Art & Humanities: Public Access Resources

The Archives of American Art is the world’s preeminent and most widely used research center dedicated to collecting, preserving, and providing access to primary sources that document the history of the visual arts in America.

Curationist is a free online resource that brings together arts and culture communities to find, share, collaborate, and reimagine cultural narratives.

Brings together the riches of America's libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.

Europeana provides cultural heritage enthusiasts, professionals, teachers, and researchers with digital access to European cultural heritage material. Why? To inspire and inform fresh perspectives and open conversations about our history and culture. To share and enjoy our rich cultural heritage. To use it to create new things.

We give you access to millions of cultural heritage items from institutions across Europe. Discover artworks, books, music, and videos on art, newspapers, archaeology, fashion, science, sport, and much more.

The Getty Search Gateway allows users to search across several of the Getty repositories, including collections databases, library catalogs, collection inventories, and archival finding aids.

A collection of more than 500 primary and secondary texts on the study of ancient Greece and Rome. Also includes images of vases, sculptures, buildings and other art and archaeological works.

Links to an Index of Ancient World online resources, viewable by title or by keyword. Also links to a list of open access journals in Ancient Studies and a list of Open Access Textbooks, OERs and primers.

Online encyclopedia of philosophical concepts and philosophers written by leading scholars in the field.