Design
| This is a guide to finding selected Design resources. For in-depth assistance, please contact the subject specialist, or Ask a Librarian. |  | Subject Specialist: Christine McClure email: cmcclur1@iit.edu phone: 312.567.3374 |
Use these resources to find journal articles, e-books, conference proceedings, book reviews, and more.
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ACM Digital Library - Association for Computing Machinery
The Association for Computing Machinery Digital Library is an online repository of papers from publications that have been published, co-published, or co-marketed by the ACM, including journals, newsletters, and conference proceedings. All computing subject areas are covered.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
"Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals, published by the Getty Research Institute, is the only comprehensive American guide to the current literature of architecture and design. Avery's editorial office is at Columbia University, New York, NY. This database surveys more than 2,500 US and foreign journals. The index covers international, scholarly and popular periodical literature, including publications of professional associations; US state and regional periodicals; and major serial publications in the architecture and design of Europe, Asia, Latin America and Australia. In addition, this database also provides nearly 13,000 citation records for architects' obituaries."
Business Source Premier
Business Source Premier, is the industry's most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. Full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Business Source Premier contains full text from the world's top management and marketing journals. The database also includes other sources of full text information such as country economic reports from the EIU, Global Insight, ICON Group and CountryWatch and detailed company profiles for the world's 10,000 largest companies. Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.
JSTOR
JSTOR (Journal STORage) is an archive of important scholarly journals in a variety of subject related to the humanities, physical sciences, and social sciences. Articles are scanned and viewable as exact duplicates from the original copy of the journal. JSTOR is not the place to search for the most current research, but overall is an excellent multidisciplinary database containing articles from many essential peer-reviewed sources. Subjects covered include Anthropology, Architecture, Biology, Business, Economics, Education, History, Language & Literature, Law, Mathematics, Performing Arts, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Public Policy & Administration, Religion, Sociology, and Statistics.
LexisNexis Academic Universe
LexisNexis provides full-text documents from over 5,900 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications including national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources; U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews, and international legal information; Shepard's Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789; Business news journals, company financial information, SEC filings and reports, and industry and market news. Price information on chemicals and other materials can be found in the "Industry and Market News" section.
MarketResearch.com Academic
Provides market intelligence on consumer demographics, market size and growth trends, industry forces and structure, product trends, competitive environment analysis, and company profiles.
PsycINFO
This database is the authoritative source for scholarly literature in the behavioral sciences and mental health. Produced by the American Psychological Association, PsycINFO covers all aspects of psychology and includes material of relevance to psychologists and professionals in related fields such as psychiatry, management, business, education, social science, neuroscience, law, medicine, and social work. Major subject areas covered include Addiction, Adolescence, AIDS, Alcoholism, Anthropology, Clinical Psychiatry, Criminal Justice, Family Therapy, Geriatrics, Hypnotherapy, Learning Disabilities, Physiology, Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, Public Health, Sex Research, and Speech.
Saskia Art Images Collection
"Saskia Art Images Collection contains 30,000 digital images of paintings, sculpture and architecture, including images from many important collections: the Prado, the Kunsthistorisches Museum, the Uffizi, and the Louvre as well as archaeological sites in Greece, Italy, Turkey and Egypt. The images can be displayed and downloaded in high-resolution format. Additionally, the descriptive data about the images includes references to the occurrences of these images in 19 major art history texts, including Gardner's Art Through the Ages, 12th edition; Understanding Art, 7th edition; Art and Ideas, 10th edition; Discovering Art History, 4th edition. "
Stat-USA
Access federal business, trade and economic information made available through the U.S. Department of Commerce. One of several features includes access to a repository of economic indicators on topics such as employment, wholesale and retail prices, monetary and housing trends, gross domestic product, etc.
Note: Available only at the Galvin Library. Please see a librarian at the Reference Desk for username and password.
USA Trade Online
The Foreign Trade Division of the U.S. Census Bureau and STAT-USA compile accurate and timely U.S. Merchandise Trade data, providing export and import information on more than 18,000 commodities worldwide.
Note: Available only at the Galvin Library. Please see a librarian at the Reference Desk for username and password.
