Primary Architecture 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]

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

ARTbibliographies Modern
Also Known as: ART bibliographies Modern
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Indexes material published 1974-present. Art coverage begins with Impressionism in the late nineteenth century and continues up to the most recent works and trends in the twenty-first century. Photog...   [more]
Holdings: 1969-1971 (printed vols. only); 1974-present (online)

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]
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Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
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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
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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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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 Architecture Databases & Article Indexes

Arts & Humanities Citation Index: A&HCI (WOK Web of Science)
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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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BuildingGreen Suite
Also Known as: Building Green Suite
About BuildingGreen, LLC: We are an independent company committed to providing accurate, unbiased, and timely information designed to help building-industry professionals and policy makers improve the...   [more]

Conservation Information Network (BCIN)
Conservation and restoration of cultural property...   [more]
Holdings: 1932-
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CRM Online
The online publication of the National Park Service, Cultural Resource Management....   [more]
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Design and Applied Arts Index
Also Known as: DAAI , Design and Applied Art Index
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A leading source of abstracts and bibliographic records for articles, news items, and reviews published in design and applied arts periodicals from 1973 onwards....   [more]

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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Material ConneXion
Material ConneXion maintains the world's largest subscription-based materials library, with more than 7,500 innovative materials and processes across all disciplines of design. Materials are selected ...   [more]

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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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]
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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.
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Related Architecture Databases & Article Indexes

Anthropological Index Online
Content is in Anthropology Plus. Index to current periodicals held in the Centre for Anthropology at the British Museum, London. Covers cultural and social anthropology, archaeology, biological and ph...   [more]
Holdings: 1957-.
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AP Photo Archive
Also Known as: AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive, AP Images
Image and Graphics Databases only available on this subscription. Contains over one million Associated Press photographs (with searchable captions) in two collections, downloadable as JPEG (jpg) image...   [more]
Holdings: Photos: 1826 to present. Graphics: 1999 to present. Audio files: 1920s to present.
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Bibliography of Asian Studies
All subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, South Asia, and Indian Ocean countries....   [more]
Holdings: 1971 to the present.

GeoRef
The principal tool for identifying the worldwide literature in geology and the geosciences....   [more]
Holdings: 1785 to the present (North American); 1933 to the present (entire world.) Updated bi-monthly.

Global Books in Print
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Holdings: Updated weekly.
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Handbook of Latin American Studies
Also Known as: HLAS
Bibliography of works on Latin America selected by scholars and edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. Covers anthropology (including archaeology, ethnohistory and ethnology), ar...   [more]
Holdings: 1935 to the present. Updated monthly.
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Hispanic American Periodicals Index
Also Known as: HAPI
Subjects covered include anthropology, archaeology, anthropology, banking and finance, business, commerce, drama, drug trade, economic development, environmental issues, ethnography, folklore, geogr...   [more]
Holdings: 1970 to the present. Updated weekly.

ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Medieval (400-1500) and Renaissance (1300-1700) studies...   [more]
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Periodicals Index Online
Also Known as: PIO,PCI,Periodical Contents Index,Chadwyck PCI,Periodicals Contents Index
Humanities and social sciences. The scope is international, including journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western languages. ...   [more]

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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TRID the TRIS and ITRD Database
TRID is an integrated database that combines the records from TRB's Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) database and the OECD's Joint Transport Research Centre's International Transpo...   [more]
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Whole Earth (via wholeearthmag.com)
Website offers free access to scanned full-text of many editions of the Whole Earth Catalog (Fall 1968-1990s) and Supplement (plus purchasable full-issue downloads), of CoEvolution Quarterly / Whole E...   [more]
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