Yale University Library Research Guides: Art Practice Research @ Yale: Images/Video/Film/Multimedia

Specialized Databases for Art History

Art & Architecture in Video
Alexander Street Press- 500 hours of documentaries and interviews illustrating the theory and practice of a variety of art forms and providing the context necessary for critical analysis.

Kanopy Streaming
On-demand streaming of thousands of documentaries, indie films, classics from Criterion Collection, BBC, PBS, and many others.

Electronic Arts Intermix Educational Streaming
More than 500 full-length videos from EAI's extensive catalog of video, media, and performance art from the 1960s to the present.

Video Data Bank (VDB)

The Video Data Bank (VDB) is an extensive collection of online videos by and about contemporary artists, from the 1968 to the present.

ARTstor
Vended Image Database
Over three million images, many from museum collections, searchable by keyword and browsable by medium, time period, etc. Register and log in to download JPEGs to your computer. Create your own details by zooming in and downloading JPEGs of zoomed-in views.
LUX: Yale Collections Discovery
LUX is a transformative new platform that provides access to millions of records for objects, people, places, concepts, and events represented in Yale’s rich cultural heritage collections. Find and connect with the cultural heritage collections across Yale’s museums, archives, and libraries in new ways and all in one place.
Yale Digital Collections
Yale University Art Gallery - Search the Collections
Yale Center for British Art - Search the Collections

Materials Libraries

Material ConneXion
Vended Online Database: Coverage: current industrial manufacturing products, processes, and processed raw materials.
Contains over 1,400 materials and processes. The online materials database allows you to discover the latest and most exciting materials originating from a large spectrum of industries-typically unnoticed or difficult to reach by the design community. Historical products or companies are not covered.
Material Order
Co-founded by Harvard University Graduate School of Design and Rhode Island School of Design, Material Order is the leading resource for design materials collections at academic and cultural institutions. Utilizing and developing standards and best practices, the Material Order consortium provides a community-based approach to the management of design material collections with federated search access among participating institutions.

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Specialized Databases for Art History

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