Library Guides: Library Resources: Online Reference Sources: Creative Arts/Communication

Art

Artstor (public collections only)
Artstor’s public collections offer approximately 2 million freely accessible images, videos, documents, and audio files from library special collections, faculty research, and institutional history materials, as well as hundreds of thousands of open access images from partner museums. No login required.
Creative Commons
Creative Commons allows openly licensed and public domain works to be discovered and used by everyone.
Europeana
Europeana provides access to over 50 million digitized items – books, music, artworks and more.
Guggenheim Museum Books
205 books on art from the late 19th century to the present.
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Contains essays, works of art, and chronologies.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online
More than 1.2 million digitized images.
MetPublications
576 titles from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on art history, available to read online or download as PDF.
New York Public Library Digital Collections
Explore over 800,000 items digitized from The New York Public Library's collections. New items are added every day.
NGA Images
NGA Images is a repository of 51,000 digital images of the collections of the National Gallery of Art.
Paris Musées
Paris Musées, a collection of 14 museums in Paris, have made high-res digital copies of 100,000 artworks freely available to the public on their collections website. Artists with works in the archive include Rembrandt, Monet, Picasso, Cézanne, and thousands of others.
Smarthistory
Smarthistory is the official provider of art history for khanacademy.org, and supports AP art history. Its conversational videos and essays cover art and cultural heritage that range from the paleolithic to the present.

Music

Sheet Music Consortium digitized sheet music
The Sheet Music Consortium, hosted at UCLA, is a group of libraries building an open collection of digitized sheet music.

English

OWL (online writing lab) at Purdue
Use this site for grammar, developing an outline, MLA or APA style, creating an annotated bibliography, etc.
Acronym Finder
Find out the meaning of any acronym, abbreviation, or initialism.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
This tenth edition of 1919 contains over 11,000 quotations.
Earth Calendar
A daybook of holidays and celebrations around the world.
Infoplease
This web site provides information on many subjects, such as government, education, health, history, science, business, sports, entertainment, biography and much more. Sources include almanacs, atlas, dictionary, and an encyclopedia (Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th edition).
ProCon
Provides the pros and cons of controversial issues shaping our society. Entries are supported with background information that delves into the issue, with pro and con arguments, verified facts and additional reading.
Thesaurus.com
Find the precise word with over 3 million synonyms and antonyms. Also available as an app, bundled with Dictionary.com.

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Britannica.com
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
The Britannica Concise Encyclopedia has comprehensive coverage on a variety of subjects including, arts, business, geography, history, literature, philosophy, politics, pop culture, science, sports, and more.
The Columbia Encyclopedia
Dictionary.com
Green's Dictionary of Slang
From Jonathon Green and Abecedary Ltd.
The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide

Fact-Checking

Factcheck.org
A nonpartisan, nonprofit "consumer advocate" for voters that monitors the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews and news releases.
PolitiFact
The nonprofit PolitiFact focuses on looking at specific statements made by politicians and rating them for accuracy.
Snopes
Snopes is the oldest and largest fact-checking site online. Check here for urban legends, hoaxes, and folklore.