UWAUP Library
Major Resources
for Discussion:
Architectural Resources
Avery Index to
Architectural Periodicals: What Avery Can and Cannot Do
2,863
journals indexed in 2001
UW Catalog: Finding a
Journal
http://www.lib.washington.edu/
Royal Institute of British
Architects (RIBA): What’s on the RIBA site?
RIBA
Architecture.com
http://www.architecture.com/go/Architecture/Home.html
RIBA
Links Library
http://www.architecture.com/go/Architecture/Reference/Links_2025.html
RIBA
Library Catalogue
300,000 records of
material catalogued and indexed since the late 1970s
http://www.architecture.com/go/Architecture/Reference/Library_897.html
College of Environmental
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/
CED
UCB Library Green Architecture Page
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/GreenAll.html
Potential Resource:
CUMINCAD
http://cumincad.scix.net/cgi-bin/works/Home
Historic Preservation
Historic
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/habs_haer/
National Register for
Historic Preservation
Department of Archaeology
and Historic Preservation Office of Historic Preservation WIZAARD
National Trust for Historic
Preservation Index
http://www.lib.umd.edu/NTL/ntl.html
Construction Management Resources
ASCE Databases
http://www.pubs.asce.org/cedbsrch.html
Earthquake Engineering
Abstracts
http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=uwash&access=uwash347&db=earthquake-set-c&adv=1
http://www.engineeringvillage2.org/controller/servlet/Controller?CID=quickSearch&database=Combined
Technology Research
Database
http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=uwash&access=uwash347&db=techresearch-set-c
UW AUP Library CM 313 Site
http://www.lib.washington.edu/Aup/CM313AllinOne.htm
Landscape Architecture Resources
Agricola
Biosis
comprehensive coverage (1969-present) of international life science journal and
meeting literature
http://portal.isiknowledge.com/portal.cgi?DestApp=BIOSIS
Environmental Engineering
Abstracts
Provides citations and abstracts to the world
literature pertaining to technological and engineering aspects of air and water
quality, environmental safety, and energy production
http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=uwash&access=uwash347&db=environmental-set-c&adv=1
Water Resources Abstracts
Provides
citations and abstracts to the technical and scientific literature on
water-related topics covering the characteristics, conservation, control, pollution,
treatment, use, and management of water resources
http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=uwash&access=uwash347&db=water-resources-set-c
Potential
Resource:
Garden,
Landscape & Horticulture Literature Index
Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Index covers
a wide range of serial titles including general gardening titles of national,
international, and regional interest, and titles
devoted to specialty gardens and plant groups. Indexed and abstracted are more
than 300 core titles, the majority of which are published in English. Coverage
for many titles extends back further than a decade.
http://www.epnet.com/thisTopic.php?topicID=173&marketID=1
Urban Planning Resources
Avery
Journal of Planning Literature
http://online.sagepub.com/08854122
EconLit
Published
by the American Economic Association, provides bibliographic coverage of a wide
range of economics-related literature
http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=uwash&access=uwash347&cat=econlit
PAIS
International
Covers social and public policy literature from thousands
of periodicals, government documents, books, and other sources; also includes
PAIS archive database which comprises the PAIS annual bulletin, v. 1-62,
published 1915-1976
http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=uwash&access=uwash347&db=pais-set-c&db=paisarc-set-c
Sociological Abstracts
Contains
abstracts of serial literature in sociology and related disciplines from
approximately 2,500 journals
http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=uwash&access=uwash347&cat=socioabs
Transport
APA
Documents
American Planning Association Planning Advisory Service Reports
Index
Urban
Land Institute Project Reference File Index, 1971-1997
http://libraries.mit.edu/guides/subjects/architecture/architects/prf/index.html
Environmental Impact
Statements now in the UW Library Catalog
General Resources
OCLC World CAT
Consists
of catalog records and holdings information for material owned by libraries
around the world
http://firstsearch.oclc.org/done=http://www.lib.washington.edu/;dbname=WorldCat;FSIP
Proquest
http://www.umi.com/pqdauto
Historical Newspapers: Historical New York Times
Reader’s Guide: Wilson Web
A database
containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest
periodicals published in the
http://hwrelay.hwwilsonweb.com/?sp.dbid.p=S(XJ)&sp.nextform=advsrch.htm
Selected Historical Decennial Census Population and
Housing Counts
http://www.census.gov/population/www/censusdata/hiscendata.html
US Bureau of the Census Factfinder Data and
Statistics – General Reference Resources
http://www.firstgov.gov/Topics/Reference_Shelf/Data.shtml
Amazon.com
Local / Regional Information
Seattle.gov
http://cityofseattle.net/html/citizen/services.htm
Seattle Department of
Neighborhoods Historic Sites Database
http://web1.seattle.gov/dpd/historicalsite/
http://clerk.ci.seattle.wa.us/~public/phot1.htm
Municipal Research and
Building Codes / Permit Administration
http://www.mrsc.org/Subjects/PubWorks/permitpg.aspx
Web
Sites -- Cities and Towns
http://www.mrsc.org/byndmrsc/cities.aspx
Webs Sites – Counties
http://www.mrsc.org/byndmrsc/counties.aspx
Washington State Office of
the Secretary of State Washington History Menu Historical Records Search http://www.secstate.wa.gov/history/search_notice.aspx
http://www.sbcc.wa.gov/pages/code.html#viewing_online
UW AUP Library
http://www.lib.washington.edu/Aup/SeattleLinks.html
Sample Questions:
1.) Importance of sunlight
in buildings on productivity and mood in
Sunlight psychological
aspects
Seasonal affective
disorder
UW Cat
Avery
Expanded Academic Index
Use of subject links
Use of author names
2.) Historic preservation processes
of a building in