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Key databases

• EBSCOhost Search all content or select specific databases below:
  1. Academic Search Complete
     A comprehensive scholarly, multidisciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full text periodicals.
  2. Art & Architecture Complete
  3. Art Full Text (H.W.Wilson)
  4. Art Index Retrospective (H.W.Wilson) 1924 - 1984
  5. Business Source Complete
  6. E-Journals
• Informit Search all content or select a specific database below:
  1. APA-FT: Australian Public affairs full text
  2. TV News
  3. Humanities and Social sciences collection
  4. ARCH – Australian Architecture Database
• Acumen Database of Architectural practice
• Design and Applied Arts Index
  An international index to current design and applied arts journals.
• Jstor
• Scopus
  One of the world’s largest abstract and indexing databases offering you access to around 15,000 peer-reviewed titles from more than 4,000 international publishers.

Selected journals

• Design Issues
• The Design Journal
• Design Studies
• Journal of Design Research
  
• Design Quarterly
• CoDesign

Selected ebooks

• How designers think: the design process demistified
• Doing visual research
• SAGE handbook of visual research methods
• Design research through practice: from the lab, field and showroom
• Visual research: an introduction to research methodologies in graphic design

Statistics

• ABS - Australian Bureau of Statistics
• ABS - Statistics
• See the Statistics subject guide for more information.

Industry information

• IBISWorld Industry Market Research Reports
  Australian industry outlook reports showing industry definition, executive summary, major players in the industry, forecasts, outline of the structure of the industry.
• Passport GMID
• Business Source Complete
  Industry Profiles and Market Research Reports.
• See the Industry and market analysis subject guide for more information.

Finding Images

• ARTstor
  Digital library of approximately 550,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences.
• Flickr
• Google Art Project

News and newspapers

• Australia New Zealand Reference Centre (EBSCOhost)
• Factiva
• TV News (Informit)
• See the New and Newspapers subject guide for more information.