LibGuides: Master of Design: Databases

Database Resources

The majority of databases can be searched together through the library’s Quick Search. However, if you are interested in a more limited search you can access the following databases individually.

Please note, when accessing databases from off campus you will need to login using your ECU email user name and password. For the full list of databases the library offers please visit the databases link on the library home page.

Databases

Bloomsbury Design Library This link opens in a new window
- Contains the Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design, World History of Design, coverage of the Encyclopedia of Asian Design, ebooks on design and craft studies, museum image collections, and more!
Library Stack This link opens in a new window
- Library Stack is an eBook lending system, file repository and suite of research and teaching tools for digital publications across contemporary art, graphic design, architecture, philosophy and critical theory. Registering for an account using your ECUAD email address is optional but will provide you with access to more Library Stack resources. Once you have registered, you can log in for full access from on or off the institutional network.
- Protection of Privacy Notice. The Library is providing access to Library Stack to you for your convenience. Please be advised that the personal information you disclose to create a temporary account will be stored on servers outside of Canada. When you use this service, no personal information about you is collected by or for ECUAD. Canadian privacy laws do not apply to personal information you provide directly to Library Stack. To learn more about how your personal data may be used by Library Stack should you create an optional account, please review the Library Stack Privacy Policy
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
- A great place to start your search for both popular and scholarly articles on almost any topic. Provides peer-reviewed journals, full-text periodicals, reports, books, and much more.
Arca: ECUAD's Institutional Repository This link opens in a new window
Use to search previous MDES graduate theses.
Art, Design & Architecture Collection This link opens in a new window
- The Art, Design & Architecture collection includes the specialist indexes ARTbibliographies Modern (covering modern and contemporary art), Design and Applied Arts Index (for all aspects of design and crafts) and the International Bibliography of Art (covering scholarship on Western art history), together with a complementary collection of current full-text journals, Arts and Humanities Full Text.
Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
- This database contains over 1100 full text scholarly journals and business periodicals covering accounting, finance, economics, marketing, management, international business, and other related topics. A widely used business research database, Business Source Premier features full text and searchable cited references for top journals covering a variety of business disciplines.
  Regional Business Coverage
  Regional Business News is a supplemental database for customers of Business Source Premier, provided at no additional charge. With daily updates, Regional Business News provides comprehensive full text for regional U.S. and Canadian business publications including titles from Crain Communications.
Directory of Open Access Journals This link opens in a new window
- Free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals which covers all subjects and many different languages. There are currently 9172 journals in the directory and 6407 journals are searchable at article level.
Taylor & Francis eBooks This link opens in a new window
- A vast collection of eBooks in science, technology, engineering, medicine, humanities and social science.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
- Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
- A searchable, online, full-text archival collection of core scholarly journals and ebooks mainly in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Emily Carr Library subscribes to the following JSTOR Collections: * Arts & Sciences III * Arts & Sciences V
LinkedIn Learning This link opens in a new window
- Featuring online courses in a variety of subjects to help you build skills for the workplace, the classroom, etc.

MATREC Sustainable Materials & Trends

MATREC is a company specializing in consulting on sustainable materials and products, trends, market scenarios, and eco-friendly product innovation. Today MATREC cooperates with Companies, Research Institutes, Architects and Designers through the provision of a variety of services and the opening of its International Observatory for Innovative Sustainability made up of thousands of materials and products, in order to promote the research, design, and development of new socially and environmentally sustainable products.

O'Reilly for Higher Education Online Books

O'Reilly is a digital library providing over 21,000 technology, digital media, business books and video tutorials. Full text of many technical books including those from O'Reilly, Addison-Wesley, Adobe Press, DK, Elsevier, For Dummies, Peachpit, Wiley ...

Project MUSE Standard Collection Journals + eBooks

Academic and peer-reviewed journals and ebooks in the humanities and social sciences from scholarly and university publishers.
The Standard Collection is a subset of about 300 journals of the Premium Collection of over 450 journals.
Open Access content on this platform included. Discover more about the Muse Open Access collection link here

PubMed Central

This is a freely accessible resource for sourcing publications. Full text is available online for some publications, look for the link to Free PMC. Some publishers will provide free access to articles after you register as a guest. Request articles via inter-library loan if full text is not available or ask a librarian for help.

Westar Music and Sound Effects

Music and sound effects are for educational use.
Usage of sounds and music is limited to educational use, local broadcast, and internet.
The purpose of use is for synchronization within a production. Any other use must be licensed separately from Westar www.westarmusic.com Toll Free: 1-866-463-0100