VADS
Over 140,000 images from over 300 art and design collections in the UK, free for use in education.
Digital Art Museum (DAM)
Online resource for the history and practice of digital art. Features selected artworks, biographies, and texts of the most influential artists in the history of digital art from the 1960s to now, alongside chronologies of events…
National Art Library
The National Art Library at V&A South Kensington holds the UK’s most comprehensive public reference collection of literature on the fine and decorative arts, including books, journals, exhibition catalogues, auction house sales catalogues, comics, and e resources.
OF Open-Frames
Open Frames is an archive for performance based work, addressed to the public with the invitation to publish personal work.
Wellcome Library
The Wellcome Library, part of the Wellcome Collection, covers thousands of years of health and medicine across different cultures. Collections contain historical and contemporary books, artworks, archives and manuscripts exploring our personal and cultural relationships with health and…
Archive of Virtual Art
The Database of Virtual Art documents the rapidly evolving field of digital installation art. This complex, research oriented overview of immersive, interactive, telematic and genetic art has been developed in cooperation with established media artists, researchers…
Asia Art Archive
Collections of material on the recent history of art from Asia, available from their website and onsite library, located in Hong Kong.
Oxford Art Online
Oxford Art Online offers access to art reference works: the scholarly art encyclopedia Grove Dictionary of Art; and the Benezit Dictionary of Artists, about the sale and collection of artists’ work and artists’ biographies. Also search Oxford…
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
The Paul Mellon Centre is an educational charity established to promote and support the study of British history of art and architecture. The Centre’s activities include hosting lectures and conferences, awarding fellowships…
Bodleian Library
Locations throughout Oxford. Site for the main research library of Oxford University, including information about all the Bodleian collections with online access to some indexes and catalogues.
British Library National Sound Archive
Holds over one million discs and 175,000 tape items, as well as a growing number of specialist videos. Anyone can search or browse the information on this site but for copyright reasons, only people in…
British Library Newspaper Library
The national collection of British and overseas newspapers.
Tate Research
Research at Tate covers art history, conservation and conservation science, collection management, education and museology, as well as a variety of research methods and outputs. Projects often bring together specialists through interdisciplinary collaborations and partnerships with organisations such…
British Library Online Images
Access images from the British Library’s collections.
The Bridgeman Art Library
A central source of fine art images for reproduction.
City of London Libraries
Database of all public libraries in the City of London.
http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/services/libraries-and-archives/Pages/default.aspx
The British Cartoon Archive
Holds 80,000 original cartoon drawings by British 20th century artists published in the press. It also has a non lending reference library, a photo library and an on line database with 37,000 digitised images
The National Archives
Visit to see original documents or records, or search online. Entrance is free and there is no need to book. The documents number many millions, ranging in date from the Norman Conquest to the present day.