Design Media Arts: Essential Resources for Research

UCLA Library: Resources and Services

• UCLA Library Homepage
• Arts Library Web Pages
• Making an Interlibrary Loan Request
• SRLF: Requesting Materials
• Online Access from Home

Finding Books: Online Catalogs

• UCLA Library Catalog
• MELVYL (Searches holdings of all 10 UC libraries and libraries worldwide, plus selected article indexing)
• WorldCat (Library holdings worldwide)

Finding Journal Articles

• ARTbibliographies Modern
• Art Full Text and Art Retrospective
• Design and Applied Arts Index
• Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
• Academic Search Complete
• Google Scholar
• JSTOR

Images/ Image databases

• ARTstor
• Google Image Search
• Image Resources

Selected Online Reference Sources

• Safari Tech Books Online (an electronic reference library for programers and IT professionals; includes full text of books published by O'Reilly)
• SpringerLink (scientific & technological journals, books, and reference works. Includes computer science and programming)
• Oxford Art Online (an electronic encyclopedia that includes design topics)

Research Guides

• Design Media Arts: A Basic Research Guide
• Fashion and Costume Research Guide
• Image Resources Research Guide