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Indexes and Databases

Use indexes and databases to identify relevant articles for your research. The following ones, often useful for designers, are selected from the complete list of databases (See Databases by Name or Databases by Subject on Libraries' homepage.)

• Online sources
• Print or CD-ROM sources available in Carnegie Mellon libraries

Online Sources

• Anthropological Index Online
  
• AP Images

• Applied Science and Technology Abstracts (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  October 1983- (updated monthly). Provides coverage to "more than 350 international, English-language periodicals, covering engineering, mathematics, physics and computer technology."

• Art Abstracts

• Art Index Retrospective, (1929-1984). Indexes articles, book reviews, exhibition reviews, and reproductions of artwork. Notes pictures and reproductions.

• ACM Digital LibraryACM proceedings and articles since 1991.
  
• Design & Applied Arts Index
  
• Dun & Bradstreet's Million Dollar Database
  
• The Grove Dictionary of Art

• Historical Abstracts

• Hoover's Online

• IEEE Xplore

• INSPEC

• LexisNexis Academic

• MEDLINE

• MLA

• Oxford English Dictionary

• post-gazette.com

• PsycINFO (1887-present)

• Readers' Guide Abstracts

• Social Sciences Abstracts

• STAT-USA/Internet

• ProQuest Direct for the Wall Street Journal.

• WorldCat collects the holdings of thousands of libraries worldwide. Find your book at a library in Nebraska and borrow it on Inter-Library Loan.

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Print or CD-ROM Sources

Design & Applied Arts Index. Bodiam: Design Documentation, vol. 1- , 1987- (published twice per year).
HUNT FA-REF INDEX 016.7454 D457 and CD station
Articles, conference and seminar reports, reviews of books, video, films and exhibits, obituary notices and illustrations from approximately 270 international journals are indexed. Covers fields of design including industrial design, vehicle design, architecture, interior design, environmental design, computer aided design, furniture, ceramics, glass, jewelry, metalsmithing, silver and goldsmithing, fashion design, textile design, embroidery, graphic design, typography, illustration, printing, book design, photography, advertising, marketing, retail design, packaging, exhibition design, theater, design, design history, design theory, ergonomics, universal design, design education, and design management.

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