Digital art: Getting started

Summon will usually be your 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

For e-books:

• digital art e-books are collected here

Most other e-books will be found with Summon.

However please also see the e-book guide for:

• more info about the e-book collections available in Summon
• links to other e-book collections which need to be searched separately from Summon

For art that seems to have disappeared from the web:

• UK Web Archive provides access to old webpages prduced in the UK, plus links to similar resources for other countries
• Internet Archive Software Library useful is obsolete software is needed to view a piece of digital art

For still images: 

• Artstor