Kimbrough Library: Faculty Research

Technology Training

Lynda.com For Faculty Only

Hone your skills in Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, Office, digital photography, Web design, digital video, and more in one of these QuickTime tutorial videos.

Faculty members should contact Janet Thomas for their Lynda.com password.

Getting Books, Articles, and Papers

Current Periodical Subscriptions (.pdf)

WorldCat

WorldCat is a freely-available database of library content owned by libraries across the world. Search here for items the Kimbrough Library does not own. Request any needed materials from Inter-Library Loan by logging into this page.

ERIC

The Eduacation Resource Information Center (ERIC) is a database of education literature which is made freely available by the U.S. government. Information is available on topics such as Curriculum Organization, Writing Across the Curriculum, Values Education, and more.

Art Full Text and Art Index Retrospective
Art Full Text provides full text and/or citations to visual arts, art history, some performing arts, and film periodicals from 1984 to the present.

Art Index Retrospective has citations only for periodicals published from 1929-1984.

Provided by Wilson Web.

Architectural Index

Citations for articles in 18 professional journals covering architecture, building, landscape architecture, and interior design.

Design and Applied Arts Index and Design Abstracts Retrospective
Design and Applied Arts Index provides abstracts and bibliographic records for articles, news items, and reviews published in design and applied arts periodicals from 1973 onwards.

Design Abstracts Retrospective is DAAI from 1903 to 1986 with some sources back to 1894.

Design Profiles provides information about more than 8,000 influential designers and design-related organizations.

Click on Specific Databases to select.

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Images

The Mother of All Art and Art History Links

Run by the University of Michigan's School of Art and Design, this page has been a portal for academic art information since 1996. This page provides an excellent guide to Online Visual Resources by subject.

ARTstor

Images of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design.

Associated Press Photo Archive
Images by photojournalists of people, places, events, and newsmakers, national and international.

Art Image Collections at Grove Online
Image collections from museums and galleries.

Art Museum Image Gallery
Digital resource of art images and related multimedia from museums around the world.
Provided by Wilson Web.

Corbis Imaging Resource
Images in the Corbis Design Collection include ad and graphic design images and stock photography.

Images in the Corbis Historical Collection include historical archival photos in black and white and color, many from the Bettmann archive, with some from nature, science, and space.

Luerzer's Archive Online Service
Advertising archive.

Slide Library in Kimbrough Library
Faculty and Staff may log in to this resource to look up slides in the Library’s 129,000 35mm slide collection.

WorldArt
Images for education and research in the California State University shared art and archaeology images database.

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Sound

Sound Ideas Sound Effects and Music Mix
Sound effects and music clips to download to iTunes.

OmniMusic
High quality music tracks to download. Jazz, Rock, Classical, New Age, Oldies, .........

LibriVox
Recorded books in the public domain.

Project Gutenberg Audio Books
Human-read and computer-generated audio books in the public domain.

Public Domain Music
Lists of public domain music.

Musopen
Recorded public domain music.

Sony Pictures Sound Effects complete track list (PDF)
Index to sound tracks in the CD collection at the Library’s Circulation Desk.

Loops for Acid CD title list (PDF)
Index to music tracks in the CD collection at the Library’s Circulation Desk.

Fresh Music Library track index
Acoustic Atmosphere to Cyber Sports (PDF)
Desert Schooner to House & Garden (PDF)
Innovations & Technology to Production Elements (PDF)
RapCeeDee to World Wide (PDF)
and the Emotion Index (PDF)
Index to music tracks in the CD collection at the Library’s Circulation Desk.

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Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, and Directories

Authors and Artists for Young Adults
Biographical reference source.

Bartleby.com
Reference works and classics of literature and nonfiction free of charge for home and classroom use.

Encyclopedia Britannica Online
Online encyclopedia

Florida Electronic Library
Search current events, articles, images, etc. Must have a card for any Florida Public Library.

Grove Dictionary of Art
Reference resource for all aspects of the visual arts.

Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia
Each featured species of animal is accompanied by map and illustration.

Oxford English Dictionary
Definitions and evolution of the English language.

OneLook Dictionary
5 million+ words in 900+ online dictionaries.

Toonopedia
A hypertext encyclopedia of animated movies, animated television series, comic strips, and comic books.

Who's Who
Biographies of 1.2 million leaders and achievers.

XRefer Online Reference Library
Now called Credo Reference
Hundreds of online reference books in a single word search database.

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Books

ebrary
Thousands of ebooks from leading publishers. Be sure to download the eBrary Reader to your computer before you begin. Then, get a jump-start with this training video.

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