Research Guides: Prep Course for Japan Trip: Getting Started

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Getting Started

This guide is for students in the Prep course for the Japan Trip ADABRD 321. This page has some general tips on how to use Library resources. Click on the tabs to find further information about Japan, art therapy, and other campus resources. Feel free to contact us for further assistance.

Quick Links

Use these quick links to find books, articles, images and more.

Art Source with Art Index Retrospective
Covers fine, decorative and commercial art, folk art, photography, film, and architecture, and also includes a database-specific thesaurus.

Indexes key international English-language arts publications, including periodicals, yearbooks, museum bulletins, competition & award notices, exhibition listings, film reviews, etc. Provides separate access to indexing from older years, 1929-1984. A unique resource, Art Index Retrospective helps users find contemporary criticism of art at the time of its debut, track the body of work of an artist or movement, find artists' interviews and other commentary, and much more.
JSTOR
Provides full-text access to the archives of core scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences and sciences. Includes content from 12 of the 15 JSTOR multi-disciplinary Journals Archives Collections (Arts & Sciences I through IX, XI, XIII; and Life Sciences) and 8 of the 17 JSTOR discipline-specific Journals Archives Collections (Biological Sciences, Business I and II, Ecology & Botany I, Health & General Sciences, Language & Literature, Mathematics & Statistics, and Music).
U-M Library Articles Search
Use Articles Search to locate scholarly and popular articles, as well as reference works and materials from open access archives.
ARTstor
Provides over 1.5 million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities and sciences. It includes an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research. Our community-built collections comprise contributions from outstanding international museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates.

U-M Library Catalog Search
Catalog Search results will include everything in our physical collection (books, audio, video, maps, musical scores, archival materials, and more), as well as materials available online such as electronic books, streaming audio and video, and online journals.
Database Search
Find links to more databases.