These databases can be found on the Library Home Page through the Research Databases and then the Art & Design link under Databases By Subject on that page. Some of them are from the Literature & Language databases.
If you are having a hard time finding an image using an Images Database you can try any database in all different subject areas that contain PDF full text articles that will contain images. This list is just a few of the many databases the library subscribes to that will contain PDF full text articles. Click on the links to see a description of each database.
This is a list of currently received print magazines that you could look through for images in particular mediums or fine art in general.Click on the links to see the location of the current periodical. Use the call numbers on the linked catalog record to find an issue of one of these titles that is older than the past 1 or 2 years.
You can find those in the stacks at the call number listed, on the 3rd floor, back to 1980. If the year of the issue you want is older than 1980, it will be where the call number listed is usually found in the library on the 5th, 6th, or 7th floors. Or if is located in The Wittliff Collections, you can ask them to look at it.
For more information see the Periodicals guide handout.
PDF version of this list with links and locations
Do we own it?
Search by Magazine name: Check the Periodical List (online content) or Library Catalog (print content) to see if we have the magazine you want.
Search by Topic: Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature (1982-present) and Readers Guide Retrospective (1890-1982) is a good source for searching Popular Magazines by topic.
Newspapers: Check online collections or search 3rd floor Microfilm shelves by Newspaper Title.
Print/Microfilm Collections
Microfilm, microfiche, and print journals and magazines published after 1980 are located on the 3rd floor.
Print Journals and magazines published before 1980 are shelved by call number on floors 5-6.
Try searching our new Start Your Research tool! It searches multiple databases for articles and the library catalog for books and other materials. This tool can be good if your topic is cross-disciplinary and you are looking for different types of materials like images!
After you do an intial search in the box pictured below, look to the right to see related images. Under the Refine Your Results drop down on the left, click Show More to select Image Quick View Type, at the bottom of the refine search pop-up page. Please ask for help with this new tool if you need it!
Below is a browsing map with different areas of inerest highlighted in yellow to use when you are looking for any image related subject, topic, or medium. Click the image to download a printable PDF version of it and to see it better. :)
Subject | Call Number |
Advertising | HF 5801-6182 |
Aesthetics | BH |
Architecture | NA |
Art Encyclopedias | N1-9165 |
Art General | NX |
Decorative Arts | NK |
Drawing & Illustration | NC |
Graphic Arts & Computer Graphics | TR, NC, Z200 |
Jewelry Making | TS, TT |
Music | M |
Painters & Painting | ND |
Photography | TR |
Printmaking | NE |
Sculpture & Sculptors | NB |
Costume design & History | TT, GT500-2370 |
LinkSource checks our other database to find a copy of your article in one of our other databases.
Sometimes you'll see this image:
Log in to ILLiad to make an Interlibrary Loan request
Interlibrary Loan is a Library lending service available to current TxState students and employees. ILL borrows items from other libraries that the Alkek Library does not own.
This service is free to Texas State students, faculty, and staff.
Typical turnaround for a book is 2 weeks. Turnaround time for articles
varies depending on format (hard copy or electronic) but averages 2 to
3 days.