LibGuides: AR 367-01/H1: African American Art: Articles

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Databases for Art and Art History Articles

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window General database recommended for finding scholarly articles in most disciplines.
ARAS This link opens in a new window The Archive consists of photographs and reproductions of works of art, ritual images, and artifacts that depict archetypal images as defined by Carl G. Jung. Images date from the Paleolithic period to the present, and Prehistoric, Ancient Near Eastern, Egyptian, Greco-Roman, Christian, and Indian traditions are most substantially represented. Photographs from the collections of Jung himself, Dr. Jolande Jacobi, Dr. Erich Neumann, and Dorothy Norman have been added since the Archive's arrival in the U.S. from Zurich. Additional photographs continue to be added.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window Use JSTOR to search scholarly journal articles and images - to search images, click the "images" tab.
Newsstream (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window Full text of U.S. and international news sources. Includes coverage of major U.S. and international newspapers such as The New York Times and the Times of London, plus hundreds of other news sources and newswires.
ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window Scholarly and popular articles on various subjects. 1971+

Databases for Images

ARAS This link opens in a new window The Archive consists of photographs and reproductions of works of art, ritual images, and artifacts that depict archetypal images as defined by Carl G. Jung. Images date from the Paleolithic period to the present, and Prehistoric, Ancient Near Eastern, Egyptian, Greco-Roman, Christian, and Indian traditions are most substantially represented. Photographs from the collections of Jung himself, Dr. Jolande Jacobi, Dr. Erich Neumann, and Dorothy Norman have been added since the Archive's arrival in the U.S. from Zurich. Additional photographs continue to be added.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window Use JSTOR to search images and scholarly journal articles - to search images, click the "images" tab.

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What is AI?

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a fact of life and has been for quite some time. It's only recently that we have seen it incorporated into apps for a mainstream audience. If you've ever used Siri or Alexa or if you've used a chatbot, you've used AI! Below are some FAQs that will help you get a better understanding of how you might use it.

Always ask your instructor about their policy on using AI for class assignments.

Q:What is AI?
A: AI is the use of computers to imitate the behavioral aspects of human reasoning and learning.

Q:What is ChatGPT?
A: ChatGPT is a chatbot and virtual assistant that uses a Large Language Model to sort and organize data and language into a desired length, format, style, level of detail, and language. It relies on input (prompts) from users and training on data and language to mimic human language patterns and generate responses.

Q: What is a Large Language Model?
A: A Large Language Model is a computation structure that is capable of generating language or other natural (everyday) language processing tasks. It is "trained" on massive amounts of data that it can use to predict language patterns in speech and text.

Q: Can I use ChatGPT as a search tool?
A: ChatGPT can generate responses to prompts, but it cannot search the web by itself. It is trained on a specific set of resources within a specific time frame and cannot "find" new resources that it doesn't "know" about. Its purpose is to put words/concepts/data together in specific ways based upon the likelihood that one word will follow another. It's like an autocorrect feature that can sort and organize complete sentences instead of letters! It cannot sort fact from fiction or find a reliable source, and so its responses to prompts may not be accurate.
Note: ChatGPT is now testing SearchGPT, which has web search capability - but it is only in prototype as of July 2024.

Sources:
Roumeliotis, K.I. & Tselikas, N.D. (2023). "ChatGPT and open-AI models: A preliminary review." Future Internet,15(6). https://doi.org/10.3390/fi15060192
Russell, S.J. & Norvig, P. (2021). Artificial intelligence: A modern approach (4th ed.). Hoboken: Pearson.

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