Library: Landscape Architecture: Landscape Architecture Research

Search for Books [and more] in the Library Catalog

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Note: This will filter out articles and e-books from your search results.

Search for Ebooks

Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
Here you will find approximately 25,000 downloadable ebooks on a wide variety of academic subjects. Access is limited to current students, staff, and faculty only.
EBL is a good resource for books on software that is updated regularly, like Unity, Photoshop, ZBrush, CAD software, etc.

Ebooks are also searchable in the library catalog. Conduct a normal search but (do not limit to San Diego). On the left side of the screen limit the 'Format' to ebooks.

Visit the e-books guide to learn more.

Search for Articles

Core Database for Landscape Architecture Research:

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive listing of journal articles published worldwide on architecture and design, archaeology, city planning, interior design, landscape architecture, and historic preservation.

Supplemental Databases for Landscape Architecture Research:

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
New content now available! Contains journals in the arts & sciences, as well as other key fields in the humanities and social sciences. JSTOR also contains about 50,000 ebooks from all disciplines, with an emphasis on history and humanities.
3 to 5 year embargo means the most current articles will not be found here.
Opposing Viewpoints This link opens in a new window
Covers today’s hottest social issues, from Offshore Drilling to Climate Change, Health Care to Immigration; helps students research, analyze and organize a broad variety of data for conducting research, completing writing assignments, preparing for debates, and creating presentations.

Tips for Database Searching:

Limit your search to Peer Reviewed or Academic Articles if you want to eliminate magazines, newspapers, and trade publications.
Each database has its own set of subject or topics. For example, "urban planning" and "city planning" are very similar, but return different results in the various databases. Use synonyms to narrow or alter your search.
Databases index a vast amount of information, some of which the library does not own. Click on the icon to see if the library owns it digitally or in print.
If you find a relevant article but want to keep searching, check the box next to the article to save it for later. You can check several to compile a list and email or print it once you are finished researching.
If you find an article the library doesn't own, you can get it through interlibrary loan, or travel to a library that owns the journal.

Open Access Journals

Open Access journals are e-journals available online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. To search visit the Directory of Open Access Journals.

DISP an interdisciplinary scientific journal, which addresses topics in the areas of Urban Development, City and Town Planning, Landscape and Environmental Planning, Landscape Architecture, Regional and Environmental Economics as well as Transportation Planing.
EARSeL eProceedings devoted to refereed scientific publications in all fields of Earth observation and remote sensing.
Soiled a venue for dialog and exploration, operating at the interstices of architecture, urbanism, and the pedosphere.
Urban Habitats an electronic journal on the biology of urban areas around the world.
URISA Journal journal of the association for GIS professionals.
Water Alternatives an interdisciplinary journal on water, politics, and development.

Search for Images

Artstor This link opens in a new window
Artstor is a nonprofit digital library of more than 1.6 million digital images in the arts, humanities, and sciences with a suite of software tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.

American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920
American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
California Heritage Project
Cities/Buildings Database a collection of digitized images of more than 5,000 buildings and cities drawn from across time and throughout the world.
History of Landscape Architecture
Panoramic Photograph Collection contains approximately four thousand images featuring American cityscapes, landscapes, and group portraits from the Library of Congress, American Memory Project.

Related Research Guides

Architecture Research Guide, Woodbury University

Information Sources for Landscape Architecture, University of Florida Libraries

Landscape Architecture Resource Guides, University of California, Berkeley

Subject Guides: Landscape Architecture, Leeds Metropolitan University, for the academic researcher, an online bibliography of print sources and Web links, organized by broad topic.

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