On-campus, from Decker Library’s webpage (www.mica.edu/library/library.html), click on Catalog and Databases – then Design and Applied Arts Index (daai). 

Off-campus, from the Decker Library’s pagelet on the MICA Portal, click on Design and Applied Arts Index. You must log-in to the portal to access the databases, and add the Decker Library News pagelet to your layout by selecting it within the content section.

daai currently contains over 130,000 annotated references from more than 500 design and craft journals published between 1973-2002, and data on over 50,000 designers, craftspeople, studios, workshops, firms etc., making the largest database of its kind in the world.

daai also contains 4 ongoing supplementary databases: international directories of design and craft courses, organisations, archives and special library collections, and periodicals.
 

Type search keyword/s into the text box provided.

The search defaults to search as Keyword, so it will search in all sections of the record. Or, choose to search for the word/s as found in:
 Title  /  Author  /  Journal Name  /  Anywhere

If using several keywords, choose from the following:

Exact Phrase – to search the words as a phrase – no need to enclose them in quotation marks

Any of the words – this connects the words with OR – will find records that include any one of the words – this makes search more general

All of the words – this connects the words with AND –  each record found will include all of the words – this makes search more specific

Choose to see only English-language materials

Limit search by time frame – to focus on art writing from a specific time period - default is from earliest (1974) through current date

Sort by publication date or by relevancy ranking – default is publication date

Choose what form of the records to view: Citation / Citation + Abstract / or / Full Record – choose Full Record for the most information

Results are a list of records, each of which is a brief citation for one item, which is a journal article. Each record contains a textual summary (or abstract) of the item.

To find an article in the Library, copy the SO: (source) line: 
Journal title, Volume/Number (Date): Page numbers. Also note title and author of the article.

As you view citations, place a check mark in the box at the top of each record to add it to a list which can be formatted to print, saved to computer disk, or emailed to your address. Just click on the Save/Print/Email button at the top or bottom of the screen and follow the prompts on the form page.

To print, click view records, then type <Control P> on the computer keyboard to launch the printer.

Scroll down on the Main Search page and click on link for Other Search Options (or click on Extra Data at the top of the search).

Here you can choose to confine your keyword search to selected single or multiple parts of the record:

Author
Title
Periodical
Year
Abstract (or article Summary)
Subject

Or do a Subject Search, with one box in which to type topical search terms. This search is run through a Thesaurus which finds direct matches to your search terms as well as related subjects.

Or search for a specific Designer by name.

The Supplementary Databases are also accessible here by scrolling further down the page:

Education: an international directory of universities and colleges which offer courses in design and craft subjects

Organisations: an international directory of design and craft organisations, societies, associations, and centres
Archives: an international directory of design and craft archives and special collections
Periodicals: an international directory of design and craft journals (based on the titles indexed by daai)

See citation examples for the following formats, online, courtesy of Western Washington University http://www.library.wwu.edu/ref/citn.htm:

Examples from MLA (Modern Language Association):
Footnote or Endnote
¹⁰⁰Paul Michaud, "Paris exhibit puts Matisse and Morocco in focus," Art Business News 26/12 (Dec 1999): 26.

KEY: Number of note in superscript. Author first name, last name, "Article Title," Journal Title (italicized or underlined) Volume #/Issue # (Date): page of quotation source.

Citation embedded parenthetically within text
Blah blah blah, blah as Michaud says, "Blah, blah, etc." (Michaud 26). Blah blah blah etc.

(If bibliography contains just one work by Michaud, otherwise use Michaud a, Michaud b, etc.)

Article Bibliography, Basic Form
Michaud, Paul. "Paris exhibit puts Matisse and Morocco in focus." Art Business News 26/12 (Dec 1999): 26-27.

KEY: Author last name, first name. "Article Title." Journal Title (italicized or underlined) Volume #/Issue # (date): page numbers overall.

Full Text Article from an Online Database
Michaud, Paul. "Paris exhibit puts Matisse and Morocco in focus." Art Business News 26/12 (Dec 1999): 26-27. Art Full Text. The H.W. Wilson Co. 8 April 2002 <http://vweb.hwwilsonweb.dom>.

KEY: Author last name, first. "Article Title." Journal Title (italicized or underlined) Volume #/Issue # (date): page numbers overall. Database title (italicized or underlined). Database publisher. Date accessed. <URL where accessed>.