Research Guide - Printing Management

Axe Online Catalog & Other Book Sources

• Axe Library Catalog

Other Book Sources

• Books 24x7
• NetLibrary
• Library Catalogs Online
• WorldCat

Journal Databases

Primary Databases

• Applied Science and Technology
• Art Full Text

Secondary Databases

• ABI/INFORM
• Business and Company ASAP

Multidisciplinary Databases Covering Printing Management

• With Full Text
  • Academic OneFile
  • Academic Search Premier
  • Computer Database
  • Expanded Academic ASAP
  • Research Library
• Indexing, abstracts, and occasional links to full text
  • Google Scholar

"Serials Solutions"

Search by title, title keyword or subject group. The category "Technology and Applied Sciences" includes "Printing", "Packaging", "Paper and Pulp", and other related topics.

Online Reference Sources

Dictionaries, Glossaries & Encyclopedic Sources | Company Directories

• ReferenceUniverse

Dictionaries, Glossaries & Encyclopedic Sources

• Access Science
• Artcyclopedia - online directory of museum art on the Web. Retrieve a list of links to photographs of artists works at museums worldwide - Search alphabetically, or by Movement (e.g. Pop Art, Impressionism), Medium (e.g. sculptors, illustrators), Subject (e.g. landscape painters), Nationality or Name, etc.
• Gale Virtual Reference Library
• Glossary of Printing & Graphic Terms (printindustry.com)
• Oxford Art Online (Formerly: Grove Art Online)
• WorldAlmanac - Contains the full text of Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia

Company Directories

• Business and Company Resource Center
• ReferenceUSA
• ThomasNet.com (Thomas Register)

Selected Sources in Axe/KTC Library

• Offset lithographic technology
• Graphic communications: the printed image
• Designer's lexicon: the illustrated dictionary of design, printing, and computer terms
• A history of graphic design

Associations and Societies

• American Printing History Association (APHA) - encourages the study of printing history and its related arts and skills, including calligraphy, typefounding, typography, papermaking, bookbinding, illustration, and publishing. APHA is especially, but by no means exclusively, interested in American printing history.
• Association for Suppliers of Printing, Publishing and Converting Technologies (NPES) - Formerly the "National Printing Equipment Association", the NPES is a trade association of over 400 companies which manufacture and distribute equipment, systems, software, supplies used in printing, publishing and converting.
• Flexographic Technical Association (FTA) - The FTA is the leading technical society devoted exclusively to the flexographic printing industry... [members include] printers, suppliers, graphic trade shops, consumer product companies, designers, end-users, consultants and educational institutions. Together they provide a wealth of products, services and shared knowledge to the flexographic printing industry.
• Graphic Arts Information Network (GAIN) - "The portal to the graphic arts industry". GAIN is a service of the Printing Industries of America/Graphic Arts Technical Foundation (PIA/GATF).
• International Design Enterprise Alliance (IDEAlliance) - is a non profit organization dedicated to advancing user-driven, cross-industry specifications & best practices for publishing and content-driven enterprises.
• International Association of Printing House Craftsmen, Inc. (IAPHC) - "The Graphic Professionals Resource Network" is an International organization dedicated to individuals in the printing and graphic arts industry. For the purpose of their self development, their companies' success and the enhancement of the printing and graphic arts industry in society. We educate, promote, inform and connect our members and the global graphic community, fostering their growth and success.
• International Prepress Association (IPA) "the association of graphics solutions providers" - For more than 100 years IPA has been tracking, evaluating, and promoting technology and management innovations to keep members in the forefront of the graphic communication industry.
• International Publishing Management Association (IPMA) - IPMA is the only professional association dedicated exclusively to the needs of in-house corporate publishing, printing, distribution and design professionals.
• National Association for Printing Leadership (NAPL) - NAPL is a not-for-profit trade association for commercial printers and related members of the Graphic Arts Industry.
• Packaging and Label Gravure Association Global (PLGA) - is the leading packaging, label, and product printing/converting educational association for promoting the gravure printing process and educating its target audiences. It is a printer/converter run organization providing the printer/converter as well as the packaging, label and product buyer/user with information on the latest technology and operating systems available to improve pre-press and pressroom efficiency and product quality.
• Society for Service Professionals in Printing (SSPP) - SSPP is dedicated to advancing the education and recognition of customer service professionals in the printing industry.
• Specialty Graphic Imaging Association (SGIA) - The SGIA is the only international association for specialty imaging. Our members are the printers, imagers and suppliers that serve this industry segment. Our goal is to provide this new generation of imaging professionals with the tools and information they need to make the best possible business decisions.
  • Digital Printing and Imaging Association (DPIA) - part of the SGIA, the DPIA is the community for digital imaging professionals. Focused on innovation and the future of digital imaging, it's the place to find information about new technologies, markets and people in the digital imaging industry. Find a printer. Learn about equipment, supplies and techniques. Collaborate, learn and succeed.
• Waterless Printing Association (WPA) - The mission of the WPA is to: educate the print buying public in order to drive demand for the process, educate printers about all phases of the process in order to stem misinformation about the process, provide a central source of information about pioneering developments from among manufacturers involved in the process and printers who are actually using the process, offer the design and creative community the information they need to exploit the potential of the process, motivate graphic arts suppliers to supply both the buying public and users of the process information about the suitability of their products for waterless printing, promote the environmental advantages of the process, and promote research and development of waterless printing.

For more information, see the KTC page on Organizations in Technology

Selected Web Sites

Web Directories | Technical Data | Patents | Career & Job Information | Tutorials

Web Directories

• Google > Business > Publishing and Printing > Printing
• Printers' National Environmental Assistance Center

Technical Data

• Screen Printing Inks
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Profile of the Printing Industry

Patents

• USPTO - The United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Career & Job Information

• GAIN Job Bank
• Graphic Arts Employment Specialists, Inc.
• Graphic Design Jobs
• Graphic Design Resources Directory
• Job Opportunities in the Graphic Arts Industry
• Newhouse Associates

Tutorials

• Graphic Designers Paradise
• Idea Book

Course Related Web Sites

PSU Department of Graphics & Imaging Technologies

PSU Majors & Minors in Graphics & Imaging Technology. Links to course listings.