Solano Community College Library: Digital Media Arts: Digital Media Arts Research Tools

Accessing O'Reilly Tech Books

Accessing the library of O'Reilly Tech books requires you to be logged in with SCC's credentials. To log in and access the books below, visit the library homepage, navigate to the e-books tab, and click the link for O'Reilly Tech Books.

O'Reilly Tech Books

Digital Alchemy

The Last Layer

A Project Guide to UX Design

AI Engineering

Realizing 3D Animation in Blender

Hands-On Large Language Models

Making and Breaking the Grid, Third Edition

Graphic Design for Dummies

Graphic Design That Works

Numbers in Graphic Design

Graphic Design, Referenced

The Language of Graphic Design

Drawing for Graphic Design

Engineering Design and Graphics with SolidWorks 2023

Books on Digital Media Arts

Aesthetics of Interaction in Digital Art

Art and Knowledge After 1900

Digital Alchemy

Digital SLR Video and Filmmaking for Dummies

Fine Art Photoshop

Fine Art Portrait Photography

Tony Northrup's DSLR Book

Transdisciplinary Digital Art

Digital Media Arts Databases

ARTstor
An image database full of images from some of the world's leading museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists.
JSTOR
JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. ARTstor, an image database full of images from some of the world's leading museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists, is also housed in JSTOR.
O'Reilly Tech Books
This tech and computer science resources provides access to 60,000+ audio and e-book titles, as well as 30,000+ hours of video including presentations from O’Reilly for Higher Education video. Also included are short courses, interactive tutorials, case studies, and more. MySolano credentials are required for using this resource on or off campus.
Humanities Source
This database covers all aspects of the humanities (art, history, communications, culture, literature and philosophy). It includes articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction, book reviews, and reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays and more.

Books (digital ebooks & print)

Library Catalog
Use the library catalog to find printed books, including course reserves aka textbooks, at Solano College and our partner libraries (Napa Public libraries and Napa Valley College).
Link+
gives you access to materials throughout California and Nevada libraries (academic, public, and special libraries).

See the Link+ FAQ info at: https://libguides.solano.edu/faq-policies
You may request items from any of these libraries, provided it is listed as "available" in the Link+ catalog, and it will be delivered to you at SCC for checkout.

Library Card Application
Apply for a library card online! You need this to check out books, chromebooks, and use Hoopla. Make sure you fill out the form completely. A temporary card number will be emailed to you. A permanent card is required for access to Hoopla. Please email scclibrary@solano.edu with questions.

When you're ready to dig deeper into your topic, or just need something good to read:

e-book central
A digital collection of ebooks in a super-wide range of subject areas. This one is a librarian go-to for fast access to a great collection.
EBSCOhost ebooks
A full-text ebook collection with over 150,000 titles from leading university presses and general interest publishers, in a broad array of subject coverage.
Audiobook & eBook Collection (Boundless)
Our newest ebook and audiobook collection! Check books in and out, and download them using the app: https://www.boundless-app.com/ You can also access these books directly via a web browser.

Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) / Gale e-books
A great place to begin your research process: to narrow your topic, get background information and to gather keywords. Encyclopedias and reference books are not generally used as cited sources in college-level research papers (usually you'll need to take what you find in an encyclopedia and head out to the databases for more advanced sources).

Subject coverage includes: art, biography, business, education, environment, history, information and publishing, law, literature, medicine, multicultural studies, nation and world, religion, science, social science, and technology.

Britannica
A great starting point for research with balanced, global perspectives and insights on thousands of topics. Access includes full access to Encyclopædia Britannica, Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, a selection of magazine and journal articles from trusted academic publishers, as well as many other research tools.
Credo
Credo is an easy-to-use tool for starting research. Gather background information on your topic from hundreds of full-text general and subject-specific reference titles, as well as 500,000 images and nearly 1,000 videos.

OneSearch

Search almost all of your library's databases at once!

Google your library's databases: Limit Your Results Full Text Peer Reviewed Lost on how to navigate the EBSCOHost databases or OneSearch? Watch this quick video from Seminole State Library on how to use Academic Search Complete, one of the large/general sub-databases within OneSearch.