In this video I'm going to show you how
to find
scholarly journal articles on the topic
you're researching in art history.
The example I'm using is the byzantine
icon
and the significance of the period of
iconoclasm. So far
I've done some background information so
I know what icons are
and what the iconoclasm is. I've looked
through some books to give me some more
information
about life during the byzantine era and
their religion
and now i really want to focus in on
what some other people think about
icons and the iconoclasm within the field
of art history.
So I need to look in a database that
specializes in
art history research. That's what we're
going to do right now.
If you look at your screen I'm
looking at the research guide for your
class
and I've clicked on the Find Articles
tab.
If I scroll down you're going to see a
list of databases that we think are
useful for students studying
art history. The one we recommend you
start with is Art and Architecture
Source
because that is a database that contains
all art history research. And if you
think about databases like
shopping this is kind of like going to
the mall and seeing a set of stores.
So you've got the Apple Store and
you've got Macy's and there'll be
totally different stuff in each store.
So if you're looking for a bathing
suit I'm not going to go to the Apple
Store I'm going to go to Macy's.
But if I'm looking for a bathing suit I
could find it at Macy's or Nordstrom but
they'll have different suits.
So it's kind of like you have to pick
the right database for what you're
trying to find out.
But let's start here: Art and
Architecture Source.
To get started I can just do a really
simple search
byzantium AND icon because right now I
want to kind of narrow in
on icons. I'm inside the
database, I've got a fair number of
results but I need to do some limiting
so that
I make sure that I am limiting to
results that are full text so I can read
the whole article
and also that they're peer-reviewed.
Peer-reviewed is another way of saying
scholarly. If you were an art history
researcher
and you wrote an article you would send
it into a journal to be published
and your peers who are other art history
researchers would read it
and if it met the standards of research
in your field it would be okay
to be published and if they had
questions they'd ask you questions and
you'd have to fix it before they would
publish it.
That's what peer review is. So now I have
fewer results
and I am going to scroll down to
see if there are any that are going to
help me learn
more about you know art and icons and
iconography.
Ah! So this one looks interesting to me:
Image and iconoclasm
in Byzantium. This one also looks good:
Byzantium in the iconoclast era, a history. So if I click here
I'll open up the full text.
I'm seeing the whole article
right here.
If I like this article and it's useful
I can print it or download it.
I can also send it to my Google Drive,
email it to myself, and most exciting,
I can learn how to cite the source in
Chicago by just copying and pasting it.
If I go back to my results list I can
see that
this article that looks so
interesting is actually a
book review and so now that I know the
title of this book I could go back in
the library catalog or the Internet
Archive or even another library's
catalog and see if i could get it.
Here's some other articles about
icons and art during the middle ages.
If I like it, the same thing,
I can email it or print it.
If you don't find enough of what you
want in Art and Architecture Source
there are some other
databases you can use.  You can use JSTOR.
You can use Project Muse.  You can use
Academic Search Complete.
It's our hope that between all of
these you'll be able to find those five
sources to help you write a really
interesting paper.
But please remember if you get stuck you
can contact me directly or just click
this
chat widget on the right and start
chatting with the librarian on call.
I hope that these videos have
helped you
with your research in your art history
class and the next time you'll see me if
you click on citing sources I'll show
you how you can cite all of these
sources according to the Chicago Style
that you're required to use in this
class. Good luck!
