ARCHITECTURAL INDEXES & ABSTRACTS

1. Online Indexes
Avery Index Web
The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals indexes journal articles published worldwide on architecture and design, archaeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation. 1930s- (with selective coverage dating back to the 1860s) to the present. The index is updated weekly.
RIBA British Architectural Library Web
The online catalog of the Royal Institute of British Architects library includes an excellent index to architectural periodicals, especially strong in foreign titles. The catalog also includes citations to many books and other RIBA collections. 1984-. (Updated daily.)
Art Index Web
The Art Index is available online in two parts searchable together:
Art Index Retrospective is a cumulative index published previously as Art Index in separate volumes (1-32). It contains citations for articles, reviews and art reproductions in key international arts periodicals covering all aspects of art and art history including related disciplines of architecture, archaeology, design, film, museology and photography. 1929 to 1984.
Art Full Text is bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals is also included. Art Full Text also indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Indexing 1984- ; abstracting 1994-.
Bibliography of the History of Art Web
The Bibliography of the History of Art indexes and abstracts articles, art books, conference proceedings, dissertations, and art exhibition and dealer's catalogs. The index covers European and American art from late antiquity to the present.
Design & Applied Arts Index
Web
Design and Applied Arts Index contains over 110,000 annotated references from more than 450 design and craft journals, and data on over 50,000 designers, craftspeople, studios, workshops, firms, etc., making it the largest database of its kind in the world. Between 10,000-15,000 references are added annually. It also links to design and craft journal web sites. 1973-present

2. Printed Indexes.
Shelved in the Indexes section of the Library
The Burnham index to architectural literature : in ten volumes Z5944.U5 B87 1989q
Contents:
1. A-Bombay -- 2. Bombay-Chicago, Lowther -- 3. Chicago, Ill. Lucern hotel-DeHart -- 4. Dehaudt-Gargoyle-- 5. Gargoyles-Jemmet -- 6. Jena-Mangin and McComb -- 7. Mangin, Jean-Charles-Normann, Hents and Reid -- 8. Noroton-Reed Brothers -- 9. Reed, Charles A.-Stone and Webster -- 10. Stone, Artificial-Zwiers.
Design & Applied Arts Index
NK1160.D47q
Library Has: Vol. 1, pt. 1 (1987)-v. 14, pt. 2 (2001)
Garden literature Z5996.A1 G283
Library Has: v.1 (1992)- 10(Sprout issue 2001)

3. Abstracts

Housing abstracts
NA7100.N32
Library Has: v.1, no.1(1st Qt 1996)-v.3, no.3(3rd Qt 1998). Was:
i.Reference guide to homebuilding articles: 1992-1995
ii. Homes and home building: 1967-1991
Sage Urban Studies Abstracts
HT51.S24
Library Has: v.1(1973)- Current
Lacks:v.26(2)
Urban abstracts
HT101.xU6
Library Has: v.5(1986)- Current. Also:
Urban abstracts.Series 1: v.1(1981)-v.4,12(1985)
Urban abstracts.Series 2: v.1(1981)-v.4,11(1985). LACKS: v.3, no.1,4
Urban abstracts.Series 1/Series 2: no.1(1974)-no.81(1980)
Urban Affairs Abstracts
HT123.U7
Library Has: v.6(1971)-v.24(1994)
v.1-v.5 available at the Social Science Reference Center in Firestone Library

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