INDUSTRIAL DESIGN - COMPANY INFORMATION

Finding Books

Use the UC Library Catalog to locate books, periodicals, videos, and other materials owned by UC, and the OhioLINK Catalog for items owned by other Ohio college libraries

Search for company names or use the following Library of Congress Subject Heading Categories for a more general search:

Design, industrial
Industrial designers
Designers -- United States
Design, United States
Consumer goods -- design
Design services
Engineering design
Industrial Engineering

 

Identifying articles on a topic in journals, newspapers and wire services:

Use the indexes below to identify articles on industrial design topics:

ABI/INFORM Complete Connect

Business Source Complete Connect

Factiva Connect
General interest and business newspapers and journals

Lexis-Nexis Academic Connect
General News, Company News Industry & Market News, Company Financial Information Country Profiles, State Profiles, Biographical Information, Reference & Directories Law Reviews, Federal Case Law, Accounting, Auditing & Tax.

Design & Applied Arts Index Connect

Art Full Text (Art Abstracts) Connect

Obtaining articles

If the index does not provide a link to the library catalog or to the article online,
or if you have an article citation from another source then try this:

To find an article full-text online, search by the name of the journal (not the title of the article) in the Online Full Text Journal Finder. This will identify a database which provides full text of that journal and the dates covered.

To find an article in a paper journal, search the Library Catalog by clicking on the journal tab and enter the name of the journal. The catalog will identify the volume numbers, dates and location of journals owned by UC Libraries.

 

Finding information about companies:

D&B Million Dollar Database Connect
D&B's International Million Dollar Database (IMDDI) includes information on over 1.6 million international companies. Find companies by country, SIC, total employees, legal status, annual US sales dollar equivalent, and more, plus identify up to four (4) executives on the world's largest entities.

Value Line Research Center Connect
The Value Line Research Center includes on-line access to Value Line's leading publications covering stocks, mutual funds, options and convertible securities as well as special situation stocks. Included databases are:Included are: The Value Line Investment Survey, The Value Line Investment Survey - Small and Mid-Cap Edition, The Value Line Mutual Fund Survey, The Value Line Daily Options Survey, The Value Line Special Situations Service, The Value Line Convertibles Survey and Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs).

Link to more business resources from the UC Internet Business and Economics Library web page.

Directories of Designers

Design Management Institute / Directory
DAAP Reference T342 .D469 Members 2005-06

Useful Web sites :

CORE77 Industrial Design Network

Industrial Designers Society of America

Association of Women Industrial Designers

ThomasNet
Directory of products by US manufacturers

Design Management Institute Job Bank