Access by logins and passwords
All you need to gain access to any of our databases is the MassArt ID. Just go to our website, click on the Electronic Databases drop-down menu and choose the database you want to search. You will be asked for your MassArt ID and password, just enter them and you can get begin your research. The MassArt-ID is the login and password for your MassArt email account, if you do not have one please contact Administrative Computing (879-7888) to find out more about the MCA-ID.
If you do not have a MCA-ID we have log-in and password access to some of our databases to allow remote access to these databases when they are available from the database provider. Come to the Reference Desk or Circulation Desk at the MassArt Library to get these log-ins and passwords. If you want to search in one of the state support databases you can also you to their site directly for Remote Access.
- Databases purchased through the MassArt Library
- AMIG Image Library
- ArtBibliographies Modern
- Art Full-Text
- Art Index Retrospective
- ArtStor Image Database - you need to create an account while on-campus and it is good for 3 months off-campus
- Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals- once in just hit Specific Databases below the search box and choose Avery
- Bibliography of the History of Art- once in just hit Specific Databases below the search box and choose BHA
- Corbis Image Database - need to get a subscription code from the Reference or Circ. Desk in the Library to create your acccount.
- DAR : Design Abstracts Retrospective- once in just hit Specific Databases below the search box and choose DAR
- Design & Applied Arts Index - once in just hit Specific Databases below the search box and choose DAAI
- Design Profiles- once in just hit Specific Databases below the search box and choose Design ProFiles
- Grove Dictionary of Art
- JStor - no password available only available remotely by using MCA-ID access
- Lexis Nexis Academic Universe
- Oxford Reference Online - no password available only available remotely by using MCA-ID access
- Databases available through the State Library Commission -
- Biography Resource Center
- Business Index ASAP
- Contemporary Literary Criticism
- Ebsco's Animals
- eLibrary Curriculum
- ERIC - Ebsco
- Expanded Academic ASAP
- Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia - Ebsco
- Gale Academic OneFile
- Gale Virtual Reference Collection
- General BusinessFile ASAP
- General Reference Center Gold
- Health Reference Center Academic
- Health Source - Consumer Edition - Ebsco
- InfoTrac Onefile - Gale
- K-12 Student Databases
- MAS Ultra-School Edition - Ebsco
- MasterFile Premier - Ebsco
- Primary Search - Ebsco
- NetLibrary
- Massachusetts Newsstand
- Newspaper Source - Ebsco
- Professional Collection
- Professional Development Collection - Ebsco
- Science Reference Center - Ebsco
- SIRS Discover
- Topic Search - Ebsco
if the links below don't work try the remote access box at the bottom of the page.
Remote Access for State Databases: Enter here
For any of the state purchased databases you can enter in your library barcode and gain access. Although you can get access through using the proxy server as well.