Library Resources for ITP: Home

• Start simple (1-2 words!), and think critically about the results you're getting
• Irrelevant results? Try synonyms, or try searching somewhere else
• Too few results? Add synonyms to your search with OR
  • Ex. (tangible OR haptic)
• Too many results? Combine concepts with AND
  • Ex. (tangible OR haptic) AND (controller OR interface)

• Keep track of where you search, and what terms you use
• Write down new terms you come across (and try searching them, too)
• Search in lots of different places (e.g,. library catalogs, Google Books, multidisciplinary databases, subject-specific databases...)
• Look at reference lists and "citing references" 
• Save your best results in one place (Zotero/EndNote/RefWorks)
• Ask for help

If Bobst or an NYU Consortium Library (New School, Cooper Union, IFA, etc.) does not own a book that you need, you can request it from E-ZBorrow. Your best option for books right now is to search BobCat to see whether we have an online version of something. The library is offering locker pickup for print-only books, but E-ZBorrow and Interlibrary Loan (for stuff we don't own) is not currently available, due to COVID.

General databases

Subject-specific databases

Worth a shot!

Here's why.

Data & Statistics

Audio & Music

Video

Grants