Use the resources below to research your chosen interactive media topic.
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If you are researching a type of interactive media that is web-based (for example, social media), going to the websites for this media might give you some historical information or other useful info.
Safari Books is an eBook collection that focuses primarily on computer science and information technology. Depending on your interactive media topic, Safari Books might have some useful books.
Use Academic Search Complete, Computers & Applied Sciences Complete, and Computer Source to further research your chosen interactive media topic. All of these can be searched via Academic Search. Instructions for how to do so are below
Academic Search Complete includes full-text access to peer-reviewed journals, as well as indexing and abstracts for magazines, monographs, reports and conference proceedings. The database features some PDF content going back as far as 1867, with the majority of full text titles in searchable PDF format.
This is another eBook collection with books that contain info about various interactive media topics.
The Scholarly & Reference E-Book Collection contains electronic books purchased by Ohio academic libraries.
EBSCO eBook Collection is another database with eBooks. Again, depending on your interactive media topic, there might be several helpful books within the eBook Collection. I searched a few different types of interactive media and found books on each.
Collection contains over 17,000 ebooks on a variety of topics.