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Comprised of Design Abstracts Retrospective, Design ProFILES and ReVIEW, provides citations and full text access to thousands of periodicals on design, designers and design history. This database was formerly known as Arts:Search.

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**Artstor has moved to the JSTOR platform as of August 1, 2024** Documents artistic traditions across many time periods and cultures including architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design. Digital images come from museums, archaeological teams, photo archives, slide collections, and art reference publishers. The collection is over 2+ million images. Users must create a personal account.

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Stock image source with hundreds of thousands of royalty-free photographs, vector images, and videos for use in your projects. Create an account with your SVA email address. Contact library@sva.edu for the current educational key.

  • Tutorials

Thousands of video courses for software, creative, and business skills.

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Collections of digitized items from the New York Academy of Medicine, including rare books and manuscripts, pharmaceutical trade cards, prints, medical illustrations and engravings, botanical prints, and more.

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Over 500,000 images from the New York Public Library's image collection.

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  • Encyclopedia

Grove Art is the foremost scholarly art encyclopedia, offering global coverage of visual culture, composed and expanded regularly in collaboration with thousands of scholars and specialists around the world.

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PHAROS is an international consortium of photo archives, including over 90,000 (and counting) images of artworks from the foremost art institutions around the world. Please note this site is in beta, and some features may not function as expected.

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Login with your SVA credentials. From Artstor's homepage, navigate to the SVA Image Library in Institutional Collections at the bottom right, or from the dropdown menu under Browse. The SVA Image Library allows users to search, retrieve, organize and teach with digital images and image data. All material in this collection is protected by copyright. Duplication and/or sale of all or any part of the collection is strictly prohibited. Material may be used for personal research use or educational purposes in electronic or print form.

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This is a circulating, physical collection of images culled from all manner of print publications spanning more than 100 years. Containing over 200,000 images across 1350 subjects, the Picture Collection is a unique resource that provides sweeping visual reference and insight into the history of culture via the medium of print. Click for an index of subjects.

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A database of Japanese woodblock print images and metadata aggregated from a variety of museums, universities, libraries, auction houses, and dealers around the world.

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  • Comics

Thousands of original underground comics as well as articles, interviews and reviews from The Comics Journal.

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Vogue Archive provides full text access to Vogue Magazine from 1892 to the present. Search by photographer, designer and more.

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WorldCat is a union catalog of the collections of 17,900 libraries in 123 countries and territories that participate in the OCLC global cooperative. Find books, journals, movies, and more in libraries around the world.

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