- Biomimetics for Designers: Applying Nature's Processes and Materials in the Real World
- Canadian Copyright: Industrial Design Benchbook
- CORE77 (Blog dedicated to the practice of Industrial Design)
- Guide to Industrial Design (Canadian Intellectual Property Office)
- Industrial Design Reader
- Interactive Design: An Introduction to the Theory and Application of User-Centered Design
- Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual CultureProduct Experience
- Materials selection in Mechanical Design
- Measure of Man and Woman: Human Factors in Design
- Recalls.gov (U.S. government 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 interior design and urban design/planning literature)
- Berg Fashion Library (Design, fashion, and life style literature)
- Business Source Complete (Business, manufacturing, production and operations management)
- Design and Applied Arts Index (Core industrial design literature)
- EI Engineering Village (Industrial design related applied engineering literature)
- Ergonomics Abstracts (Anthropometric and ergonomics literature)
- Factiva (Business news including product information)
- IEEE Xplore Digital Library (Industrial design related electronics and computers science literature)
- Knovel Library (Applied engineering handbooks and dictionaries)
- Material ConneXion (New and innovative materials)
- National Rehabilitation Information Center (Disabilities and rehabilitation literature)
- PubMed (Produced by the National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest free medical library)
- Scopus (Multidisciplinary abstract and citation database)
- Taylor & Francis Journals Online (Design, fashion, communication and cultural studies literature)
- Vogue Archive (Cover-to-cover reproduction, including advertisements)
- Web of Science (Multidisciplinary abstract and citation database)
- Anthropometric Standards: An Interactive Nutritional Reference of Body Size and Body Composition for Children and Adults
- Anthropometry: Apparel Sizing and Design
- Anthropometry Research (A major producer of anthropometric studies)
- ANSUR (U.S. Army Anthropometry Survey)
- AnthroSources (Resource material for anthropometry)
- ASTM International Standards Worldwide (Includes body measurement standards)
- Conceptual Foundations of Human Factors Measurement
- Ergonomics Abstracts (Anthropometric and ergonomics literature)
- Human Dimension & Interior Space
- Handbook of Physical Measurements (Core textbook on measurement)
- Human Ergonomics (Occupational ergonomics and ergonomics research)
- Humanscale (Furniture and bioengineering standards)
- ISO 7250: Basic Human Body Measurements for Technological Design
- TRID (Transportation research including ergonomics literature)
- Color Design Workbook
- Colour Hunting: How Colour influences what we Buy, Make and Feel
- Pattern + Palette Sourcebook 4: A Comprehensive Guide to Choosing the Perfect Color and Pattern in Design
- Pantone Color Specifier
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PsycINFO (Psychology and the behavioural sciences, including psychology of colour)
- 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 (Indexes high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals)
- Dissertations and Theses Global (Indexes North American graduate and doctoral theses)
- Doing Research in Design
- Evaluating Research: Methodology for People who need to read Research
- Foreign Doctoral Dissertations (Indexes non-North American graduate and doctoral theses)
- Quantitative Research for the Qualitative Researcher
- 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
- Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to Researching with Visual Materials
- Beall's List of Predatory Journals & Publishers (Potentially predatory open-access publishers)
- How to Assess a Journal for Publication
- Writing for Scholarly Journals (Series of online learning modules including screencast and handout)
- DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals (Credible open access journals for publication)
- 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 (List of journals indexed in this core Industrial Design database; journal articles can be submitted to these publications)
- Conference Alerts (A global platform for upcoming conferences, it includes calls for conference proposals. You can limit by subject area, save your preferences, and receive emails with your conference preferences)
