Research Guides: Art and Art History: E-books

To Find E-Books in the Library Catalog

Keep in mind that many art and art history resources are not available electronically. Nevertheless, there is a great selection of content that you can access electronically through the library. To do this, perform a keyword search at library.nyu.edu, then use the filters on the left side of the results page to refine your results. Selecting "Available Online" will limit your results to content that can be accessed electronically.

Library Databases with Art and Architecture E-books

Art and Architecture ePortal This link opens in a new window
The Art & Architecture ePortal database is an eBook resource that features works of scholarship in the history of art, architecture, decorative arts, photography, and design. The database also allows users to search for images within all titles by keyword.
Please contact lib-edatabases@nyu.edu if you encounter the message "Content not available in your region".
Bloomsbury Visual Arts This link opens in a new window
Bloomsbury Visual Arts is an interdisciplinary hub designed for research and learning across design, art, architecture and related fields.

NYU Libraries subscribe to following collections:
- Bloomsbury Applied Visual Arts
- Bloomsbury Design Library
- Bloomsbury Art Markets
Digitalia Hispánica This link opens in a new window
Digitalia Hispánica provides full-text access to research in the humanities, fine arts, social sciences, STEM fields, and law from Spanish and Latin American publishers. Coverage includes monographs (eBooks), periodicals, and conference proceedings, as well as a collection of literary texts written originally in Spanish and Spanish translations of literature in other languages.

See Digitalia's instructions for installing Adobe Digital Editions to download texts to an eBook reader.
eBook Academic Collection This link opens in a new window
The eBook Academic Collection is a multidisciplinary collection that contains all of the ebooks NYU has purchased through Ebsco.
Full download of DRM-protected ebooks requires EBSCO account registration and Adobe Digital Editions.
Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
Ebook Central is NYU's preferred ebook provider. Users can search, read, highlight, and annotate full-text books in many subject areas, including the social sciences and humanities.
Intellect Discover This link opens in a new window
The Intellect Discover platform provides access to electronic journals and books published by Intellect. Intellect is an independent academic publisher focused on teaching and research in the arts, media and creative industries. Major subject areas of focus include: visual arts, performing arts, film and media studies, dance, music, and popular culture.
Torrossa: Casalini Full Text Platform This link opens in a new window
Torrossa provides full-text access to research in the humanities, fine arts, social sciences, pure sciences, applied sciences, and law from a substantial list of major Italian publishers. Coverage includes monographs (eBooks), periodicals and conference proceedings. Some publications are in languages other than Italian. The extensive collection can be browsed by discipline (Dewey Decimal or Library of Congress Classification).
Very Short Introductions This link opens in a new window
Very Short Introductions provides access to the Oxford University Press series of concise overviews on many subjects, theorists, and critical movements in art, history, literature, philosophy, and more disciplines. With this institutional subscription, users can read the full text of the entire series.

Freely Available Online Resources with Art and Architecture E-books

Internet Archive
The Internet Archive provides digital access to over 20 million books and texts in the public domain. Some books can be freely read and downloaded. Others can be borrowed and read in the online book reader.
New York Public Library Digital Research Books (Beta)
NYPL's Digital Research Books is an early beta test of a new project that collects digital versions of research books from many different sources — including Open Access publications — into one place to search. All books are free to read, download, and keep. No library card required.
Getty Research Portal
The Getty Research Portal provides access to digitized resources for the printed literature of art, including fundamental texts, rare books, exhibition catalogues, auction catalogues, and related literature. Its main focus is Western Art. Not all items are in the public domain.
Met Museum Publications Online
Includes over 1,500 titles, including books, online publications, and Bulletins and Journals from the last five decades. Current book titles that are in-print may be previewed and fully searched online, with a link to purchase the book. The full contents of almost all other book titles may be read online, searched, or downloaded as a PDF. Many of these out-of-print books will be available for purchase, when rights permit, through print-on-demand capabilities in association with Yale University Press.