Research Guides: Interactive Media Design: Home

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Kinetic Imaging
Includes information on animation, sound, video and new media.
Graphic Design
Includes information on Motion Graphics.
Careers in Art & Design

Arts Research Librarian

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Subjects: Arts, Performing, Arts, Visual

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This guide provides an overview of tools and basic strategies for conducting library research in
Interactive Media Design including Web & Mobile and Gaming.

O'Reilly for Higher Education

O'Reilly for Higher Education
E-books, videos, live online training, case studies, and interactive learning programs on topics ranging from programming and IT networking to graphic design, project management and business strategy.

ACM Digital Library

ACM Digital Library
Full text, scholarly articles covering the fields of computing and information technology, including graphics, visualization, gaming, CGI, social networks, computer-human interaction, 3D modeling, and much more. Published by the Association for Computing Machinery.

Top Interactive Media Databases

Use these art and design databases to search for scholarly articles and essays on Interactive Media topics.

Communication and Mass Media Complete (EBSCO)
Indexing and abstracts for over 300 journals, and selected coverage of over 100 more, for a combined coverage of over 400 titles in the communication and mass media fields. Includes full text for nearly 200 journals.
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(1915 - present) VCU access only
Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text (EBSCO)
Indexing and abstracts, as well as full-text journal articles and book chapters relating to the field of film and television. Variety Movie Reviews.
Art Full Text (EBSCO)
Citations, abstracts, and selected full-text for articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Also indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Includes selected full-text. Abstracts, 1994+; full-text, 1997+.
Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI) - (Proquest)
International index to articles in more than 450 design and craft journals. Also contains data on designers, craftspeople, studios, schools, workshops, and firms.
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Major areas of coverage include:
Product design
Interior design
Graphic design
Ceramics
Glass
Jewellery
Textiles
Furniture
Fashion and clothing
Illustration
Typography and type design
Metalsmithing
Retail design
Architecture
Industrial design
Sustainability
Advertising
Packaging
Theatre
Vehicles
Exhibitions
Book design
Web design
Computer aided design
Computer graphics
Animation
Garden design
Landscape architecture
Urban design
Education
Design management
Inclusive design
Universal design
Design history

(1973 - present) VCU access only
Arts: Search
Resource for research into the history of modern design and the applied arts, Arts: Search consists of five linked databases: Design Abstracts Retrospective (DAR), Design ProFILES (DP), ReVIEW, Research Sources: 1: British & Irish Architecture and Decorative and Applied Arts 1850s to the 1930s and Research Sources: 2. The Poster
Academic Search Complete
Comprehensive scholarly multi-disciplinary full-text database. Includes over 5,500 full-text periodicals and indexing/abstracting for over 9,500 journals. Covers science, social sciences, mathematics, engineering, and many other subjects.
JSTOR
Searchable backfiles of core journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. (Backfiles end 3 - 5 years prior to current date).
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Contains digitized copies of complete runs of hundreds of scholarly journals, many of which contain illustrations and art reproductions. Select the "caption" feature (in the Advanced search) to limit your search to image captions.

Resources Beyond VCU Libraries

If you can't find the book, article, or dissertation that you want at VCU, try these resources to find what you need.

Inter-library Loan (ILL)
Via Interlibrary Loan, you can borrow books, articles, and DVDs that VCU does not own.
WorldCat (via FirstSearch)
Consolidated catalog of items held by libraries worldwide.

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VCU access only
RALC
The Richmond Academic Library Consortium is a group of Richmond area libraries which have agreed to extend limited borrowing privileges to students, faculty, and staff of any RALC school.