| MAIN INDEXES AND DATABASES |
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
via Cambridge Scientific Abstracts |
1741-present |
Indexes 2,800+ international scholarly and trade journals as well as popular magazines in architecture and design. |
DAAI: Design and Applied Arts Index
via Cambridge Scientific Abstracts |
1973-present |
Indexes 170+ design and craft journals and newspapers. Covers both new designers and the development of design and the applied arts since the mid-19th century, surveying disciplines including ceramics, glass, jewellery, wood, metalsmithing, graphic design, fashion and clothing, textiles, furniture, interior design, architecture, computer aided design, Web design, computer-generated graphics, animation, product design, industrial design, garden design, and landscape architecture. |
 Art Full Text and Art Retrospective
via WilsonWeb |
1929-present; Full text: 1997-present |
Indexes international publications in the arts, including journals, yearbooks, and select museum bulletins. Full text coverage begins in 1997. Allows to search Art Full Text and Art Retrospective concurrently. |
Arts and Humanities Citation Index
via ISI Web of Knowledge |
1977-present |
Indexes 1,144+ multidisciplinary scholarly journals and other publications in the arts and humanities, with cited references. Very useful for finding articles which cite earlier articles. |
Arts and Humanities Search
via FirstSearch |
1980-present |
Grove Art Online
via Oxford University Press |
Current |
A comprehensive art reference work covering all forms of the visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the 1990's. |
| SPECIALIZED INDEXES AND DATABASES |
Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)
via Cambridge Scientific Abstracts |
1973-present |
Indexes 4,819+ publications in European and American art history. |
CAMIO (OCLC's Catalog of Art Museum Images Online)
via OCLC |
Varies |
Catalog and images for over 88,000 works of art from over 30 leading museums. Formerly AMICO. |
GreenFILE™
via EBSCOhost |
Current |
Freely accessible research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment. Indexes materials involving the relationships between the enviornment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology. |
Index to Nineteenth-Century American Art Periodicals
via FirstSearch |
1800-1899 |
Indexes all 42 art periodicals that were published in the United States during the 19th century. |
Miami Metropolitan Archive (MMA)
via PALMM |
1896-1966 |
Provides digital access to important source materials on Miami-Dade County history. Currently, early City of Miami City Council meeting minutes, charters, departmental annual reports, and urban planning documents are included. |
Sanborn Fire Insurance Company Maps of Florida
via PALMM |
1860-1923 |
Includes more than 3000 map sheets illustrating the development of more than 130 Florida cities. The maps were mainly designed to help fire insurance agents determine the degree of damage to a property and show accurate information to help them determine risks and establish premiums. The maps included street names, property boundaries and lot lines, and house and block numbers. |
| RELATED INDEXES AND DATABASES |
ABI/Inform
via ProQuest |
1905-present |
Covers publications in business, finance, and economics. Includes four ABI/Inform databases: ABI/INFORM Archive Complete, ABI/INFORM Dateline, ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry. |
Academic
via LexisNexis |
Varies |
Full-text access to a wide range of news, business, legal, medical, government, statistical, and reference information; federal and state case law. |
Anthropology PLUS
via FirstSearch |
1800's-present |
Indexes 5,500+ scholarly journals in anthropology and archaeology. Includes all data from Anthropological Literature and Anthropological Index, which combined provide an extensive worldwide index to all subfields of anthropology, plus ethnology, archaeology, and folklore. |
Business Full Text
via WilsonWeb |
1982-present |
Indexes 650+ major magazines and scholarly journals in business. Full text coverage begins in 1995. |
Engineering Index (Compendex) - Current
via Florida Center for Library Automation |
2000-present |
Indexes 2,600+ international scholarly and trade journals and conference proceedings in all aspects of engineering. |
Engineering Index (Compendex) - Backfile
via Florida Center for Library Automation |
1970-1999 |
Engineering Index (Compendex)
via Engineering Village |
1884-present |
FRANCIS (International Humanities and Social Studies)
via FirstSearch |
1984-present |
Indexes 4,300+ international scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences. |
General Business File ASAP
via InfoTrac |
1980-present |
Indexes 1,000+ scholarly and trade journals, popular magazines, and newspapers in business, industry, economics and politics. Also covers broker research reports and company directory listings. |
Humanities Full Text and Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective
via WilsonWeb |
1907-present; Full text: 1994-present |
Indexes scholarly journals and popular magazines in the humanities. Full text coverage begins in 1994. Allows to search Humanities Full Text and Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective concurrently. |
Social Sciences Full Text and Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective
via WilsonWeb |
1907-present; Full text: 1995-present |
Indexes international scholarly journals and popular magazines in the social sciences. Full text coverage begins in 1995. Allows to search Social Sciences Full Text and Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective concurrently. |
Sociological Abstracts
via Cambridge Scientific Abstracts |
1952-present |
Indexes 2,000+ international journals and other publications in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Many records, added to the database since 2002, also include the references cited in the bibliography of the source article. |
| INTERNET SITES |
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