Guides: Architecture: Finding journal articles

Subject-specific databases

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (EBSCO)
Core index for architecture publications. Indexes English and foreign language material. Coverage goes back to 1930s, with select resources as far back as 1860.

RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) Catalogue Online
Searches citations only (no full text). Search WorldCat Discovery to confirm McGill's holdings.

Art Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
Comprehensive resource for art information with full-text articles back to 1995, indexing and abstracting back to 1984, and 13,000 art dissertations. Provides examples of styles and art movements, and covers fine, decorative and commercial art, folk art, photography, film, and architecture.

Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)/Répertoire de la littérature de l'art (RILA)
"BHA and RILA cover European and American visual arts material including articles from over 1,200 journals. These citation databases, searchable together, cover material published between 1975 and 2007. Index only; search WorldCat for full text."
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"BHA includes articles from over 1,200 journals. BHA includes all articles within the subject scope of BHA regardless of the subject focus of a particular journal. Thus, many of the journals on this list are covered partially, as only some of their articles are within BHA's scope."

Multidisciplinary Citation Databases:
- Web of Science (ISI)
- Scopus
- Google Scholar
JSTOR (multidisciplinary database)
ARTstor (Image Database)
International Bibliography of Art (IBA)
Covers international scholarship within the following broad parameters: European art from late antiquity to the present, American art from the colonial era to the present, and global art since 1945; Visual arts in all media, plus decorative and applied arts, museum studies and conservation, archaeology and classical studies, antiques and architectural history, and related fields.
Engineering Village
Art and Architecture in Canada: A Bibliography and Guide to the Literature to 1981 / Art et architecture au Canada: bibliographie et guide de la documentation jusqu'en 1981 in 2 volumes serves as "a reference guide to the most significant contributions to the literature of art and architecture in Canada published in Canada and abroad from 1825 to 1981" (from the Preface). In the first volume, numbered entries, which are accompanied by abstracts, are organized by subject, including historical period and and geographical location. The second volue contains an author and subject index to the numbered entries of the first volume. Use the first volume for general browsing and the second volume as a reference tool.
Z5961 C3 L47 1991 (Ref)

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