Library Guides: Cultural Materials Conservation: Reference sources

Reference sources

CAMEO: Conservation & Art Material Encyclopedia Online
CAMEO is a searchable information resource developed by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The Materials database contains chemical, physical, visual, and analytical information on historic and contemporary materials used in the production and conservation of artistic, architectural, archaeological, and anthropological materials.
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Arts Terms
This dictionary covers a wide range of terms from the visual art world, including materials, techniques, and important styles and periods.
Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
This dictionary contains over 2,500 clear and concise entries on styles and movements, materials and techniques, and museums and galleries.
A dictionary of modern and contemporary art
This reference work boasts worldwide coverage of modern and contemporary art from 1900 to the present day. It features A to Z entries on movements, styles, techniques, artists, critics, schools, and galleries. A valuable resource for artists, art students, and art lovers, it gives indication of public collections and publicly sited works as well as suggestions for further reading within entries.

Reaxys (Elsevier)
Reaxys is a web-based search and retrieval system for chemical compounds, bibliographic data and chemical reactions, with chemical data, citations and abstracts as far back as 1823. It is built to support chemists in their daily work with focussed and relevant information in chemistry. Reaxys incorporates three databases, Crossfire Beilstein (organic chemistry), Crossfire Gmelin (inorganic chemistry) and Patent Chemistry, to form a single, fully integrated chemical workflow solution.

Oxford: A Dictionary of Chemistry
Covers all aspects of chemistry and related topics, such as physical chemistry and biochemistry, including recent developments in the field. It is supplemented by graphs, diagrams, and detailed appendices as well as useful web links which are accessible via the companion website.
ChemSpider
"ChemSpider is a free chemical structure database providing fast text and structure search access to over 67 million structures from hundreds of data sources."