Architecture Research Guide
These Research Guides are intended as starting points for research.
Please contact the subject-specialist librarian if you have research questions, would like library instruction, or have material purchase requests.
Jennifer Barrera
Access Services - Office 109C
phone: 254-968-9248
email: barrera@tarleton.edu
Help is also available by using the Ask a Librarian page, emailing reference@tarleton.edu, calling (254) 968-9249, or coming into the library.
Books, Documents, Reports, Journals Titles, AV Materials, Etc.
Tarleton State University Libraries Catalog - Database of all items owned by Tarleton Libraries. Look here for books, government reports, journal titles, videos, CDs, etc. Keyword searching is available.
Library of Texas - Search for Books and Articles from libraries located in Texas. The Library of Texas lets you pick the library collections you search, helping you locate items near you.
WorldCat - (FirstSearch Core) Books and other materials in libraries worldwide. WorldCat contains more than 32 million records describing items owned by libraries around the world. If Tarleton does not own these items, they can be requested through Inter-Library Loan.
Databases and Journal articles
Academic Search Complete - Provides information on architects, new and historical buildings, construction, styles, and current trends. Examples of Architecture related journals are: Art News; Art in America; Architectural Digest; Architecture Australia; and Interior Design.
AH Search - An arts and humanities citation index comprised of 1300 journal titles dating back to 1980. Example titles: Landscape Architecture; Liberte; Architecture; Architectural Record; Art Journal; Art Bulletin; and Magazine Internation D Art.
Eighteenth Century Collection - a comprehensive digital edition of The Eighteenth Century, the world’s largest library of the printed book on microfilm, available through its imprint Primary Source Microfilm™. In the most ambitious single digitization project ever undertaken, nearly 150,000 English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800 will be made available online over the course of the next two years. When complete, the product will allow full-text searching of more than 33 million pages of material, in essence, every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.
JSTOR - This database is unique because it includes journals that have been digitized from the beginning, some back to the 1800's. Participating libraries contribute their collections to the digitization process. This database does not include the most recent articles.
Periodicals Contents Index - is unique in combining a broad subject base with deep chronological coverage going back over 200 years. It covers 37 key subject areas in the humanities and social sciences and offers vast variety within these subject areas. PCI currently indexes 14 million articles since the eighteenth century and every article in each journal is indexed.
Project Muse - Provides access to the full text of over 100 scholarly journals in the arts and other areas. Architecture related periodicals include: Leonardo; Postmodern Culture; Eighteenth-Century Studies; Victorian Studies; and Technology and Culture.
E-Journals and Internet Links
- Electronic Journals by Category (Subject).
- Electronic Journals by title.
- Internet Links: including Professional Societies and Organizations, Jobs, Employment and Internships.