Alumni + Visitor Resources

Offers an art-focused research experience within the OCLC WorldCat search. Researchers may search within this specialized of collection of WorldCat to hone in on a large selection of art-historical literature.

BHA and RILA cover European and American visual arts material published between 1975 and 2007.

Search for Creative Commons Licensed images, music, media and videos on a variety of sites.

ERIC provides unlimited access to more than 1.2 million citations of journal articles and other education-related materials, such as conference papers, technical reports, and research syntheses. If available, links to full text are included.

Search a collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, and recordings of sound effects released under Creative Commons licenses that allow their reuse.

Public domain books (books published 1922 or earlier) and more are available for on-screen preview, with many thousands available as PDF downloads.

Find citations, abstracts, and full-text articles in peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, and journals from academic publishers, scholarly organizations, and faculty from colleges and universities.

Information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment through scholarly, government, and general-interest magazines, newspapers, and journals.

Open access to thousands of books, articles, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages.

Jamendo has thousands of Creative Commons music tracks.
Make sure to use the Advanced Search to limit your searching to Creative Commons licensed works.

Abstracts for articles about librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management, and more.

Pairs essays and works of art with chronologies, telling the story of art and global culture through the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection.

Recorded public domain music. All materials are in the public domain.

New media website containing programs and resources for artists experimenting with technology. Also contains ArtBase, an online archive of new media art.

Specialized art databases containing bibliographic records and selective images from the Smithsonian Institution.

Experiment with color and photos. Use MulticolorEngine to search through 20 million Creative Commons images on Flickr by color. Search for photos by up to 5 different colors at once. You can also extract color values with MulticolorEngine Create a color palette from any image with MulticolorEngine. This demonstration identifies the top 10 colors in your image, and even finds the closest color name! Works with JPGs, PNGs, and GIFs.

Search over 13 million+ public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) in a wide variety of topics, including art, nature, science, history, food and more.

Search the collections at the Alfred R. Goldstein Library, including books, journals, DVDs, eBooks, video games, artist's books, and more!