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Creative Industries

Welcome

Welcome to the guide for art and design

Online Collections for Art & Design

Online Collections for art and design

The following resources are good for subjects in the creative industries. Click on the tab above to view resources useful for subjects in the field of art and design.

If you are asked to login in to any resources use your Student, or Staff, ID and password.

Please check copyright restrictions before using images from any of the following sites.

British Cartoon Archive
Contains more than 130,000 cartoons from 1904 onwards. FAQs provides information on copyright.
Scran
NOTE : Switching off from 24th June 2025. Contents being moved to Trove - which is also on the A-Z. Collection of digital learning resources including 360,000 images, movies and sounds from museums, galleries, archives and the media.
Europeana
Vogue Archive

If you are asked to login in to any resources use your Student, or Staff, ID and password.

Where to find copyright free images
Links to UHI Libraries' guide (opens in a new window).
Finding and using images
UHI guide (opens in a new window).

Reference books - Art and Design

Oxford Companion to the Garden

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Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and the Arts

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Oxford Dictionary of Christian Art and Architecture

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Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture

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Grove Encyclopedia of American Art

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Encyclopedia of Aesthetics

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Oxford Companion to Architecture

The Oxford Dictionary of Art & Artists (5th ed.)

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms (2nd ed.)

The Oxford Dictionary of Art (3rd ed.)

A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art (3rd ed.)

A Dictionary of Modern Design (2nd ed.)

Art and Architecture

The Oxford Companion to the Photograph

The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists (2nd ed.)

The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture (3rd Rev. ed.)

The Oxford Companion to Western Art

Oxford Reference Online (ORO)

Selection of full-text encyclopedias, dictionaries and other subject reference works on everything from Art to Zoology.

Art and design journals - Browzine

Using other libraries

Using other libraries

Using other university libraries : Sconul Access Scheme
Information for HE students about accessing and using other UK university, or higher education, libraries.