LibGuides: Print Media: PRAX Research Methodologies

Oral History Research

Digitized Oral History Collections

Oral History Association
A list of oral history collections in the United States.
The Memory Project
This Historica Canada initiative offers many stories of Canadian veterans who served in the First and Second World Wars, the Korean War, and various peacekeeping missions

Best Practices for Conducting Oral History Interviews

Oral History: Principles and Practices
Describes the ethics of oral history projects
Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling: Research Ethics
This resource from Concordia University provides descriptions of the ethical principles of the research process including getting informed consent, mitigating harm, and providing the right to withdraw. It also links to other resources ono ethical practices for oral history research.

Digital Print Collections

Print Collections Through ECU Library

Emily Carr University of Art + Design: Wosk Masterworks Print Collection This link opens in a new window
- Over 400 images of original prints, artwork and books by artists such as Albers, Baskin, Cezanne, Chagall, Dali, Goya, Kandinsky, Manet, Rauschenberg, Rembrandt, Renoir, Picasso and Warhol. The collection was generously donated to the Emily Carr University by Dr. Yosef Wosk and was photographed to provide viewing access to all. If you seek more information about this collection please contact the Charles H. Scott Gallery at Emily Carr University.
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.
Art & Architecture Source This link opens in a new window
- Art & Architecture Source features full-text articles—as well as detailed indexing and abstracts—for an international array of journals, books, podcasts, images and more. Content includes over 640 full-text journals and more than 225 full-text books. Includes: Art Index / Abstracts / Full Text / Retrospective (formerly Wilson Databases) plus Art & Architecture Complete (EBSCO Database).
Artstor This link opens in a new window
- High quality Images covering art, design, anthropology and archeology from all time periods and cultures.
- Millions of rights-cleared images for use in education and research — you are free to use them in classroom instruction and handouts, presentations, student assignments, and other noncommercial educational and scholarly activities.
- You must create a user account after authentication in order to download images.
- Learn more about Artstor
askART This link opens in a new window
- AskART is an online database containing over 120,000 artists from early 16th-century through the present. Access information about artists biographies, auction records, financial graphics, magazine ads(pre-1998) and images. Over 6,000 museums and dealers are also referenced
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
- A searchable, online, full-text archival collection of core scholarly journals and ebooks mainly in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Emily Carr Library subscribes to the following JSTOR Collections: * Arts & Sciences III * Arts & Sciences V