Primary Historic Preservation Databases & Article Indexes

AATA Online: Abstracts of International Conservation Literature
Also Known as: Art and Archaeology Technology Abstracts, Technical Studies in Art and Archaeology
Abstracts of material cultural heritage management and conservation literature worldwide. Topics include methods of examination and analysis, conservation including architectural conservation, archaeo...   [more]
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Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
- from CSA Databases
Covers architecture, architectural design, archeology, furniture and decoration, historic preservation, the history of architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, urban planning....   [more]
Holdings: 1930s to the present; selective coverage dating back to the 1860s, updated daily

Bibliography of the History of Art
Also Known as: BHA
- from CSA Databases
Covers European and American art from the fourth century C.E. to 2007. Areas addressed are painting, sculpture, drawings, prints, decorative and applied arts, architecture and industrial design, and...   [more]
Holdings: 1975 to 2007
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Conservation Information Network (BCIN)
Conservation and restoration of cultural property...   [more]
Holdings: 1932-
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International Bibliography of Art
Also Known as: IBA
IBA is the successor to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA), and retains BHA's editorial policies. The database includes records created by the Getty Research Institute in 2008-09, plus new r...   [more]
Holdings: 2008 - the present

Important Historic Preservation Databases & Article Indexes

Art and Architecture Source
Also Known as: Art & Architecture Source, Art and Architecture Complete, Art Source
A leading database for the study of art and architecture...provides full-text coverage of 380 periodicals and more than 220 books. [Coverage of periodicals mostly begins with 1980s or later, but some ...   [more]

Art Index Retrospective 1929-1984
Also Known as: art retrospective
Art. Coverage includes materials in English, French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. Reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed materials are included....   [more]
Holdings: 1929-1984

ARTstor
The ARTstor collection includes approximately 500,000 images of works of art, architecture and archaeology along with the necessary software to view the images, create personal groups of images and cr...   [more]
Supplemental URLs
    Help - technical help
    Help - general index
    Browse Penn collections in ArtStor
    Search ArtStor

British Architectural Library Catalogue
The online catalogue provides details of material held in the RIBA Library: an index to articles in over 300 of the world's most respected architectural periodicals details of books and audio visual ...   [more]
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Chicago Tribune (1849-1990), ProQuest Historical Newspapers
- from Proquest Historical Newspapers
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Holdings: 1849-1990

CRM Online
The online publication of the National Park Service, Cultural Resource Management....   [more]
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Images of America: A History of American Life in Images and Texts (Mid-Atlantic)
Also Known as: Local and Regional History Online (Mid-Atlantic)
- from Alexander Street Press
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National Register of Historic Places
"Established under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Register has identified and documented, in partnership with state, federal, and tribal preservation programs more than 7...   [more]
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PAIS International
Also Known as: Public Affairs Information Service, PAIS Archive
- from CSA Databases
Bibliographic citations (1915-) with indexing on contemporary public affairs and policy issues worldwide related to a wide range of topics: agriculture, banking, finance, business, demographics, educa...   [more]
Holdings: 1915-
Supplemental URLs
    Journal List (OCLC PAIS via Internet Archive)
    Broad Topics Classification (OCLC PAIS via Internet Archive)

Philadelphia Historical Land and Vital Records
Also Known as: Historic Land and Vital Records
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Philadelphia Neighborhoods Project Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Also Known as: Philadelphia Neighborhoods: Histories, Plans and Futures
Philadelphia Neighborhoods: Histories, Plans and Futures is a free, searchable database of neighborhood-based reports issued by the Philadelphia City Planning Commission between 1946 and 1990. The dat...   [more]
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PhilaDox - Philadelphia Land Records Search
Also Known as: Land Record search; philadox
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PlanPhilly
PlanPhilly connects the planning, design and development communities in Philadelphia through an integrated content package made up of breaking and investigative news, expert analysis and opinion, org...   [more]
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Sanborn Maps of New Jersey (retrospective)
Link, courtesy of Princeton Univ. Library, to scanned, historical Sanborn Maps for many New Jersey locations. This link takes you to an index page. Click on the name of the NJ county in which a town...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Web of Science
Also Known as: ISI Citation Indexes, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, SSCI, SCI, AHCI, ISI, WOK, Web of Knowledge
Indexes journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Allows for cited reference searching. Includes Science Citation Index, the Social Science Citation Index[more]
Holdings: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)--1945-present, Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)--1956-present, Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)--1975-present. Updated weekly.
Supplemental URLs
    Web of Science Tutorials
    Cited Reference Searching Tutorial

Related Historic Preservation Databases & Article Indexes

Art and Architecture Archive
Access to content (page images) of selected architecture, art and design journals from their beginnings to 2005. As of Nov. 2013, 15 titles are available: Apollo, Architects' Journal, Architectural R...   [more]

Global Books in Print
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Holdings: Updated weekly.
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Historical Abstracts
Historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada)....   [more]
Holdings: ca. 1974- present. Updated three times a year.

History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Also Known as: HST , Wellcome Bibliography, History of Science, Technology and Medicine
ACCESS NOTE: 5 concurrent users

International bibliography on the history of science and technology from pre-history to the present, describing journal articles, conference proceedings, book...   [more]
Holdings: 1975 to the present. Updated annually.

Index of Medieval Art
Also Known as: Index of Christian Art
Text-only database indexes thematic and iconographic content of early Christian and medieval art. The ICA locates an iconographic subject and provides extensive tabular description of the individual w...   [more]
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Proquest Dissertations and Theses Fulltext (formerly Dissertation Abstracts)
Also Known as: Digital Dissertations, Dissertation Abstracts, UMI, DAI, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (PQDT), Proquest Dissertations and Theses Fulltext
Indexing (since 1861) and abstracting (since 1980) for doctoral-level dissertations completed at North American universities. Page images or fulltext of all available dissertations - including Penn d...   [more]
Holdings: Indexing 1861-present, abstracts 1980-present, page-image or fulltext PDF for available dissertations dissertations from 1997 to the present.
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