{"id":16,"date":"2020-09-10T14:37:35","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T13:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/eda-library-guide\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2024-10-21T12:55:43","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T11:55:43","slug":"digital-arts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/eda-library-guide\/databases\/digital-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Digital design crosses a number of disciplines so you may use databases that focus on qa number of subejcts including art &amp; design as well as technology and computing.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<h4>Digital Design databases:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/library-it\/your-digital-library\/digital-resources-directory\/7\/acm\">ACM Digital Library<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/chain.kent.ac.uk\/login?url=https:\/\/dlnext.acm.org\"> \u2013<\/a> the digital library of\u00a0 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.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/library-it\/your-digital-library\/digital-resources-directory\/365\/art-design-architecture-collection\">Art, Design &amp; Architecture Collection<\/a> &#8211; 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.<\/li>\n<li id=\"page-title\" class=\"article__title\"><a style=\"background-color: #ffffff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/library-it\/your-digital-library\/digital-resources-directory\/30\/arts-premium\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DAAI: Design &amp; Applied Arts Index<\/a>\u00a0<i class=\"fa fa-fw fa-external-link\" title=\"This link opens in a new window\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><span class=\"sr-only\">This link opens in a new window<\/span>&#8211;\u00a0 key bibliographic database for architecture, design and craft. Includes citations for journal articles, news items and reviews (part of Arts Premium Collection).<\/li>\n<li><a style=\"background-color: #ffffff\" href=\"http:\/\/chain.kent.ac.uk\/login?url=http:\/\/www.ieee.org\/ieeexplore\">IEEE Xplore<\/a>\u2013 database of journal articles, ebooks, conference proceedings and selected standards for use in the fields of technology and physics. This <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/Xplorehelp\/tutorials\/Basic_Search.mp4\">video tutorial<\/a> <\/strong>will help you get started on using this database to find journal articles, reports, conference proceedings and more.<\/li>\n<li id=\"page-title\" class=\"article__title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/\">IET Research Hub &#8211;\u00a0<\/a>open access collection of 43 IET journals from 2013 onwards<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chain.kent.ac.uk\/login?url=https:\/\/www.spiedigitallibrary.org\">SPIE Digital Library<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Image databases:<\/h4>\n<div class=\"panel panel--content panel--heading\">\n<div class=\"panel__body\">\n<ul>\n<li id=\"page-title\" class=\"article__title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/library-it\/your-digital-library\/digital-resources-directory\/33\/artstor-digital-library\">Artstor Digital Library \u00a0<\/a>Multidisciplinary digital image collection<\/li>\n<li class=\"article__title\"><a style=\"background-color: #ffffff;font-size: 14px\" href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalartsonline.co.uk\/\">Digital Arts Online<\/a> comprehensive coverage of the art of graphic design, 3D animation, video, effects, web and interactive design<\/li>\n<li class=\"article__title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.europeana.eu\/portal\/en\">Europeana Collections <\/a>\u00a0artworks, artefacts, books, videos and sounds from across Europe<\/li>\n<li class=\"\">\n<div id=\"s-lg-content-15024115\" class=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.luerzersarchive.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">L\u00fcrzer&#8217;s Archive<\/a> advertising archive with searchable media from commercials and print campaigns.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"article__title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wellcomecollection.org\/explore\">Wellcome Collection <\/a>\u00a0resources from the Wellcome collection, including digitised image collections<\/li>\n<li class=\"article__title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vads.ac.uk\/\">VADS &#8211; Visual Arts Data Service <\/a>online resource for visual arts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some of your assignments will consist of projects and breifs that\u00a0 need to consider different customers or approaches. youmight find some of the following resources useful for these:<\/p>\n<h4>Market Intelligence &amp; Case studies:<\/h4>\n<div><b><a id=\"LPlnk423871\" title=\"Original URL: https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/library-it\/your-digital-library\/digital-resources-directory\/141\/ibisworld. Click or tap if you trust this link.\" href=\"https:\/\/eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kent.ac.uk%2Flibrary-it%2Fyour-digital-library%2Fdigital-resources-directory%2F141%2Fibisworld&amp;data=05%7C02%7CS.L.Field%40kent.ac.uk%7C4bd9ecbf9d59458ac4b808dcef7c086f%7C51a9fa563f32449aa7213e3f49aa5e9a%7C0%7C0%7C638648563209283800%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=mFN0NCMNdOQEE9sYy6HsbIomIDL4%2BOi%2BnxCnCZo61lY%3D&amp;reserved=0\" data-auth=\"Verified\" data-linkindex=\"0\">Ibisworld<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<div>You can use the search box to search for a specific industy such as &#8216;video games&#8217; or &#8216;graphic design&#8217; to pull an industry report which includes key companies in that field.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/library-it\/your-digital-library\/digital-resources-directory\/293\/statista\">Statista<\/a><\/strong><span data-contrast=\"none\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Statistics and data set from many fields and sources including industry reports<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Case studies <span data-contrast=\"auto\">focus on a specific business or industry and allow you to learn about real-world organisational structures and issues.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:1,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:315}\">\u00a0<\/span>Find out more about case studies on the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-library-guide\/business-case-studies\/\">KBS Library Resources Guide<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<h4>Background material:<\/h4>\n<p>The follwing databses may include informtion across other disciplines that may have relevance to your spefcici project.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/?otool=iukistllib\"><strong>PubMed<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/a>index of biomedical and life sciences literature useful for medical based projects and bioengineering.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/library-it\/your-digital-library\/digital-resources-directory\/152\/international-bibliography-of-the-social-sciences-ibss\">International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)<\/a><\/strong> -index of social sciences literature useful for considering different social topics in your projects<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/chain.kent.ac.uk\/login?url=http:\/\/search.ebscohost.com\/login.aspx?authtype=ip&amp;profile=ehost&amp;defaultdb=bri\">British Education Index<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>covering all aspects of education from preschool to higher education<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"panel__body\">\n<p><span style=\"color: inherit;font-family: inherit;font-size: 18px\">Other resources of interest:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"showHideContent hideContent\">\n<div class=\"showHideContent hideContent\">\n<div id=\"s-lg-content-15024162\" class=\"\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/materialdistrict.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Material District <\/a>searchable database of innovative building materials.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UAL Research Online<\/a> open access, online collection of scholarly research produced at University of the Arts London<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/library-it\/your-digital-library\/digital-resources-directory?subject=Engineering\">digital resources directory<\/a>\u00a0to find others that might be useful to your studies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<ul id=\"s-lg-link-list-35624585\" class=\"s-lg-link-list s-lg-link-list-10\"><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital design crosses a number of disciplines so you may use databases that focus on qa number of subejcts including art &amp; 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