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Getting Started
This guide has been created to help you find sources for Interior Design. Please feel free to browse the guide, or contact me for further assistance!
Databases: Use these databases to find articles.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowMultidisciplinary resource providing articles from peer-reviewed journals. UCO's Collections include Arts & Sciences I-XV, Business IV, Ecology & Botany II, Hebrew Journals, Ireland, Life Sciences, Lives of Literature, 19th Century British Pamphlets, Security Studies, and Sustainability. Archival access only.
How to search JSTOR - Art, Design, and Architecture Collection This link opens in a new window
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Current and comprehensive indexing and some full text for fine art, art history, architecture, design and applied arts. Contains the databases ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM), Arts & Humanities Full Text, Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI), and International Bibliography of Art (IBA). - ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
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Multidisciplinary search across many databases including business, health and medicine, social sciences, education, science and technology, and arts and humanities. - Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new windowMultidisciplinary, general database covering most academic topics.
How to search an EBSCO database
Research Guides by Subject - Project Muse This link opens in a new window
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Multidisciplinary database with special emphasis on social science and the liberal arts.
Reference
Reference works will give you an overview of a subject. Here are some reference databases...Also check out print reference on the 1st floor of the library.
- CREDO This link opens in a new windowMore than 700 subject encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, and reference handbooks, as well as short reference videos, high-resolution art images, photographs and maps across all subject areas.
Library Research Tutorials
Research Basics Guide - Sage: All Reference ResourcesProvides online access to subject encyclopedias on many topics in social science, health, medicine, politics, history, and environmental studies.
