E-Books for Visual Arts  

This guide is both an Instructional Tool and a Discovery Portal for e-books in visual arts.

• The guide gives an overview of some of the best online resources for discovering art and architecture materials in e-book format.  
• Each resource has been given a dedicated tab above that describes the resource, provides examples of art and architecture items found inside that resource, and gives information on how to search and use it.  
• While most of the resources provide primarily e-books, many contain materials in various other electronic formats: articles, dissertations, images, manuscripts, etc.  
• WorldCat.org is the only resource here that does not contain any electronic content, but rather provides links to e-books and other content whenever possible via its "Find A Copy Online" section in each item's record.
• You will need your Yale NetID and password to access some of these resources.

• The guide also contains information about e-books, file formats, general information about searching and evaluating information from electronic resources, and links to further technical information.  
• This information is found under the "About E-Books", "Searching, Quality Control & Copyright" and "Citation Management" tabs.  
• Ask a Haas art librarian if you have any questions about a specific resource.

NOTE: Searching Orbis will not find all of these e-books and other electronic content. Orbis does not yet have or connect to catalog records for all of these items.  

• To find e-books in Orbis perform an Advanced Search, and change the Type to Books and the Medium to Electronic Resources.  
• There is no way to search all of these resources at once, so consider searching each one when you start a research project.

This guide was created by Adam N. Hess, the Haas Arts Library's 2011-2012 Kress Fellow in Art Librarianship.