Art and Design

Art and Architecture Complete: Use this resource to search for journal articles, e-books and images. Links to the full text are provided, where available.
ProQuest: Helps you to find articles from journals, magazines and newspapers on a wide range of subjects.

Art review: is available in the Library
Crafts
Creative review
Grafik:: Journal of the best in international graphic design is available in the Library
I-D:: fashion magazine is available in the Library
Photography and culture

Oxford Art Online: gives you encyclopaedic information on all aspects of the visual arts. It includes links to images and other useful features such as timelines.
Credo Reference: try out a concept map search to see how your topic links to others.

Creative Handbook: The online directory for finding contact details of companies in the creative industries sector.
Intute: helps you to find good quality websites in your subject area.
Ministry of Books: Find out more about University of Portsmouth’s artists’ book collection.
Zineopolis: Find out more about University of Portsmouth’s zine and multiples collections.

Display Space: If you want to display your work here, please contact Greta Friggens in the Library
Large Format Printing: Large format colour printing is available in the Map Library

ARTstor: An online collection of over a million visual arts images.
Bridgeman Education: An online collection of over 300,000 visual arts images.
JISC Media Hub: Search, view, and download thousands of video, image and audio resources from many different collections covering news, documentaries, popular culture and much more

Nexis UK: Search for and read international newspaper articles from 1980s/90s to the present.

Greta Friggens and Sharon Bittner

Faculty Librarian
greta.friggens@port.ac.uk
(023) 9284 3456

Assistant Faculty Librarian
sharon.bittner@port.ac.uk
(023) 9284 3243

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You will mainly find the books that you need on the Second Floor:: 700 – art and culture; 709 – history of art; 738 – ceramics; 739 – jewellery; 741 – commercial art and illustration; 745 – design; 746 – fashion and textiles; 748 – glass; 749 – furniture; 750 – painting; 760 – poster art and printmaking; 770 - photography; Check the library catalogue because books are often shelved in unexpected places, for instance the typography section is at 686 on the Ground Floor and Costume is at 391 on the First Floor!