Graphic Design and History of Art: Articles/Databases

The Artstor Digital Library is a nonprofit resource that provides over 1.6 million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research. Our community-built collections comprise contributions from outstanding international museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates.

JSTOR offers a high-quality interdisciplinary archive to support scholarship and teaching. It includes archives of over 1 000 leading academic journals across the humanities social sciences and sciences as well as selected monographs and other materials valuable for academic work.

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts, and articles from academic publishers, professional societies preprint, repositories, universities, and other scholarly organisations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research.

This service allows you to discover articles about African content covering various topics. Our collection of journal subjects includes:

• Open Access African Journal Archive
• Business and Finance
• Education
• Labour
• Law
• Medicine and Health
• Science, Technology and Agriculture
• Religion
• Social Sciences and Humanities
• Juta's Law Collection

Art & Architecture Complete is a comprehensive bibliographic database that provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 730 academic journals, magazines, and trade publications; with full text for over 330 periodicals and 215 books as well as selective coverage for over 70 publications and an Image Collection of over 64 000 images provided by Picture Desk and others. The database has been designed for use by a diverse audience that includes art scholars, artists, designers college students, and general viewers.

Scopus is the world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources.

ScienceDirect is a leading full text scientific database offering articles/chapters from more than 2 500 peer-reviewed journals and more than 11 000 books. There are currently more than 9,5 million articles/chapters in a content base that is growing at a rate of almost 0,5 million additions per year.

Web of Science is a platform consisting of several literature search databases designed to support scientific and scholarly research. There are databases with a subject focus like Medline, BIOSIS Citation Index, and Zoological Record; databases with a document type focus like Derwent Innovations Index (patents) and Data Citation Index (datasets and data studies); and databases highlighting content from regions around the world. 

Learn more about Web of Science and how to search on this database.

Index to South African Periodicals (ISAP) covers indexed articles from more than 900 South African periodicals. Specialist periodicals are indexed fully whereas general and popular periodicals are indexed selectively. This database is compiled under the ownership of the National Library of South Africa.

Alphabetical title list of electronic full-text journals and e-books to which the library has access to.

SACat reflects the collection of libraries in Southern Africa and contains bibliographic information referring to books, periodicals, audiovisual items and other information material.

SA Media covers more than 120 South African newspapers and periodicals. More than 500 articles are selected daily, categorized according to 22 categories, and indexed in Afrikaans and English.