Computer Game Art & Design

Covers a broad range of related subjects, from fine, decorative and commercial art, to various areas of architecture and architectural design. Provides full text access to journals and books; an image collection, art reproduction records, and includes periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Spanish and Dutch. Designed for art scholars, artists, designers, students, and general researchers.
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Provides access to various art databases, including Alt-Press Watch, ARTbibliographies Modern, and Design and Applied Arts Index. View a tutorial on this database here.

Includes information for design and crafts, from textiles and ceramics to vehicle design, advertising and sustainability. Covers journal articles, exhibition reviews and news items from 1973 to the present.
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Citations and full-text articles in the area of computing and information technologies from journals, magazines, and conference proceedings published by the ACM.

Includes indexing and abstracts for academic journals, professional publications, and reference sources. Subject areas include Engineering, Computer Theory & Systems, New Technologies, and Social and Professional context. View a tutorial on this database here.

Provides full-text access to all journals, transactions and conference proceedings published by IEEE and IET. Accesses more than 1,000 books in the IEEE-Wiley eBook Library and IEEE-MIT eBook Library-Computing and Engineering Collection.
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Access (searching and browsing) journals and eBooks published by Elsevier and its partners. Covers most disciplines, including science, medicine, economics and the social sciences.
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Provides indexing, abstracting, and some full text for journals and books related to communication and mass media studies back to 1915.
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Covers all aspects and all levels of education. Use this to find information on learning styles, use of games in education, teaching about game design and more.

Access the global research literature in the social sciences. Covers political science, sociology, applied social sciences, criminal justice, and more.

Provides full text and abstracts for several hundred international music periodicals. Includes recent ten years of publication. Covers the spectrum of subjects and all aspects of music, including ethnomusicology, musical theater, theory, popular music forms, composition and more.

Citations from hundreds of international music periodicals from 1970 to present, covering every aspect of classical and popular music; includes book and record reviews. Tutorial for the Music Index database.

Comprehensive bibliography on writings about music featuring citations, abstracts and indexes. It covers nearly one and a half million publications from around the world on traditional music, popular music, jazz, classical music and related subjects. Coverage begins in the early 19th century and extends to the present. Tutorial for the RILM Abstracts of Music Literature database.

Contains over 60,000 professional sound effects for high definition media production. Includes Sonopedia and Hybrid Library. View a tutorial on this database here.

Contains over a million images documenting artistic traditions across many cultures and time periods. Updated frequently, please check back often for updated searches & collections. Note: ARTstor users must create a free account to save and share images. Users must turn off the popup blocker.
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Collects historical and contemporary imagery from Associated Press with a 50 million image print and negative archive including graphics and audio clips.
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