We have thousands of journals and databases selected by your Schools to support teaching and research. There are so many, that it can be difficult to know which ones are the best to use, so we have grouped them together for you! Use the 'everything' search in Library Search to find articles, conference papers, journals and more, or Browzine to browse the e-journal titles in your subject.
Key Databases and eJournal Collections
Key databases for Architecture, Planning and Landscape include:
Core SAPL databases
- Architects' Journal Buildings DatabaseThe AJ Buildings Library is a digital database that showcases more than 1,900 exemplar projects, most from the last 20 years but including major projects back to 1900.
- Art and Architecture Archive This link opens in a new windowA full text, full colour archive of 25 art and architecture magazines from the 19th to 21st centuries. You can search across the whole archive, and the magazines are also individually catalogued on Library Search.
- Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowAvery Index to Architectural Periodicals, published by the Getty Research Institute, a comprehensive American guide to the current literature of architecture and design. Surveys more than 2,500 US and foreign journals and provides nearly 13,000 citation records for architects' obituaries.
- Bloomsbury Architecture Library This link opens in a new windowCollection of fully-searchable text and image content on the study of architecture, urbanism, and interior design.
- British Standards Online (BSOL) This link opens in a new windowNewcastle University has access to British Standards Online which provides access to full-text current British Standards.
- Building Types Online This link opens in a new windowOnline platform featuring architectural drawings, building plans, photos of building types, case studies and articles.
- Construction Information Service (CIS) This link opens in a new windowThe Construction Information Service (CIS) is produced jointly with the National Building Specification (NBS) especially for architects, civil and structural engineers, building control officers, building services engineers and other professionals in the construction industry. CIS provides fundamental industry information and legislation, as well as additional sector material. The extensive range of full-text documents cover all aspects of the building, engineering, design and construction process in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland.
- ENDS Report This link opens in a new windowAnalyses environmental policy and legislation and offers commentary and analysis on the implications for business across the carbon, environmental and sustainability agenda.
- The Historic England Archive This link opens in a new windowDiscover more about England's archaeology, historic buildings and social history using the Historic England Archive. They hold over 12 million photographs, drawings, reports and publications from the 1850s to the present day, covering the whole country.
- Specify ITSpecify-it provides online access to a comprehensive range of information from building suppliers and manufacturers across the UK construction industry
Bibliographic databases give you an overview of the literature in a subject area. They provide an index to journal articles and conference papers from a wide range of publishers. Many of these databases provide an abstract of a paper, but NOT ALWAYS the full text. Key databases for Business include:
- ProQuest Social Sciences Premium Collection This link opens in a new windowCovers international literature in the social sciences, including architecture, planning, urban design and landscape. Provides abstracts, indexing and full text coverage of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, working papers and more.
- Scopus This link opens in a new windowScopus is a large, multidisciplinary database, which indexes peer reviewed journal articles, books, book chapters, conference proceedings and trade publications.
- Web of Science This link opens in a new windowWeb of Science is a multidisciplinary database, which indexes scholarly journal articles, books, book chapters and conference proceedings. It provides cited reference searching, so you can navigate forward and backward through the literature to uncover all the information relevant to your research. Use citation reports to see citation activity and geographical trends and the ‘analyse results’ tool to identify trends and publication patterns.
Landscape, Planning and Urban Design
- ACM Digital Library This link opens in a new windowFull text of every article ever published by ACM: Association for Computing Machinery. Includes resources on urban renewal, urban planning, smart cities.
- CAB Abstracts This link opens in a new windowCAB Abstracts is a comprehensive, international databases covering agriculture, forestry, global health, natural resources management, conservation and land-use, from 1910 to date.
- IEEExplore This link opens in a new windowDelivers full text access to high quality technical literature (journal articles, conference papers and standards) from the IEEE and IET.
- Proquest Agricultural & environmental science database.The Agricultural & Environmental Science Database is a cross-disciplinary resource of full-text content along with indexing of global literature across these fields and related disciplines. Peer-reviewed journals, trade publications, magazines, and grey literature as well as working papers, conference papers and proceedings are included. Includes Environment Abstracts, Environmental Engineering Abstracts, Environmental Impact Statements: Digests, Health & Safety Science Abstracts, Industrial and Applied Microbiology Abstracts (Microbiology A), Pollution Abstracts, Risk Abstracts, Sustainability Science Abstracts, TOXLINE, Toxicology Abstracts, Water Resources Abstracts, and Agricola.
- Planning resourcePlanning resource offers a student subscription whereby students from Newcastle University can register for access and they will not have to pay for the service until they graduate.
To register, each student can use the below link:
Planning Resource (only):
http://users.planningresource.co.uk/profession/students - Transport Information Database (TRID)TRID is an integrated database that combines the records from the TRB's TRIS and OECD's ITRD databases.
eJournal collections, whilst not as comprehensive as databases, will normally give you subject focused results and often include the full text. Key Architecture, Planning and Landscape eJournal collections include:
- ASCE Library This link opens in a new windowWe have access to 35 journals and the proceedings from the American Society of Civil Engineers. All of these titles are catalogued in Library Search, but contact the Library if you would like a complete list.
- Greenfile This link opens in a new windowGreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for approximately 538,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 5,800 records.
- ICE Virtual Library This link opens in a new windowThe Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Virtual Library contains every peer-reviewed technical paper published by the Institution of Civil Engineers from 1836.
- Oxford University Press Journals This link opens in a new windowSearch journals published by Oxford University Press for a variety of subject areas.
- SAGE Journals Online This link opens in a new windowSearchable database providing full-text access to over 450 Sage titles. We have full-text access to almost all of them from 1999 onwards.
- Science Direct This link opens in a new windowScienceDirect provides full text-access to journal articles published by Elsevier.
All databases should have a help section with tips and tricks on how to get the best out of using them (normally top-right corner of database), but here's some extra help to get you started:
- Web of Science: Arts and Humanities Citation Index supportWeb of Science video tutorials
- JSTOR supportHelp and support on how to search on JSTOR
- Proquest Social Sciences Premium Collection SupportTraining materials, videos and help guides to support Proquest Social Sciences
- ProQuest supportVideo tutorials covering all Proquest product which includes Avery and EIS.
- Scopus supportHelp and support on how to access and use Scopus
