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the databases outlined below to search:
i) articles
from newspapers, magazines and journals - many in fulltext.
ii) reference
sources such as dictionaries, biographies, financial information,
statistics and more.
Users are «strongly» urged
to search the "General,
Multi-Disciplinary" category in addition to
any specific subject category. These general services provide a
wide variety of databases and subsidiary files.
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Architectural
Publications Index (1972-)
From
RIBA, an international coverage of some 300 core architecture
journals.
The API is only one part of the RIBA British Architectural Library
Online Catalogue. Before searching you need to specify
the ARTICLES section of the RIBA Online Catalogue.
From the RIBA Online Catalogue, scroll down to Search Limits
at the bottom of the screen, left-hand side. At library: click
on the down arrowhead and pull down to select ARTICLES. |
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Index Retrospective
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| Art
Full Text
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ARTstor
ARTstor
is a digital library of art images, associated information,
and software tools designed to enhance teaching, learning and
scholarship. ARTstor contains approximately 300,000 images of
art, architecture and archeology from a wide range of cultures
and time periods, with initial strengths in European, American
and Asian cultures.
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The
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
Indexes
more than 2,000 periodicals published worldwide on archaeology,
city planning, interior design, and historic preservation, as
well as architecture. Coverage is from the 1930s (with selective
coverage dating back to the 1860s) to the present.
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Design
and Applied Arts Index (DAAI)
An
international index to design and craft journals, currently
containing over 110,000 annotated references from more than
450 design and craft journals published between 1973-2001 (most
articles date from 1987), and data on over 47,000 designers,
craftspeople, studios, workshops, firms etc., making the largest
database of its kind in the world. Between 10,000-15,000 references
are added annually.
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Web |
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MAD
CAD: Building Codes Online
MAD
CAD is an online reference database, containing building codes,
knowledge-based design solutions, and guidelines to meet the
codes. MADCAD will provide you access to cross-referenced collections
of building, electrical, mechanical, plumbing, fire, and maintenance
codes from BOCA, SBCCI, ICBO, ICC, and NFPA. MAD CAD gives access
to comprehensive state and local codes to meet architectural,
engineering and educational solutions.
You can search
for codes from the main page, or by using the Search function. |
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Oxford
Art Online
Access to the more than 23,000 subject entries, 21,000 biographies, 500,000 bibliographic citations, 40,000 image links and 5,000 images contained within Grove Art Online. Also included are The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics,
and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. |
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Oxford
Reference Premium
Fourteen
art and achitecture texts available electronically from
Oxford Reference Premium Online. Among others,
titles include: Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape,
Oxford Dictionary of Art, and Dictionary of Modern
Design. |
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| Proquest
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