The links below work from computers on-campus. REMOTE ACCESS TO DATABASES: 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. For instructions on using the remote access system, see Remote Access Directions.
 Reference Databases
Encyclopedia Britannica On-Line
Grove Art Online (Dictionary of Art)
Oxford English Dictionary
TextFinder - 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.
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Art Full Text
Full-text online for 100+ titles / Indexes 1984-present / Abstracts 1994-present
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Art Index Retrospective
Indexes 1929-1984
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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.
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Education Journals
Full-text for 400 education journals, indexing/abstracting for more than 600.
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ERIC (Educational Resource Information Center)
Contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information, plus citations and abstracts from 980+ educational and education-related journals
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Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature | INFO | USER GUIDE
Image Databases
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.
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ARTstor - click on Search and Browse for Images
Digital images of ~300,000 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 90-days.
Corbis Education Images
Corbis Education offers 620,000 digital images available for downloading at three levels of resolution. For access to this database, obtain the MICA subscription code from the Media Resources Collection or the Decker Library Reference Desk, then use the code to create a user account at the site (you will need to use an email address ending in "@mica.edu"). Continuing Studies students without a mica.edu email address can use a group account that has been created for them - inquire at the MRC or Library Reference Desk.
Newspaper Databases
National Newspapers - All full-text online - this link searches all titles simultaneously
Or use these links to search the titles individually:
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