Research Guides: Integrated Design &amp; Media: Overview

Overview

This guide is to support Tandon Integrated Design and Media students working on research projects. Use the menu on the left to search for top journals, databases, books, and other resources in your sub-area of research. Research in an interdisciplinary field means you may find yourself searching across various areas or linking to related research guides.

Digital Media & Technology at NYU

Tandon's Integrated Design & Media Program
An interdisciplinary program concerned with audio, video, 3D graphics, game engines, web, mobile, and interactive design projects.
Center for Advanced Technology in Telecommunications
An industry/university partnership that explores: Wireless and Personal Communications networks and devices, Integrated and Secure Information Technologies and Solutions, and Multi-media applications/services.
Games for Learning Institute
Based at NYU, the Institute brings together game designers, computer scientists, and education researchers from nine partner institutions. Explores what makes a game successful.
NYC MediaLab
Launched in 2010, this is a public-private partnership that links academic research with the media business world.
NYU Game Center
A multi-school center for the research, design and development of digital games housed at the NYU's Tisch School. Aims to graduate the next generation of game designers, developers, entrepreneurs, and critics, and to advance the art, science and culture of gaming.
Video Lab
Led by Professor Yao Wang, the Video Lab researches areas related to visual information processing and networked video applications.
NYU Wireless
Research center that focuses on wireless, computing and medical applications.

Search for Articles and E-books

ACM Digital Library
ACM Digital Library provides access to the the publications of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) publication including journals, conference proceedings, technical magazines, newsletters, and books. ACM publications cover topics relevant to theoretical, computational, and experimental work in computer science, mechanical engineering, and electrical engineering. Users will discover academic literature related to algorithms, computational methods, intelligent systems, security and privacy, as well as other disciplines.
Skillsoft Books
Skillsoft Books is an online collection of computer technology-related ebooks. It contains hundreds of books and videos from respected IT publishers such as MIT Press, Microsoft Press, Osborne/McGraw-Hill, Que, Sams, Sybex and Wiley. Use it to search for a wide variety of books and videos, ranging from beginners level to advanced (Microsoft Word for beginners or an advanced programming language).
Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete is a multi-disciplinary full-text database with full text coverage of information in many areas of academic study. Users can access articles, book chapters, images, videos, reviews, both from peer-reviewed and popular resources.
IEEE Xplore
IEEE Xplore , under the banner of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, provides full text access technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics. Content includes electronic journals, magazine, and books; conference proceedings; standards; and Standards Dictionary Online. Most articles are available in PDF and HTML. Tools include links to citations, references and figures.
ProQuest Central
ProQuest Central is a large, multidisciplinary database with over 11,000 titles, with over 8,000 titles in full-text. It serves as the central resource for researchers at all levels in all markets. Over 160 subjects areas are covered extensively in this product including business and economics, health and medical, news and world affairs, technology, social sciences and more.
PsycNET (with PsycINFO)
APA PsycNET is an integrated collection of databases from the American Psychological Association (APA), including the following: PsycINFO, PsycBOOKS, PsycTESTS, PsycTHERAPY, PsycARTICLES, and PsycEXTRA.

PsycINFO, the most popular database in PsycNET, is a bibliographic index covering core literature in the psychological and behavioral sciences and their related disciplines. PsycBOOKS includes online versions of the APA Handbooks in Psychology Series, as well as other ebooks and online encyclopedias published by APA. PsycTESTS is a source of structured information about psychological tests and measures as well as a repository for the full text of select instruments. PsycTHERAPY provides access to streaming psychotherapy demonstration videos.

Altogether, PsycNET provides information about and access to journal articles, books and ebooks, dissertations, conference presentations, tests and measures, videos, gray literature, and many other other publication types in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences.
To search only a specific database (e.g., PsycINFO) within the PsycNET interface, use the "Select Databases" features at the top of the PsycNET landing page and check (or uncheck) the database(s) that apply.
O'Reilly Online Learning
O'Reilly's Safari Books Online provides access to ebooks related to technology, coding, developing, web design, and data visualization.
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Sage Journals Online
SAGE Journals Online is a single-search interface for full-text access to journals published by SAGE. Users can discover content in many disciplines across the Health Sciences, Social Sciences, Humanities, Engineering, and Life Sciences.
ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect is a portal for scholarship published in the sciences, engineering, and technology disciplines.
SpringerLink
SpringerLink provides access to journal articles, books, and reference works in the biomedical sciences, life sciences, and computer sciences.
Web of Science Core Collection
Web of Science Core Collection is a multidisciplinary citation index that includes scholarly articles, conference proceedings, and books in the biomedical, psychosocial, and arts and humanities. The collections contain Science Citation, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts and Humanities Citation Index , Conference Proceedings Citation Index, Book Citation Index, Emerging Sources Citation Index and Current Chemical Reactions index.
Wiley Current Protocols
Current Protocols has been the leading source of laboratory protocols for over 25 years and comprises more than 14,000 straightforward, step-by-step procedures and techniques across 17 titles. This is the Protocols database of Wiley ONLINE LIBRARY.