Guides: ART 430 Practices in Digital Arts: Home

Finding Articles

Art Full Text This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive, international resource covering fine, decorative and commercial art, as well as photography, folk art, film, and architecture.
Full-text articles from more than 300 periodicals dating back to 1995
High-quality indexing and abstracting of over 600 periodicals dating as far back as 1984, including 280 peer-reviewed journals
Indexing and abstracting of over 13,000 art dissertations
Indexing of nearly 200,000 art reproductions
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides full text coverage to peer-reviewed titles in the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education and more.
Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
Content from CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index along with other peer-reviewed journals in communication, mass media, and related fields of study.

JSTOR + ARTstor
Used by millions for research, teaching, and learning. With more than a thousand academic journals and over 1 million images, letters, and other primary sources, JSTOR is one of the world's most trusted sources for academic content.

Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Full-text current and archival articles from scholarly journals covering literature and criticism, history, performing arts, cultural studies, education, philosophy, political science, gender studies, and more.

Read books online

Digital Media Ethics by Charles Ess
ISBN: 9780745672410
Publication Date: 2013-12-17
Considers the ethical issues of digital media from a global perspective, introducing ethical theories from multiple cultures. Includes examples of "watershed" events such as privacy policy developments on Facebook and Google+ in relation to ongoing changes in privacy law in the US, the EU, and Asia.

ProQuest E-Book Central This link opens in a new window
Includes e-books formerly in Pepperdine's ebrary and EBL collections.This database is only available to current Pepperdine students, faculty, and staff.

Watch Videos

Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window
Streaming video titles spanning subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.

ART 21: Art in the 21st century
This AVON channel includes 29 e-videos you can watch online
Art21: Artists in their own words
Digital films on contemporary art and artists, released exclusively online. These original videos focus on singular aspects of an artist's process, significant individual works and exhibitions,

Online Software Tutorials

LinkedIn Learning This link opens in a new window
Professional development resource available to all current faculty, staff, and students, offering over 1,000 online courses.

http://www.photoshoptutorials.ws/

http://www.photoshopstar.com/

http://prodesigntools.com/adobe-cs6-tutorials-free-videos-all-products.html

Researching Artists

Locate artists' works on the Internet using a search engine such as Google; or visit a site that collects information about works from over 180,000 artists: Artnet.com

Artsy, a resource for collection and education, aims to make all the world’s art accessible to anyone with an Internet connection.

ARTnews (available on Flipster) reports on the art, personalities, issues, trends and events shaping the international art world.

Bibliographies located in books or at the end of journal articles can be very helpful. To learn if Pepperdine has access to a particular journal, search for the name of the journal in the library catalog, or use the 'Journals & Periodicals' search feature on the Library's Web site.

Locate exhibition catalogs in the library collection using subject headings in this format:

[artist's name, eg. Rockburne, Dorothea | Yarde, Richard ] Exhibitions | Criticism and Interpretation | Catalogs | Interviews