Interior Design Resource Guide: Library Databases

Provides full-text and indexing and abstracting for academic journals, popular magazines, and newspapers in a variety of subject areas. Full-text titles generally begin in the 1990s. Relevant titles include Architectural Review, Design Week, and Interior Design.

Provides full-text coverage of 380 periodicals and more than 220 books dating back to 1937. This database also indexes journals, magazines, trade publications, and books dating back to 1914. Art & Architecture Complete also contains over 63,000 images.

A digital image library founded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation (which created JSTOR) with over 1 million images in fields such as art and architecture. Includes many collections from museums, libraries, artists, and photo archives. Download subject guides as PDF handouts, e.g., in Design, Decorative Arts, and American Studies, or browse by classification, e.g., "Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design," and then limit by country.

Includes Environmental Building News, Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) guidelines - e.g., on furnishings and LEED information, "Green Products," and a case studies database.

Provides full-text and indexing and abstracting for journals in nearly every area of business. Includes titles containing information on commercial aspects of interior design, e.g., Contract, Kitchen & Bath Business, Design Week, Building Design, Architectural Record, Environmental Design and Construction, and Interior Motives.

Article indexing and a bit of full text from both popular and scholarly journals, e.g., Environmental Design & Construction, that include articles on topics such as "sustainable interior design."

JSTOR is a scholarly, archival, full text, multi-disciplinary database with over 160 art and art history journals. Coverage as far back as the 19th century, but the most recent 3-5 years of content may not be available due to publishers' licensing agreements. Contains journals such as Design Issues, Journal of Design History, Design Quarterly, and Art Criticism.

Contains full-text articles on design from journals that are "social science" oriented, as well as from specific design titles, e.g., Indoor and Built Environment, Clothing and Textiles Research Journal, and Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. Coverage from 1999 to the present.