Content last reviewed:
- Biomimetics for Designers: Applying Nature's Processes and Materials in the Real World
- Bodyspace: Anthropometry, Ergonomics and the Design Work
- Canadian Copyright: Industrial Design Benchbook
- CORE77 (Industrial Design blog)
- Guide to Industrial Design (Canadian Intellectual Property Office)
- Inclusive Design for a Digital World: Designing with Accessibility in Mind
- Industrial Design Reader
- Interactive Design: An Introduction to the Theory and Application of User-Centered Design
- Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture
- Materials selection in Mechanical Design
- Measure of Man and Woman: Human Factors in Design
- Recalls, Advisories, and Safety Alerts (Canadian recalls and product safety)
- Recalls.gov (U.S. recalls of unsafe, hazardous, or defective products)
- Sketching: Drawing Techniques for Product Designers
- Standards: Recipes for Reality
- Universal Principles of Design: 125 ways to Enhance Usability, Influence Perception, Increase Appeal, Make Better Design Decisions, and Teach through Design
- World Design Organization
- Art & Architecture Complete (Includes industrial design literature)
- Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (Includes industrial design literature)
- Berg Fashion Library (Design, fashion, and life style literature)
- Business Source Complete (Manufacturing and production literature)
- Design and Applied Arts Index (Core Industrial Design literature)
- EI Engineering Village (Core applied engineering database)
- Ergonomics Abstracts
- Factiva (Includes product information)
- GreenFILE (Environmental impact resources)
- IEEE Xplore Digital Library (Resources related to electronics)
- Knovel Library (Handbooks, dictionaries, and encyclopedias)
- Material ConneXion (New and innovative materials)
- National Rehabilitation Information Center
- PAIS Index (Public policy)
- PubMed (World’s largest medical library)
- PsycINFO (Core Psychology database)
- Scopus
- Taylor & Francis Journals Online
- Vogue Archive
- Web of Science
- Anthropometric Standards: An Interactive Nutritional Reference of Body Size and Body Composition for Children and Adults
- Anthropometry: Apparel Sizing and Design
- Anthropometry Research (Anthropometric studies)
- ANSUR (U.S. Army Anthropometry Survey)
- ASTM International Standards Worldwide (Includes body measurement standards)
- Conceptual Foundations of Human Factors Measurement
- Ergonomics Abstracts (Anthropometric literature)
- Ergonomics for People with Disabilities : Design for Accessibility
- Human Dimension & Interior Space
- Handbook of Physical Measurements
- Human Ergonomics
- TRID (Transportation research including ergonomics literature)
- Carleton University's Thesis Requirements
- Conducting a Literature Review
- Design Studies Discussion Group (PhD discussion list)
- How to Assess a Journal for Publication
- 7 Steps to a Comprehensive Literature Review: A Multimodal & Cultural Approach
- Collecting and Interpreting Qualitative Materials
- Design Research through Practice: From the Lab, Field, and Showroom
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Dissertations and Theses Global (North American focus)
- Doing Research in Design
- Evaluating Research: Methodology for People who need to read Research
- Foreign Doctoral Dissertations (International focus)
- The Literature Review: A Step-by-Step Guide for Students
- Research for Designers: A Guide to Methods and Practice
- Research Methods for Product Design
- Sage Handbook of Interview Research: The Complexity of the Craft
- Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research
- Sage Research Methods (All aspects of the research process)
- Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to Researching with Visual Materials
- It's critically important for students to communicate with their advisor(s) before submitting work for publication/conference presentation.
- Beall's List of Predatory Journals & Publishers
- How to Assess a Journal for Publication
- Writing for Scholarly Journals (Online learning modules)
- DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal Citation Reports (Indexes research journals according to their impact within a field. While there is no specific Industrial Design heading, there are subjects related to Design. Click on "Select Categories" to review subject areas. You can also search by specific journal name)
- SCImago (Journals, conferences, and country indicators developed from Scopus database. While there is no specific Industrial Design heading, there are subjects related to Industrial Design. Click on Subject Headings to review subject areas. You can also search by specific journal or conference)
- List of journals indexed in Design & Applied Arts Index (Go into Design and Applied Arts Index database and click on View Title List)
- Conference Alerts (Calls for conference proposals)