Digital design
Digital design crosses a number of disciplines so you may use databases that focus on qa number of subejcts including art & design as well as technology and computing.
Below are some that should be useful to your research but you can also use the the more general databases suggested in the journals section.
Digital Design databases:
- ACM Digital Library – the digital library of the Association of Computing Machinery includes journals, trade magazines, conference proceedings and e-books from 1985 onwards. There are also videos and demonstrations useful to students involved in design and programming projects.
- Art, Design & Architecture Collection – A useful tool for any visual and applied arts research. Includes cross-searchable databases with full-text from hundreds of journals. Coverage from 1973-current.
- DAAI: Design & Applied Arts Index This link opens in a new window– key bibliographic database for architecture, design and craft. Includes citations for journal articles, news items and reviews (part of Arts Premium Collection).
- IEEE Xplore– database of journal articles, ebooks, conference proceedings and selected standards for use in the fields of technology and physics. This video tutorial will help you get started on using this database to find journal articles, reports, conference proceedings and more.
- IET Research Hub – open access collection of 43 IET journals from 2013 onwards
- SPIE Digital Library – The largest collection of optics and photonics applied research, providing full-text access to technical papers from SPIE journals and conference proceedings from 1962 onwards.
Image databases:
- Artstor Digital Library Multidisciplinary digital image collection
- Digital Arts Online comprehensive coverage of the art of graphic design, 3D animation, video, effects, web and interactive design
- Europeana Collections artworks, artefacts, books, videos and sounds from across Europe
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Lürzer’s Archive advertising archive with searchable media from commercials and print campaigns.
- Wellcome Collection resources from the Wellcome collection, including digitised image collections
- VADS – Visual Arts Data Service online resource for visual arts
Some of your assignments will consist of projects and breifs that need to consider different customers or approaches. youmight find some of the following resources useful for these:
Market Intelligence & Case studies:
You can use the search box to search for a specific industy such as ‘video games’ or ‘graphic design’ to pull an industry report which includes key companies in that field.
Case studies focus on a specific business or industry and allow you to learn about real-world organisational structures and issues. Find out more about case studies on the KBS Library Resources Guide
Background material:
The follwing databses may include informtion across other disciplines that may have relevance to your spefcici project.
- PubMed – index of biomedical and life sciences literature useful for medical based projects and bioengineering.
- International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) -index of social sciences literature useful for considering different social topics in your projects
- British Education Index covering all aspects of education from preschool to higher education
Other resources of interest: