Tag: Electronic Resources

City Tech faculty, staff, and students have free access from August 5 through September 5, 2024 to a set of exciting Art History resources from Oxford University Press.

These online databases include the Benezit Dictionary of Artists, and Oxford Bibliographies for Art History and for Architecture, Preservation & Planning.

The Benezit Dictionary of Artists, one of the most comprehensive and definitive resources of artists biographies available. Revered for its global scope and its excellent coverage of European artists, Benezit is distinguished by its coverage of lesser-known artists, images of artists’ signatures, historical auction records, and lists of museum holdings.

Start using the Benezit Dictionary of Artists: Go to https://cityte.ch/benezit. If you are off campus, you will be prompted to log in with your CUNY login first.

Oxford Bibliographies for Art History and Architecture, Preservation & Planning

This series of guides—resembling an annotated bibliography or high-level encyclopedia—provides a path to the best available scholarship across a wide range of humanities subjects. Annotations from top scholars help you identify the most relevant issues for research in any field.

Read about the Art History collection and the Architecture, Planning, & Preservation collection.

Start using these bibliographies: Go to https://cityte.ch/oxbib. If you are off campus, you will be prompted to log in with your CUNY login first.

Questions about these databases? Please do not hesitate to Ask a Librarian.

Let us know what you think: We would love faculty feedback on how this database could support your teaching and research. Please share your thoughts through this form.

City Tech faculty, staff, and students have free access from August 5 through September 30, 2024, to Boomsbury Visual Arts Design Studies Collection, a database that brings together scholarly material about design research, product design, interior design, furniture, sustainability, and marketing and advertising.

Access this database: Visit https://cityte.ch/bloomvis to start searching. If you are off campus, you will be prompted to log in with your CUNY login first.

More about what’s inside:

• this database spans topics across design research, product design, interior design, furniture, sustianability, and marketing and advertising.
• materials feature internationally renowned scholars. This content has been curated to feature titles that are essential for research and study.
• Title highlights include: Visual Culture and Decolonisation in Britain by Anandi Ramamurthy; The Culture of Nature in the History of Design by Kjetil Fallan; Thinking Design Through Literature by Susan Yelavich

Questions about this database? Please do not hesitate to Ask a Librarian.

Let us know what you think: We would love faculty feedback on how this database could support your teaching and research. Please share your thoughts through this form.

LACLI provides access to free online resources for Latin American, Caribbean, Latinx, and Iberian studies. This project emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic as an international collaborative effort aimed at sharing digital resource collections across borders, and it is being maintained by collaboration among librarians from the US, Mexico, Brazil, and the UK. It includes a mix of free digital resources in Spanish, Portuguese, and English.

Interested in getting started? Find LACLI on the City Tech Library Database list, or head straight to lacli.info.

Begin your research with the search box on the website’s homepage, or browse the list from the “Library” menu. Some of our favorite resources on LACLI include 68 voces, a series of animated films based on indigenous Mexican stories, and the Alfredo Bouret collection at RMIT University, highlighting the work of fashion illustrator Alfredo Bouret.