Subject & Study Guides: Architecture: Databases and Journals

Architecture Databases

Art & Architecture Complete [Ebsco] This link opens in a new window
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A leading databse for research in architecture and art with full text access to 380 journals and 220 books and indexing for many more.Also contains a collection of 63,000 images.
Art & Architecture Complete has been designed for use by a diverse audience that includes art scholars, artists, designers, college students, and general researchers. This database covers a wide variety of pertinent subjects, including antiques, art and art history, interior and landscape design, and much more.
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Good database for searching older journals. All items are full text.

The Great Buildings Collection
More than 1000 great buildings from around the world and across history are listed below and illustrated on this web site and the Great Buildings Collection on CD-ROM, with photographic images, architectural drawings, discussion, bibliography, architect info, and live 3D walkthrough computer models.

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals [Ebsco] This link opens in a new window
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Published by the Getty Research Institute. An index of architecture and design literature with an American focus.

Google Scholar This link opens in a new window Google Scholar searches academic publishers, professional societies and pre-print archives. Not all the results will be available online, however. Results may include citations to works that are not online, or items from databases that Unitec does not subscribe to. Online help for using Google Scholar.
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Te Puna Search This link opens in a new window
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Search New Zealand libraries and beyond.

EBSCOHost [Ebsco] This link opens in a new window
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Search for articles from over 40 databases in Unitec library's EBSCO's collection.

Informit Collection This link opens in a new window
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Informit products provide access to authoritative research from Australia, New Zealand, Asia Pacific and around the world.

ThoughtCo
Free database that provides overviews of architectural periods and styles

Papers Past
Historical collection of digitised New Zealand Newspapers (1839-1945)

Timeframes This link opens in a new window
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Timeframes includes selected New Zealand and Pacific images from the collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library, the research library within the National Library of New Zealand.
Images of New Zealand and the Pacific from the Alexander Turnbull Library (the research library within the National Library of New Zealand). Collections cover the social and natural history of New Zealand, the Pacific and Antarctica from the earliest European contact to the present. Also manuscripts, sheet music, maps, sound recordings, ephemera, photographs, cartoons, paintings, drawings and prints.
New Zealand Official Yearbook [SNZ] This link opens in a new window
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The New Zealand Official Yearbook has provided a comprehensive statistical picture of life in New Zealand from 1893 until 2010. ‘Handbooks’ of statistical information go back even further.

New Zealand Card Index
he indexing of references into the New Zealand Card Index began in the 1950s and closed in 1996. It indexes a range of sources including local and national newspapers, New Zealand periodicals, and books.
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The main geographical focus is Auckland, but other New Zealand material is also included. view video The subject matter focuses on people, places and organisations. The index includes references to information on Auckland buildings, businesses and places, as well as obituaries, death notices and marriage notices, from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
A digital collection of New Zealand and Pacific heritage material
Index to NZIA Journal 1912-1980
Index to the NZIAJ 1912-1980. Compiled by Victoria University. Note: Not covered by Index New Zealand.
Index to the NZIA Journal 1986-1990
Index to the NZIAJ 1986-1990. Compiled by Victoria University.

Index to the NZ Architect and Architecture NZ [Index only] This link opens in a new window
The journal of the NZIA was published under several titles (including Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute of Architects, Journal of the New Zealand Institute of Architects, NZIA Journal, New Zealand Architect, Architecture New Zealand) over the years and was not indexed anywhere in its early years. 3 Architecture Librarians at Victoria University of Wellington compiled an index of all the articles published in it from 1912- 1990.
this page covers articles from 1986-1990 see also https://ir.wgtn.ac.nz/handle/123456789/18545 for index of 1981-1985

Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre Plus [Ebsco] This link opens in a new window
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Australia/NZ Reference Centre is a large collection of regional full text including magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books. In addition to the leading Australia/NZ periodicals and international periodicals, it also includes full text biographies, image collection of photos, maps and flags.
Informit Collection This link opens in a new window
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Informit products provide access to authoritative research from Australia, New Zealand, Asia Pacific and around the world.

Te Ara : the encyclopedia of New Zealand This link opens in a new window
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Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand is a comprehensive guide to our peoples, natural environment, history, culture, economy and society.

Statistics New Zealand [SNZ] This link opens in a new window
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Statistics New Zealand Tatauranga Aotearoa is a government department and New Zealand’s national statistical office. We are New Zealand's major source of official statistics, administer the Statistics Act 1975, and lead the Official Statistics System.

NZ Research
This site includes peer-reviewed and other research from universities, polytechnics, and research organisations throughout New Zealand. Includes theses and conference papers.

INNZ: Index New Zealand [Index only] This link opens in a new window
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Index New Zealand indexes nearly 300 journals and newspapers. It is the key New Zealand database for social sciences, arts, humanities and general interest material, and indexes some South Pacific journals.