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To find journal articles and current research on any subject, use a journal index. A journal index is similar to the library catalogue. But instead of searching a collection of books in the catalogue, it searches a database where articles from magazines and journals are listed and collected. Sometimes you can go directly from the index to the full-text article. When searching indexes, remember to try alternate words for your topic.
The following publicly accessible journal indexes may be useful for landscape architects, reserachers and garden designers. |
| Databases Open to the Public |
| Agricola is a comprehensive index to agricultural and life sciences information. The primary focus is on the United States but there is international information as well. Subject areas covered include all areas of agriculture and allied disciplines, such as plant and animal science, forestry, entomology, soil and water resources, agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, agricultural products, alternative farming practices and food and nutrition. The publication types covered include journal articles, books, theses, patents, software, audio-visual materials and technical reports. |
| CISTI Source is a current awareness and document delivery service
from CISTI (Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information) providing citations to 20,000 in all subject areas. Approximately 65% of the journals are in the fields of science, technology and the health sciences. Pay for articles ordered |
| Ingenta Electronic Table of Contents and Document Delivery Service is a database service that lists the table of contents of 18,000 journals in all subject areas. It can be searched by journal and article title, by author, and keywords. Approximately 50% of the journals are in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Ingenta / UnCover Reveal offers a current awareness table-of-contents service for up to 50 journals that can be delivered via e-mail. Pay for articles ordered |
Some journals have their own online indexes, for instance Landscape Architecture Magazine . The index is arranged by yearand searchable by keyword |
| Archindont: The Toronto Reference Library Architectural Index for Ontario "Archindont is a database of architectural information and citations to periodical articles and books about buildings in Toronto." |
| University Databases |
Generally, for community users and alumni many of these databases are only searchable in a library that subscribes to them. You must be physically in the library to use them. However these are powerful tools for a researcher and often worth the trip. Hopefully this list will help you to choose the best databases for searching so your time is used efficiently. Library staff will always be glad to help. |
| Academic Search Premier The world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary, full text database. This scholarly collection provides full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, etc. |
America History and Life Historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. The database comprises almost 400,000 bibliographic entries, providing an incomparable research tool for students and researchers of US and Canadian history.
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Art Abstracts Subjects covered include: Advertising Art, Antiques, Archaeology, Architecture and Architectural History, Art History, Computers in Art, Crafts, Decorative Arts, Fashion Design, Folk Art, Graphic Arts, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Motion Pictures, Museology, Non-Western Art, Painting, Photography, Pottery, Sculpture, Television, Textiles, Video
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| Artbibliographies Modern
Covers all aspects of modern and contemporary art, including performance art and installation works, video art, computer and electronic art, body art, land art, environmental art, graffiti, artists' books, theater arts, crafts, jewelry, illustration, and more, as well as the traditional fine arts of painting, printmaking, sculpture, and drawing. |
| Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals provides citations to more than 1,000 periodicals published worldwide on archaeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation, as well as architecture. File sources include The Getty Information Institute (GII) and the Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia. |
| Bibliography of the History of Art This database indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealers' catalogs, and articles from over 4,300 periodicals. Broad in scope, the bibliography's citations encompass fine arts—painting, sculpture, drawing, prints, architecture—as well as decorative and applied arts—crafts, graphic arts, and folk and popular art among them. |
| CBCA [Canadian Business and Current Affairs] |
| CABDirect CAB Abstracts provides abstracts of the international literature in agriculture, forestry, and allied disciplines, including: animal and crop husbandry, animal and plant breeding, plant protection, genetics, forestry engineering, economics, veterinary medicine, human nutrition and rural development. |
| Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management [CSA site]Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management is a multidisciplinary database that provides wide coverage of the environmental sciences. Abstracts and citations are drawn from more than 1500 scientific journals and from thousands of other sources, including conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications. |
| Garden, Landscape & Horticulture eCollection [Gale][InfoTrac]
A custom collection of nearly 50 journals focused on key issues in gardening, landscaping, and other areas of horticulture.
Over 30 of the titles do have full text content |
| GeoRef [CSA site] The database
contains over 2.8 million references to geoscience
journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses. |
| Geography [now available through Geobase] A multi-disciplinary database supplying bibliographic information and abstracts for human and physical geography, ecology, geology, oceanography and development studies. The database includes refereed journal articles and scientific papers, trade journal and magazine articles and other relevant material. |
| Historical Abstracts provides coverage of world history (excluding Canada and the United States) from 1450 to the present. Currently more than 2,000 journals published throughout the world are covered in the database. |
Humanities Full Text contains abstracting and indexing coverage for 400 periodicals as well
as the full text for more than 96 periodicals. Among the disciplines included are literature and language, history, philosophy, archaeology, classical studies, folklore, gender studies, performing arts, history, religion and theology.
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ITER
Literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700), including articles, books, conference proceedings, festschriften, encyclopedias, and exhibition catalogues |
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Readers' Guide Full Text
Popular magazines and newspapers (some scholarly material). This database is available in many public libraries. |
ScholarsPortal
A growing collection of databases and electronic journals that may be searched separately or together. Includes databases provided by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA), Sage Publications. Additional databases will be added to the collection. The collection uses Illumina software provided by CSA and is maintained at the University of Toronto on behalf of all the Ontario universities. |
| Social Sciences Full Text Subjects covered include: Addiction Studies, Anthropology, Area Studies, Community Health & Medical Care, Corrections, Criminal Justice, Criminology, Economics, Environmental Studies, Ethics, Family Studies, Gender Studies, Geography, Gerontology, International Relations, Law, Minority Studies, Planning & Public Administration, Policy Sciences, Political Science, Psychiatry, Psychology, Public Welfare, Social Work, Sociology, Urban Studies. |
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