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Architecture Journals:

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals - Vendor: ProQuest

“The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals offers a comprehensive listing of journal articles published worldwide on architecture and design, archaeology, city planning, interior design, landscape architecture, and historic preservation” (http://library.columbia.edu/locations/avery/avery-index.html).

Art & Design Database:

Art & Architecture Source   -  Vendor: Ebscohost

Description: “A useful resource for art and architecture research…Content includes over 750 full-text journals and more than 220 full-text books…with detailed indexing and abstracts…as well as an Image Collection” (https://www.ebscohost.com/academic/art-architecture-source).

Historical Database:

Historical Abstracts  - Vendor: ABC-CLIO

Description: Historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present.

Technology Database:

ASTM Standards (American Society for Testing and Materials) - Vendor: ASTM Int.’l.

Description: Electronic edition of nearly every ASTM book, paper, or chapter from nearly every piece of work published by ASTM. The new ASTM Digital Library provides over 30,000 papers and chapters and more than 400,000 pages of information.

Useful, All-Round Database:

JSTOR - Vendor: JSTOR

Description: “JSTOR is a shared digital library” including “more than 2,000 academic journals…along with thousands of monographs and other materials relevant for education…[T]he content on JSTOR comes from a broad range of disciplines, predominantly in the humanities, social sciences and field sciences”

(http://about.jstor.org/10things).

Visual Resource Database:

Artstor Digital Library - Vendor: ARTstor

Description: “the Artstor Digital Library shares 1.8 million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences from outstanding museums, photo archives, photographers, scholars, and artists” (http://www.artstor.org/mission).