Architectural History and Preservation

Best Database Choices for Architectural History and Preservation

University of Virginia Library

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Charlottesville VA 22904-4113

434.924.3021

fax: 434.924.1431

All Architectural History and Preservation Databases

America History and Life

covers the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to present and has almost 400,000 citations from 2,000 key English-language journals published worldwide. Includes book reviews.

Archives USA

a current directory of 5,596 repositories and 154,678 collections of primary source material across the United States

Art Index 1929-present

indexes articles in all arts media from selected periodicals published since 1929

Avery Index 1930-present

indexes over 2,000 periodicals on archaeology, city planning, interior design, historic preservation, and architecture; includes publication dates from the 1930s (with selective coverage from 1741) to the present

Bibliography of the History of Art: BHA    1973-present

Indexes and abstracts periodicals, catalogs, essays, etc.; subjects include all aspects of the visual arts, architecture, and design in the post-Classical western world. Includes book reviews.

DAAI: Design and Applied Arts Index  1973-present

indexes over 130,000 annotated references from more than 500 design and craft journals and newspapers.

Digital Sanborn Maps

Highly detailed city plans providing researchers with a wealth of information about urban change in American cities during the first half of the twentieth century.

Google Scholar   

Find articles from most online scholarly journals plus some books and Web sites. Note that some publishers (e.g. Elsevier - UVa gets almost 2000 of their journals) and most aggregators (e.g., InfoTrac, Journals@Ovid) do not participate, and of course there are no links to paper-only journals. Use Advanced Search if you get too many results; use Preferences to turn on links to RefWorks.

Oxford Reference Online

Combines the scholarly resources offered by titles in the Oxford Companions series with authoritative, quick-reference coverage of the full subject spectrum. It also provides a wide range of additional material such as maps, illustrations, and timelines.