Scope extends from artists and movements beginning with Impressionism in the late nineteenth century, up to the most recent works and trends in the twenty-first century. Photography is covered from its invention in 1839 to the present. Emphasis is placed on adding new and lesser-known artists and on the coverage of foreign-language literature. Covers painting, printmaking, sculpture, drawing, performance art, installation works, video art, computer and electronic art, body art, graffiti, artists' books, theater arts, crafts, jewelry, illustration.

Covers architecture, architectural design, archeology, furniture and decoration, historic preservation, the history of architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, urban planning.  Holdings: 1930s to the present; selective coverage dating back to the 1860s.

Historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada).

JSTOR specializes in making available the back issues of journals in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines. Issues are available both as images and as text, making searching possible both within each title and across the whole database.

Covers literature, languages, folklore, and linguistics. Includes English and foreign languages.

Index of journals in the humanities and social sciences. The scope is international, including journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western languages.

Provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, metaphysics, logic, and philosophy of mind as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, language and education.