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Welcome! This guide will help you find the best information sources for Design

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Welcome to the Library

This guide will help you:

  • find books, ebooks, journal articles and other information sources
  • manage your references and avoid plagiarism. 

Search our Collections

Search for books, ebooks, journal articles and more in our library discovery service.

 

  • When you find the book you want you'll see its shelf or class number, this will help you find it in the library.
  • For online items, like eBooks, click on the link to read online.

 

Academic Search Ultimate online database image card

Academic Search Ultimate

Content: Full-text journal articles, newspapers, images

Subjects: Wide range of subjects including Fine Art, Design, Arts, Education, Culture and more.

Access from: 

Art Full Text (H.W. Wilson) online database image card

Art Full Text (H.W. Wilson)

Content:  Full-text articles, abstracts, and reproductions

Subjects: Fine, Decorative and Commercial Art, Photography, Film and Architecture.

Access from:

Donegal
Galway & Mayo
Sligo & St Angela's

IEEE Xplore Digital Library online database image card

IEEE Xplore Digital Library

Full text access to IEEE content published since 1988 and selected content published between 1872 -1988. It includes IEEE journals, transactions, and magazines, including early access documents, conference proceedings, published standards, Standards Dictionary Online and IET journals and conference proceedings.

i2i National Standards online database image card

i2i National Standards

Designed to provide accurate and up to date full text access to current NSAI Irish Standards: straight IS (Irish Standards) EN (European Norms) and ISO (International Organisation for Standardisation).
More standards are also available from these databases: IEEE Xplore and IHS Markit.

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JSTOR

Content: Archive of full-text journal articles, book chapters and high-quality images curated from museums and archives around the world.

Subjects:  Fine Art, Design, Arts, Culture, History, Education and more.

Oxford Academic Journals online database image card

Oxford Academic Journals

Content: Full- text articles

Subjects: Wide range of subjects including Arts, Social Sciences, Education and Culture.

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Project MUSE online database image card

Project MUSE

Content: Full-text journal articles, book chapters

Subjects: Arts, Social Sciences, Media, Technology and Culture

Taylor & Francis online database image card

Taylor & Francis

Content: Full-text journal articles

Subjects: Wide range of subjects including Arts, Education, Social Sciences, Museum & Heritage Studies

Access from: 


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