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Journal Locator finds specific journals,
magazines, and newspapers

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• Use materials from other libraries' collections free of charge.
• Available to current Fairfield University students, faculty, and staff.
• Articles arrive via e-mail within 3-5 business days.
• Books arrive within 2 weeks and are held in your name.
  
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Use databases to find articles on your topic. These databases are the best place to start.

• Art Index with Retrospective
  

  This database offers indexing of an international array of peer-selected publications—now with expanded coverage of Latin American, Canadian, Asian and other non-Western art, new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, and feminist criticism.
  
  A unique resource, Art Index Retrospective helps users find contemporary criticism of art at the time of its debut, track the body of work of an artist or movement, find artists’ interviews and other commentary.
  Date coverage: 1929-present.

• Humanities Full Text
  

  Humanities Full Text brings you full text plus abstracts and bibliographic indexing of the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities, as well as numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines.
  Date Coverage: 1984 –present.

• JSTOR
  Contains archive images of searchable scholarly journals in various disciplines including full-text articles from over 100 Art and Art History journals.
  Listen to a fun podcast "interview" with this database: iTunes RealPlayer
  
  
  
  Tips: When searching databases, use AND, OR, and parentheses to focus your search. Combine synonyms with OR and put them inside parentheses, like this:

(painting OR drawing) AND (landscape OR "still life")

• Here's another example:

(realism OR surrealism) AND (Magritte OR Chagall)

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Databases are basically search engines for articles on specific subjects.