Academic Search Elite (indexing: 1984+, selected full-text: 1990+). EBSCOhost

InfoTrac Expanded Academic ASAP (indexing with selected full-text: 1980+). Gale

Art Abstracts. Cites articles from over 300 periodicals published throughout the world. Indexing is from 1984 forward and abstracts from Spring 1994 forward. Currently there are over 400,000 records in the database that is updated monthly. The coverage includes periodicals as well as museum bulletins, yearbooks, film reviews, interviews, exhibition listings, and a full citation for reproductions of works of art that appear in periodicals cited. Approximately 70% of articles in the database contain full abstracts. Now available through WilsonWeb which also allows access to Humanities Full Text.  H.W. Wilson.

ARTstor. Database of more than 300,000 digital images from many time periods and cultures. Relevant for study of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, design and other forms of visual culture. Users can search, view, and save images for scholarly use.

America: History and Life. Indexes the scholarly literature about all periods of American history. Includes abstracts. ABC-Clio

Biography and Genealogy Master Index Looking for artists? Try this comprehensive index for individuals living and dead. 

ERIC (indexing: 1966+, full-text of ERIC digest: 1966+). (P) EBSCOhost

Humanities Full Text. (1984+) Index to the major journals in the humanities, with full-text articles from over 170 titles. Includes literature, history, philosophy, archaeology, classics, performing arts, and religion. Note: Select Art Abstracts to include citations to art journals. H.W.Wilson 

LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) Provenance Research Project  - Primarily a resource for looted art, the site also links to other major museum sites.

LexisNexis Academic.  News and wire services; company, industry and market information; resources for legal and political research; medical news; government information. Excellent for biographical information and art law, sociology of art and much more. Full-text. LexisNexis

Lost Art Internet Database - Provides resources for locating art that has been looted, stolen or has gone missing.

National Gallery of Canada's Provenance Research Project - Covers from 1933 to 1945 and works from the National Gallery that may have questionable origins.

Project Muse. A full-text database with a broad humanities reach. Rich in Post-Modern theory, ethnic studies, aesthetics and other cross-disciplinary topics.

Provenance Index of the Getty Art History Information Program -- a primary resource for research, with both print and online resources. Includes the print Documents for the history of collecting series of Italian, Netherlandish and Spanish inventories of paintings, and The Index of paintings sold in the British Isles during the nineteenth century. The index "accumulates and disseminates information related to the history of collecting and the provenance of individual works of art (primarily European paintings) gathered from sales catalogues, archival records, and museum files.  The Index provides scholars and museum curators with important information about the history of taste and collecting" ...

WorldCat. Index to over 41 million book and audiovisual catalog records in 17,000 libraries. WorldCat is not a periodical index. FirstSearch