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Subject Guide for Architecture and Architectural History Students.

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Use these indexes and databases to find articles in both professional and scholarly journals. An article that is not available in full text can be requested by clicking on the button.

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Starting Points / Top Resources

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive listing of journal articles published worldwide on architecture, city planning, interior design, landscape architecture, historic preservation, and sustainable design. Coverage is primarily from the 1930s to the present (with selective coverage dating back to the 1740s). No full text. Request articles via Get It For Me.
DAAI: Design and Applied Arts Index (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Covers a wealth of research topics in design--from architecture to packaging, marketing to advertising, photography to typography, metalworking to multimedia, and industrial design to interior design. Indexes and abstracts more than 130,000 research articles, reports, reviews, and news items from over 500 design and craft journals and newspapers. Also provides information on more than 50,000 designers, craftspeople, studios, workshops, and firms. Database subfiles include an international directory of educational institutions that offer courses in design and craft and an international directory of design and craft periodicals. See also Design Abstracts Retrospective.
DAR: Design Abstracts Retrospective This link opens in a new window
A retrospective of DAAI: Design & Applied Arts Index, DAR provides access to more than 70 design and design-related journals, from 1900-1986. See also DAAI: Design and Applied Arts Index.
AHRnet: Art History Research net This link opens in a new window
Four related and cross-searchable databases including ReVIEW, a digitized, fully-searchable collection of rare out of print decorative and fine arts journals from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries; Arts + Architecture ProFILES, a biographical dictionary of modern designers, craftspeople, artists and architects; Arts: Search Research Guides on a variety of art-related topics; and DAR: Design Abstracts Retrospective, a retrospective of DAAI: Design & Applied Arts Index. DAR provides access to more than 70 design and design-related journals, from 1900-1986. See also DAAI: Design and Applied Arts Index.

Trial databases/resources

A+T Online Library by A+T Architecture Publishers This link opens in a new window
Discover the A+T Online Library, an extensive architectural resource. Access a treasure trove of architectural knowledge, including magazines, books, housing projects, and mixed-use designs.

Note: Trial access to this resource will end on October 10, 2023.
Urban Next This link opens in a new window
urbanNext Lexicon introduces a new way to access architecture knowledge. It's powerful search engine and weekly topics allow our audience to engagingly navigate and stay up to date with current architectural theories and practices.

Note: Trial access to this resource will end on October 23, 2023.