Artists)
http://www.wwar.com
Electronic Resources Disclaimer
The above list of URLs are links to other websites that are independently run and outside of the pcad.edu domain. The Pennsylvania College of Art & Design is not responsible for the privacy practices, activities, or content of such independent sites. None of these sites, nor any content available through links to and from them, have been screened, reviewed or endorsed by the Pennsylvania College of Art & Design.
Any links to external websites and/or non-Pennsylvania College of Art & Design information provided on pages or returned from Web search engines are provided as a courtesy. They should not be construed as an endorsement by the Pennsylvania College of Art & Design of the content or views of the linked materials. The materials on these independent sites are solely the responsibility and opinions of the specified author(s) and are not statements of advice, opinion, support or information from the Pennsylvania College of Art & Design.
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Library website updated December 2009