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E - Databases

ACM Digital Library
Bloomsbury Design Library
EBSCO : Art and Architecture Complete
EBSCO : Communication and mass media Complete
Euromonitor International Passport GMID 
Grove Art Online
Jstor database
Newspaper Direct
Proquest: Art and Architecture in Video
Proquest: Arts and Humanities
Proquest: Asian Film Online: Volume I
Proquest: Vogue Archive
South Asia Archive (South Asia Research Foundation (SARF))
V-IDEO: Ideas Worth Sharing

E - Books (Access Available)

Cambridge University Press - (No. of Titles: 77)
Cengage - (No. of Titles: 07)
CRC press - (No. of Titles: 120)
EBSCO E-Books - (No. of Titles: 166 - from various publishers like AVA,MIT,WILEY etc)
(Steps for downloading a e-book offline from EBSCO)
Intellect - (No. of Titles: 07)
Oxford Handbooks - (No. of Titles: 125)
Proquest (ebrary E-Books) - (No. of Titles: 227)
South Asia Archive E-Books (South Asia Research Foundation (SARF))
Taylor and Francis ( Routledge) - (No. of Titles: 08)
Wiley (Art & Photography Collection) - (No. of Titles: 20)
Wood Head Publishing (Textile Engineering Collection) Access through Elsevier - (No. of Titles: 65)

E-Journals (Individual Subscribed title)

Title

Publisher

Access Location

Access available from

Access available to 

Action Research

Sage Publication 

Ahmedabad & Bengaluru campuses

2003

Continue

Animation Practice, Production & Process

Intellect

All three campuses

2011

2013

Art, Design,& Communication
in Higher Education

Intellect

All three campuses

2002

Continue

 

Ultima Media Ltd

All three campuses

 

Continue

CoDesign: International Journal of CoCreation in Design and the arts

Taylor & Francis

Ahmedabad & Bengaluru campuses

2005

Continue

Color Research and Application

Wiley

All three campuses

1976

Continue

Craft Research

Intellect

All three campuses

2010

Continue

Creativity Research
Journal

Taylor & Francis

Bengaluru campus

1997

Continue

Daedalus

MIT Press

Bengaluru campus

2003

Current

Design Ecology

Intellect

All three campuses

2011

2015

Design and Culture

Taylor & Francis

All three Campuses

2009

Continue

Design for Health

Taylor and Francis

All three Campuses

2017

Continue

Design Issues

MIT Press

All three campuses

2000

Continue

Digital Creativity

Taylor & Francis

Ahmedabad & Bengaluru campuses

1997

Continue

Economic & Political Weekly (EPW)

EPW

All three campuses

1966

Continue

Ergonomics

Taylor & Francis

All three campuses

1957

Continue

Ergonomics in Design

Sage Publication 

All three campuses

1993

Continue

Human Computer Interaction

Taylor & Francis

All three Campuses

1985

Continue

Human Factors

Sage Publication 

Bengaluru campus

1999

Continue

Information Design
Journal

Ingenta Connect

Bengaluru campus

2007

Continue

Information Visualization

Sage Publication 

Bengaluru campus

2002

Continue

International Journal of
Art and Design
Education

Wiley

All three campuses

 

Continue

International Journal of Design Creativity and Innovation

Taylor & Francis

Bengaluru campus

2013

Current

Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology

Taylor & Francis

Bengaluru campus

2014

Current

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

Sage Publication 

Bengaluru campus

1999

Continue

Journal of Engineering Design

Taylor & Francis

All three campuses

1991

2018

Journal of Illustration

Intellect

All three campuses

2014

Continue

Journal of Interior Design

Wiley

Bengaluru campus

2012

Continue

Journal of Multimedia

Academy

Bengaluru campus

2007

Continue

Journal of Screenwriting

Intellect

All three campuses

2011

2018

Journal of Sensory Studies

Wiley

Bengaluru campus

2012

Continue

Journal of Visual Practice

Taylor & Francis

Bengaluru campus

2001

Current

Leonardo

MIT Press

All three campuses

1999

Continue

Leonardo Music Journals

MIT Press

All three campuses

1999

Continue

Museum Journal

Museum Association

All three campuses

 

Continue

Museum Practice

Museum Association

All three campuses

 

Continue

New Cinemas: Jour. Of Contemporary Film

Intellect

All three campuses

2002

2015

Narrative

Project Muse

Bengaluru campus

2016

Continue

Studies in Comics

Intellect

All three campuses

2010

Continue

Studies in People’s
History

Sage Publication 

Ahmedabad & Gandhinagar campuses

2014

Continue

Storyworlds: A journal of narrative studies

Project Muse

Bengaluru campus

2016

Continue

Technoetic Arts

Intellect

All three campuses

2003

Continue

The Design Journal

Taylor & Francis

All three campuses

1997

Continue

Visual Studies

Taylor & Francis

Bengaluru campus

1996

Current

 

Free E-Resources

E-Books

Link

Description

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)

http://www.doabooks.org/

The aim of the DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books. It is open to all publishers who publish academic, peer reviewed books in Open Access. The DOAB is a service of the OAPEN Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to Open Access publishing of academic books.

Digital Library of India

http://www.dli.ernet.in/

Digital Library of India (DLI) is a digital collection of freely accessible rare books collected from various libraries in India.

Internet Archive E-Books and Texts

https://archive.org/details/texts

The Internet Archive and Open Library offers over 11,000,000 fully accessible books and texts. Provides online access to the full text of public domain.

Guggenheim - VICE

http://flip.it/zdc9uF

Over Two Hundred Free Art Books Are Now Available to Download from the Guggenheim - VICE. A veritable art history degree's worth of books digitized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum are now available for free. There's Wassily Kandinsky's 1946 treatise, On the Spiritual in Art; books about movements from the Italian metamorphosis and Russian Constructivism; thousands of years of Azte and Chinese art.

Gutenberg

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

One of the oldest and most famous online book collections. Project Gutenberg offers over 53,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online. 

Oapen Library

http://www.oapen.org/home

The OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of humanities and social sciences. OAPEN works with publishers to build a quality controlled collection of open access books, and provides services for publishers, libraries and research funders in the areas of deposit, quality assurance, dissemination, and digital preservation.

Planet ebook

http://www.planetebook.com/

Planet eBook, the home of high-quality — FREE — classic literature. All our works are entirely free to download, read and share.

E-Journals

 

 

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

https://doaj.org/

DOAJ is an online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.

International Journal of Designs for Learning

http://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/ijdl/index

This multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed online journal is dedicated to publishing descriptions of artifacts, environments and experiences created to promote and support learning in all contexts by designers in any field.

International Design of Journal

http://www.ijdesign.org/ojs/index.php/IJDesign/

The International Journal of Design is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal devoted to publishing research papers in all fields of design, including industrial design, visual communication design, interface design, animation and game design, architectural design, urban design, and other design related fields.

Mobile Information Systems

https://www.hindawi.com/journals/misy/

Mobile Information Systems is a peer-reviewed, Open Access journal that publishes original research articles as well as review articles that report the theory and/or application of new ideas and concepts in the field of mobile information systems.

National Digital Library of India

https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in

The National Digital library of India (NDLI) is a project under Ministry of Human Resource Development, India. The objective is to integrate several national and international digital libraries on one single web-portal. NDL India has been designed to benefit all kinds of users like students (of all levels), teachers, researchers, librarians, library users, professionals, differently abled users and all other lifelong learners.

Registration Process:
Once you have click in the URL (https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in) of NDL India and land on the Homepage of NDL India, you will find a window on the right hand side saying 'Member Log-In'. Click on the 'Register' button whereby a Registration form will open up. Fill up all the details on the form and submit. You will soon get a validation link in your mailbox. Click the link and validate and then you can start using NDL India. From next time onwards, please use the Log-In button on the Home page for accessing NDL India.

The International Design Journal

http://www.journal.faa-design.com/

The International Design Journal is a multidisciplinary, open access, peer reviewed journal, issued by the designer's scientific society of Egypt. The journal is devoted to publishing state of the art research work in different fields of design.

VLSI Design

http://www.journal.faa-design.com/

VLSI Design is a peer-reviewed, Open Access journal that presents state-of-the-art papers in VLSI design. The Journal provides a dynamic high-quality international forum for original papers and tutorials by academic, industrial, and other scholarly contributors in VLSI Design.

Thesis

 

 

UCLIC - UCL Interaction Centre

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/uclic/studying/taught-courses/distinction-projects/2011_theses/Stawarz_2011

UCLIC is a world leading Centre of Excellence in Human-Computer Interaction teaching and research, studying interactions between people and technology, drawing on the best scientific traditions in Computer Science and Human Sciences. Provide the MSc Project Reports free.

Library and Archives Canada

http://amicus.collectionscanada.gc.ca/thesescanada-bin/Main/BasicSearch?coll=18&l=0&v=1

Theses Canada, launched in 1965 at the request of the deans of Canadian graduate schools, is a collaborative program between Library and Archives Canada (LAC) and nearly 70 universities accredited by Universities Canada provide free access to Canadian electronic theses and dissertations in the collectin.

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