Selected Resources for: Architecture


Subject Librarian: Deborah Boudewyns
E-Mail: ultan004@tc.umn.edu
Subject Description:This subject covers: design and aesthetics of the built environment, building technologies, and historic preservation.


Abstracts and Indexes

Academic or Scholarly Articles Subject Indexes
Art Full Text Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Art Full Text, produced by The HW Wilson Company, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world. There is full-text coverage for selected periodicals. Coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. In addition to articles, Art Full Text indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Indexing coverage begins 1984; abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. The abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source articles. Full-text coverage begins in 1997.
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Art Index Retrospective Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Art Index Retrospective covers 55 years (from 1929-1984)of art journalism and research from leading English-language sources, plus others published in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch. Besides periodicals, resources include data from yearbooks and select museum bulletins.
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ArtBibliographies Modern Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Index and abstracts of articles from periodical articles, books, exhibition catalogs, and index entries for dissertations. Covers all aspects of late 19th and 20th century art, including decorative and applied art, with particular reference to photography and three-dimensional design.
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Arts & Humanities Citation Index
AHCI covers arts and humanities, including archaeology, architecture, area studies, art, classics, dance, film, folklore, history, language and linguistics, literature and literary reviews, music, philosophy, poetry, radio and television, religion and theology, and theater. Indexes articles, book reviews, performance reviews, fiction, poetry, editorials, letters, etc. from over 1,100 arts and humanities journals published worldwide in all languages. Also includes selected relevant articles from an additional 6,800 journals in other fields. Each bibliographic citation includes a list of references cited in the source article. In addition, it is possible to retrieve a list of works that have cited a specific author or a specific earlier work. Covers 1975 - present.

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Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Recognized as one of the world's leading databases of the architectural literature. Indexes more than 1,000 western language periodicals published worldwide on architecture, archaeology, decorative arts, environmental studies, furniture, historic preservation, landscape architecture, urban planning/city planning, interior design, and historic preservation.

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Design and Applied Arts Index Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
DAAI is an international index to design and craft journals. It contains annotated references from more than 450 design and craft journals, and data on nearly 50,000 designers, craftspeople, studios, workshops, firms etc. All areas of design and craft are covered, including industrial design, interior design, environmental design, computer aided design, furniture design, ceramics, glass, fashion design, textile design, graphic design, typography, multimedia design, book design, photography, advertising, theatre design, ergonomics, and design management.
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JSTOR Authentication Required
Index to JSTOR, full text academic journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. JSTOR provides complete journal backruns from the date of initial publication up to a date defined, on a publisher by publisher basis, by a "moving wall". The moving wall is a fixed period of time ranging, in most cases, from 2 to 5 years, that defines the gap between the most recently published issue and the date of the most recent issues available in JSTOR.
Remote access available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff, and faculty
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General Indexes to Magazine, Journal & Newspaper Articles
Academic Search Premier Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education.
The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.
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LexisNexis Academic (ON CAMPUS USE ONLY) Authentication Required
LexisNexis Academic is a collection of online databases: News, Business (plus corporate news and corporate financials), Legal, Medical, and Reference. International news sources are included.
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Catalogs and Bibliographies

Catalogs
MNCAT Classic
Search with MNCAT Classic to find books, journals, etc. owned by the library. Search by keyword, subject, title, or author for materials on your topic. MNCAT Classic lacks the faceted searching of MNCAT Plus, but can be easier to use if you already have a good idea of what you're looking for.
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WorldCat Authentication Required
This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education
Covers all subjects. Provides bibliographic citations of books, serials, manuscripts, maps, music scores, sound recordings, films and machine-readable data files published worldwide. Provides holdings information for nearly 30,000 libraries. Producer/Publisher is OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.

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General Reference Sources

Atlases & Maps
Digital Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970 : Minnesota Authentication Required
Sanborn fire insurance maps are the most frequently consulted maps in both public and academic libraries. Sanborn maps are valuable historical tools for urban specialists, social historians, architects, geographers, genealogists, local historians, planners, environmentalists and anyone who wants to learn about the history, growth, and development of American cities, towns, and neighborhoods. This collection covers Minnesota towns and cities from 1867-1970.
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Biographical Sources








Dictionaries




Grove Art Online Authentication Required
"The most comprehensive online reference resource for all aspects of the visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the present day." This is the online version of The Dictionary of Art (Grove's). NOTICE: Grove Art Online requires Netscape 4.0 or Internet Explorer 4.0 (or higher) for full functionality. On computers with less powerful web browsers the external images links and maps, charts, and diagrams will not be available.
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Directories








Encyclopedias

Encyclopaedia Britannica Online Authentication Required
Concise as well as scholarly articles on a wide range of subjects. Also includes links to related Internet resources, and the Britannica Book of the Year. Search tip: When combining words in search, capitalize AND. For example: revolution AND 1848
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General Reference Works
Environmental Resource Guide on CD-Rom (electronic resource) : includes 1997 and 1998 updates
Contains current information on the environmental aspects of building materials, based on a life-cycle analysis of materials.
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Handbooks and Manuals

















Time-saver Standards for Building Types

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Internet Resources

Gateways & Megasites
ArchNet
Links to academic departments, archeological regions, museums, electronic journals, and more.
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Web Sites



Multimedia Materials

Drawings
Garland Architectural Archives
(Printed book series, Library Use Only) Excellent resources for studying detailed drawings for each building and unbuilt project by selected architectural masters: Aalto, Gropius, Kahn, Le Corbusier, Mies, Sauvage, and Schindler. Recommended for graduate level research. All of the books in this series are in the special collections. Ask staff for assistance.
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Image Resources
ARTstor Authentication Required
ARTstor is a new cross-disciplinary image database. It offers collections of approximately 300,000 art images and descriptive information covering art, architecture and archeology. ARTstor's accompanying software tools will support a wide range of pedagogical and research uses including: viewing and analyzing images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline.
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Style Manuals and Writing Guides

Bibliography Software
RefWorks: Personal Citation Manager Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
RefWorks is a web-based citation manager that allows you to create your own databases of citations by importing references from MNCAT and other databases, and then in seconds automatically generate bibliographies in all major styles (MLA, APA, Turabian, Chicago, etc.).
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Style Manuals

Writing Guides


Library Information

Primary Subject Location


Architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, building technology.
Campus: East Bank, Minneapolis Campus
Address: 210 Rapson Hall
Telephone: 612-624-6383
Main URL: http://arch.lib.umn.edu/
Reference URL: http://infopoint.lib.umn.edu/
Map URL: http://onestop.umn.edu/Maps/Arch/index.html
Hours URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/site/fetch_hours.phtml?LibID=4


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