Find items in UIC Library collections, including books, articles, databases and more.
Find items on the UIC Library website, including research guides, help articles, events and website pages.
To get started brainstorming ideas for your research topic, try browsing through
Museum studies E-books, and print books in the Daley Library stacks
Next Practices in Diversity and Inclusion
links to a compendium of examples of diverse and inclusive practices at museums
Try searching the library online catalog using the term "exhibitions" (as opposed to "exhibition") in the subject field. This will return a number of exhibition catalogs. You can then click on the subject term in the record to bring up additional resources.
Visit museum web sites for information about past exhibitions.
Check YouTube for media resources about your exhibition.
To learn about the impact of an exhibition at the time it was held, search for articles and reviews in a variety of news sources. Try a variety of search approaches:
Search NexisUni and Access World News for international news.
Search Individual Electronic Newspaper Titles -- chiefly American newspapers, both current and historical, but includes The London TImes (current and historical).
There are numerous databases you can use to research your topic, but here are a few that should be fruitful for locating information about exhibitions. For links to all databases provided by the library, go to the library's Databases A-Z list.
America: History and Life provides articles on the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present.
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America: History and Life is a comprehensive bibliography of articles on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. AHL offers abstracts and citations for articles appearing in over 2,000 journals published worldwide in history, related humanities, and the social sciences. The database also includes citations to book reviews from approximately 140 major journals of American history and culture, and relevant dissertations from Dissertation Abstracts International.
America: History and Life is a resource for a variety of disciplines, including:
* History
* American Studies
* Anthropology
* Genealogy
* Interdisciplinary Studies
* Literature/Folklore
* Multicultural Studies
* Popular Culture
* Sociology
* Women's Studies/Gender Studies
* History of Science, Economics, Business, Education, Music, Art, and Law
Featuring full-text articles plus abstracting and indexing of an international array of peer-selected publications, Art Full Text is a useful database for art students and art historians. It covers many topics from fine, decorative and commercial art to photography, film and architecture. The database also includes Art Index Retrospective which covers index from 1929-1984.
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The database covers fine, decorative, and commercial art as well as photography, folk art, film, architecture, and much more. In recent years, its coverage of Latin American, Canadian, Asian, and non-Western art has expanded greatly, along with its material on new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, and feminist criticism.
Historical study of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the U.S. and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life).
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Published since 1954, this database has long been recognized as among the leading bibliographies for historical study of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life).
Journals in literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.
Project MUSE® offers more than 200 quality journal titles from some 30 scholarly publishers. It covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.
Provides abstracts and indexing of the international literature of political science and international relations, along with complementary fields, including international law and public administration/policy. Provides abstracts of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations and working papers, and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,500+ serials publications.