Databases for Design

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The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals offers a comprehensive listing of journal articles on architecture and design, surveying over seven hundred American and international journal

1934-present
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BuildingGreen provides reliable content on sustainable design strategies, green building materials, and case studies of high performance buildings.

Current
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Covers journal articles, exhibition reviews and news items.

1973-present
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Provides full text for over 8,500 magazines and journals, including more than 7,300 peer reviewed titles. Indexing and abstracts are provided for more than 12,500 journals.

1980-present
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Market Research and American Business provides a unique insight into the American consumer boom of the mid-20th century through access to market research reports and supporting docum

1935-1965
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Provides indexing to over 800 International English-language science and technology magazines and journals. Over 220 journals in full text.

1983-present
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Art and Architecture Complete provides full-text coverage of 380 periodicals and more than 220 books.

1937-present
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Art Abstracts indexes over 400 English and foreign-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins. Includes nearly 120 titles in full text.

1984-present
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Covering content for more than 55 years of art journalism, this retrospective resource includes articles, interviews, reviews and much more from over 600 publications.

1929-1984
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Provides indexing for 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, and it indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.

1975-present
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The collection currently contains over two million images, including the following collections (see "More info"):

Prehistory to the present
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The Berg Fashion Library offers fully cross-searchable access to a range of Berg content collections – including the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion onlin

1600-present
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Provides full text access for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications.

1886-present
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Provides discipline-specific coverage of engineering, spanning thousands of publications, many in full text.

1994-present
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Contains full text for more than 900 journals and covers the areas of agriculture, ecology, renewable energy, natural resources, marine and freshwater science, pollution and waste management, envi

1940s-present
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Scholarly and general interest journals, as well as government documents and reports.

1970s-present
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Core scholarly journals, ebooks, and images from a range of disciplines, with full-text searching and DRM-free downloads.

1800s-present (2-5 yr embargo)
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The Lens ingests, cleans, aggregates, normalizes and serves over 225 million scholarly works, 127 million global patent records, and 370 million patent sequences.

1800-present
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Articles and records on materials science related topics, including over 700 full-text journals.

1900-present
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Featuring over 20,000 scholarly and professional books, handbooks, dictionaries, companions, and landmark book series.

2005-present
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Contains over 50 million records cataloged by OCLC member libraries throughout the world: Appalachian State University Library is a member (OCLC member code=NJB).

1000 BC-present
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