Many of the Library's subscriptions to online databases are available to Fellows remotely. Some database vendors do not allow off-site access (such as Ancestry and Newspapers.com).
If you would like access to our online databases, please email eresources@cmog.org.
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The Burney Collection is a fully searchable database of over one million pages from newspapers, newsbooks and government, ephemera, and early publications of the 17th and 18th centuries. Geographic coverage is focused around London, the British Isles and English colonies. Access onsite or with affiliate login.
19th Century U.S. Newspapers provides access to full-text articles and images from newspapers throughout the U.S. Newspapers are keyword-searchable and provide facsimile images of the articles included. The digital archive covers all of the 1800s and provides researchers with information relating to important scientific, historical, and cultural news of the century.
AATA Online is a comprehensive database of literature related to the preservation and conservation of material cultural heritage from 1932 to the present.
APS Online provides searchable full-text and page images from over 1,800 popular magazines, journals and newspapers which began publication between 1740 and 1900 with coverage through 1940. The database includes titles from labor, trade, literary, scientific, and photographic periodicals, as well as other historically-significant titles.
Ancestry Library Edition is a growing database of genealogical sources like censuses, vital records, immigration records, family histories, military records, court and legal documents, directories, photos, maps, and more.(Only available on the Museum Campus)
Archive-It is the leading web archiving service for collecting and accessing cultural heritage on the web. The websites assembled in this collection were selected by Rakow Research Library staff and cover a wide variety of glass-related topics.
ArchivesSpace provides searchable access to digital finding aids for manuscript collections and institutional archives housed in the Rakow Research Library collection.
Prepared by the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, this database includes citations for books and articles on archaeological sciences, prehistoric archaeology, classical archaeology, archaeology of the ancient Near East, Egyptology and ancient history.
Art & Architecture Complete provides indexing/abstracting and full-text coverage for magazines and books in art and architecture. The database contains an image collection of over 60,000 images, as well as the full-text from close to 400 journals and over 200 book titles.
Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) Online is a structured vocabulary of more than 133,000 terms, descriptions, bibliographic citations, and other information relating to fine art, architecture, decorative arts, archival materials, and material culture. This resource is managed by the Getty Research Institute.
Art Full Text offers full text, plus abstracts and indexing of an international array of peer-selected art publications from 1985 to the present. Coverage includes periodicals, yearbooks, museum bulletins, competition and award notices, exhibition listings, interviews, film reviews, and more. In addition to articles, Art Full Text indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals.
Art History Research Net is an art history research service consisting of five related and linked databases:
Art Index Retrospective (AIR) indexes citations to international art periodicals, from 1929-1984 in English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as in periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch. In addition to articles, AIR tracks reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals.
The International Foundation for Art Research (IFAR) provides two databases, International Cultural Property Ownership and Export Legislation (ICPOEL) and Case Law Statutes (CLS), both of which offer information, legislation, and case law regarding the acquisition and ownership of art. Topics include art theft, fraud, forgery, and contract law, among other things.
ArtNet captures auction sales information reflecting the arts market since 1985. Subscribers can buy, sell and research decorative art online with the searchable database for auction sales, artists, gallery market trends, and events. ArtNet offers access to ArtNet magazine as well as links to other titles.
Artstor on JSTOR is a non-profit, digital library of high-quality images from contributors around the world. Covering the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences, Artstor images are rights-cleared for educational use and currently total almost 2 million records. Contributors to the repository include the Cooper-Hewitt, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Victoria and Albert and many others.
The Avery Index provides a comprehensive listing of journal articles on architecture and design dating back to the mid-18th century. The index covers the history and practice of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, historic preservation, and interior design and decoration. Search over 2,500 international journals, many of which are not indexed elsewhere.
The Bibliography of the History of Art is a comprehensive bibliography of scholarly writing on the history of western art from 1975 to 2007. BHA provides citations from over 1,200 journals, indexing print and electronic journal articles, monographs, collections of essays, conference proceedings and exhibition catalogs on European and American art history. BHA extends the coverage of its two predecessor art indexes: Répertoire d'Art et d'Archéologie (1973-1989) and Répertoire International de la Littérature de l'Art = International Repertory of the Literature of Art (RILA) (1975 to 1989.) In 2007, the Getty Institute ceased publication of the index. Its successor, the International Bibliography of Art, is available from the Rakow Library website.
"The AHRnet Biographical Dictionary of British and Irish Architects 1800-1950 includes approximately 3,000 entries extracted from the Art History Research net database Arts+Architecture ProFiles (A+AP)."
Britannica Academic offers the full version of the authoritative encyclopedia (now no longer being published in print), plus thousands of new and revised essays. Many articles provide a detailed bibliography with helpful recommendations for further reading.
Provided by the New York State Library, NOVELny connects New Yorkers to 21st century information. NOVELny is supported with temporary federal Library Services and Technology Act funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
The newest edition of Chicago Manual of Style is published online.
This website from the Library of Congress offers full-text, searchable access to historic American newspapers from 1836-1922 as well as a directory of U.S. newspapers 1690-present.
DAAI contains over 130,000 annotated references from more than 500 design and craft journals and newspapers published from 1973 onwards, as well as data for more than 50,000 designers, craftspeople, studios, workshops, firms etc. It is the largest index of its kind in the world. DAAI offers a supplementary database: Periodicals Directory (an international directory of design and craft journals).
Search Ebay for sold and completed listings to get an idea of the current market for glass, antiques, and other objects.
Europeana is a cultural heritage project which offers millions of digital items from galleries, libraries, archives and museums.Formats include books, photographs, paintings, video, manuscripts, music, and others.
FirstSearch is a collection of general databases that gives you book and journal citations and access to select journal articles through thirteen different databases. The Rakow Library has access to the following databases: ArticleFirst; ClasePeriodica; Ebooks; Electronic Collections Online (ECO); ERIC; GPO; MEDLINE; PapersFirst; Proceedings; WilsonSelectPlus; World Almanac; WorldCat; and WorldCat Dissertations. More information on this collection is available from the List of Databases page, within FirstSearch.
Gale Academic OneFile contains indexing for over 12,000 journals and reference sources from 1980 to the present, many of which are peer-reviewed and full text. It has extensive coverage of: the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and more. Gale Academic OneFile has a number of design, architecture, and general art publications full-text. Millions of articles are available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions.
Provided by the New York State Library, NOVELny connects New Yorkers to 21st century information. NOVELny is supported with temporary federal Library Services and Technology Act funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
This database provides access to a wide variety of global business information found in company and industry profiles including SWOT reports, market share reports, and financial reports. BIE offers company histories, industry essays and articles from scholarly journals, business news, and other publications. Some tableware, glassware, and other relevant industry publications are available full-text.
Provided by the New York State Library, NOVELny connects New Yorkers to 21st century information. NOVELny is supported with temporary federal Library Services and Technology Act funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
Gale General OneFile indexes over 12,000 periodicals, with a backfile dating to 1980. The resource includes journals, newspapers, reference books and multimedia sources, over half of which are available full text. Subjects covered are: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Several glass industry publications are covered in this database.
Provided by the New York State Library, NOVELny connects New Yorkers to 21st century information. NOVELny is supported with temporary federal Library Services and Technology Act funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine contains over 2,800 journals and magazines from 1980 to the present, many of which are full text. The database covers nursing and allied health, medicine, and a wide variety of personal health information sources that offer reliable health information to researchers.
Provided by the New York State Library, NOVELny connects New Yorkers to 21st century information. NOVELny is supported with temporary federal Library Services and Technology Act funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
Offers over 1,100 full-text newspapers that include several New York State newspapers, with content from the Glens Falls Post-Star, The New York Times, The New York Observer, New York Post, and Newsday.
Provided by the New York State Library, NOVELny connects New Yorkers to 21st century information. NOVELny is supported with temporary federal Library Services and Technology Act funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
Gallica provides access to materials digitized by the Bibliothèque nationale de France and its partner libraries. Includes copyrighted and public domain matierals.
Search and read the full text of patents from around the world.
GreenFILE offers researched information covering all aspects of the human impact on the environment. Coverage extends back to the early 20th century for some titles. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles covers global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.
A partnership of academic and research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
access onsite or with login
Index to 19th-Century American Art Periodicals has more than 26,000 records spanning the entire 19th century, and provides coverage of the contents of each available journal issue, including all featured articles, art notes, illustrations, stories, poems and advertisements. Topics covered include: artists and illustrators, painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, architecture and design, exhibitions and sales, decoration, and collecting.
The International Bibliography of Art (IBA) is the major resource for scholarly literature on western art, covering European art from late antiquity to the present, American art from the colonial era to the present, and global art since 1945. IBA includes materials published from 2007 to the present. IBA is the successor to the Bibliography of the History of Art.
This website offers a huge array of digital texts, from archived webpages to digitized books, periodicals, videos and other media. The Internet Achive's directive is to offer "permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format."
This price index of several million public auction sale results from more than 1000 auction houses covers the 1990s to current. Records include images and full-text information for some items. Entries in the database are unedited and appear as written by auction house experts. The Price Archive allows access to past auctions. Searches return a maximum of 250 results. Formerly known as Artfact
JSTOR (Journal STORage) is a full-text database containing the back files of over 700 scholarly journals, generally from the first volume up to the most recent three to six years. Current issues are not available. The journals archived in JSTOR span many disciplines, including the social sciences, humanities, and some sciences.
Full-text access to The New York Times from 1985 - present.
Provided by the New York State Library, NOVELny connects New Yorkers to 21st century information. NOVELny is supported with temporary federal Library Services and Technology Act funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. The Historical New York Times with Index (1851-1993) provides search capability using subject terms and topics for focused and targeted results in combination with searchable full text, full page, and article-level images from the Historical New York Times.
Newspapers.com Library Edition provides online access to 3,000+ historical newspapers. Dating from the early 1700s into the early 2000s, Newspapers.com contains full and partial runs of regional and state titles as well as small local newspapers in the United States and a handful of other countries.
Searchable digital repository of many of the old newspapers published in New York State as well as photos, New York State Census publications, city directories, postcards and other primary sources. The site is managed by Thomas Tryniski.
The Oxford English Dictionary serves as the authoritative source on the development of the English language, offering the most comprehensive collection available of definitions, word origins, and histories of the usage of words over time. The online version includes all 20 volumes of the 1989 2nd Edition of the Dictionary, plus the 3 supplementary volumes that have been published since that time. In addition, a major revision of the Dictionary, begun in 1993, is ongoing, with approximately 1,800 new and revised words added quarterly to the online OED.
Created to accompany the 2016 exhibition commemorating the 100th anniversary of Pyrex, Pyrex Potluck provides a searchable pattern database of Pyrex opalware, articles about the history of Pyrex, plus links to advertisements, trade catalogs and other research tools.
Search our online library catalog, including the Glass Article Index.
RIBA indexes over 300 architectural periodicals and catalogs the books and audio visual materials held in the Royal Institute of British Architects Library, including the RIBA Photographs, Manuscripts, and Drawings Collections. The database also provides biographies of architects. The RIBA's British Architectural Library covers a wide spectrum of subjects, ranging from prehistory to the present, including architectural theory, building and construction, civil engineering, structural engineering, landscape architecture, interior design and decoration, the decorative arts, town and country planning, and construction law.
The Times Digital Archive offers full-text facsimiles of 200 years of the Times, with every page of every issue from 1785 to 1985, including advertising, editorials, birth and death notices, book reviews, and crossword puzzles.
"With documentation on over 20,100 iconic houses and 130 important architects, and over 4.3 million pages of architecture and design magazines, USModernist is America’s largest open digital archive of Modernist houses, an award-winning nonprofit 501(c)(3) educational archive for the documentation, preservation, and promotion of residential Modernist architecture."
The Patent Public Search tool is a new web-based patent search application.
As the world's largest computerized library catalog, WorldCat has entries from large institutions such as the Library of Congress and the British Library, as well as entries from small public libraries, art museums and historical societies. WorldCat.org makes the entire WorldCat database available to anyone interested in searching library collections worldwide.