This research guide is here to support students at the School of Visual Arts in developing qualitative research methods. It consists of resources from across the library collections, including research databases, ebooks, books, articles, and streaming videos. This is just a selection of the resources that the library has available for you. If you're ever wondering where to start - or how to continue - your research, the SVA librarians are here to help! Contact us here.
The following databases contain both scholarly articles and ebooks that may be useful for your research. You can find a short description of each database below.
Ebook Central's Academic Complete collection contains over 207,000 multidisciplinary ebooks with unlimited, multi-user access, powerful research tools and DRM-free chapter downloads.
ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center database of the U.S. Department of Education, contains citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals, as well as full text of more than 2,200 digests.
Use this database to find articles on: Mental illness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, HMOs, Prescription Drugs, etc.
A full text scholarly database of 2,800 multidisciplinary journal titles focused on the arts, humanities and social sciences. **Artstor has moved to the JSTOR platform as of August 1, 2024** Artstor images document artistic traditions across many time periods and cultures including architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design. Digital images come from museums, archaeological teams, photo archives, slide collections, and art reference publishers. The collection is over 2+ million images. Users must create a personal account.
ProQuest Central contains ~30,000 journals across all major subject areas, including Business, Health and Medical, Language and Literature, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, as well as core titles in the Performing and Visual Arts, History, Religion, Philosophy, plus thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world.
From the National Institutes of Health, PubMed® comprises more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
The SVA library has a number of additional related guides that may support you in your research:
This is just a selection of ebooks that can be found in Ebook Central Academic Complete. Just log in with your SVA credentials to begin searching your topic!
Find the following books on the shelves at the Main Library and Library West. Or try your own search in the the library catalog here.
Yale School of Medicine
In 2019, the Yale School of Medicine published The Fundamentals of Qualitative Research Methods, a series of six video modules led by Dr. Leslie Curry, PhD, MPS. Click here to for the full playlist on YouTube.
Here are some examples or articles that can be found in the library's online article databases mentioned in the "Article & Ebook databases" above.