Find Article & More with Discovery Search
Discovery is our new all-in-one search box!
Tips for searching
- Use the word "and" to connect two search terms.
- You will see results commons to both terms.
- For example— Edward Hopper and Nighthawks.
- Click on the title of the article to use the Cite and Email tools.
Use the left column tools to limit your search results...
- Select the Available Print + Online box to limit your results to materials you can access immediately, .
- Select Library Catalog to limit your search to books, videos or other items in our MCCC libraries.
- Use Publication Date to limit your search to the last five or so years for current information on your country.
- Use the "Source Type" filter to limit your search specifically to books, magazines, academic journals, and more.
- Select "Non-Print Resources" for artworks
- Use the Databases filter to choose articles specifically from JSTOR, Academic Search Premier, or ARTStor
Additional databases with art articles
These databases are now all included in our Discovery search above
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowWhat's included: Journal articles in humanities, history, culture and the sciences and artwork from some of the most famous museums in the world. Uses include: Full-text books, scholarly articles, conference proceedings, images focused on historical and present-day art topics.
- Biography Reference Center This link opens in a new windowWhat's included: Offers a comprehensive collection of more than 450,000 full text biographies. Uses included: Searching the full text run of Biography Today and Biography Magazine, as well as thousands of narrative biographies.
- Credo Reference This link opens in a new windowWhat's included: Our largest online reference collection. Uses include: Resources for study such as atlases, biographies, dictionaries, and encyclopedias.
Expedition Magazine
- Expedition: The magazine of the University of PennsylvaniaThe Penn Museum has published Expedition (ISSN 0014-4738) since 1958. It includes peer-reviewed articles on current findings of archaeologists and anthropologists, the latest on upcoming exhibitions and events, and a window into the labs, classrooms, archives, and people of the Penn Museum. Use this link to access the library's subscription.