The following databases are newly acquired or being evaluated for a future subscription.
A comprehensive and definitive resource for artists’ biographies, published since 1911, which includes 149,000 biographies as well as auction records, exhibition histories, and over 11,000 images of artists’ signatures and stamps of sale. Access is immediately granted if users are on campus within our IP range. Please log in to institutional access if off campus.
Comics Plus is a digital platform offering thousands of digital comics, graphic novels, and manga to readers, exclusively through school, public, and academic libraries.
The most frequently-used databases
Jannes Library at the Kansas City Art Institute provides multiple digital image collections for limited educational and/or non-commercial use. Collections include the Ceramics Student Archive, KCAI Publications, and the Beaux Arts Photo Archive.
Combined search tool (many of our article and ebook databases + the Locate Catalog).
This online catalog is a great way to search for what items we have on site here in Jannes Library. Locate call numbers for books and other items to pull from our shelves!
Use this online catalog to search for books that can be borrowed from other Mobius Libraries. KCAI belongs to Mobius, a consortium of libraries in Missouri and other states that have agreed to share library resources. Through Mobius, KCAI students are able to borrow books from most college and university libraries in the Kansas City area, in Missouri, and from many libraries in nearby states.
Guides by Subject
