Art and Design Research Guide   Tags: ad, art, art and design, design  

"ARTstor is a digital library of approximately 550,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes."- from publisher. Downloading images requires you to create a free personal account while logged in on campus.

"Journal article citations and article references."

"The Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI) contains over 130,000 annotated references from more than 500 design and craft journals and newspapers published from 1973 onwards, and data on over 50,000 designers, craftspeople, studios, workshops, firms etc...

OCLC's Catalog of Art Museum Images Online — is a growing online collection documenting works of art from around the world, representing the collections of prominent museums.

Art & Architecture Complete provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 630 academic journals, magazines and trade publications with full text for over 240 periodicals and 140 books, as well as selective coverage for over 50 publications.

"Academic Search Premier, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications.

"Covers the research and development spectrum of the computing and applied sciences disciplines. CASC provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,800 academic journals, professional publications, and other reference sources from a diverse collection.

"Identifies articles from publications in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture. Over 16,000 publications are indexed." Uses the FirstSearch interface.

"Journal article citations and article references."

The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals database offers a comprehensive listing of journal articles on architecture and design.

The Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) is the world's most comprehensive bibliography of scholarly writing about the history of western art.

"A bibliographic database with more than 5 million in-print, out-of-print, forthcoming, book,audio book, and video titles."

"Provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media.

"Covers the research and development spectrum of the computing and applied sciences disciplines. CASC provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,800 academic journals, professional publications, and other reference sources from a diverse collection.

This database has Ph.D. dissertations and Master's theses produced by Southern Illinois University Carbondale students. Full text PDFs are included when available.

"EBSCOhost is a powerful online reference system accessible via the Internet. It offers a variety of proprietary full text databases and popular databases from leading information providers.

"Indexes and abstracts articles from more than 680 periodicals and yearbooks, with indexing back to 1983 and abstracts back to 1994. Books on education published after 1995 are also indexed.

"Environment Index provides abstract/index information for over 1000 titles in the area of environmental policy and studies. Over 500 titles have ongoing coverage. The product has an Environment thesaurus that will assist users in research."

"The best index for searching the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) database.

"ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), is an information system sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education that collects, creates, and distributes the U.S. national bibliographic database and full text.

"ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), is an information system sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education that collects, creates, and distributes the U.S. national bibliographic database.

"Several subjects, searchable one-by-one or in combination, some full-text."

"Google Scholar enables you to search for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research."

"A comprehensive online reference resource for all aspects of the visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the present day.

"Provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world.

"Contains full text of 140 clinical medical and nursing journals."

"A database of full text non-current scholarly journals."

"LexisNexis Academic provides searchable access to a comprehensive spectrum of full-text information from over 5,600 sources, selected to meet academic research needs.

A vast "Index of Indexes", and is the largest resource for historical research prior to 1925. Brings together over 60 subject indexes to periodicals, newspapers, books, US Congressional record, US and UK Government documents, and US Patents.

OmnFile Full Text Select is a multidisciplinary database providing full text with every entry from more than 1,600 publications.

Ovid is an interface for searching library databases. In Ovid, it is possible to search several databases at once. At Morris Library, Ovid provides access to several economics, education, and psychology databases.

A vast "Index of Indexes", and is the largest resource for historical research prior to 1925. Brings together over 60 subject indexes to periodicals, newspapers, books, US Congressional record, US and UK Government documents, and US Patents.

PsycINFO is an electronic bibliographic database that provides citations with abstracts to the scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences. The database includes material of relevance to psychologists, students, and

Contains 30,000 digital images of paintings, sculpture and architecture, including images from many important collections.

A multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the social sciences. SSCI covers 1,700 journals spanning 60 disciplines. Part of Web of Science, the electronic coverage began in 1986 on CD-ROM ( available on a dedicated computer in Morris library).

ISI Web of Knowledge, an integrated Web-based platform, provides high-quality content and the tools to access, analyze, and manage research information.

Worldwide union catalog created and maintained collectively by more than 9,000 member institutions. If you find a resource in WorldCat, check in I-Share to see if Morris Library owns a copy. If not, try Interlibrary Loan.