LibGuides: Entertainment Engineering and Design: Articles & Databases

Find Articles and Other Resources by Searching Databases

A database is an organized collection of information, data, media, or citations stored in electronic format. You can use the databases below to search for entertainment engineering-related resources (newspaper, journal, or magazine articles; videos and sound recordings; books and e-books; patents; art catalogs; conference proceedings; and more. Each database includes a different set of resources, searching more than one database can help you to find additional information. If you would like more help, please Ask A Librarian.

Access Engineering
Access Engineering provides online access to many engineering reference books, handbooks, technical materials, videos, as well as interactive tables and graphs.

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Instructors can also access Schaum's Outlines and curriculum materials to support course and assignment design.

ACM Digital Library
1947-
Articles from the ACM journals, magazines, and conference proceedings.
Use this resource to search citations and full text of ACM journal and conference proceedings. On the search results page, you may choose the option to" Expand your search to The ACM Guide to Computing Literature" to expand your search and use the UNLV Find Text button in the upper right corner to seek or request full text copies.
Art Full Text
Art publications index with selected full text from 1997. Limited to 12 simultaneous users.
Art, architecture, photography, graphic design, landscape architecture, interior design, film, museology are all covered. Possible to limit searches to full text items only or peer-reviewed items only. Works of art found reproduced in periodicals are also indexed. Indexing coverage begins 1984; abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. The abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source articles. Full text coverage of selected articles begins in 1997.
Bloomsbury Applied Visual Arts
Over 170 searchable ebooks which combine visual inspiration with practical advice on idea generation, research techniques, portfolio development and more, across the main visual arts disciplines including fashion and textiles, design and illustration, photography, film and media, architecture and interiors, and marketing and advertising.
More than 170 highly illustrated books, providing structured and accessible coverage across the main visual arts disciplines to support a wide range of practice-led courses
A versatile combination of titles covering key skills and topics within each discipline and at different levels of study, sequentially from basic concepts to careers and professional practice
Richly illustrated content, with each title typically offering between 150-250 full-color images to showcase work, concepts, or techniques
A wealth of practical pedagogy such as case studies, leading practitioner interviews, and activities allowing students and educators to realize learning outcomes, while embedding students' understanding of real-world applications and supporting portfolio development
Compendex
UNLV Libraries no longer subscribes. Try these other databases: Web of Science, INSPEC, or Scopus.
Dance Online: Dance in Video
Good for: Studying the history and forms of ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance.
Contains: Streaming video of performances, masterclasses, documentaries and interviews.
Dissertations and Theses
Good for: Dissertations and theses.
Contains: Citations, abstracts, and full text of dissertations and theses.
Dates covered: Citations from 1861, abstracts from 1980 for dissertations and 1988 for theses, full text from 1996 for UNLV items and 1997 for most others.
Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive
Good for: Studying the music, film, broadcasting, and theater industries.
Contains: Trade publications including Variety, Billboard, and The Hollywood Reporter.
Dates covered: 1880-2015.
Music, film, broadcasting and theater industry trade publications published before 2015 including Variety, Billboard, Spin, The Hollywood Reporter, American Cinematographer, American Film, Picturegoer and more.
IEEE Xplore
1988-
Articles on engineering from journals and conferences published by the IEEE.
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Provides access to almost a third of the world's current electrical engineering, telecommunications, power, and computer science literature. Full-text access to all IEEE journals, transactions, magazines, conference proceedings, and all current IEEE standards.
INSPEC
The Inspec database, produced by the Institution of Engineering and Technology, is available through the Web of Science. To search within Inspec, use the Web of Science's "All Databases" search option to include Inspec's indexed 18.7 million records including journals, conference papers, books, reports, and dissertations. Using Inspec's subject index terms, you can analyze the academic literature in physics, electrical/electronic technology, computing, information technology, control, production and manufacturing engineering.
JSTOR
An archive of more than 700 important scholarly journals covering business, ecology, education, ethnic studies, history, literature, mathematics, music, philosophy, political science, and sociology with content ending 3-5 years ago
JSTOR digitally archives more than 700 scholarly journals. Subjects include African-American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, business, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, music, philosophy, political science, and more.
Medici.tv
Offers streaming classical music videos that include over 1,600 films as well as many events broadcast live, with replays available for several weeks after the live events.
Content includes music festivals (such as the Verbier, Salzburg, and Lucerne), concerts from baroque through contemporary music (Berlin, New York Philharmonic orchestras, the Concertgebouw, Carnegie Hall recitals, etc.), operas (including Paris and La Scala), ballets, workshops and master classes with renowned artists (from Juilliard, Heidelberg and elsewhere), competitions (the Tchaikovsky from Moscow), documentaries, artist portraits, and archived performances.
Performance Design Archive Online
Books and periodicals, archival material, and specially commissioned instructional videos about design concepts for a broad range of performance types, including dance, theatre, opera, and music.
Performance Design Archive Online is the first comprehensive, international collection that covers all aspects of theater production design, from the 17th century through to the present day, including, scenic and set design, lighting design, sound design, costume design, makeup, and more.
Project MUSE
1995-
Scholarly journals in the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.
Update frequency: monthly
Scopus
1960-
Scopus is an index to peer-reviewed scientific, medical, technical, and social science literature.
Scopus also features a citation index, allowing you to find the papers that cite a specific piece of research.
Shakespeare's Globe Archive: Theatres, Players & Performance
1997-2016
Material from the performance and architectural archives of the modern reconstruction of Shakespeare’s 1599 Globe Theatre.
The performance archive shows how productions at the reconstructed Globe and Sam Wanamaker Playhouse were conceived, rehearsed, dressed, marketed, sound tracked, how props were used, how the audiences behaved and the theatre history and performance lessons that were observed and learned. The architectural archive contains material on how the reconstruction of the theatre was designed and planned and some of the conversations and debates that informed construction decisions. In addition, there is also material on the theatre’s annual reports, communications to its supporters and oral histories detailing some of the early history of the reconstructed theatre.
SPIE Digital Library
Locate more than 28,000 articles from 10 scholarly journals, over 428,000 conference proceeding papers and the contents of many ebooks about optics & photonics applied research from SPIE, an international society for optics and photonics.
Springer Materials
A research platform dedicated to information on materials, their properties, and uses.
Theatre in Video
Streaming video of theatre productions and documentaries about performance.
Theatre in Video presents online streaming video of complete professional performances of more than 250 well-known plays, together with more than 500 video documentaries. View and bookmark specific scenes, monologues, and staging examples.

United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT)
The United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT) is providing their archive of theater technology teaching materials to the public.

Web of Science
1990-
Web of Science is a platform for Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts and Humanities Index, Journal Citation Reports, Biological Abstracts, MEDLINE, and Inspec.
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