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ARTC 4316: Book Design: Databases & Articles

A research course guide to library resources for Book Design students.

Reference Databases

Streaming Video & Image Databases

We also have Image & Streaming Media Databases.

These inculde Anthropolgy and Medicine films. 

Image Databases

Understanding a Journal Citation

You'll see something like this:

It's important to know the parts of a citation so you can interpret it correctly. You must have at least the Journal name, volume, issue, and page number to be able to locate the article.

Suggested Art & Design Databases for Finding Articles & Images

Start Your Research tool It searches multiple databases for articles and the library catalog for books and other materials. This tool can be good if your topic is cross-disciplinary and you are looking for different types of materials.

Start Your Research search box

Art and Design Databases

These resources can be found on the Library Home Page through the Databases link and then under the Art & Design. Most of these are for finding articles. Also refer to the Library's Image Collections resources. If you are not in the library you will be prompted for your Texas State username and password. Use the Images tab on this guide for more about finding images.

Anthropology Databases

You may want to check the library's anthropology databases too. Here are a couple that might be useful. The second one is citations to articles only. You can use the periodical list to search and see if we have the journal the article appears in if you think it is something you need for your research. 

Check out Primary Source Databases for articles and other materials such as photographs, paintings, etc. from the time period of the art you are researching. 

You could also check out our newspaper databases, especially the historical ones, for good resources on art. Newspaper articles from the time period of the work of art can be considered a primary source material.

Other Databases

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