Guides and databases: Architecture: Databases

Key Databases for Architecture

A&AePortal Yale's A&AePortal is an eBook resource that features important works of scholarship in the history of art, architecture, decorative arts, photography, and design. Accessibility statement for A&AePortal.
AATA Online Abstracts of literature related to the preservation and conservation of material cultural heritage, including works of art, material culture, and archaeological and architectural sites and materials.
Art & Architecture Archive, 1895-2015 Full-text archive of art and architecture magazines, dating from the late-nineteenth century to the twenty-first. Subjects covered include fine art, decorative arts, architecture, interior design, industrial design, and photography. Accessibility statement for Art & Architecture Archive, 1895-2015.
Art & Architecture Source See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to EBSCOhost. This database covers a broad range of related subjects, from fine, decorative and commercial art, to various areas of architecture and architectural design.
Art, Design and Architecture Collection (ProQuest) This collection includes the specialist indexes ARTbibliographies Modern (covering modern and contemporary art), Design and Applied Arts Index (for all aspects of design and crafts) and the International Bibliography of Art (covering scholarship on Western art history), together with a complementary collection of current full-text journals, Arts and Humanities database.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (ProQuest) Comprehensive tool for research in architecture, urban design, historic preservation, and urban planning history.
Bloomsbury Architecture Library A collection of fully-searchable text and image content, incorporating the new edition of Sir Banister Fletcher’s Global History of Architecture. Accessibility statement for Bloomsbury Architecture Library. 
Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI) Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI) is the leading source of abstracts and bibliographic records for articles, news items, and reviews published in design and applied arts periodicals from 1973 onwards. An indispensable tool for students, researchers, and practitioners worldwide, DAAI covers both new designers and the development of design and the applied arts since the mid-19th century, surveying disciplines including ceramics, glass, jewellery, 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. Around 1200 new records are added in each monthly update.
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ICONDA See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to Ovid. This database can be accessed by no more than 5 users at a time. Index of literature on all aspects of planning and building.
Oxford Bibliographies : Architecture Planning and Preservation Oxford Bibliographies: Architecture, Planning, and Preservation uncovers a wealth of sources for the study of architectural topics while also providing essential guidance in navigating the wide range of material, both print and online.
RIBA British Architectural Library Catalogue Catalogue of items held by the library of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).

Interdisciplinary Databases

JSTOR Archive of important scholarly journals. Core resource. Accessibility statement for JSTOR.
ScienceDirect Information source for scientific, technical, and health research. Contains full-text scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters from nearly 3,800 journals and more than 35,000 books. Accessibility statement for ScienceDirect.
SCOPUS See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to Scopus. Multi-disciplinary database containing references to journal articles, conference proceedings, trade publications, book series and web resources. Please use IE 8 or higher, Google Chrome or Firefox browsers.
Web of Science See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to Web of Science. Defaults to a ‘Core Collection’ search, covering the main Web of Science journals database; select 'All Databases' option from the drop down menu to cross-search all of UCL's subscribed Web of Science products, including Biosis, MEDLINE etc.

Newspapers

The Library provides online access to many historic and current newspapers from around the world. You can access them by:

Searching by individual title in Explore.
Searching across collections using Newspaper collection databases.

Newspaper collections at UCL

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