LibGuides: Architecture & Design: Indexes &amp; Databases

Architecture & Design Databases

Search across databases for full-text pdfs/html and bibliographic information on print sources. Click on any link below to open a database. If you are off-campus, enter your NYIT ID when prompted.

Architectural Publications Index This link opens in a new window
Index to architecture periodicals from the Royal Institute of British Architects.
ArchNet Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Art & Architecture Source This link opens in a new window
Access to full-text or indexed journal articles, books and images in the fine and decorative arts and architecture.
Art Index Retrospective This link opens in a new window
Art literature covering fine, decorative, and commercial art.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive index of journal articles on architecture, landscape architecture, historic preservation, and interior design.
JSTOR Language & Literature Collection This link opens in a new window
Subjects: African studies, art & art history, education, women studies, Latin American studies, Asian studies, American literature

Environmental Studies and Policy: Gale OneFile This link opens in a new window
Environmental studies focuses on the physical and social aspects of environmental issues.
MadCad This link opens in a new window
Building codes online.
Computers & Applied Sciences Complete This link opens in a new window
Subjects: Computing and applied sciences disciplines.

CumInCAD
CumInCAD is a Cumulative Index about publications in Computer Aided Architectural Design supported by the sibling associations ACADIA, CAADRIA, eCAADe, SIGraDi, ASCAAD and CAAD futures.
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Open Access
greenhomebuilding
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Information about environmentally friendly, sustainable architecture and natural building, using renewable energy, local and recycled materials, and incorporating principles of conservation. Includes resource links and book and video recommendations.

Art & Architecture Source This link opens in a new window
Access to full-text or indexed journal articles, books and images in the fine and decorative arts and architecture.
Bridgeman Art Library Archive-Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Collection of digital images for architecture and the fine and decorative arts.
Fine Arts: Gale OneFile This link opens in a new window
Subjects: Drama, music, art history, and filmmaking
JSTOR Language & Literature Collection This link opens in a new window
Subjects: African studies, art & art history, education, women studies, Latin American studies, Asian studies, American literature

Access Engineering This link opens in a new window
Engineering, Biomedical, Chemical, Environmental sustainable, Energy Petroleum.
Gardening and Horticulture: Gale OneFile This link opens in a new window
Subjects: Gardening, home decorating and remodeling, architecture, landscaping, and other areas of horticulture
IEEE Xplore This link opens in a new window
Subjects: Engineering and technology
ScienceDirect- Energy Collection This link opens in a new window
Subjects: Physical Sciences & Engineering, Life Sciences, Health Sciences, Social Sciences & Humanities.

MadCad This link opens in a new window
Building codes online.
Material Connexion This link opens in a new window
Materials database and resource for sustainable materials and processes.
Create a login with your NYIT email to access the database.
https://www.materialconnexion.com/register

Material Order SEARCH
The shared source for design material collections.

Art & Architecture (OA)

OAIster This link opens in a new window
Material available includes digitized (scanned) books, journal articles, newspapers, manuscripts and more, as well as audio files (wav, mp3), video files (mp4, QuickTime), photographic images (jpeg, tiff, gif), data sets (downloadable statistical information), theses and research papers.
Directory of Open Access Journals This link opens in a new window
Free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals in many languages, covering the following subjects: Agriculture and Food Sciences, Arts and Architecture, Biology and Life Sciences, Business and Economics, Chemistry, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Health Sciences, History and Archaeology, Languages and Literatures, Law and Political Science, Mathematics and Statistics, Philosophy and Religion, Physics and Astronomy, General Science, Social Sciences, Technology and Engineering.

USModernist
Open digital archive for the documentation, preservation, and promotion of 20th-century Modernist residential design and architecture.