Research Guides: Landscape Architecture: Articles / Databases

Recommended databases

Art Abstracts/Art Index Retrospective
Covers the periodical literature in art history and related subjects, including landscape design, from 1929-present.
Subjects include art history and criticism, architecture and architectural history, archaeology, antiques, museum studies, graphic arts, industrial design, landscape architecture, interior design, folk art, painting, photography, pottery, sculpture, decorative arts, costume design, television and video, motion pictures, advertising art, non-western art, textiles, and related fields.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
Offers a comprehensive listing of journal articles on architecture and design, including bibliographic descriptions on subjects such as the history and practice of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, historic preservation, and interior design and decoration.

Gardening and Horticulture (Gale OneFile)
Focuses on the practical aspects and the scientific theory of horticulture studies. Gardening and Horticulture offers biotechnologists, farmers, hobbyists, and landscape architects access to important content relevant to their pursuits.

GreenFILE
Covers all aspects of human impact on the environment. Includes global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, etc.
Web of Science
Covers all disciplines and indexes the world’s leading scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Web of Science allows for searching for cited authors or cited works.

CAB Abstracts
Bibliographic database of research on agriculture in the broadest sense. It includes plant science and horticulture, as well as leisure, recreation and tourism. Sources from more than 100 countries are scanned.
Subscription is for 4 concurrrent users.
AGRICOLA (Agricultural Online Access)
Citations to agricultural literature, including journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audio-visual materials, and technical reports. Publications and resources encompass all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines including plant sciences.
Agricultural and Environmental Science Database
Provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications.
Biological and Agricultural Index Plus
Citations to articles in biology, agriculture, and related sciences published in some 240 periodicals, ranging from scientific journals to popular publications. Coverage: 1983-present.
Scopus
Broad, multidisciplinary coverage of journals, books, etc.
Learn more about using Scopus at Elsevier's Scopus LibGuide..

Gale in Context: Environmental Studies
Focuses on the study of sustainability and the environment. Topics include ecosystems, global warming, food safety, and introductions to environmental disasters.
America: History and Life
Definitive index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present
Provides indexing of academic journals dating back to 1954, with some coverage for titles back to the early 20th century.
JSTOR
Provides access to many millions of journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.
Artstor images incorporated into JSTOR as of 8/1/2024.
News Journal (Wilmington, DE)
Online edition of the News Journal mainly including articles written by staff and excluding advertisements and graphic materials. Coverage: Jan. 1, 1999 to present
The Library holds the News Journal and its predecessor titles on microfilm. Consult A Chronology of the Wilmington News Journal.
Google Scholar
Find articles, books indexed by Google
Google Scholar is only one of many ways to identify and access scholarly publications. Consult the Databases page or the Electronic Journalspage for other possibilities.
Dissertations and Theses @ University of Delaware
This database is a subset of the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global database. It contains only University of Delaware dissertations and theses. See below for detailed information about included dates and content coverage.
Includes:
- All University of Delaware dissertations: full text from 1948 to present.
- University of Delaware Master’s theses: full text from 1980 to the present. NOTE: Most UD master’s theses are not available in this database. This is NOT a complete collection of UD master’s theses.
- Winterthur Program in Early American Culture theses: full text 1970s to fall 2009
- Longwood Graduate Program in Public Horticulture theses: full text 2006 to present
Use the library catalog, DELCAT, to search for all print or microform copies of master’s theses 1980 – 2009 that are NOT available in Dissertations and Theses @ University of Delaware. For dissertations and theses from 2007 and later, it is possible, using Advanced Search, to limit by academic department.
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global
The world's most comprehensive curated collection of multi-disciplinary dissertations and theses from around the world, offering over 5 million citations and 3 million full-text works from thousands of universities.