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This guide introduces resources to support your research topics in game design. You'll find a list of major databases in the field as well as tips on finding books, articles, board games and other sources.
Email or schedule an appointment with the game design librarian for your location if you need help with your research.
Key Resources
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ACM Digital Library (Association for Computing Machinery) This link opens in a new windowFull-text access to most periodicals and conference proceedings from a leading computer engineering society. Covers 1985 to the present, including proceedings and publications of affiliated societies.
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IEEEXplore (IEEE/IET Electronic Library) This link opens in a new windowAccess to citations and full text from IEEE journals, conference proceedings, and standards. Includes IEEE Spectrum Magazine, the Now Publishers Foundations and Trends Technology eBooks Engineering and Energy Library.
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Computers & Applied Sciences Complete (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowCitations and abstracts for more than 1,800 academic journals (730 in full text), professional publications, and other reference sources from a diverse collection relating to computer science. Links to full text for Northeastern-subscribed journals.
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Compendex This link opens in a new windowComprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database. Citations and abstracts in including peer reviewed journals, professional literature, conference proceedings, book series, dissertations, and trade publications. Links to full text for Northeastern subscribed journals.
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Art, Design, and Architecture Collection (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowCitations and abstracts of scholarly, peer-reviewed articles and professional association news and information from current publications in the fields of visual, and applied arts. Links to full text.
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JSTOR This link opens in a new windowOne of the most trusted sources for scholarly books and historical journal backfiles. Beginning in 2023, JSTOR also includes Artstor images of art and primary source artifacts.
Need help developing a research topic?
Consider using some of the strategies below to help you get started:
- Think about something that interests you and would interest others in the field. Talk with instructors, classmates, or librarians, or look over course readings.
- Review conference proceedings or recent issues of journals and industry periodicals to explore recent articles in the field. Search by keywords related to your topic in a database and note which journals publish articles of interest. Search for those journals in the Journal Finder and view recent issues' table of contents. Here are a few sample conference proceedings and journals:
- Browse subject headings in databases. Subject headings are very specific terms that have been applied to an item (a book, an article, etc.) by a cataloger to summarize that item's content. Look for an online thesaurus in a database or perform a keyword search and look for the subject heading field in a few relevant items in your search results.
Research Methods
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Sage Research Methods This link opens in a new windowFamiliarize yourself with various research methods through short entries, books, dictionary definitions, case studies, and more.
Creative and Research Data Services at the Library
Design & SoftwareTutorials
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LinkedIn Learning This link opens in a new windowCourtesy of Northeastern University Information Technology Services
LinkedIn Learning offers on-demand courses on 3D and animation, Adobe software, and R statistical processing language, and more. Most videos have closed captioning and transcripts for accessibility.