Ceramics: Getting started

Potter's workshop, Okinawa. Source: Okinawa Soba, Flickr (edited). Licence.

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:

•  Art & Architecture Source
• Google Scholar: an alternative to Summon
  • info about using Scholar 
  • video intro to Scholar (3 mins)

For introductory articles:

• Grove Art Online: scholarly introductory articles on makers, themes, periods and styles
• Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms for definitions. Note: running a search will also retrieve results from other Oxford reference works