Research guides: Architecture, Landscape, and Design Research Guide: Find Articles and Periodicals

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The same search techniques and Boolean operators used to find books in the library catalogue, also work when searching for articles in databases.

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals This link opens in a new window
The major index for architecture. Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals is a comprehensive guide to both the scholarly and popular literature on architecture and design worldwide. It contains citations to articles from more than 700 American and international journals. The Avery Index is created by the Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library at Columbia University and the Getty Research Institute.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Covers over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as selected monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. The entire corpus is full-text searchable.

Architectural Index for Ontario (Archindont)
Archindont is a database of architectural information and citations to periodical articles and books about buildings in Toronto.

Biodiversity Heritage Library This link opens in a new window
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize the legacy literature of biodiversity held in their collections and to make that literature available for open access and responsible use as a part of a global “biodiversity commons.” The BHL consortium works with the international taxonomic community, rights holders, and other interested parties to ensure that this biodiversity heritage is made available to a global audience through open access principles. In partnership with the Internet Archive and through local digitization efforts, the BHL has digitized millions of pages of taxonomic literature, representing over 100,000 titles and over 170,000 volumes.
Building Types Online This link opens in a new window
Facilitates research on building typology and architectural design assignments. Includes architectural drawings and case studies published in Birkhauser publications.

DAAI: Design and Applied Arts Index
A comprehensive international index to articles from over 500 current design and craft journals and newspapers, as well as data on over 50,000 designers, craftspeople, studios, workshops, firms, and more.

DETAIL Inspiration This link opens in a new window
Images and project documents from thousands of DETAIL Magazine projects. Filter your search by building type, material, construction, or location.

Global plants
Offers access to botanical resources from dozens of herbaria, libraries, museums and other research institutions. The database includes plant type specimens from herbaria around the world, scientific research articles and correspondence dating back hundreds of years, and full-text books and reference works on botany.

GreenFILE This link opens in a new window
Covers many aspects of human impact on the environment. GreenFILE offers a collection of scholarly, government and general interest titles on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling and more.

OnArchitecture
An online audiovisual service which currently offers a selection of 150 videos of buildings, installations and interviews with the world's most distinguished contemporary architects/authors. All of this is enriched with a selection of complementary material - documents and audiovisuals - about the main authors and figures of contemporary architecture.

Art and Architecture Archive
Art and Architecture Archive is a major research resource comprising the digitized backfiles of many of the foremost art and architecture magazines of the twentieth century. Offering unprecedented access to the archives of key consumer and trade publications, it is a unique collection of the essential primary sources for studying the history of these subjects. The magazines cover the spectrum of sub-disciplines, from fine and applied arts, through to interior design, industrial design, and landscape gardening. Each issue is scanned from cover to cover in high resolution color and presented in page image format with fully searchable text.

Art Full Text (H.W. Wilson) This link opens in a new window
A major database for art, Art Full Text is especially useful because it is selective rather than comprehensive in coverage and because it focuses on major English language journals. It offers broad coverage of fine, decorative and commercial art.
ARTbibliographies Modern This link opens in a new window
A major database for information on modern and contemporary art dating from the 19th century. ARTbibliographies Modern covers famous and lesser known artists, movements, and trends. Photography is covered from its invention.
Bloomsbury Architecture Library This link opens in a new window
Explore 5,500 years of the world’s architecture, browse through an interactive visual timeline of global architectural history; study in-depth buildings pages; or undertake research through the Core Collection.
International Bibliography of Art (IBA) This link opens in a new window
A major resource for scholarly literature on western art. The International Bibliography of Art covers European art from late antiquity to the present, American art from the colonial era to the present, and global art since 1945. IBA is the successor to the Bibliography of the History of Art.

USModernist
Largest open digital archive of midcentury Modernist houses in the world