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N – Fine arts
NA – Architecture
NB – Sculpture
NC – Drawing
ND – Painting
NE – Graphics
NX – Art

Other sections

TR – Photography (Geography, mathematical, natural and applied sciences)
GT – Fashion (Social science, anthropology)
PN – Cinema, movie (Language, literature)
PN – Theathre (Language, literature)
SB – Garden architecture (Geography, mathematical, natural and applied sciences)

• BHA (Bibliography of the History of Art) i RILA (Répertoire international de la littérature de l’art)
• Das grosse Kunstlexikon von P.W. Hartmann
• OpenBibArt – History of Art Bibliography
• Reallexikon zur deutschen Kunstgeschichte (RDK) 
• Art & Architecture Thesaurus (The Getty Center) 
• Dictionary [of Classical Art] The Beazley Archive. Classical Art Research Centre 
• Glossary of Medieval Art and Architecture
• The Dictionary of Art Historians 
• Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur

E-resources available at the University of Warsaw

• Academic Search Ultimate – various sources, articles, journals and other.
• CEEOL – Central and Eastern European Online Library – sources for the humanities from Central and Eastern and Southern Europe.
• JSTOR – journals and books. Collections: Architecture&Architectural History and Art&Art History.
• MasterFILE Premier – various sources, articles, journals and other.
• Oxford Journals – journal publishing Oxford University Press.
• Proquest Central – the base is divided into different source types.
• Wiley Online Library – Collections: Architecture & Planning and Arts & Applied Arts.
• Academic Research Source – electronic books from renowned scientific publishing houses.
• VLeBooks – mainly academic textbooks.
• Wiley Online Library– access to items marked with an open padlock symbol.

E-resources generally available

Polish

• Platforma Otwartej Nauki (CEON) – we will find here a repository, articles from magazines and the “Open Book” service, containing books by Polish scientists (in the areas we will find the history of art).
• BazHumhttps://bazhum.muzhp.pl/ – full-text database of Polish humanities and social science journals.

 

Foreign

• Art–Dok – the world’s largest open repository of scientific publications on art history .
• Artjournals
• Art History Dissertations and Abstracts from North American Institutions
• Arts – MDPI journal
• Dart Europe – scientific dissertation portal with access to full texts.

• ACAB – Archives de l’Art contemporain en Belgique
• Albertina Sammlungen Online
• Akademie der Künste – Archiv
• Akademie der Künste – Archiv
• ARCHIBALD – ARCHIBALD database contains documents from the collection of the Archive of Contemporary Art in Belgium
• Art History Resources – index of art links by era and region
• AVIREL – Archivio viaggiatori italiani a Roma e nel Lazio
• Berlin – list of monuments in the city of Berlin
• British Library Online Gallery
• Cities and Buildings Database
• Dehio – Digitaler Dehio Ostmitteleuropa – art monuments from Eastern Europe (currently only from Estonia and Latvia)
• Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture
• DPLA – Digital Public Library of America
• Digitale Photothek Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – one of the most complete collections of photographs on Italian art.
• Farbdiaarchiv zur Wand- und Deckenmalerei Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte – 
  Munich archive dedicated to wall painting.
• Getty Research Portal – the multilingual and multicultural catalogue enables art historians and other researchers to search and download complete digital copies of publications on art, architecture, material culture and related fields.
• Historic Costume & Textiles Collection
• Kunsthistorisches Insitut in Florenz
• Mapping Gothic France
• The Rembrandt Database
• Virtuelles Kupferstichka¬binett Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museums, Brunszwik; Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel
• artcyclopedia – a database containing an index of artists and their works represented in museums of the world, available online. It also contains an index of photography, multimedia art and architecture.
• architektura.net – Polish portal dedicated mainly to contemporary architectural projects.
• artnet. The Art World Online – search engine for artists, galleries, auctions, etc.
• Great buildings online – the page dedicated to the largest buildings in the world contains a search engine by the name of the building, the name of the author or place.
• Olga’s Gallery – contains, among others indexes: artists, mythological figures and Christian saints.

 

Architecture

• Archiseek – Irish architecture
• Architektenlexikon Wien 1770-1945
• RIBA – online library of The Royal Institute of British Architects

Emblematic

• Emblematica Online – portal run by the University of Urbana-Champaign in Illinoi draws on the resources of the world’s emblematic collections

Graphic

• Atlante delle Xilografie italiane del Rinascimento –  Italian woodcut
• Graphikportal – the collections of more than 20 institutions with graphic collections, including Berlin, Florence, Rome, Vienna and Zurich

Photography

• Photography-now.com

Illuminated manuscripts

• Manuscriptorium – Digital Library of Written Cultural Heritage
• Digitalisierte Handschriften Manuscripta Mediaevalia.
• Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts Koninklijke Bibliotheek i Museum Meermanno, Hague
• Mandragore.base des manuscrits enluminés de la B.n.F., Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal.
• British Library. Images online
• e-codices Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland

Feminist art

• n.paradoxa – journal on feminist art (access to full-text articles from open access repositories) Feminist Art – searchable list of MA theses and dissertations on feminist art and information on contemporary women artists

Islamic art

• Aga Khan Museum: Academic Resources – the Aga Khan Museum presents and collects art from historically important Muslim civilisations, as well as contemporary Muslim communities and diasporas around the world.
• Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online

Jewish art

• Bezalel Narkiss Index of Jewish Art

Museums, libraries, collections

• Digital Collections of the National Museum in Warsaw
• Virtual Museums of  Małopolska 
• Art Institute Chicago
• Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen (Bavarian State Painting Collections) – zbiory 17 muzeów monachijskich online
• The British Museum – Online Research Catalogues
• Deutsches Museum Library
• Louvre
• Metropolitan Museum – Open Access at the Met 
• National Gallery of Art, Washington
• National Portrait Gallery
• Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Paris Museums
• Rijksmuseum 
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York
• IRIS – association of Florentine area art history and humanities libraries.
• Unione Romana – URBS library consortium is a non-profit cultural association with members from various academic and research institutions present in Rome, Italy and active in the field of the humanities.
• Kubikat – catalogue of the libraries:  LORENZ Kunsthistorisches Institut, MÜNCHEN Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, PARIS Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte, ROM Bibliotheca Hertziana
• Art History Group Catalogue – a subdirectory within WorldCat searching the contents of art history libraries

 

 

Specialized libraries in Warsaw

Print Room of the University of Warsaw Library 

Library of the Institute of Art History at the University of Warsaw

Public Library of the Capital City of Warsaw, Reading Room of Art and Cartography

Library of the National Museum in Warsaw

Library of the Academy of Fine Arts

Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art

Zachęta – National Gallery of Art – Dokumentation and Library

Polish Academy of Sciences. Institute of Art Library 

Other

Polish Academy of Sciences. Institute of Art

Związek Polskich Artystów Plastyków (Association of Polish Visual Artists) 

The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage

Polish National Committee of International Council on monuments and Sites

M 1495-2199 – Vocal music – songbooks
ML 25-38 – Musical institutions. Festivals. Conferences
ML 100-109 – Encyclopedias, dictionaries
ML 112.8-158.8 – Bibliographies
ML 385-410.P – Biographies of musicians
ML 421 – Vocal and instrumental ensembles
ML 422 – Conductor biographies ML 459-1354 – History of instrumental music. The history of instruments
ML 1400-3275 – Vocal music
ML 3400-3465 – Dance music
ML 3469-3541 – Entertainment music
ML 3544-3776 – National music ML 3790-3792 – Music industry
ML 3919-3920 – Music therapy
MT 1-165 – Theory of music
MT 170-810 – Learning to play instruments MT 918-948 – Musical education of children and youth

Other sections
GV – Dance (Social science, anthropology)
TK, TR – Sound (Geography, mathematical, natural and applied sciences)
QC – Acoustics (Geography, mathematical, natural and applied sciences) RM, RZ – Music therapy (Geography, mathematical, natural and applied sciences)

E-resources available at the University of Warsaw

• Academic Search Ultimate – various sources, articles, journals and other.
• CAIRN – Collection: Arts – journals in French.
• Cambridge Journals – Music – academic journals of the Cambridge publishing house.
• CEEOL – Central and Eastern European Online Library – sources for the humanities from Central-Eastern and Southern Europe.
• Grove Music Online – offers full texts of Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, issue 2 (2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992) and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, issue 2 (2002), as well as numerous subsequent publications, including over 50,000 articles and 30,000 biographies, the collection of which is the result of the work of 6000 musicologists from around the world.
• JSTOR – journals and books. Collection: Music.
• MasterFILE Premier – various sources, articles, journals and other.
• Oxford Journals – journal publishing Oxford University Press.
• Proquest Central – the base was divided into domains.
• Academic Research Source – electronic books from renowned scientific publishing houses.
• VLeBooks – mainly academic textbooks.
• Wiley Ebooks – access to items marked with an open padlock symbol.
• Naxos Music Library – Phonotheque of the Institute of Musicology. He specializes in classical music. The database is available from the computer network of the Institute of Musicology and the Office of Music Collections of the University of Warsaw Library.

E-resources generally available

Polish

• Platforma Otwartej Nauki (CEON) – we will find here a repository, articles from magazines and the “Open Book” service, containing books by Polish scientists (in the areas we will find the history of art).
• BazHum – full-text database of Polish humanities and social science journals.

Foreign

RISM (Répertoire International des Sources Musicales) – it is a publicly available valuable database that gathers information about the repertoire of historical music sources. It collects over 700,000 descriptions of songs written by over 25,000 composers from the 16th to the 19th centuries. The database also contains descriptions (over 2,000) of the collection parts of Lower Silesian provenance manuscripts from the BUW Music Collection Cabinet.

MusRef – e-books, e-magazines, digital collections.

Early Music Sources – Iconography Database.

Notes

IMSLP – International Music Score Library Project – very comfortable lists of works by individual composers and compositions for various compositions and instruments, and also many books about music.

Digital scores and libretti – Harvard – music manuscripts from the 18th and 19th centuries

Sheet Music Archive

Polish Music Information Centre

CLASSICAL MUSIC DIRECTORY – referral portal to music schools, musicological centers, music magazines and thematic websites.

ALL MUSIC GUIDE – blues, country, folk, gospel, jazz, rap, reggae, rock.

ViFaMusik – German musicological portal.

Specialized libraries in Warsaw

Music Department of the University of Warsaw Library

Institute of Musicology at the University of Warsaw

National Library – Music Collections

Fryderyk Chopin Institut – Library, Photo collection, Record Library.

Other

Warsaw Philharmonic

Polish Jazz Association

PWM Editionhttps://pwm.com.pl/en/stronaglowna/

The Grand Theatre – National Opera