Most important databases
Offers a comprehensive listing
of journal articles on architecture and design, including bibliographic descriptions on subjects
such as the history and practice of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, historic
preservation, and interior design and decoration. It contains more than 440,000 thousand entries
surveying over seven hundred American and international journals. These include not only scholarly
and popular periodical literature, but also publications of professional associations, American
state and regional periodicals, and the major serials on architecture and design of Europe, Asia,
Latin America, and Australia.
Coverage:
1934-; selectively 1741-
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Includes archaeology, architecture,
art history, ceramics, fashion design, graphic arts, interior design, landscape architecture, metalsmithing,
photography, sculpture and textiles. This database provides citations to articles and books reviews
from nearly 450 international publications. Coverage includes English-language
periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian,
German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish.
Coverage: Indexing 1982-; abstracts 1994-; select
full text 1997-
Users: 4
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Other helpful databases
Provides citations
from more than 400 core English-language scientific and technical publications pertaining to
physical science and engineering.
Coverage: 1983-
Users: 4
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A growing digital image library offering searchable collections of images and descriptive information. Covers many time periods, cultures, and the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, design, anthropology, and ethnographic and women's studies, as well as many other forms of visual culture. Best viewed in Internet Explorer. Enable browser pop-ups in order to use all the features of ARTstor.
Coverage: n/a
Users: unlimited
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The
electronic version of Engineering Index, Compendex is the most comprehensive bibliographic database
of engineering research available today, containing over eight million references and abstracts
taken from over 5,000 engineering journals, conferences and technical reports dating back to
1969.
Coverage: 1969-
Users: unlimited
Paid for by K-State Libraries
Geobase is a multidisciplinary bibliographic database of human and physical geography, ecology, geology,
oceanography, geomechanics and development studies. The material covered includes refereed papers,
trade journals and magazine articles and it provides excellent coverage of the international literature,
including books, conference proceedings and reports.
Coverage: 1994-
Users: 1
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Evaluate and compare journals
in the sciences and social sciences using citation data drawn from over 7,500 scholarly and technical
journals. JCR is related to Web of Science and is based on similar data. Use JCR to find the
most frequently cited journals in a field and/or a journal's impact factor, among other information.
Coverage: 2002-
Users: 8
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Consists of large-scale plans of cities and towns in Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Oklahoma and Colorado. In addition to street names and location of buildings, the maps also include details such as the construction materials and function of buildings, property boundaries, railroads, wells, etc. Because the key is very detailed it may take a while to load onto the screen.
Coverage: 1867-1970
Users: unlimited
Paid for by K-State Libraries
Online version
of the three Citation Indexes: Science, Social Sciences, and Arts and Humanities. In
addition to searching by keyword, subject, author, etc. for articles in over 8,000 journals, one
can do a "cited reference" search to see how frequently
and where an article has been cited. Web of Science is one of our best databases. Also an excellent source for finding
book reviews.
Coverage: Science
1945-; Social Sciences 1956-; Arts & Humanities 1975-
Users: unlimited
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