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Databases

The links below work from computers on-campus. To access databases from off-campus, go to the Remote Access page. From that page, click on any database link, then enter your MICA user name and password (same as My MICA Portal log-in). The log-in will take you directly to the selected database for searching.

Reference Databases

  • Berg Fashion Library
    Searchable access to an expanding range of Berg content collections – including the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion online, e-books, reference works, images, and much more.
  • Encyclopedia Britannica On-Line
  • Grove Art Online
    Full-text access to The Dictionary of Art, with content updated periodically. Now part of Oxford Art Online - see full description below.
  • Oxford Art Online
    Comprises four resources for a comprehensive art reference tool:
    Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms
    The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics
    Grove Art Online
    Oxford Companion to Western Art
  • Oxford English Dictionary
  • Text Finder
    Locates texts collected in books owned by MICA's Decker Library

Journal Databases

  • Academic Search Premier
    Scholarly, multi-disciplinary, much full-text online. Areas include art, education, literature, language, linguistics, social and ethnic studies, computer sciences, engineering, chemistry, physics, and many more.
  • ACM Digital Library
    Full text of every article ever published by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and bibliographic citations from major publishers in computing.
  • Art Full Text
    Full-text online for 100+ titles / Indexes 1984-present / Abstracts 1994-present
  • Art Index Retrospective
    Indexes art journal literature from 1929-1984
  • Business Source Premier
    Full text for more than 2,300 journals in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics.
  • Design and Applied Arts Index
    Indexes and abstracts 500+ design and craft journals published 1973-present, plus data on over 50,000 designers, craftspeople, studios, workshops, firms etc.
  • Education Journals
    Full-text for 400 education journals, indexing/abstracting for more than 600.
  • ERIC
    The Educational Resource Information Center (ERIC) contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information, plus citations and abstracts from 980+ educational and education-related journals
  • JSTOR
    Full-text for 300+ scholarly journals. Arts and Sciences III Collection: History of art and architecture, religion, language and literature, music, film studies, folklore, and performing arts. Arts and Sciences IV Collection: Education, psychology, business, law, and public policy and administration.

Image Databases

  • AP Images
    Primary source images and media for research, available to download for use in design projects. Provides over 4.6 million photographs from 1826 to current; tens of thousands of graphics; more than 4,500 hours of audio files dating from the 1920’s; news stories and headlines dating from 1997. Content is provided by The Associated Press.
  • Art Museum Image Gallery
    Digital images of 90,000+ artworks from European, American, and Canadian museums. Artwork includes contemporary, Native American and Inuit, ancient Greek, Roman, and Egyptian, and Japanese and Chinese works.
  • ARTstor
    Digital images of nearly 1 million artworks from many time periods and cultures, with architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design. To access from off-campus, visit the ARTstor website and register as a user while on-campus. This allows off-campus access with your user id and password as long as you log-in on-campus every 120 days.
  • Cinema Image Gallery
    Over 150,000 still images from movies, television and the entertainment industry, plus over 4,000 posters and other promotional images.

Newspaper Databases

  • AP Images
    Primary source images and media for research, available to download for use in design projects. Provides over 4.6 million photographs from 1826 to current; tens of thousands of graphics; more than 4,500 hours of audio files dating from the 1920’s; news stories and headlines dating from 1997. Content is provided by The Associated Press.
  • National Newspapers
    All full-text online - above link searches all titles simultaneously
    Or use these links to search the titles individually:
    Baltimore Sun 1990-current
    Christian Science Monitor - 1988-current
    New York Times - 1995-current
    Wall Street Journal - 1982-current
    Washington Post - 1987-current