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CCAD Journal Finder

Search CCAD Journal Finder to see if a certain journal, newspaper or magazine is available online for users of the library.

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Students can connect to databases from off campus, choose the Help menu for details.

Information on Research Databases

Academic Search Complete  (a great place to start your research)
Search across subjects; use this database to get started. Magazines and journals on a variety of subjects, includes full text and scholarly journals.

Art Full Text and Retrospective
Indexing, abstracting, and full text coverage of over 1,000 international journals in fine and applied arts, architecture, and design. Wide range of subject coverage: Advertising Art, Antiques, Archaeology, Architecture & Architectural History, Art History, Contemporary Art, Costume, Crafts, Decorative Arts, Folk Art, Graphic Arts, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Motion Pictures, Museology, Non-Western Art, Painting, Photography, Pottery, Sculpture, Television, Textiles, Video.

ArtBibliographies Modern
For comprehensive research on modern and contemporary arts dating from the late 19th century onward. Provides citations and abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews.

Business Source Complete
Provides full text journals in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Additional full text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more.

Cinema Image Gallery
Online collections of still images from movies, television and the entertainment industry. It presents the history of movie-making, still images of films in production, directors working on-set with the stars, set, costume and production design, as well as, hair and make-up shots and rare behind-the-scenes material. Cinema Image Gallery also offers an extensive TV stills archive, covering comedies, dramas, series, TV movies, game shows, and thousands of pictures of the stars in this medium.

DAAI/Design and Applied Arts Index
Indexing and abstracting coverage of over 500 international design and craft journals, 1973 to present. Covers new designers and the development of design and applied art since mid-19th century. Disciplines include ceramics, glass, jewelry, graphic design, fashion, furniture, architecture, animation, and industrial design.

Designinform
Invaluable resource for research into the history of modern design and the applied arts. It consists of three linked databases:

  • Design Abstracts Retrospective (DAR) — a retrospective journal abstracting and indexing service
  • Design ProFILES — a biographical dictionary of modern designers, craftspeople, artists and architects
  • ReVIEW — digitized, searchable versions of nineteenth and early twentieth century art journals

Film & Television Literature Index with full text
Definitive online tool for film and television research. Subject coverage includes film and television theory, preservation and restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.

JSTOR
JSTOR is an archive of important scholarly journals containing high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. JSTOR is not a current issues database, there is a gap, typically from one to five years, between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available in JSTOR. CCAD Library subscribes to the Arts & Sciences III collection.

Material Connexion
Database of materials and processes covering the fields of architecture, industrial design, interior design, and textiles. Includes over 2,800 materials representing eight categories: carbon-based materials, cement-based materials, ceramics, glass, metals, natural material derivatives, natural materials, and polymers. Provides comprehensive product information, technical specifications, application information, manufacturer profiles, and material images.

OhioLINK Databases
OhioLINK offers more than 140 electronic research databases, including a variety of full-text resources. These databases cover many academic areas at varying levels of detail. Many of the databases are citation indexes.

Oxford Art Online
This major art reference source includes Grove Art Online, the Oxford Companion to Western Art, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. New features include timelines of world art, MOMA lesson plans, and thematic guides.

Worth Global Style Network (WGSN): Creative Intelligence
WGSN defines and shapes winning style and design

  • Accurate trend forecasting
  • CAD design
  • Insightful trend analysis
  • Design and fashion guidance
  • Global fashion expertise
  • Constant information

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