Architectural Design 

• Print Reference Sources
• Professional Practice Resources
• History, Theory, and Criticism: Architecture and Art
• Finding Images
• Boston Buildings and Neighborhoods
• Domus Map Guides
  

Use these sources to find high-quality images of buildings and other designs by noted architects.

• ARTstor - subscription image database (includes art and architecture) MIT only
• DOME - MIT's digital image repository

Use these tools to help you organize and cite your references:

• Overview of Citation Software
• EndNote
• RefWorks
• Zotero

Most useful

• Avery Index (Primary index for architecture journals) - info
• Art Full Text - info
• Art Index Retrospective - info
• Dissertations and Theses - info
• Oxford Art Online (includes Grove Art Online) - info

Sustainable Design

• Building Green Suite - info
• GreenSpec Database of Green Building Products (part of Building Green Suite) - info
• High Performance Buildings Database (part of Building Green Suite) - info

Also useful

• Architectural Publications Index - info
• ArchNet - info
• Artbibliographies Modern - info
• Arts & Humanities Citation Index/Web of Science - info - video
• Bibliography of the History of Art - info
• DSpace at MIT - info
• OpenDOAR [Directory of Open Access Repositories] - info
• Tradweb (Custom building and restoration services- formerly PreservationWeb) - info
• ULI Case Studies - info
  • Index for case studies in print at Rotch (1971-1997)

Table of contents/alerting serivces
The MIT Libraries provide access to a number of services for accessing journal tables of contents (TOCs) and research alerts (results of searches you construct, run periodically).

RSS: Keeping up with research - What is RSS and why should I use it?
RSS is an XML-based format for sharing and distributing web content An RSS reader (aka news reader or news aggregator) allows you to view information from multiple web sites in a single interface. When you "subscribe" to an RSS feed, your reader will check that web site on a regular basis and show you any new content.

Ann Whiteside

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