Art & Art History
Note to Faculty
For more information and to view the courses currently being offered fully with Open Education Resources, please see the Registrar's website at http://www.registrar.txstate.edu/resources/oer
Open Educational Resources (OER) are freely accessible online teaching and learning materials. They can be videos, textbooks, quizzes, learning modules and more. Using OER in your classroom will improve student engagement and success, provide immediate, equitable access to resources, save money for your students, and provide you a venue to use flexible, high-quality learning materials in your individualized curriculum. This guide collects the best-of-the-best OER and organizes them by college and department. Take a look and see what is available in your discipline.
- Open Textbook is a term used to indicate a Textbook that is fully OER.
- Public Resources are materials that are free, but licenses still protect the content in some way.
- Library Resources do not cost your students any money, and should also be considered as a means to lower the total cost of learning for your students.
- Affordable Learning Materials: course materials that cost students $50or less, in total.
Tips for finding and using OER and other affordable content:
- There are lots of OER materials out there. It takes time and persistence to find the ones that best fit your students' academic and research needs.
- Instead of focusing on the textbook that you want to replace, focus on what you want your students to know or do.
- Use the resources in this guide to find OER relevant to your discipline and courses. These links are great starting points but if you are not finding the OER that work for you, contact your subject librarian for personalized help.
- If you find an article in a library database that you want to use in a course, Library staff can help you with copyright considerations and provide access to the resource through reserves, embed in an online course, or on a website.
- Talk with your subject librarian with any questions you have about finding and using OER.
Links to more detailed information about OER and copyright:
Find eBooks owned by the Library
Open Journals
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19th Century Art WorldwideFounded in 2002, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide is a scholarly, refereed e-journal devoted to the study of nineteenth-century painting, sculpture, graphic arts, photography, architecture, and decorative arts across the globe.
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RIHA JournalJournal of the International Association of Research Institutes in the History of Art is a peer-reviewed Open Access journal for the history of art and visual culture, featuring outstanding research articles that offer significant contributions to current scholarship.
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Open Arts JournalThe Open Arts Journal addresses the demand for a rigorously compiled, peer-reviewed platform for arts scholarship open to diverse participants.
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Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception StudiesThe aim of this Journal is to become a focal point for research, debate and publication on all aspects of the study of audiences for cultural and media products and practices.
Open Resources
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Artsy EducationWith high-res, downloadable images of iconic works of art, as well as rich editorial content, Artsy is your educational gateway to the world of art.
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Digital Art History DirectoryThe Digital Art History Directory (DAHD) is an open-access publication containing a database of digital art history projects and information on data sources, best practices in Digital Art History project construction, preservation, and web archiving. Intended to be the largest, most comprehensive, and inclusive collection of information on Digital Art History and to function as a tool and living resource, rather than a static publication, the DAHD provides a platform for discovery, sharing, and research of Digital Art History.
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Duchamp Research PortalThe Duchamp Research Portal is an online platform that aggregates a selection of digitized archival holdings and museum collections at three partner institutions to make a significant portion of primary source materials related to Marcel Duchamp accessible and discoverable through a single interface.
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Film studies for freeA pluralist, pro bono, and purely positive web-archive of examples of, links to, and comment on, online, Open Access, film and moving image studies resources of note.
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The Getty Conservation InstituteA critical component of the work of the Getty Conservation Institute is making available to conservation professionals a variety of publications and other resources that can assist them in their work.
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Italian Renaissance ResourcesA freely available resource, this site features eight units, each of which explores a different theme in Italian Renaissance art. Researchers and students can explore thematic essays, more than 300 images, 300 glossary items and 42 primary source texts. This resource is a collaboration between the National Gallery of Art, Washington and Grove Art Online, made possible by the generous support of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
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Khan AcademySmarthistory at Khan Academy offers more than one thousand videos and articles on art from around the world and across time.
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Medieval Kingdom of Sicily Image DatabaseThis website was created to collect, host and display images made by travelers, mapmakers, historians, architects and artists of medieval and early modern monuments and cities of Southern Italy. It includes prints, drawings, ground plans and elevations, paintings, photographs, and any other type of image of sites from roughly 1100 to 1450. The image sources include public and private collections, museums, libraries and archives, print books, and online resources.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art : Timeline of Art History"This site gives a history of art, worldwide. It contains biographical and societal information on the artists. It has examples of the art pieces with time and place of origin, the owners name, and the fabric/material it is made of. It separates topics by country/empires."
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MIT Press Open Architecture and Urban StudiesMIT Press Open Architecture and Urban Studies is a robust digital collection of classic and previously out-of-print architecture and urban studies books on our dedicated eBook platform, MIT Press Direct. The collection was funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as part of the Humanities Open Book Program, which they co-sponsored with the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Multimedia & Technology ReviewsThe ARLIS/NA Multimedia & Technology Reviews target projects, products, events, and issues within the broad realm of multimedia and technology related to arts scholarship, research, and librarianship. While assessing current products and projects, these reviews are also designed to engage the membership in a conversation about how technologies and multimedia are being or can be deployed within our profession and by our constituents.
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process.artsAn open online community for sharing art, design and media practice based learning, teaching and research.
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SmartHistory: The Center for Public Art HistoryVideo, syllabi, essays, images, books, and more open source art history content for teaching and learning. Smarthistory offers art history content by more than five hundred leading scholars (art historians, archaeologists, and museum curators). Almost all contributors hold an earned Ph.D. All Smarthistory content has undergone an open peer-review process where it is vetted by multiple scholars including those with applicable area expertise. Every essay on Smarthistory lists the author and links to their academic credentials.
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Smithsonian Learning LabThe Learning Lab gives everyone with a desire to learn the opportunity to explore the Smithsonian's rich resources anytime, anywhere.
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UnsplashThe internet’s source of freely-usable images.
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World Digital LibraryThe WDL makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from all countries and cultures.
Open Textbooks
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Open Textbooks - ArtsA collection of peer-reviewed, open textbooks available online or for download.
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OpenStaxTens of thousands of learning objects, called pages, that are organized into thousands of textbook-style books in a host of disciplines, all easily accessible online and downloadable to almost any device, anywhere, anytime.
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Directory of Open Access BooksAcademic, peer reviewed texts published Open Access.
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Google BooksSearch full-text of books. In advanced search, select "full view only" and "books."
Images
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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design MuseumThis database represents the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s diverse collection spanning thirty centuries of historic and contemporary design
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VADSOnline resources for visual arts. Over 100,000 images that are freely available and copyright cleared for use in learning, teaching and research.
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Getty Museum - Open Content ProgramThe Getty makes available, without charge, all available digital images to which the Getty holds the rights or that are in the public domain to be used for any purpose. No permission is required.
Videos
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TEDTED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less).
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ArtBabbleArtBabble is a website that showcases high quality art-related video content from more than 50 cultural institutions from around the world.
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Khan AcademyKahn Academy offers a variety of short videos on art history topics. All Khan Academy content is available for free at www.khanacademy.org
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Getty Museum - Khan AcademyPartnership of Getty and Khan to provide educational videos about decorative arts, photography, art conservation, paintings, etc.