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What are the Creative Arts?

The Creative Arts refer to a broad range of artistic disciplines that involve the use of imagination, skill, and creativity to produce expressive and aesthetic works. These may include visual arts (e.g., painting, sculpture), performing arts (e.g., music, dance, theater, film), and literary arts (e.g., writing, poetry), as well as newer digital and multimedia forms. Creative arts are a means of self-expression, communication, and cultural enrichment, often serving to inspire, entertain, or provoke emotions and thoughts in the audience or participants.

Creative Arts Databases

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Complete is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals.

Art & Architecture Source This link opens in a new window
Art & Architecture Source covers a broad range of related subjects, from fine, decorative and commercial art, to various areas of architecture and architectural design. Providing over 600 full-text journals, more than 220 full-text books, and a collection of over 63,000 images, it is designed for use by a diverse audience, including art scholars, artists, designers, students and general researchers.

Arts & Humanities Database This link opens in a new window
This database features hundreds of titles covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre and Cultural Studies. It is designed to complement the following indexes: ABM, Avery, BHA, BHI, DAAI, Index Islamicus, MLA, Philosopher's Index and RILM.

Bloomsbury eBooks This link opens in a new window
Practice makes perfect with Bloomsbury Applied Visual Arts – the ultimate guide to a visual arts education. This comprehensive resource offers instant, searchable access to over 170 books which combine visual inspiration with practical advice on idea generation, research techniques, portfolio development and more, across the main visual arts disciplines.

Complete List of Creative Arts Databases
For a complete list of Creative Arts databases, select this link.

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