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Research Guide - Interior Design

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Primary Databases

• ABI/INFORM
• Art Full Text
• Business and Company ASAP
• Business and Company Resource Center

Multidisciplinary Databases Covering Interior Design

• With Full Text
  • Academic OneFile
  • Academic Search Premier
  • EBSCOhostEJS
  • Expanded Academic ASAP
  • LexisNexis Academic
  • Research Library
  • Sage Full Text Collections
• Indexing, abstracts, and occasional links to full text
  • Article 1st
  • ECO (Electronic Collections Online)
  • Google Scholar
  • Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984
  • Ingenta
  • Papers First
  • PsycINFO
  • Reader's Guide Retrospective

"Serials Solutions"

Search by title, title keyword or subject group. The categories "Business and Economics", "Art, Architecture and Applied Arts", and "Social Sciences" include Interior Design.

SEE ALSO: Online Publications

Online Reference Sources

Dictionaries, Glossaries & Encyclopedic Sources | Directories |

• ReferenceUniverse

Dictionaries, Glossaries & Encyclopedic Sources

• Columbia Encyclopedia
• Encyclopædia Britannica Online
• Gale Virtual Reference Library
• Oxford Art Online (Formerly: Grove Art Online)
• WikiPedia - Online encyclopedia made available from the Wikimedia Foundation free of charge. Content updated daily by the users, who are allowed to correct and update entries. Includes articles on interior design and decoration, feng shui, furniture, and other things pertinent to home and office decoration and design.
• WorldBook Online

Directories

• DMOZ: Arts: Design: Interior Design
• Google > Arts > Design > Interior Design
• Yahoo! > Arts > Design Arts > Interior Design

Selected Sources in Axe Library

• The color compendium
• Decorative arts and household furnishings in America, 1650-1920: an annotated bibliography
• The design encyclopedia
• The dictionary of antiques and the decorative arts; a book of reference for glass, furniture, ceramics, silver, periods, styles, technical terms, etc.
• Dictionary of architecture & construction
• Dictionary of furniture
• The dictionary of interior design
• Dictionary of the decorative arts
• Encyclopedia of 20th century architecture
• Encyclopedia of architecture: design, engineering & construction
• Encyclopedia of interior design
• The encyclopedia of Victoriana
• Furniture facts
• Furniture treasury (mostly of American origin): all periods of American furniture with some foreign examples in America; also American hardware and household utensils; 5000 illustrations with descriptions on the same page
• The Greenwood encyclopedia of daily life: a tour through history from ancient times to the present
• Illustrated dictionary of building design + construction
• An illustrated dictionary of glass
• Interior graphic and design standards
• International directory of company histories
• The Random House collector's encyclopedia: Victoriana to Art Deco
• Sourcebook of modern furniture
• The Thames and Hudson encyclopaedia of 20th century design and designers

Related subject headings:

• Furniture
• Interior Decoration

Associations and Societies

• American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) - is a community of designers, industry representatives, educators and students... committed to interior design. Through education, knowledge sharing, advocacy, community building and outreach, the Society strives to advance the interior design profession and... demonstrate and celebrate the power of design to positively change people's lives. 38,000 members engage in... professional programs and activities through 48 chapters throughout the United States and Canada.
• Decorator / Designer Society of America (DSA) - The DSA is focused on the status and betterment of the interior decorator as well as the interior designer and those professionals in related fields by providing opportunities to enhance members' knowledge [and] skills and broaden [members'] customer base with referrals.
• Foundation for Interior Design Education Research (FIDER) - Sets standards for postsecondary interior design education, evaluates college and university interior design programs, [and] publishes a list of accredited programs that meet the standards. FIDER is recognized as [an] authority on interior design education by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA).
• International Interior Design Association (IIDA) - is a professional networking and educational association of more than 10,000 Members in 8 specialty Forums, 9 Regions, and more than 30 Chapters around the world committed to enhancing the quality of life through excellence in interior design and advancing interior design through knowledge. The IIDA Mid America Chapter covers Kansas and Missouri.
  • IIDA PSU chapter
• National Council for Interior Design Qualification (NCIDQ) - The core purpose of NCIDQ is to protect the health, life safety and welfare of the public by establishing standards of competence in the practice of interior design [and] serves to identify to the public those interior designers who have met the minimum standards for professional practice by passing the NCIDQ Examination.

Interior Design association lists:

• Designaré Interior Design Collective > Organizations > Interior Design

Selected Web Sites

Comprehensive Web Sites | Online Publications | Schools & Colleges | Career & Job Information |

Comprehensive Web Sites

• AboutDecorating.net - Advice on interior decoration, free floor plans, home furnishing stores, links to home improvement sites, reviews of books and magazines on home improvement, window treatments, floor coverings, repair, etc.
• Designaré Interior Design Collective - Online directory of design companies and related services such as drapers, cleaners and restorers. Includes educational and employment opportunities.
• Digital Librarian: Home and Interior Design - Online directory of interior design oriented sites. Includes antique and home furnishing vendors, schools of design, architects, advice on designing and decorating homes and gardens, museums, magazines and journals and many other resources.
• Essortment: Home Decorating: Interiors- Directory of articles giving advice about home decoration and maintenance.
• Interior Design Directory - Directory of designers, stores selling art and home furnishings, magazines and books about interior design, educational opportunities in interior design, information on feng shui and much more.

Online Publications

• Better Homes and Gardens - Online version of venerable home improvement magazine. Go to "House and Home" section.
• Country Living - Online version of famed home and garden magazine.
• InteriorDesign.net - Selections from premier designers' journal, Interior Design.
• Southern Living - Selections from Southern Living magazine. Go to "Homes" link for interior design and decoration.
• World of Feng Shui - Articles about the oriental decorating technique and how you can apply it to your home.

Interior Design journal lists:

• About.com: Top 10 Decorating Magazines in Print
• Interior Designer Trade Magazines

Schools & Colleges of Interior Design

• International Academy of Design and Technology (IADT). Two of eight locations are:
  • IADT Chicago
  • IADT Detroit
• Stephens College > Interior Design, Columbia, MO (Stephens College Career Services)
• Kansas State University:
  • KSU Department of Apparel, Textiles and Interior Design
  • KSU Department of Interior Architecture and Product Design

Career & Job Information

• Careers in Interior Design - Advice on starting a career in interior design, including education, licensure, examinations and important professional associations.
• Dezignaré Interior Design Collective > Marketplace - Employment
• InteriorDesignJobs.com - Users may post a resume, search jobs, find educational opportunities and career advice. Employers may post jobs and search resumes.
• Monster.com search on "Interior Design" - Full service career counseling agency assisting with job listings, resumes, and advice about interviewing, salary negotiations and other career related issues. Abundant listings for interior design.

Course Related Web Sites

PSU Department of Family & Consumer Sciences > Interior Design.
PSU 2003-2005 University Catalog- Family & Consumer Sciences (offers an Interior Design option or minor)