Art, Design & Visual Studies

Below are links to databases available through the Albertsons Library:

• Web of Science (multidisciplinary)

See also:

• Academic Search Premier (multidisciplinary)
• ProQuest Central (multidisciplinary + considerable international content)
• Business Source Premier (Business)
• ABI/INFORM Collection (Business)
• ScienceDirect (Science, Nursing, Kinesiology and more)

When you are searching in a library databases, it is different than searching in Google. In a library database, you have to connect keywords in your search using Boolean connectors, AND, OR, and NOT.

Use quotes around phrases--two words that you want searched together in a particular order

Use an asterisk to find variant endings of a word.

Examples:

brand AND strategy - include AND between keywords

brand* AND strateg* - will find variant endings of both words

"brand strategy" - will search for these two words together

brand* AND marketing AND strateg*

(brand* OR design*) AND wayfinding - when you use OR between keywords, those terms must be in parentheses

If there isn't a link to the full text article in the database, you can use the FIND IT button to possibly link to the full text article in another database or on a publisher's site with whom the library has an agreement.

Another place to search for journal and periodical articles is Google Scholar. Below you will find instructions for setting your library links for Boise State University which will allow you to link to full text articles available in the Albertsons Library's subscription databases. You will also be able to link to the Library's catalog for books.

1. Go to Google Scholar. 
2. Select the 3-bar icon  in the upper left.
3. In the left menu, select Settings at the bottom of the list.
4. On the next screen, select Library Links in the left menu.
5. Type Boise State University in the search box.
6. Select the two check boxes for: a) Boise State University - Find It as Boise State; and b) Open WorldCat - Library Search.
7. Select the Save button.
8. Now you will be able to see Find It at Boise State links on the right side in your results list. These links may link you to the full text article in a library database or on a publisher's site.
9. If you're looking at a book citation in Google Scholar, select the double arrows  , and then select Library Search to search for the book at Boise State University's Albertsons Library. If Albertsons Library owns a copy, select Borrow at the bottom of the record to be directed to the library's site.