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Research Guide for
Architecture 181:

History of Architecture I

	CU Library Gateway Finding Background Resources Finding Books Finding Articles Internet Resources Evaluating Sources Citing Sources Research and Reference Help Feedback
Great Sphinx, 2550-2525 BC Old Kingdom, 4th Dynasty Ancient Art and Architecture (Licensed from Saskia, Ltd.) Cornell University Image Collections

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Cornell University Library Gateway

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The Cornell University Library Gateway is the Cornell University Library's homepage on the World Wide Web. The Gateway lists information about the CU Library and provides access to library resources and services.

e-Reference Collection contains titles, descriptive information, and links to over 2000 networked electronic resources, including periodical indexes, numeric and spatial data files, catalogs, audio-visual materials, and full text reference sources. There are two main ways to search for resources in your areas of interest: searching and browsing.

CU Library Web Sites connects to all of the Library's web pages.

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Finding Background Resources

Reference Books, e-Reference Collection

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Print

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• Fleming, John, Hugh Honour, and Nikolaus Pevsner. The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. 5th ed. London; New York: Penguin Books, 1998.

  Fine Arts Library Reference NA31 .F59 1998

• Norwich, John Julius. The World Atlas of Architecture. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1984.

  Fine Arts Library Reference NA 200 .G78 1984#

  "English edition of Le grand atlas de l'architecture mondiale, created by Encyclopaedia Universalis and derived from Mitchell Beazley's Great architecture of the world." (Introduction, p. 5)

• Harris, Cyril M. Illustrated Dictionary of Historic Architecture. New York: Dover Publications, 1983.

  Fine Arts Library Reference, NA31 .H67 1983

  Includes over 5000 definitions and 2100 line drawings. Comprehensive coverage of the following architectural periods: Ancient, Greek and Hellenistic, Roman, Chinese, Indian, Islamic, Gothic, Renaissance, Modern and more.

• Wilkes, Joseph A., ed. Encyclopedia of Architecture: Design, Engineering, & Construction. 5 Volumes. New York: Wiley, 1988-1990.

  Fine Arts Library Reference NA 31 .E57

Networked

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• AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive. [State College, Pa.] : Accuweather, Inc., c1999-.

  

  The Photo Archive is an on-line database containing almost a half-million of Associated Press's current and historical images for the last 150 years. It features state, regional and national photos from North America, as well as international photos. All are available moments after they move on the AP's spot picture system. The Photo Archive receives an average of 800 photos a day. About a quarter of the photos are selected for the permanent archive, while the rest are removed after 12 months.

• AMICO. Mountain View, CA: Research Libraries Group, 1999- .

  Nearly 50,000 works of art digitized by AMICO members are represented in this system. The library presently consists of works from Europe, including ancient Greece and Rome; works from North America, including Pre-Columbian (Meso-American) art; works from Asia, including ancient Asia Minor; works from Africa, including ancient Egypt; works from South America; and works from Oceania.

• Cornell University Digital Image Collections. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Institute for Digital Collections, 2000- .

  The online file contains digital images of paintings, drawings, architectural drawings, photography, and prints held at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art and collected for this site by the Cornell University Digital Image Collections. Offers access to individual images as well as information about artists and their works. The project will continue to collect images of the over 27,000 works housed in the museum, eventually adding representations of sculpture and other holdings.

• Turner, Jane, ed. Grove Dictionary of Art Online (groveart.com). New York, NY : Grove's Dictionaries, Inc., 1999- .

  

  The Grove Dictionary of Art Online provides web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (1996, 34 vols.) (Fine Arts Reference N31 .D55 1996; also in Olin Reference). It is a "comprehensive art reference work covering all forms of the visual arts: painting, sculpture, architecture, graphic and decorative arts, and photography, from prehistory to the 1990." (Publisher's page). Includes constant additions of new material, updates to the text, and an extensive collection of image links.

• RLG Cultural Materials. Montain View, CA: Research Libraries Group, c2001-2002- .

  

  The RLG Cultural Materials resource is a multimedia collection of digital versions of manuscripts, photos, art, historical documents and memorabilia, and more, brought together from around the world. Through a flexible Web workspace developed with the materials' special characteristics in mind users can discover, compare, interpret, and make connections between materials in ways that enrich teaching, learning, and scholarship. RLG Cultural Materials is a collaborative effort from an international alliance of RLG member institutions, bringing together primary source materials in high-quality digital form. This resource provides access to authenticated, rights-cleared digital materials.

General Interest and Reference Encyclopædia Britannica Online Oxford English Dictionary (OED Online) Roget's Thesaurus (thesaurus.com) Columbia Encyclopedia Merriam-Webster Online Language Tools (iTools)

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Finding Books

Cornell University Library Catalog

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• About the CU Library Catalog

  The Cornell University Library Catalog includes the holdings of all 17 of the libraries on the Ithaca campus, in addition to those of the Geneva Experiment Station. (The Weill Cornell Medical Library, located in New York City, has a separate catalog.) The catalog contains records for books, computer files, government documents, manuscripts and archives, maps, musical scores, periodicals, serials, sound recordings, and visual materials received and cataloged since 1973. There are also records for most pre-1973 items, and for items that are on order or in process.

• CU Library Catalog Help

  Functions and features of the new web catalog are explained on these pages.

• Click on the Cornell Library Catalog banner to launch a new catalog session:
  

• When to Check the Card Catalog

  Some materials in the humanities and social sciences acquired prior to 1973 have records that have not yet been converted to digital form. Access to these records is through the card catalog located in Olin Library. The card catalog contains cards for authors, titles, and subjects filed in an alphabetical, word-by-word arrangement.

• Understanding Library of Congress Call Numbers

• Library of Congress Classification

  The Cornell University Library uses Library of Congress subject headings as the standard for subject searching. Unlike searching by keyword, where any term or wording of a topic can be entered into the computer, subject searching requires you to use the exact wording of an official Library of Congress subject heading in order to retrieve search results.

• Library Catalogs Worldwide Use other online catalogs to find materials not in the CU Library Catalog.

• Interlibrary Loan Services Use ILLiad (InterLibrary Loan Internet Accessible Database) to borrow materials from other libraries.

• Borrow Direct A new rapid book request and delivery system that enables Cornell faculty, staff and students to search the combined library catalogs of Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton and Yale, and directly request expedited delivery of circulating items.

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Finding Articles

Indexes, Abstracts, and E-Journals

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Periodical indexes and abstracts are resources that identify and locate articles in journals, magazines, and newspapers.

Finding Periodicals and Periodical Articles

The e-Reference Collection contains titles, descriptive information, and links to over 2000 networked electronic resources, including periodical indexes and abstracts. There are two main ways to search for resources in your areas of interest: searching by title or keyword and browsing through the subject menus.

Multidisciplinary Indexes

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• Lexis Nexis Academic Universe. Dayton, Ohio: Lexis-Nexis, 1997-.

  Lexis-Nexis' Academic Universe provides access to full text resources on topics including current and general news; business and financial information; newspapers; company directories; government and politics; medical and health topics; accounting, auditing, and tax; federal and state laws; legal cases; and regulations. Resources include TV and radio news transcripts.

• Periodical Abstracts (ProQuest). Ann Arbor: Bell & Howell, 1986- .

  Indexes and abstracts approximately 2000 general interest magazines and scholarly journals. It also includes citations and abstracts to selected television and radio programs. Many of the articles found by searching in this database are available in full text electronic formats. Pull down menus allow you to customize your searches by date range, type of resource (newspaper or magazine and journal articles), and by retrieval format (citation, full text, or PDF file which includes graphics). The Database Selection menu allows you to search different sections of the database, including a limit for Peer reviewed articles (scholarly articles).

Specialized Subject Indexes

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• Art Abstracts (OCLC Web: 1984- ).

  Indexes more than 250 key international, English-language arts publications. Includes periodicals, yearbooks, museum bulletins, competition and award notices, exhibition listings, interviews, film reviews, and more. Covers art, archaeology, architecture, art history, city planning, computer graphics, crafts, film, interior design, landscape architecture, photography, television, textiles and video.

• Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (Eureka Web: 1930- ).

  "The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals indexes more than 2,000 periodicals published worldwide on archaeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation, as well as architecture. Coverage is from the 1930s (with selective coverage dating back to the 1860s) to the present. The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals is updated daily." (Avery home page)

• Bibliography of the History of Art (Eureka Web: 1973- ).

  Covering European and American art from late antiquity to the present, the Bibliography of the History of Art indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealer's catalogs, and articles from more than 2,500 periodicals. The Bibliography of the History of Art file is updated quarterly and covers 1973 to the present.

E-Journals

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Collections

• JSTOR New York, NY: JSTOR, c1996-.

  JSTOR is a fully-searchable database containing the back issues of scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics and other fields.

• Project Muse Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1995- .

  "Project Muse enables worldwide networked access to the full text of the Johns Hopkins University Press's 40+ scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics."

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Internet Resources

Portals, Search Engines, and Subject Guides

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Use web portals, search engines, or Internet subject guides to find resources or sites on the World Wide Web on your topic. Search Engines are software programs that allow you to search the contents of web pages and Subject Guides are web pages that use menus and lists to sort and classify web sites.

Question and evaluate the information that you find on web pages. As you would do with books and journal articles, look to see who is responsible for producing the web page or site that you are accessing. How objective is the information? How accurate or truthful? How authoritative? Go to the Evaluating Sources section of this page for more information on how to assess the web sites you have accessed.

Selected Web Searching Resources

Web Portals	Search Engines	Metasearch Engines
Alta Vista Excite GO.com Hotsheet Lycos MSN Netcenter Yahoo!	About Ask Jeeves Ditto Google iLor HotBot Northern Light Search Engine Colossus	alltheweb Dogpile ixquick Mamma MetaCrawler Search.com

Subject Guides	Other Web Guides	Web Reference
Argus Clearinghouse BUBL Galaxy lii.org OKU Internet Subject Guides WWW Virtual Library	4anything dmoz open directory project LookSmart Top10Links	IPL Ready Reference Infoplease iTools! LibrarySpot refdesk.com xrefer Webopedia

Selected Web Sites Cornell University Department of Architecture The Adelaide and George W. Knight Visual Resources Facility Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art How to Research an Architectural Structure: A Research Guide Art on the Web: Architecture Web Sites Voice of the Shuttle Artifice Great Buildings Collection Ancient World Web Archimedia Great Stupa at Sanchi

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Evaluating Sources

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Evaluating the sources you find is a crucial step in the process of library research. The questions you ask about books, periodical articles, or multimedia sources are similar whether you're looking at a citation to the item or have the item in hand.

How to Critically Analyze Information Sources lists some of the critical questions you should ask when you consider the appropriateness of a particular book, article, media resource, or Web site for your research.

Distinguishing Scholarly from Non-Scholarly Periodicals: A Checklist of Criteria shows how to evaluate periodicals by looking at their format, intended audience, and appearance.

Evaluating Web Resources lists ways to analyze the Web sites you find.

Five Criteria for Evaluating Web Sites offers a table of suggestions.

For additional suggestions specific to Web sites, see Evaluating Web Sites: Criteria and Tools.

How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography

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Citing Sources

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Cornell University Code of Academic Integrity

APA citation style

• Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (4th ed.)

  CU Library Reference locations include Africana, ILR, Mann, Olin, and Uris Libraries at call number: BF 76.7 .A51x 1994. Also in Hotel Reference at PE 1475 .P82 1994.

• APA citation style (Gateway Help)

• APA Reference Examples for Electronic Source Materials Excerpted from the new 5th edition of the Publication Manual.

• APAStyle.org

MLA citation style

• MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (5th ed.)

  CU Library Reference locations include Olin and Uris Libraries at call number: LB 2369 .G53x 1999.

• MLA citation style (Gateway Help)

• MLA Style (MLA's web site)

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Research and Reference Help

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• Library Gateway Help

• CU Library Catalog Help

• Reference Desk Schedules in Olin and Uris Libraries
  • Olin Library Reference phone number: 255-4144

  • Uris Library Reference phone number: 255-2339

• Online CHAT Reference Help service

  Available Monday-Friday 10:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m.

Fine Arts Library Reference Phone Number: 255-6716 E-mail Address: fineartsref@cornell.edu Reference Desk Schedule

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Feedback and Evaluation

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September 17, 2002 Lance Heidig, ljh5@cornell.edu Martha Walker,maw6@cornell.edu Reference Services Division, Olin Kroch Uris Libraries Cornell University Library URL: http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/arch181b.html

Olin and Uris Libraries, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853
Information and reference: 607-255-4144, okuref@cornell.edu
Circulation: (Olin) 607-255-4245, (Uris) 607-255-3537, olincirc@cornell.edu