LibGuides: Master of Fine Arts: MFA Library Research Workshop Activities

Activities from MFA Library Research Workshop

Use the search planning handout provided to start planning your search. Get help from your peers / library system on finding search terms
Test your search strategy in the general search on the library website. What adjustments do you need to make?
Try in a database (Art, Design + Architecture Collection). Compare results
Try in a journal (Journal for Artistic Research). Compare results

General Search
Search in multiple databases at once. From the search results screen, you can limit the search by source type, date, subject, and other facets.

Art, Design & Architecture Collection This link opens in a new window
- The Art, Design & Architecture collection includes the specialist indexes ARTbibliographies Modern (covering modern and contemporary art), Design and Applied Arts Index (for all aspects of design and crafts) and the International Bibliography of Art (covering scholarship on Western art history), together with a complementary collection of current full-text journals, Arts and Humanities Full Text.

Journal for Artistic Research
The Journal for Artistic Research (JAR) is an inter-national, online, Open Access and peer-reviewed journal for the identification, publication and dissemination of artistic research and its methodologies, from all arts disciplines. - from website. Available through website.