Databases - Architecture and Interior Design
| Architectural Index 1982 - present |
| This index provides citations to a small list of major architectural magazines and is particularly useful for locating information on recent building projects, and for locating information by geographic site or architect/designer. Coverage varies, but most periodicals are indexed from the early 1980's. |
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| Art Full Text 1984 - present |
| Art Full Text is a comprehensive resource for art information featuring full-text articles from more than 300 periodicals dating back to 1995, high-quality indexing and abstracting of over 600 periodicals dating as far back as 1984, including 280 peer-reviewed journals, as well as indexing and abstracting of over 13,000 art dissertations. Indexing of almost 200,000 art reproductions provides examples of styles and art movements, including works by emerging artists. The database covers fine, decorative and commercial art, folk art, photography, film, and architecture, and also includes a database-specific thesaurus. |
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| Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals 1977 - present |
| The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals indexes more than 1,000 periodicals published worldwide on archaeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation, as well as architecture. Updated daily, the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals covers 1977 to the present, with more than 229,000 records. |
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| BuildingGreen.com |
| Designed to help building-industry professionals design and build construction projects from a whole-systems perspective and take an integrated design approach that minimizes ecological impact and maximizes economic performance. Includes access to Environmental building news articles, lists for GreenSpec products and specification guidelines, detailed project case studies from the High-Performance Buildings Database, and publications from BuildingGreen Pittsburgh papers. |
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| Business Source Complete 1886 - present |
| Business database with full text for over 3,600 serials, including over 1,000 peer-reviewed business journals. Additional full text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more. |
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| Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture |
| This very elaborate multi-tiered database has more than 20,000 Renaissance Documents related to more than 10,000 Antique Monuments that are accompanied by 30,000 photographs or illustrations. The database can be utilized for its collection of images, but more extensive information is provided in the database about the monuments and documents. (Special note: At the entry page click on the "IP-Access" box and then the "Start" button. On the next page, select "Census" in the first box and "English" in the second box. If prompted for a password, contact the Classics Library at 556-1315.)Click here for a guide. |
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| Electronic Journal Center (OhioLINK) Full Text |
| Includes electronic titles from Academic Press, American Physical Society (APS), Elsevier Science, Institute of Physics (IOP), Kluwer, MCB, MUSE, Royal Society of Chemistry, Springer-Verlag and Wiley - currently about 2500 titles. |
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| ERIC (EBSCOhost) 1966 - present |
| ERIC indexes education-related literature, beginning in 1966. The ERIC database is the world's largest source of education information, containing abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice. The database covers descriptions and evaluations of programs, research reports and surveys, curriculum and teaching guides, instructional materials, position papers, and resource materials. In 1993, ERIC began indexing education-related books, including the output of major publishers. More recently it includes full-text non-journal documents (issued 1993-present). ERIC may be accessed directly at http://www.eric.ed.gov. To take advantage of many links to full-text documents through OhioLINK, use the connect below. |
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| Humanities International Complete |
| Humanities International Complete is a comprehensive database of humanities content, providing full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. Produced by Whitston Publishing (an imprint of EBSCO Publishing), this database includes all data from American Humanities Index and Humanities International Index (over 1.6 million records) plus unique full text content. |
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| MAD CAD 2001 - |
| Click on Login from the first screen. MAD CAD is a subscription based, online reference database that contains cross-referenced collections of building, electrical, mechanical, plumbing, fire, and maintenance codes from BOCA, SBCCI, ICBO, ICC, and NFPA. |
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| Material ConneXion database |
| Material ConneXion is the world's leading knowledge base for information about new and innovative materials. The database provides comprehensive information about over 3,500 innovative materials and processes, with more being added each month. |
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| ProQuest Dissertations & Theses 1861 - present |
| "Proquest Dissertations and Theses" includes full-text to over 800,000 dissertations from 1997 forward. The database includes also full-text to all UC dissertations published in electronic format. In addition, the database includes citations to dissertations from 1861-Present and Abstracts from 1980 forward. 350-word abstracts written by the author. Master's theses published from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. |
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| ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (UC Electronic) 1955 to present |
| Access to a body of well over 8,000 University of Cincinnati electronic dissertations and theses, this is the best link to the broadest collection of electronic UC dissertations. The time period covers mainly from 1955 to the present. To acquire the dissertations electronically, users request the full text from UMI (ProQuest) and are sent a link and a password to access the dissertation. Dissertations from 1997 forward are available in the OhioLINK ETD at ETD (Electronic Theses and Dissertations) |
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| Scopus (Elsevier) 1966 - present |
| Indexing, abstracts, and citation searching for science and social science scholarly literature. Scopus covers 14,000 titles across 4,000 publishers, providing access to over 25 million abstracts going back to 1966 and 5 years of cited reference back years, building up to 10 years by the end of 2005. |
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