Art markets: Getting started

Summon is usually the best starting point for finding articles, books and dissertations. 

• video intro to Summon (4 mins) 
• collection of guides if you need help with particular Summon searches

You may also want to run supplementary searches in these databases:

• Business Source Premier: only partly included in Summon.  Contains, amongst much else, the Harvard Business Review and the Academy of Management Review. Anyone with a British Library reader's ticket can access a more comprehensive version of this database: visit the British Library's electronic resources list, and search for Business Source Complete
• Google Scholar: an alternative to Summon
  • info about using Scholar 
  • video intro to Scholar (3 mins)
• Nexis Uni: another major database with much business-oriented material.

Other key resources:

• Art Newspaper: key resource for current developments in art markets and both the commercial and non-commercial sectors of the art world.
• e-newsletters:  for latest art world news
• price databases 
• auction houses and catalogues 
• most of the SIA library guides to kinds of art include a section about markets