ENVD 1004: Introduction to Environmental Design

This video tutorial will guide you in defining each of the three source types you need to find for your annotated bibliography assignment. Then you will learn to find each source type in the CU Boulder Libraries databases, linked below the video tutorial.

Below the video tutorial and recommended databases are some suggested topics you may want to select to focus your research on, as well as additional information on defining each article type and what the peer-review process is.

Find magazine and newspaper articles, peer-reviewed journal articles, and trade journal articles on educational spaces in the database:

Another search tool with the same interface as Education Source Ultimate, but which searches articles from all disciplines is:

Trade journal articles can be the most difficult to find. The databases below also contain a lot of trade journals and have filters to limit your search to trade journals, so these are good databases to try if you can't find trade journal articles in Education Source Ultimate or OneSearch:

• Architecture:
  • lighting (natural or synthetic)
  • classroom sizes
  • flooring
  • accessibility
  • class layout
  • windows
  • air quality/ventilation
  • temperature
  • acoustics/noise
• Landscape Architecture:
  • green spaces
  • outdoor seating
  • playgrounds
  • shade
• Urban Design:
  • sidewalks 
  • accessibility for people with disabilities
  • signage and wayfinding
  • parking
• Planning:
  • cafeteria design/environment
  • mixed-use spaces 
  • separation by gender (coeducation/single-gender/single-sex education), age, or ability
• Product Design:
  • furniture
  • lighting 
  • color
  • texture 
  • fabric
  • ergonomics (design based on body dimensions)

Researchers conduct original research and then publish articles about their research in scholarly journals. Articles published in scholarly journals usually go through an anonymous peer review process. Researchers may also present their research at a professional conference and in this case they also write a paper that is peer reviewed and published in the proceedings of the conference.

Lets explore how the peer review process works using the video "Peer Review in 3 Minutes" by the the North Carolina State University Library. 

Infographic by Jayashree Rajagopalan