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Art & Graphic Design Research Guide

Welcome to the Art & Graphic Design Research Guide!

We've collected some awesome resources for you to use as you research any topic related to art & graphic design. Follow the tabs on the left-hand side of this guide to get started!

Best Bets for Research

The following databases are great introductory databases that are specific to art & graphic design. Use them to get a jump on your art & graphic design research!

Art Full Text (H. W. Wilson)
Search and read art articles from 1984 to the present.

Full-text articles from an international array of peer-selected publications, as well as page images Coverage of Latin American, Canadian, Asian, and non-Western art.
Full text of articles from more than 270 periodicals as far back as 1997. High-quality indexing and abstracting of over 600 periodicals as far back as 1984, including 260 peer-reviewed journals. Indexing and abstracting of over 18,000 art dissertations.
Substantial coverage of journals indexed by the Bibliographic History of Art
Communication & Mass Media Complete
Search and read communication and mass media articles.

Communication & Mass Media Complete incorporates CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals to create a research and reference resource in the communication and mass media fields. CMMC offers cover-to-cover ("core") indexing and abstracts for over 300 journals, and selected ("priority") coverage of over 100 more, for a combined coverage of over 400 titles. Furthermore, this database includes full text for nearly 200 journals. Many major journals have indexing, abstracts, PDFs and searchable citations from their first issues to the present (dating as far back as 1915). CMMC contains a sophisticated controlled vocabulary and comprehensive reference browsing (i.e. searchable citations for all peer-reviewed journals covered as "core").

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