Architecture: Essential Resources for Research
UCLA Library: Resources and Services
- UCLA Library Homepage
- Arts Library Web Pages
- Making an Interlibrary Loan Request
- SRLF: Requesting Materials
- Online Access from Home
Finding Books: Online Catalogs
- UCLA Library Catalog
- MELVYL (searches holdings of all 10 UC libraries and libraries worldwide, plus selected article indexing)
- WorldCat (library holdings worldwide)
Finding Journal Articles
- Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
- RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) Library Catalog and Architectural Publications Index
- Art Full Text and Art Retrospective
- Design and Applied Arts Index
- Academic Search Complete
- GreenFile
- EI Compendex (Engineering, including architectural and civil engineering, building construction, material science)
- Google Scholar
- JSTOR
Images/ Image databases
Selected Online Reference Sources
- Great Buildings Collection
- Material ConneXion (a database of new and innovative building materials)
- Oxford Art Online (an electronic encyclopedia that includes architecture and design topics)
- Pacific Coast Architecture Database (PCAD) (information on the buildings and designers of California, Oregon and Washington)
- Phildelphia Architects and Buildings database (more than 260,000 projects and buildings, over 24,400 architects, engineers and contractors, and over 127,000 images. Although the focus is on Philadelphia buildings and Philadelphia based-architects, numerous projects from other locations are also represented, including over 5500 projects in California)
Research Guides