Databases

Avery Index to Architectural PeriodicalsBest Bet

Comprehensive listing of journal articles on architecture and design, including the history and practice of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, historic preservation, and interior design and decoration. The American and international journals indexed include not only scholarly and popular periodical literature, but also publications of professional associations, American state and regional periodicals, and the major serials on architecture and design of Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. Coverage is mainly from 1934 to the present, with selective coverage back to 1741.

• Coverage is from 1977 to present.

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)

Academic Search Complete provides a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,500 journals and a total of more than 10,000 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.

Art Abstracts

Art Abstracts, produced by The H.W. Wilson Company, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Periodical 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 Abstracts indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Indexing coverage begins with September 1984 and abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. The abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source articles.

• Coverage is from 1929 to present.

Artists in Canada

Artists in Canada, compiled and maintained by the National Gallery of Canada Library, is a bilingual union list that identifies the location of documentation files on Canadian artists. Twenty-three libraries and art galleries across Canada have contributed biographical information and lists of their documentation files to create this resource which contains information for over 42,700 artists.

ARTstor

Artstor features millions of high-quality images and media from some of the world’s top photo archives, museums, libraries, scholars, and artists, including rare materials not available anywhere else. Artstor’s collections also include Open Access collections from partner museums freely available to all. All content in Artstor is rights-cleared for education and research — you are free to use it in classroom instruction and handouts, presentations, student assignments, and other noncommercial educational and scholarly activities.

Brown Project Digital Collection

Select drawings and slides from the J. Francis and F. Bruce Brown fonds dating from 1886-1972. This digital collection includes architectural drawings and slides of churches; buildings at Mount Allison University; residences; Provincial Legislative Buildings, Victoria, British Columbia; and Monroe County Court House, Rochester, New York.

BuildingGreen

Website with information to help building-industry professionals design and build construction projects that minimize ecological impact and maximize economic performance. Includes access to BuildingGreen report (formerly Environmental building news) articles, lists for GreenSpec products and specification guidelines, and detailed project case studies of high-performance buildings.

Calgary Modern Digital Collection

Selection of material from the Calgary Civic Trust fonds. Contents of the fonds date from 1999-2003 and feature photographs of Calgary and area buildings or landmarks including: apartments, overpasses, offices, businesses, schools, churches, shopping centres, banks, hotels, hospitals, and post offices.

Canadian Architectural Archives

The Canadian Architectural Archives (CAA) digital collection represents a small selection of materials held in University of Calgary's Archives and Special Collections. Digitized photographs, slides, and architectural drawings of buildings from across Canada are featured, dating from the late 19th century to the 1980s.

Featured CAA fonds and collections, organized as digital sub-collections, include: Calgary Modern, Donovan & Eunice Williams, Gordon Atkins, J. Francis and F. Bruce Brown, John Flanders, Marine Building, Panda Associates, Thomas H. Mawson.

Cities/Buildings Database

The Cities/Buildings Database is a collection of digitized images of buildings and cities drawn from across time and throughout the world. The database contains over 5000 images ranging from New York to Central Asia, from African villages, to the Parc de la Villette, and conceptual sketches and models of Frank Gehry's Experience Music Project.