GALILEO@UGA Subject Guides: PHIL 4230/6230 Aesthetics (Meskin): Finding Sources

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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (online)
Comprehensive online encyclopedia of philosophy terms and concepts from all areas of the discipline.

Oxford Art Online (formerly Grove Art Online)
Encyclopedic resource covering art history and artists worldwide.

The Grove Dictionary of Art provides online access to the entire text of the 34-volume Dictionary of Art plus newly-commissioned articles. The database includes over 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts from prehistory through the present. Through an alliance with The Bridgeman Art Library, the database offers access to over 130,000 searchable images.

The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (online)
Call Number: Main Ref BH56 .E53 2014 (Main Library 1st Floor for print edition)
ISBN: 9780199747108
Publication Date: 2014
Surveys the full breadth of critical thought on art, culture, and society, from classical philosophy to contemporary critical theory.

PhilPapers
A comprehensive index and bibliography of books, journals, and journal articles in Philosophy. Also links to open access archives and personal pages for articles by academic philosophers.

PhilPapers offers unique features such as real-time indexing of pre-prints, fine-grained classification by topic, email alerts, reading lists, advanced search functionality, and discussion forums.
Art & Architecture Source
Combining Art Index/Art Index Retrospective and Art & Architecture Complete, covering over 630 full-text journals, plus full-text books and over 63,000 images.

Art & Architecture Source is a database that combines content from Art Index/Art Index Retrospective and Art & Architecture Complete. This new database covers over 630 full-text journals and more than 220 full-text books and includes over 63,000 images as well as art reproduction records.
JSTOR
Access to back issues (from the date of first publication) of selected, core journals.

JSTOR provides electronic access to back issues (from the date of first publication) of selected, core journals. The goal of the project is to build a reliable and comprehensive archive of important scholarly journal literature. The journals are organized into the Arts and Sciences Collections I & II, the General Sciences Collection, the Ecology and Botany Collection, the Business Collection, the Language and Literature Collection, the Mathematics and Statistics Collection, and the Music Collection.

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GILFind Catalog of what the UGA Libraries own and where we keep it.
GIL Express: Catalog of libraries across the University System of Georgia; click "Request" to get a book from another library.
WorldCat: A global catalog of library collections. Find materials in libraries in your community or around the world.
Google Books and HathiTrust Digitized print collections from a number of major university libraries. Both are useful for mining the contents of books on library shelves. Most of the books from the 20th-21st century are still in copyright and can only be viewed in snippets online. You can still often view tables of contents and introductions as well as search for keywords within the book. Once you've identified a book you can use, search GIL-Find to see if UGA owns it.

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