Architectural, Interior Design & Construction Engineering Management Technology: Interior Design, IU Indianapolis

QUICK Library Research HELP. University Library provides assistance in many ways during library hours, especially during academic sessions:

• By phone : 317-274-0469 
• By chat Monday - Friday 9 - 4 at left side of page: Research Help
• By e-mail: renewal@iu.edu
• By text: (66746)
• In-person at the 2nd level lobby Information/Reference desk

For ADDITIONAL HELP, please contact the library's Interior Design resource/research specialist, who will be happy to support your classwork or research via email or by appointment  Email is an effective medium to send questions. For best results, please include your course and section number and background details, especially

• details about your project topic, such as your personal or professional interest in the topic,

• whether you want to focus your topic and explore possible research directions, or search for "big picture" overview sources or in-depth specialized sources, etc.,

• search resources and strategies that you've already tried.

To request a RESERVATION to meet, please use the library's "Make an Appointment" page, selecting the  nane of the Interior Design resource/research specialist from the list of subject librarians. Appointments can be made up to 12 hours before a time option shown on the calendar. If the time options shown on the calendar don't work for you, you are welcome to send 2 or 3 days/times you could meet by email. 

• See IUCAT to search University Library hardcopy, IU Indy campus ebooks, and more.

To search for e-content such as accessible ebooks from across the campus ebook platforms: after doing an search, select "Online Only" and at left, limit results to Campus = Indianapolis.

Start with simple "title keyword" or "subject", or "keyword anywhere" searches; e.g.: interior AND design model

See: E-Books: Finding and Using Electronic Books for details such as downloading to a mobile device.

Sample open access resources (OER) listed below are linked at the Open Textbook Library or at the OER Commons.

Also see:

• Open Textbook Library: Search or browse by subject  Conditions of Use (Creative Commons license) are noted by title.
• OER Commons: The Advanced Search page provides Additional Search Criteria, including limiting by Creative Commons license use permission at lower right (Unrestricted Use, Conditional Remix and Share... etc.).
• For Additional Materials, at the two OER platforms listed above, use browse Subject options, or search by keyword phrases such as project management, interior design.
• Open Educational Resources IUB guide pages: Finding, Evaluating, Creating

SAMPLE OER RESOURCE SEARCHES

SAMPLE OER ITEMS

Learn more about Standards and Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs);  browse options for FREE ACCESS to STANDARDS

SEARCH and BROWSE for STANDARDS via University Library SUBSCRIPTION ACCESS

When you search Google Scholar on your personal computer, you can configure your settings so that IU Indianapolis Library resource links appear in your results. Then you can click the Find It @ IU Indianapolis Link to access a library item.

(TIP: If you're at a temporary computer and don't want to activate these settings, you can access Google Scholar via our Databases page (Library Home Page > Databases > Google Scholar (in the Search Box)). You'll be prompted to login with your IU Login, and then you'll see the Find It @ IU Indy links as well.)

How to Configure

To configure your Google Scholar Library Links, go to Google Scholar (scholar.google.com) and click on the three horizontal bars in the top-left corner, then click Settings, in the left-hand column.

Then select Library Links and search for "Indiana University Indianapolis." Check the box in the search select and click "Save."

Step 1

1. From a library database (https://iu.libguides.com/az.php), search for your topic. 
2. Click the access options, or PDF, or HTML.
3. If there is no full-text option (PDF or HTML), click "Find It" or "Find it @ IU Indianapolis."

Step 2

1. "Find it" will open a new page. If we have the full-text in another database, you should see a link to either the article itself or the journal under "Links to Content."
2. If there is no link to the article or the journal, click on the IU Indianapolis University Library InterLibrary Services link (or the link to your home library, IU School of Dentistry Library, Ruth Lilly Medical Library, Ruth Lilly Law Library) and submit a request.
3. In about 24 hours to 3 days, you'll receive an email with a link to the full-text of the article.