Databases for Building Science
Best Bets
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| Applied Science and Technology Full Text |
Provides indexing to over 600 International English-language science and technology magazines and journals. Over 115 journals in full text. |
Indexing: 1983-present | Full text: 1997-present |
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| BuildingGreen.com |
BuildingGreen provides access to the GreenSpec directory of more than 2,000 green building products, over 275 case studies from the High Performance Buildings database, a monthly print copy of Envi |
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| Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals |
The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals offers a comprehensive listing of journal articles on architecture and design, surveying over seven hundred American and international journals |
1934-present |
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| Environment Complete |
Contains citations from more than 1,500 domestic and international titles going back to the 1940s (including 1,094 active core titles) as well as more than 100 monographs. |
1940s-present |
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Also Useful
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| Academic OneFile |
Contains more than 11,000 academic jounals, the majority in full text and peer-reviewed, and podcasts and transcripts from major news sources. |
1980-present |
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| Academic Search Complete |
Provides full text for over 8,500 magazines and journals, and indexing for 4,100 more titles. |
1980-present |
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| Credo Reference |
Credo Reference provides access to hundreds of reference books (encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, quotations) from over 70 academic publishers. |
2000-present |
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| Design and Applied Arts Index |
Covers journal articles, exhibition reviews and news items. |
1973-present |
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| EconLit with Full Text |
Provides full text to nearly 500 journals plus citations, with abstracts, to over 600 journals, books, and working papers. |
1969-present |
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| Environment Complete |
Contains citations from more than 1,500 domestic and international titles going back to the 1940s (including 1,094 active core titles) as well as more than 100 monographs. |
1940s-present |
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| InformeDesign |
InformeDesign "research summaries" are transformed from articles in refereed journals that address issues related to design and the built environment |
2005-present |
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| ScienceDirect |
Full text access to more than 1,200 journals from the Elsevier Science journal collection (indexing for 1,300 more). |
1960s-present |
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| SpringerLink |
Provides full text access to more than 500 peer reviewed journals and over 2,000 books online. |
1990s-present |
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| Web of Science (ISI) |
Provides indexing for over 12,000 academic journals, proceedings of international conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions, from three databases: |
1898-present |
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