Research Guides: Landscape Architecture: Databases / Articles

Recommended databases

Art Abstracts/Art Index Retrospective This link opens in a new window
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Covers the periodical literature in art history and related subjects, including landscape design, from 1929-present.
Subjects include art history & criticism, architecture & 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 & video, motion pictures, advertising art, non-western art, textiles, & related fields.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals This link opens in a new window
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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.

Gale in Context: Environmental Studies This link opens in a new window
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Focuses on the physical, social, and economic aspects of environmental issues. Topic, organization, and country portals form research centers around issues covering energy systems, health care, agriculture, climate change, population, and economic development. (formerly GREENR database)
GreenFILE This link opens in a new window
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Covers all aspects of human impact on the environment. Includes global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, etc.

CAB Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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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) This link opens in a new window
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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 & Environmental Science Database This link opens in a new window
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Provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications.
Biological & Agricultural Index Plus This link opens in a new window
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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 This link opens in a new window
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Broad, multidisciplinary coverage of journals, books, etc.
Learn more about using Scopus at Elsevier's Scopus LibGuide..
Web of Science (WoS) This link opens in a new window
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Covers all disciplines and provides access to journal literature from over 14,000 scholarly journals. Web of Science allows for searching for cited authors or cited works.

America: History & Life This link opens in a new window
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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.
Artstor Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Image database featuring a range of images from some of the world’s leading museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists in one easily-navigated repository
Unlike results from Google or other search engines, Artstor images come with high-quality metadata from collection catalogers, curators, institutions, & artists themselves.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Digital library of more than 2,000 journals and more than 25,000 books in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences
News Journal (Wilmington, DE) This link opens in a new window
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 & its predecessor titles on microfilm. Consult A Chronology of the Wilmington News Journal.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
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Find articles, books indexed by Google
Google Scholar is only one of many ways to identify & access scholarly publications. Consult the Databases page or the Electronic Journalspage for other possibilities.
Dissertations & Theses @ University of Delaware This link opens in a new window
This database is a subset of the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global database. It contains only University of Delaware dissertations and theses. Detailed information about availability and dates of coverage is available.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window
The world's most comprehensive curated collection of multi-disciplinary dissertations & theses from around the world, offering over 5 million citations and 3 million full-text works from thousands of universities.