Library Guides: Design: Articles and Design Precedents in Databases

Key Databases for Design

Google Patents

Design and applied arts index : DAAI

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Marketing, Standards and Statistics

Business source complete
A definitive scholarly business database, providing bibliographic and full text content. Business Source Complete offers indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back to 1886. In addition to the searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200 journals, it also provides full text journals in all disciplines of business & economics. Additional full text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, case studies, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more.
IBISWorld
Detailed analyses of selected Australian industries, covering major players, industry performance and outlook, market characteristics, industry participants and recent news articles. Monash University Library subscribes to the following six modules:1. AU Industry Reports 2. AU Specialised Industry Collection 3. AU SME Industry Reports 4. AU Business Environment Profiles 5. AU Industry iExpert Summaries 6. China Industry Reports.
Passport
For access to this database, personalisation is required. The user will be prompted to complete a one-time form. Firefox or IE browser is recommended
Passport is Euromonitor International's global market research database providing statistics, analysis, reports, surveys and breaking news on industries, countries and consumers worldwide. Passport contains over a million demographic, economic and marketing statistics for 205 countries worldwide. The database also contains 6-year historic market size data for hundreds of consumer products in 52 countries, plus 5-year forecasts. This online market research tool monitors industry trends and gives users strategic analysis and a market size and market share database for products across key countries.

Techstreet enterprise. Australian standards
Three concurrent users only
Offers a searchable database of technical standards and specifications, produced by Standards Australia, with full text views.
If you can't find or access the standard you need after searching the Techstreet database, please email a request to the Electronic Resources team of Monash University Library at
lib-eresources-l@monash.edu with the following:
1) Details of the standard
2) Your name
3) Your faculty
4) Reason for request
EP Patents
The patents databases on Engineering Village 2 include US and European patents grants and applications covering a broad range of topics within the scientific, applied science, technical and engineering disciplines. Currently, there are over 10 million patents that are being offered. The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) offers access to its full text patent database. Full text patents are available from 1790 to date , and European patents from 1978 with weekly updates. Full text links will route you to the USPTO or European Patent Office web site where you can download images and view the full text of the patent selected.

Australian Design Rules for Vehicle Design
The Australian Design Rules (ADRs) are national standards for vehicle safety, anti-theft and emissions. The ADRs are generally performance based and cover issues such as occupant protection, structures, lighting, noise, engine exhaust emissions, braking and a range of miscellaneous items.

The Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics statistics
The Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE) provides economic analysis, research and statistics on infrastructure, transport and regional development issues to inform both Australian Government policy development and wider community understanding.
Australian Infrastructure Statistics Yearbook 2018
The Australian infrastructure statistics yearbook provides a comprehensive evidence base to examine long-term and emerging trends as well as inform policy development and regulatory reform in the transport, energy, water and communications sectors. It is the only comprehensive source of time series statistics for Australia's major areas of economic infrastructure. The yearbook is accompanied by the Key Australian Infrastructure Statistics Booklet which is a summary of statistics from the yearbook.
Australian Bureau of Statistics