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Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Complete is multi-disciplinary database that includes peer-reviewed journal articles, magazine articles, newspaper articles, and more.

Building Green
The leading, authoritative online resource for reliable content on sustainable design strategies, green building materials, and case studies. *Please note NAU does not subscribe to this; each individual may register for a free 15 day trial.

Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
Database of full-text articles covering business, including management, economics, finance, accounting, and international business.
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GreenFILE This link opens in a new window
Database of articles relevant to the human impact on the environment including global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
APA PsycArticles This link opens in a new window
Database of full-text, peer-reviewed journal articles for psychology research.
PsycInfo This link opens in a new window
An index to scholarly journal articles, dissertations, books, and book chapters relevant to the field of psychology, behavioral sciences, and mental health.

Select Interior Design Journals

Design Management Journal
Explores how design (in products, communication, & environments) is an essential resource, a component of every organization that can be effectively managed to make important contributions to the bottom line & to long-term success.
Design Management Review
Design Management Review is devoted to articles and case studies exploring how design—in products, communication, and environments—is an essential resource, a component of every organization that can be effectively managed to make important contributions to the bottom line and to long-term success.
Design Week (Online Edition)
Features news, research, surveys, features and reports related to issues and events significant in the design world.
Hospitality Design
As described online: Feature articles, thematic issues, product reviews and commentary on all aspects of the design, construction, development and management of hotels, resorts, non-military clubs, senior living developments and healthcare facilities.
Interior Design
As described online: For the interior design professional marketplace; features a variety of outstanding projects, latest new products across all disciplines, industry news and more.
Journal of Design and Science
Journal of Design and Science (JoDS) captures the antidisciplinary ethos of the MIT Media Lab. Like the Lab, it opens new connections between science and design, encouraging discourse that breaks down the barriers between traditional academic disciplines. It explores not only the design of science, but also the science of design.
Journal of Interior Design
The Journal of Interior Design is a scholarly, refereed publication dedicated to issues related to the design of the interior environment. Scholarly inquiry representing the entire spectrum of interior design theory, research, education and practice is invited. Submissions are encouraged from educators, designers, anthropologists, architects, historians, psychologists, sociologists, or others interested in interior design.