Welcome! This page offers an introduction to graphic design resources at UMSL Libraries. You will find examples of reference texts and other books, databases with design content, and helpful websites. Please visit the Books or Articles pages of this guide for additional search tips.
For design faculty: Please contact the arts & humanities librarian for purchase suggestions or instruction requests!
Visit our A-Z Databases page for a complete list. Filter by "Art & Design" for databases with design content.
Art Full Text is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals is also included.
JSTOR contains articles and books, usually at least 3-5 years old, from scholarly sources. They also have some primary resource collections. For more recent material, use Discover@UMSL or other individual databases.
Communication & Mass Media Complete provides quality research in areas related to communication and mass media.
Covers a wide variety of topics: computers, programming, hardware, system administration, security, general software, business case studies, accounting, careers, presentations, science, medicine, psychology, math, statistics & data science, travel & hobbies.
Formats include learning paths, case studies, interactive tutorials, audio books, videos, etc.
O'Reilly requires users to log in with their SSO and maintains a record of your progress and recently used items. See below for information on how to link directly to individual items.
Academic Search Complete is a scholarly, multidisciplinary full-text database, with several thousand full-text periodicals, most of which are peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for many more journals, monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
A short selection of design periodicals. To explore more, use the journals search to browse by discipline or search specific titles.
