Finding Articles

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ABI Inform - Local and regional coverage of private and small public companies, industry and business news.

Academic Search Premier (EBSCO) - This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for nearly 4,500 journals, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles.

Applied Science Full Text - Includes trade and industrial publications, journals of professional and learned societies, and specialized subject periodicals.

Art Full Text (Wilson) - includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins.  

ARTbibliographies Modern (CSA) - provides full abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art.

Art Retrospective (Wilson) - helps users find contemporary criticism of art at the time of its debut, track the body of work of an artist or movement, and find artist interviews and other commentary.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index (ISI) - a multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities.

Arts and Humanities Citation Index (1975-1994) - ACCESSIBLE ONLY IN UNIVERSITY LIBRARY. Provides citation searching in the fields of art, literature, history.

ARTstor - provides curated collections of art images and associated data for noncommercial and scholarly, non-profit educational use.

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (CSA) - offers a comprehensive listing of journal articles on architecture and design, including bibliographic descriptions on subjects such as the history and practice of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, historic preservation, and interior design and decoration.

Bibliography of the History of Art 1973-Present (SP) - covers the current international literature on the history of art in Europe and the New World, including fine arts and decorative and applied arts.

DAAI: Design and Applied Arts Index (CSA) - includes 500 design and craft journals and newspapers published from 1973 onwards, and data on over 50,000 designers, craftspeople, studios, workshops, firms etc.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - Open access journals in engineering and technology, including electrical and nuclear engineering; environmental engineering; civil engineering; mechanical engineering; general technology.

Dissertations & Theses (Proquest) - Doctoral dissertations and master´s theses are a vital fund of scholarship for any discipline.

Grove Art Online - provides web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art with quarterly additions of new material and updates to the text, plus extensive image links.

Herron Image Library - A project of IUPUI´s Herron Library and IUPUI University Library.

Humanities International Index (EBSCO) - a comprehensive database covering journals, books and other important reference sources in the humanities.

IEEE Xplore Portal  - provides full text access to the world's highest quality technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics.

International Repertory of the Literature of Art (SP) - includes abstracts and indexes on all aspects of European and American art and architecture.

Journal Citation Reports - includes citation data from over 7,500 scholarly and technical journals including the most frequently cited journals in a field, the highest impact journals in a field, and the largest journals in a field.

Perseus Digital Library - an evolving digital library, engineering interactions through time, space, and language.

RDS Business Reference Suite - highly focused full-text coverage of company and industry news, management practices, and market research information.

Repertoire d'Art et d'Archeolgie (SP) - includes abstracts and indexes on all aspects of European and American art and architecture.

Finding Books & Media

Digital Image Databases

Chris Witcombe's Art History Resources on the Web
Sweet Briar College, VA

The New York Public Library, Digital Library Collection, NYC

University of California, Berkeley: Architectural Visual Resources Library - SPIRO Database, Berkeley, CA

Engineering & Technology books are generally found on the fourth floor from call numbers T-TS.

Online Catalogs

IUCAT - Indiana University's online catalog.

Purdue Catalog -Purdue University's online catalog. 

E-Books

ENGnetBASE - provides all fields of engineering with access to formulas, updated codes, and late-breaking developments that are shaping the field.

NetLibrary - provides access to the library's e-book collection.

Books24x7 - Books24x7.com contains hundreds of "best-of-breed" books from the world's top publishers such as MIT Press, Microsoft Press, Osborne/McGraw-Hill, Que, Sams, Sybex and Wiley. New books are constantly added.

ebrary - Discover over 20,000 full-text books in multiple academic and general interest subject areas, sheet music titles and reports.

Springer E-Books - Access to over 12,000 titles in the subject areas of science, technolody, mathematics, medicine, and nursing.  NOTE: If book is available to IUPUI users, the box to the right of the title will be in green.

E-Book "Meta" Search -- to simultaneously search University Library's ebook collections. Enter IUCAT. From the home search page, under More IUCAT Searches, select "E-book Search (Beta)".

Dissertations

Dissertations & Theses - Doctoral dissertations and master's theses are a vital fund of scholarship for any discipline. The massive body of work available through ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) represents the most comprehensive source of academic research in the world.

Reference Materials

ENGnetBASE - provides all fields of engineering with access to essential formulas, updated codes, and late-breaking developments that are shaping the field.

Gale Virtual Reference Library - a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

Oxford Reference Online - consists of a wealth of facts, figures, definitions, and translations found in dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.

Credo Reference (formerly Xreferplus) - Searches over 275 reference works from some 57 publishers.

Writing Guidelines for Engineering and Science Students - offers models, exercises, and advice for many documents encountered in the engineering and science professions. 

Organizations & Associations

AIA: The American Institute of Architects - Browse through the AIA Library or Bookstore and search for jobs at the Career Center.

ASID: American Society of Interior Designers - Post questions and ideas on forums. Read ASID news. Check out the Student section of the site for news, information, and tips. Search for a job or an internship.

FFDI: Foundation for Design Integrity - A professional group devoted to protecting the original design rights. Look here for laws regarding original designs.

IDEC: Interior Design Education Research - Learn about Green Design. Search bibliographies (members only). Find a list of graduate school programs. Read the IDEC newsletter. Search for jobs from the positions announcement list.Access the Journal of Interior Design online.

NAE: National Academy of Engineering - The mission of the NAE is to promote the technological welfare of the nation by marshaling the knowledge and insights of eminent members of the engineering profession.

NCIDQ: National Council for Interior Design Qualification  - Find information on the NCIDQ Examination, a requirement of ID licensing statutes.

National Trust for Historic Preservation (US)

RIBA: Royal Institute of British Architects, Library - Search the RIBA library for resources.

SAH: Society of Architectural Historians

Web Resources

Chris Witcombe's Art History Resources on the Web Sweet Briar College, VA (digital image database)

ArchNet - an international online community for architects, planners, urban designers, landscape architects, conservationists, and scholars, with a focus on Muslim cultures and civilizations.

ASID Resource Center - a portal from the American Society of Interior Designers for news, research, and websites.

iCivilEngineer - collects and catalogs Internet resources relevant to civil engineering; site includes news, a web directory, and career resources.

Informe Design - brings research and practice aspects of the design professions together, noting that designers of the built environment face a multitude of complex challenges: resource, social, environmental, behavioral, and design in nature.

Interior Designer Directory - a thorough directory of interior designers, listed by state.

National Gallery of Art Slide Library - The National Gallery of Art Library is a major national art research center located in Washington, DC. 

PhotoGraphicLibraries - provides visual resources such as stock images, fashion images, archive collections of historic and social importance, clip art collections and illustrations, moving images and motion picture archives, fine art, historic world maps, manuscripts, and atlases.

Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum - Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution is the only museum in the nation devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design, and the website provides digital images of much of the museum collection.

MOMA: Museum of Modern Art - The MOMA website provides digital images of the museum's collections.

Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library: an American Country Estate - Winterthur, an American country estate, is the former home of Henry Francis du Pont (1880-1969), an avid antiques collector and horticulturist. In the early 20th century, H. F. du Pont and his father, Henry Algernon du Pont, designed Winterthur in the spirit of 18th- and19th-century European country houses. The website includes links to resources on antiques, landscape design and more.

The Art Intstitute of Chicago - the museum website includes an extensive digital collection.

The New York Public Library, Digital Library Collection, NYC (digital image database)

University of California, Berkeley: Architectural Visual Resources Library - SPIRO Database, Berkeley, CA (digital image database)

Women in Engineering Proactive Network - Over 600 information resources are available at the Women in Engineering Proactive Network's online knowledge center. 

Open Access Resources

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - Open access journals in engineering and technology, including electrical and nuclear engineering; environmental engineering; civil engineering; mechanical engineering; general technology.

DSpace - MIT's digital research materials including conference papers, images, peer-reviewed scholarly articles, preprints, technical reports, theses, working papers, and more.

IEEE Global History Network - fosters the creation of narratives that not only document the history of engineering practice but also explain when, how and why these myriad of technologies developed as they did.

Patent Lens - a worldwide, open-access, free full-text patent informatics resource.  It serves as the cyberinfrastructure platform for the Initiative for Open Innovation (IOI).

Scientific Commons - a communication medium for scientific knowledge products that are freely accessible to the public.