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About this Guide
This guide is made for the students of Professor Niu's Fall 2020 Chinese Art and Archaeology course. This guide is meant to help prepare you for the Final Curatorial Research Project. Specifically, this guide is supposed to help you cite use online museum collections and cite images. If you have any questions about the content of this guide, please let me know.
Using the Library
- ARTstor
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PLEASE NOTE: the Artstor platform is being retired and will no longer be available as of August 1, 2024. Content has already migrated to Artstor on JSTOR. Existing individual Artstor user accounts will carry over to the new JSTOR platform. A digital image library of over 2.5 million digital images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences. To save or download images, users must register for an individual account.
- Bridgeman Education
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Online digital library of images sourced from over 8,000 locations covering the world’s major museums, art collections, and historical sites. Includes access to over 3 million images, all copyright-cleared for educational use.
- Oxford Art Online
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Encyclopedia articles about artists, architects, and artistic movements & periods, as well as bibliographies for further research. Also includes thousands of searchable images.
