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Books and eBooks

Looking for books or ebooks? Try searching for "ceramics" in Discovery, or browsing the "N" or "T" Sections in the stacks. Here's a quick cheat sheet of Library of Congress subject headings that might be useful:

N Visual arts
NA Architecture
NB Sculpture
NC Drawing. Design. Illustration
ND Painting
NE Print media
NK Decorative arts (most Ceramics books are here)
NX Arts in general
T Technology
TP Chemical technology (includes some Ceramics/Pottery, esp. glazes)
TR Photography
TT Handicrafts. Arts and crafts (Pottery)

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Helpful Databases

Academic Search COMPLETE This link opens in a new window
Designed for academic institutions, this database is a leading resource for scholarly research. It supports high-level research in the key areas of academic study by providing journals, periodicals, reports, books and more.
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Access millions of pages of primary source collections across the entire portfolio of Adam Matthew Digital, spanning content from the 15th-21st centuries.
Art & Architecture Complete This link opens in a new window
Art & Architecture Complete is a robust art research database providing full-text art journals, magazines and books, plus detailed indexing and abstracts. Useful for artists, art scholars and designers, it covers fine, decorative and commercial art, as well as architecture and architectural design.
Independent Voices This link opens in a new window
Independent Voices is an open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century.
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ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Find full text journals published by Elsevier in the physical and life sciences.
SciFinder Scholar This link opens in a new window
Produced by Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), is the most comprehensive database for the chemical literature, searchable by topic, author, substances by name or CAS Registry Number, OR use the editor to draw chemical structures, substructures, or reactions. It's a core research tool for chemistry, biochemistry, chemical engineering, materials science, nanotechnology, physics, environmental science and other science and engineering disciplines.
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Artstor & Jstor
"Features millions of high-quality images and media from some of the world’s top photo archives, museums, libraries, scholars, and artists, including rare materials not available anywhere else."

Internet Resources

Access Ceramics
"A collection of contemporary ceramics images by recognized artists enhancing ceramics education worldwide."
Archie Bray Foundation
Art Axis
Ceramics Arts Network
A frequently updated site that includes news, resources, and forums.
Clay Akar
The Color Network
Glazy
International Ceramics Directory
Links to websites on pottery and porcelain from around the world.
Red Lodge Clay Center
Schaller Gallery

Institutions

The American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA)
British Musem
Database of the British Museums' Collections
Encyclopedia Smithsonian
Find reading lists, images, and online exhibitions in the arts. You can filter your search by clicking "Craft & Decorative Arts" and "Design and Applied Arts" to get more relevant results for ceramics.
Everson Museum of Art - Ceramics Collection
"The Everson Museum of Art’s internationally recognized ceramics collection includes some of the finest representations of modern and contemporary American ceramics in the United States. "
Juniata College Museum of Art
The Met
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Ceramics
PotWeb: Ceramics Online @ the Ashmolean Museum
Tate - Ceramics
Wedgewood Museum
Wedgewood Museum holds "A unique record of over 260 years of British ceramic production."

General Resources for Images

Digital Public Library of America This link opens in a new window
DPLA connects people to the riches held within America’s libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions. All of the materials found through DPLA—photographs, books, maps, news footage, oral histories, personal letters, museum objects, artwork, government documents, and so much more—are free and immediately available in digital format. The cultural institutions participating in DPLA represent the richness and diversity of America itself, from the smallest local history museum to our nation’s largest cultural institutions.
Europeana
Provides access access to millions of cultural heritage items from institutions across Europe. It includes more than 50 million digitized objects ( images, 3d objects, texts, videos and sounds).

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