LibGuides: Communication Design: Find a Journal Article

Finding a journal article in a database

The majority of journal articles can be searched through the library’s General Search.

This is a list of key databases to start your research. The complete list of library databases are here.

Bloomsbury Visual Arts This link opens in a new window
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.
Art & Architecture Source This link opens in a new window
- Art & Architecture Source features full-text articles—as well as detailed indexing and abstracts—for an international array of journals, books, podcasts, images and more. Content includes over 640 full-text journals and more than 225 full-text books. Includes: Art Index / Abstracts / Full Text / Retrospective (formerly Wilson Databases) plus Art & Architecture Complete (EBSCO Database).
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.
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.
GreenFILE This link opens in a new window
- GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.
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