Useful Shortcuts
Does the Library have this reference?
for a book
for an article
What articles have been written on aspects of my topic?
use
databases to find these references
for architecture
Avery
index
RIBA
Library Online Catalogue
ARCH
for art
Art
Abstracts
for classics
TOCS-IN
for history
Historical
abstracts
for geography
Geobase
for the humanites
PIO:
Periodicals Index Online
PAO:
Periodicals Archive Online
JSTOR
other databases with
a broad subject coverage which may include aspects of architecture
Academic
search premier
Australia/New
Zealand Reference Centre
EAI:
Expanded Academic index
Factiva
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Finding information through the Library
Specialised
encyclopedias and subject dictionaries are useful
places to start, giving not only information but often providing
illustrations and also references to other books or journal articles
for more comment.
For your topic try -
Brills New Pauly: encyclopaedia of the
ancient world. 2008-
Reference Collection
938
P33.3.B
"An aid for the study of Greek and Roman culture and
its multifaceted presence in all periods", This new edition, now in
English, is being published in two parts.
Antiquity covers all
aspects of Greek and Roman culture from the 2nd millenium BC to
the early mediaeval period, eg. Architectural
Theory/Vitruvianism.
The three volumes of the Classical
Tradition
cover the influence of ancient culture on subsequent cultures,
eg. Architecture
includes the Middle East
and Egypt.
Encyclopedia of World Art.
1959-87. 15 volumes.
Reference Collection
703
E56
Includes architecture in its coverage of the
arts. Despite its age, this is still an invaluable source of
information, with numerous illustrations, in
black-and-white and colour. The illusration take the second half
of each
volume. Use the index, volume 15, to locate both
the text and
illustrations about a place; a person (Vitruvius);
a movement; a country; a period.
Dictionary of Art.
1996. 34 volumes.
Reference Collection
703
T948d
Includes architecture in its coverage
of the arts. More up-to-date than the Encyclopedia
of World Art. The
relatively few illustrations are black-and-white. Use the index,
volume 34, to trace text about a person, place or theory.
Encyclopedia of
Vernacular Architecture. 3 volumes. 1997.
Reference Collection
720.9
O48e
Volume 1 is devoted to theories and principles
Volumes 2 and 3 covers Cultures and Habitats and is arranged by
continent and region.
Sir Banister Fletcher’Äôs a
history of architecture. 20th ed.
1996
Reference Collection
720.9
F61.20
Presents an historical survey of
Aims to be "an easy-to-use reference book"
presenting an "objective and authoritative" coverage with "all the
major examples of world architecture described and explained" and
"fully illustrated". Arranged in seven parts: 1) The Architecture
of Egypt, the Ancient Near East, Asia, Greece and the Hellenistic
Kingdoms; 2) The Architecture of Europe and the
Mediterranean to the Renaissance; 3) The Architecture of Islam; 4) The
Architecture of the Pre-Colonial Cultures outside Europe; 5) The
Architecture of the Renaissance and Post-Renaissance in Europe and
Russia; The Architecture of the Colonial and
Post-colonial Periods outside Europe; The Architecture
of the Twentieth Century.
Has numerous diagrams, drawings, and photographs. Has an
extensive list of references; pp1671-1712.
Click here for other specialised encyclopedias
and subject dictionaries that may have useful information.
Also useful may be the sources suggested in the Resource
Guides for Classics,
Geograhical
& Environmental Studies and History.
Finding more information
The Library Catalogue tells you to
which books, reports and
journals the library provides access; where they are located in the
building, and/or gives links to the electronic source.
REMEMBER that the Library Catalogue DOES NOT list
individual articles from journals nor papers from conferences;
use a Database
to find out what articles, papers or reports have been written on your
topic.
When you
use the Library Catalogue you will know (1) which
book you want; (2) which
journal article you want; or you will need information about a topic
from a book in the Library (3) or from an article
in a journal or newspaper (4).
The following notes provide examples to
address each of these situations in the context of History of
Settlements. More detail is provided in Finding information
in the Library for Architecture
To search the Library
Catalogue effectively, from the Library home page
<http://www.library.adelaide.edu.au>, click on Catalogue
from the six rectangular boxes across the top of the screen.
(1) following up a reference to a
book -
Type the title in the Search for: bar,
leaving the search default by: Title omit
the beginning 'The', 'A', etc eg.
Search for:
Architecture without
architects by: Title omit the beginning
'The', 'A', etc
Search Results:
shows your search strategy and a numbered list of the titles which
match your search strategy. This list is arranged alphabetically, if
you want to see the most recent edition first, go to Sort by:,
above or below the list of titles, and pull down to Date
(latest first).
Click on the Title of the book to
get the Record view, a full description of the book
including where to find it, Location: and Call
Number: and whether or not it is already on loan Status:.
Use the Print/Save Options at the end
of the Record view
when you want keep information about an item in the Library.
If you want to save the information about a book, click in the check
box to
the left of the Title for each useful-looking item,
then select Print/Save or Email or Save
to Bookbag.
Finding more information
-
the Full
Record display for the book will include Subject
Heading(s):
Click on one of the Subject
Heading(s): to get a list of other books on the same subject.
(2) following up a reference to a
journal article -
Remember, the Library
Catalogue does not list individual articles from journals, so you MUST
search under the title of the journal.
Type the full title of the journal in the Search for:
bar, changing the default at by: to Journal
or Newspaper Title eg.
Search for:
Journal of architectural
education by: Journal or Newspaper Title
Search Results:
will display the titles corresponding to your search. Where the Library
has a journal in electronic and print form there are two records.
For the print version, click on the Full Title
for the Record
view, a full description of that item, including the Location:,
Call Number:, an indication of the range
of issues the Library has:; a list of the Recent
issues: received and whether any volumes are out on loan (Status:).
| Compare
the information provided at Library Has: and Recent Issues: with your
reference to see that the Library indeed has the issue that you need. |
Where the Library has paid a subscription for access to the electronic
version of a journal you will see Link to e-Resource:
at the top of the grey, left-hand column.
Click once on the wording to
the right of Link to e-Resource, to go to the full text
site.
| Compare
the date provided at the link to the electronic resource with the date
of the article you need
to see whether the Library has access to the volume, issue, and date
that you need. |
Using the Search by:
Journal or Newspaper Title is particularly useful when
you are
trying
to find a journal with a short or single word title which could be the
name of a book, eg.
(3) What books does the Library
have with information on my topic?
In the Search for: bar type words to
describe your topic by: Keywords (use and, or, not, " ")
With this method, the and, or, not,
and inverted commas " ", are computer commands
telling the system which words in the Title: or Subject
Heading(s): or Contents:
for a book, would mean that the book could be useful to
you. The results will be a list of the potentially useful titles.
Where you have more than one concept type the AND
operator between your search words, eg.
Search for:
water
AND architecture by:
Keywords (use and, or, not, " ")
finds 125 records which
include both of these words somewhere in the record.
There are ways to "improve" your
search results
(a) think about the possibility of different endings to a
word, such as singular and plural. Where this is a the case,
truncate the word by adding a * star or asterisk to the stem, eg.
Search for:
garden*
AND design* by:
Keywords (use and, or, not, " ")
(b) where you know of alternative words that may be used for a
concept,
enclose the string of words in round brackets ( )
and type the OR
operator between each of the words, eg.
Search for:
(proportion*
OR order*) AND
(architect* OR build*) by:
Keywords
(use
and, or, not, " ")
(c) where you are sure that
your search words will always appear together in order, put the phrase
in inverted commas " " to find
only the occasions when the words appear
as you have typed them, eg.
Search for: "taj mahal"
by:
Keywords
(use
and, or, not, " ")
(d) From the yellow rectangles across the top of the Catalogue
screen, click on [Other
Catalogues] to find out what books and journals are kept
by the libraries of Flinders University and the University of South
Australia.
at the list of the three
institutions, highlight all three, then click on (Connect)
The phrase " Now searching: Adelaide , Flinders ,
UniSA" appears in the top right of the screen.
After you have done your search the Search
Status will show the number of items at each library.
Click on Show
to bring up the list of titles.
The column on the right
headed, headed Database
will show which library has that item, and the call number.
Remember that you can
borrow from the other two university libraries on your University of
Adelaide student card.
Where the item is in
electronic format you should go to that University library and ask for
directions to the "Community Computers" where you can use the
electronic resources of that university library.
For more information on searching by topic in the
Library Catalogue see Finding
Information through the Library Catalogue.
(4) Once you have used all the
useful books available in the Library you can try Databases
to see what articles or newspaper comment is available for your topic.
Searching the databases follows the same process as searching by
Keyword (use
and,
or,
" ")
on
the Library Catalogue.
For
architecture -
International
coverage, including local history of North America
International
coverage of specialist architecture and design journals
For Australian material -
Australian
architectural and design publications
Australian emphasis,
including references to international articles on topics relevant to
Australian conditions
Broader databases which may include aspects
of architecture -
These databases cover the
content of a range of magazines, journals and
newspapers.
Where the Library has paid for access to the text of a journal, there
will be a link to the full text. Remember to check
the Library Catalogue for the journal title if the text of the article
you want is not available electronically.
with a broad coverage of the humanities and social sciences are -
listing articles from the journals of a particular publisher are -
listing articles from older journals where the fiull text is provided
are -
JSTOR
Provides
image and full-text online access to back issues of selected scholarly
journals in history and other fields of the humanities and social
sciences from their first issue up to 3-5 years ago.
PIO
1665-
An index to writings
in older journals. Can give an indication of changing opinions over the
years.
Provides
the full text of articles from a number of the journals idexed in
PIO.
Like PIO is useful as a source of contemporary comment and different
attitudes in different eras.
Project
Muse 1995-
A collaboration between libraries and publishers
which provides full-text access to some 300 high quality humanities,
arts, and social sciences journals from 60 publishers.
Specialised databases from other subjects may have useful information
for aspects of the History of
Settlements, eg.
Geobase
1980- (geograhical topics)
Historical
abstracts 1967-
(historical aspects)
TOCS-IN:
Tables of Contents of Journals of Interest to Classicists
1992- (classical studies)
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