LibGuides: Architecture: Articles & Databases

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All Indexes and Databases
This link takes you to a comprehensive list of all databases available through the UNLV Libraries. Use the drop-down menu above to narrow by subject.

Databases

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals This link opens in a new window
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The basic index for architecture articles.
The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals indexes more than 1,000 periodicals published worldwide in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, interior design, urban planning and historic preservation.
Art Full Text This link opens in a new window
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Art publications index with selected full text from 1997. Limited to 12 simultaneous users.
Art, architecture, photography, graphic design, landscape architecture, interior design, film, museology are all covered. Possible to limit searches to full text items only or peer-reviewed items only. Works of art found reproduced in periodicals are also indexed. 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 of selected articles begins in 1997.
Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window
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Access is limited to 4-5 simultaneous users.
Art encyclopedia
Use this resource for information of the visual arts world, from prehistory to the present day. Full text articles, images and charts, and links to web material
Art and Architecture Thesaurus This link opens in a new window
Maintained by the Getty Research Institute, this thesaurus has more than 131,000 terms, as well as other information about concepts used to describe art, architecture, decorative arts, material culture, and archival material.
The site also provides access to two related thesauri, The Union List of Artist Names (ULAN) and The Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names.
Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI) This link opens in a new window
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Update frequency: annual
Abstracts and citations for articles, news items, and reviews published in design and applied arts periodicals.
DAAI covers both new designers and the development of design and the applied arts since the mid-19th century, surveying disciplines including ceramics, glass, jewelry, wood, metalsmithing, graphic design, fashion and clothing, textiles, furniture, interior design, architecture, computer aided design, Web design, computer-generated graphics, animation, product design, industrial design, garden design, and landscape architecture
Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Literature Index This link opens in a new window
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1973-
Citations and abstracts of journal articles.
Use this resource for information about horticulture, botany, garden and landscape design and history, ecology, plant and garden conservation, garden management, and horticultural therapy. Coverage varies by title indexed, with some titles indexed from 1973 onward and others starting in 2003.
Building Green This link opens in a new window
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Articles, reviews, product information and news on sustainable building.
This resource integrates product listings from the GreenSpec products directory, project case studies from the High-Performance Buildings Database, and the Environmental Building News.
American Planning Association Planning Advisory Service Reports Index This link opens in a new window
Subject index to APA's Planning Advisory Service Reports numbers 1 through 537.
The following is a subject index to APA's Planning Advisory Service Reports numbers 1 through 537, 1949-2006. Reports on zoning often appear under specific subject headings. Zoning for the elderly, for example, is listed under the heading ELDERLY.
Art Index Retrospective 1929-1984 This link opens in a new window
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Citations to articles and books on archaeology, architecture, art history, city planning, crafts, landscape architecture, film, fine arts, folk arts, graphic arts, industrial design, and photography.
CUMINCAD This link opens in a new window
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Citations and abstracts of articles about computer aided architectural design. To gain access, UNLV users create a username/password by clicking New User and filling out the form.
Update frequency: annual
CUMINCAD a cumulative index of publications about computer aided architectural design covering over 8,200 citations from journals and conferences. All papers include abstracts and the full text of about 5,500 papers is available.
GreenFILE This link opens in a new window
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Coverage about the impact of humans on the environment from government, general and scholarly publications can be found in this resource.
It contains over 300,000 records and over 200 cited references from the agriculture, education, law, health and technology fields.
National Register of Historic Places This link opens in a new window
Entries include building name, location, date listed, and National Register number.

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
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Searchable articles from academic and professional journals and magazines covering every academic discipline.
Update frequency: Updated daily
This excellent one-stop resource lets you search citations and summaries by keyword and then instantly retrieve the full text of articles from journals online. The Get Text button helps you locate any article without linked full text in alternate online sources or in UNLV's print journal collection.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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An archive of more than 700 important scholarly journals covering business, ecology, education, ethnic studies, history, literature, mathematics, music, philosophy, political science, and sociology with content ending 3-5 years ago
JSTOR digitally archives more than 700 scholarly journals. Subjects include African-American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, business, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, music, philosophy, political science, and more.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
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1995-
Scholarly journals in the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.
Update frequency: monthly
Arts & Humanities Citation Index This link opens in a new window
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1975-
A&HCI provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information and cited references found in nearly 1,130 of the world's leading arts & humanities journals.
Update frequency: Updated weekly
Use this tool to identify how often a particular author has been cited in the work of peers or to identify the most influential scholarship on a topic.
Periodicals Archive Online (PAO) This link opens in a new window
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1802-1995
Journal articles in the humanities and social sciences published between 1802-1995
Update frequency: quarterly
Search international scholarly literature in the humanities and social sciences disciplines from 1802 to 1995. PAO includes pre-1995 issues of over 400 journals, including many journals published in languages other than English.
Credo General Reference This link opens in a new window
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Dictionaries, specialized encyclopedias, quotations, thesauri, and bilingual dictionaries.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Searches scholarly journal articles. Set preferences to UNLV for full text access!
Google Scholar searches for scholarly materials such as peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and reports from many academic and technical fields. It is freely available to anyone searching the Internet; however, many of the links that lead to full text resources are not. On your first visit, go to Google Scholar Preferences and use the Library Links box to set UNLV as your source for no-fee access to many full text articles. For answers to questions about Google Scholar, check out the FAQ.

Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
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Searchable published news, legal, medical and business information.
The news section delivers the full text of international, national and regional newspapers along with wire services, broadcast transcripts, magazines, and non-English language sources. The legal section contains U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews and international legal information. This includes Shepard's Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789. The medical section supplies information from news and medical journals, and provides abstracts to medical news from Medline. The business section includes business news journals, company financial information, SEC filings and reports, and industry and market news.
America's Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
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1690-1923
Historical newspapers from every state in the U.S.
Historical Newspapers: Chicago Tribune This link opens in a new window
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1849-2014
Major daily newspaper from Chicago.
Chicago Tribune This link opens in a new window
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1985-
Major daily newspaper from Chicago.
For 1851-1997, see Historical Newspapers: Chicago Tribune
Historical Newspapers: Los Angeles Times This link opens in a new window
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1881-2015
Historical California newspaper.
Los Angeles Times, 1996 - current This link opens in a new window
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1996-
Major daily newspaper from Los Angeles. Click on the publications link above the search box and then select "Los Angeles Times" to search only this publication.
With the nation's largest editorial department, it offers extensive coverage of national, international, and local news.
Historical Newspapers: New York Times This link opens in a new window
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1851-2020
Historical New York newspaper.
Newspaper Source Plus This link opens in a new window
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Regional newspapers and broadcast television transcripts.
Newspaper Source provides full text coverage for 40 national and international newspapers including USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, The Times (London), and The Toronto Star. Selected full text is offered from more than 330 regional newspapers including The Buffalo News, Orange County Register, Philadelphia Inquirer, San Francisco Chronicle, and St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Full text transcripts are available from CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, National Public Radio, and more.
US Newsstream This link opens in a new window
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1980s-
Searchable current and recent articles from newspapers, including Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
Full text of articles from major national newspapers: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, USA Today. Also included are the New York Times Book Review, the New York Times Magazine, and the Las Vegas Review Journal.
Times Digital Archive, 1785-2019 This link opens in a new window
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1785-2019
The Times (London) newspaper.
Las Vegas Review Journal (NewsBank) This link opens in a new window
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1996-
Full text of articles, not including images.

ARTstor This link opens in a new window
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Art digital images and related data.
A repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, social sciences and related data; the tools to actively use those images; and a restricted usage environment that seeks to balance the rights of content providers with the needs and interests of content user.
Getty Images This link opens in a new window
Images from the J. Paul Getty museum - use the search filters to choose the type of material for your results.

Library of Congress: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey
The collections document achievements in architecture, engineering, and landscape design in the United States and its territories through a comprehensive range of building types, engineering technologies, and landscapes, including examples as diverse as the Pueblo of Acoma, houses, windmills, one-room schools, the Golden Gate Bridge, and buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Catalog This link opens in a new window
Images held by the Prints and Photographs division of the Library of Congress.
The Prints and Photographs Online Catalog contains catalog records and digital images representing a rich cross-section of still pictures held by the Prints & Photographs Division and other units of the Library of Congress. About 90% of the records are accompanied by one or more digital images. In some collections, only thumbnail images display to those searching outside the Library of Congress because of potential rights considerations.
National Gallery of Art images This link opens in a new window
Images from the National Gallery of Art

American Library Association's Digital Images Collections Guide
A curated bibliography of quality digital image collections spanning approximately 85 subjects, including around 950 digital collections.
The Medieval Kingdom of Sicily Image Database
A Visual Resource of Historical Sites c. 1100 - c. 1450. This database is a collection of historic images that represents the medieval monuments and cities of the Kingdom of Sicily collected from museums, libraries, archives and publications.

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