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50 Designers You Should Know

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Concise Dictionary of Art Terms

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Design Dictionary: Perspectives on Design Terminology

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Design for Environment: A Guide to Sustainable Product Development

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Design in the USA

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Dictionary of Ecodesign: An Illustrated Reference

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Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art

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Dictionary of Modern Design

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Encyclopedia of 20th-Century Architecture

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Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts

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Grove Encyclopedia of Materials and Techniques in Art

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Handbook of Research on Trends in Product Design and Development

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Industrial Design: Materials and Manufacturing Guide

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Industrial Design Reference and Specification Book

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Thames and Hudson Dictionary of Graphic Design and Designers

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Universal Principles of Design

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Visual Dictionary of Architecture

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Gale eBooks (Gale Cengage Learning) This link opens in a new window A comprehensive collection of reference resources such as subject-focused encyclopedias and dictionaries, available in a single database.
Grove Art Online (Oxford University Press) This link opens in a new window Features a comprehensive, scholarly art encyclopedia with worldwide coverage of Western and non-Western art from prehistory to the present. The database provides access to thousands of searchable images and links to additional resources. NOTE: Permits only eight simultaneous users.
Oxford Art Online (Oxford University Press) (VALE) This link opens in a new window Key reference for art; offers artist biographies as well as subject entries on artworks, genres, historical periods, and so on; includes Grove Art Online. The database also provides access to some 40,000 image links and 5,000 images contained within Grove Art Online. NOTE: Permits only eight simultaneous users.
Oxford Reference (Oxford University Press) This link opens in a new window Contains facts, figures, definitions, quotations, and translations from 300+ Oxford reference titles, as well as in-depth, scholarly articles from titles in the Oxford Companions series and Oxford Digital Reference Shelf.

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Artstor (ITHAKA) This link opens in a new window Provides a number of image collections relating to the arts, antiquities, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences.
Artstor Public Collections (ITHAKA) This link opens in a new window “Features approximately 1.3 million freely accessible images, videos, documents, and audio files from library special collections, faculty research, and institutional history materials, as well as hundreds of thousands of open access images from partner museums.”
Graphic Design Archive (Rochester Institute of Technology) -- Free Database This link opens in a new window “The Graphic Design Archives at RIT [Rochester Institute of Technology] document and preserve the work of significant American graphic designers active from the 1920s to the 1950s. In addition, selected contemporary designers working in the modernist traditions are also included."

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PolicyMap This link opens in a new window Features an online GIS mapping tool that allows users to create interactive maps and plot data by geographical location. Data indicators provided include demographics, education, income, housing, employment, health, crime, and much more.
Social Explorer This link opens in a new window Provides easy access to maps and reports of U.S. Census data from 1790 to the present; the Religious Congregations and Membership Study from 1980 to 2010; population, health and social care, and labor market data from the 2011 United Kingdom Census; U.S. crime data from the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); U.S. County Health Rankings & Roadmaps; European demographic data from Eurostat; population data from the 2011 Canadian census; and demographic and socioeconomic data from World Development Indicators (World Bank).
Statista This link opens in a new window Presents data as infographics and features reports on over 80,000 topics, including media, business, healthcare, politics, society, technology, and education.