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Graphic Design Research Guide

A research guide for students studying graphic design.

Databases

  • ARTSTOR: An image repository of art, architecture and design sourced from museums, libraries, archives, and photographers.
  • JSTOR: Primary Source Collection Access to over 141,000 primary sources in three JSTOR collections. 
  • EBSCO Art Index Retrospective: Provides users access to over half a century of art literature covering fine, decorative, and commercial art. Content includes high-quality indexing of nearly 600 publications, many of which are peer-reviewed, and citations of over 25,000 book reviews. 
  • Gale OneFile - Fine Arts and Music Collection: Search millions of articles about drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. 
  • Library of Congress' Smithsonian 3-D Digitization: 3-D images of skeletons, artwork, objects, costumes, instruments, museum exhibits, and museum collections. 
  • Pulp Magazines Project: An open-access digital archive dedicated to the study and presentation of one of the twentieth century's most influential literary and artistic forms: the all-fiction pulpwood magazine. 
  • Gale Academic OneFile: Provides articles from a database of scholarly journals and other trusted periodicals in a variety of different subject areas. Best for academic research. 
  • Gale Academic OneFile: Science: Access information on the latest developments across a range of scientific disciplines. 
  • ProQuest Central Databases: Search all of ProQuest's eight databases at once. 
  • Academic Search Premier: This multi-disciplinary database provides active full text for more than 3,100 journals, including active full text for nearly 2,750 peer-reviewed journals
  • Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): An index of nearly 20,000 diverse open access journals from around the world in 80 languages. 
  • Gale OneFile Information Science: Access articles covering all aspects of managing and maintaining information technology.
  • Open Access E-Books: Provides a common platform for publishing the latest scientific work and acquiring knowledge on the latest scientific happenings in different areas of science, technology, and medicine. 

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