LibGuides: Master of Design: Recommended Databases

Recommended Databases

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.
Grove Art Online This link opens in a new window
- Includes all aspects of world art from prehistory to the present
- Contains entries on artists, architects, craftsmen, patrons, movements, locations, and periods, as well as bibliographies for further research and thousands of searchable images
- Also provides access to the Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.
- Includes 21,000 biographies, 130,000 fine art images and links to hundreds of museum and gallery web sites around the world.
PubMed Central This link opens in a new window
- PubMed Central (PMC) is a free digital archive of full-text scientific literature in biomedical and life sciences. .MC provides openly available peer-reviewed scientific research. PMC does not include any non peer-reviewed research articles.
- 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.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Multi-disciplinary database of peer-reviewed journals, full-text periodicals, reports, books, and popular periodicals. Subjects covered include humanities, social sciences, arts, medical sciences etc.
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
Project MUSE Standard Collection Journals + eBooks This link opens in a new window
- 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
Taylor & Francis eBooks This link opens in a new window
- A vast collection of eBooks in science, technology, engineering, medicine, humanities and social science.

ACM Digital Library This link opens in a new window
- The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) publishes over 20 technology-related journals and magazines, Special Interest Group (SIG) Newsletters and 50 annual conference proceedings. An important resource for interaction design, VR/AR/XR, machine reading, etc. The database contains bibliographic information, abstracts, reviews, and the full-text for articles published in ACM periodicals and proceedings since its founding in 1947, together with selected works published by affiliated organizations.
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!
Design Research Society Digital Library This link opens in a new window
An archive and library of publications related to the discipline of design research. Coverage goes back to the first DRS conference in 1971, alongside current research, primarily drawn from the DRS biennial conference series.
Internet Archive Software Collection This link opens in a new window
- The Internet Archive Software Collection is the largest vintage and historical software library in the world, providing instant access to millions of programs, CD-ROM images, documentation and multimedia.
  
  The collection includes a broad range of software related materials including shareware, freeware, video news releases about software titles, speed runs of actual software game play, previews and promos for software games, high-score and skill replays of various game genres, and the art of filmmaking with real-time computer game engines.
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
MATREC Sustainable Materials & Trends This link opens in a new window
- 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.
- In 2002 MATREC created the first Eco-Materials Library solely dedicated to recycled materials. The project was also launched with the support of major national recycling consortia – Corepla, Comieco, and Cial. In 2006 MATREC expanded to include recycled materials and natural materials in its data base. Partnerships with companies, Universities, and Research Centers allowed MATREC to take an international reach and build a network for daily collection of information on sustainable materials and products. In 2014 MATREC has become Sustainable Materials & Trends. Leveraging on the network established in time, MATREC has developed into an International Observatory for Sustainable Innovation of materials and products as a supporting consulting service at companies for: research on sustainable and innovative materials, development of new products of high social and environmental value, definition of social and environmental sustainability trends and market scenarios for different product types.

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.
O'Reilly for Higher Education Online Books This link opens in a new window
- 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 ...

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Feature Films at ECU This link opens in a new window
- Feature and documentary films licensed by the ECU Library for research and teaching purposes by current Emily Carr University students, faculty and staff.
Stash Permanent Collection This link opens in a new window
On the landing page, click on "Sign in" to gain access to the Permanent Collection. Disciplines include animation, motion design, motion design, VFX and more. Video types include:
- TV and cinema advertising
- Title and broadcast designs
- Music videos
- Brand films
- Game trailers and cinematics
- Short films
- Behind the scenes features and exclusive interviews
Westar Music and Sound Effects This link opens in a new window
- 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
World Cinema Collection This link opens in a new window
- Includes over 1000 films and series from the silent era, groundbreaking international directors, masterpieces from the mid-20th century, and contemporary films from around the world, including Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, and North America.