SCAD Libraries' Online Resources and Services: Online Resources

Artstor sources content from museums, archives, and libraries across the world for educational and research purposes. Beyond fine art and art history images, Artstor includes fashion, decorative arts, architecture, and photography. SCAD Libraries’ subscription allows for free use of images in presentations, assignments, and other non-commercial educational activities. For information on accessing and searching Artstor, visit: Artstor Quick-Start Guide.

The Digital Image Database (DID) contains images from prehistory through the twenty-first century in a wide range of topic categories covering all majors at SCAD. Searches can also be conducted by location, material, media, artistic movements, or artist name. In addition to published work, DID also contains student and faculty work. For help with the SCAD Digital Images Database, search SCAD Libraries' FAQ, or use the chat feature to contact library staff.

The Don Bluth Collection of Animation came to SCAD in 2005 as a donation from Don Bluth and Gary Goldman. Also included in the Don Bluth Collection of Animation are administrative, legal, and other documents as well as scripts, concepts, and publicity related materials. The Bluth studio operated in both the United States and Ireland and was, at various times, affiliated with other production companies. A preliminary inventory was completed by summer of 2006 and processing began in fall of that same year. Though the processing of the collection will continue for many years, materials already processed are available to researchers now. For more information about SCAD special collections databases, visit the SCAD Special Collections Guide.

Life magazine during the coverage period of this database addressed issues of politics, fashion, society, religion, and literature. Many famous illustrators and authors were contributors to Life, such as Charles Dana Gibson, Norman Rockwell, and Theodor Seuss Geisel. For more information about SCAD special collections databases, visit the SCAD Special Collections Guide.

HathiTrust is a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving over 17 million searchable digitized books and historical documents. The repository includes content digitized through Google Books and the Internet Archive digitization initiatives as well as content digitized locally by libraries and archives. HathiTrust provides reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. copyright law for materials in the collection, which is the largest set of digitized books managed by scholarly and research libraries for scholarly interests.