Databases for Design
Best Bets
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| Design and Applied Arts Index |
Covers journal articles, exhibition reviews and news items. |
1973-present |
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| Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals |
The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals offers a comprehensive listing of journal articles on architecture and design, surveying over seven hundred American and international journals |
1934-present |
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| InformeDesign |
InformeDesign "research summaries" are transformed from articles in refereed journals that address issues related to design and the built environment |
2005-present |
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| BuildingGreen.com |
BuildingGreen provides access to the GreenSpec directory of more than 2,000 green building products, over 275 case studies from the High Performance Buildings database, a monthly print copy of Envi |
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Also Useful
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| Academic OneFile |
Contains more than 11,000 academic jounals, the majority in full text and peer-reviewed, and podcasts and transcripts from major news sources. |
1980-present |
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| Academic Search Complete |
Provides full text for over 8,500 magazines and journals, and indexing for 4,100 more titles. |
1980-present |
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| Applied Science and Technology Full Text |
Provides indexing to over 600 International English-language science and technology magazines and journals. Over 115 journals in full text. |
Indexing: 1983-present | Full text: 1997-present |
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| Art and Architecture Complete |
Art and Architecture Complete provides full-text coverage of 380 periodicals and more than 220 books. |
1937-present |
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| Art Full Text |
Art Abstracts indexes over 400 English and foreign-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins. Includes nearly 120 titles in full text. |
1984-present |
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| Art Index Retrospective |
Covering content for more than 55 years of art journalism, this retrospective resource includes articles, interviews, reviews and much more from over 600 publications. |
1929-1984 |
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| Arts and Humanities Citation Index |
Provides indexing for 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, and it indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals. |
1975-present |
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| ARTstor Digital Library |
The collection currently contains over one million images, including the following collections: |
Prehistory to the present |
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| Berg Fashion Library |
The Berg Fashion Library offers fully cross-searchable access to a range of Berg content collections – including the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion online, e-books, |
1600-present |
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| GreenFILE |
Scholarly and general interest journals, as well as government documents and reports. |
1970s-present |
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Even More
| Database | Description | Coverage | More Info |
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| Business Source Complete |
Provides full text access for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. |
1886-present |
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| Environment Complete |
Contains citations from more than 1,500 domestic and international titles going back to the 1940s (including 1,094 active core titles) as well as more than 100 monographs. |
1940s-present |
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| JSTOR |
JSTOR specializes in making available the back issues of academic journals (over 1,000) in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines. |
Coverage is the beginning of the journal until two to five years ago. |
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| WorldCat |
Contains over 50 million records cataloged by OCLC member libraries throughout the world: Appalachian State University Library is a member (OCLC member code=NJB). |
1000 BC-present |
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