References Resources:
Subject-Specific
A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
A Dictionary of Modern Design
Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts
General
Oxford Reference (almost 900 reference resources, such as subject-specific encyclopedias, in all subjects)
Credo Reference (articles from almost 900 reference works, such as subject-specific encyclopedias)
Gale Virtual Reference Library (a small set of reference resources on various subjects)
Britannica Academic Edition (a general encyclopedia aimed at college students)
Biography in Context (information about notable people, both contemporary and historical, from a wide range of sources, such as biographical dictionaries, magazines, newspapers, and academic journals)
Books
Converse’s Mickel Library Catalog
Ebook Central (ProQuest) (over 200k academic books)
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) (over 130k academic books)
PASCAL Delivers (combined catalog for South Carolina’s college/university libraries)
WorldCat (combined catalog for most U.S. college, university, and public libraries)
Periodical Article Databases
Art Full Text (hundreds of journals, many of them including complete articles, covering art history, interior design, photography, and film)
Business Source Premier (one of the largest and best-known databases for research in all aspects of business; includes full-text articles from more than 2k academic journals and magazines in this field)
Academic Search Complete (one of the world’s largest databases of academic journals and magazines on all subjects)
Readers’ Guide Full Text Mega (magazine articles in all subjects)
