Web Sites

Search, also, architects' web sites for plans, drawings, etc.

• ArchDaily (Materials on new building projects, architectural trends, design matters, and competitions.)
• Archipedia (Society of Architectural Historians)
• archINFORM .
• Architectural Record .
• Architecture and Design Collection Highlights (The Getty Research Institute) Includes links to individual architects' drawings and papers.
• ArchNet .
• American Institute of Architects: Practicing Architecture
• American Institute of Architects: Blueprint for America Initiatives
• Atlas of Urban Expansion
• Building Types Study (in Architectural Record)
• Cities and Buildings Database .
• CyArk (Creating a Digital Archive of the World's Heritage Sites for Preservation and Education)
• Design Boom .
• Global Cities & Buildings Database
• Great Buildings Collection
• Heritage Documentation Programs
• Historic American Buildings Survey
• Planning Maps of Midwestern Cities in the 1920s and 1930s
• Society of Architectural Historians: Digital Resources
• Structurae: international database and gallery of structures
• Urban Land Institute

Image Database and Sites

• ARTstor
• Mass Department of Environmental Protection Image Collections
• Digital Public Library of America

Boston Sources

• Boston Landmarks Commission
• Boston Society of Architects
• City of Boston Archives
• Historic American Buildings Survey
• Massachusetts Collections Online
• Massachusetts Historical Commission
• Massachusetts Real Estate Atlas Digitization Project (real estate maps from the late 19th and early 20th centuries)
• Historical Atlas of Massachusetts

• Olmsted Park - The Emerald Necklace Conservancy
• Frederick Law Olmsted Papers
• Fairsted (National Park Service)
• The Royall House and Slaves Quarters

• American Indian Histories and Cultures

• Native Northeast Portal
• Native Peoples of New England
• Tribes of the New England/Northeast Region

Maps

• Geography and Map Reading Room (Library of Congress) .
• Map Collections: American Memory
• Panoramac Maps, 1847 - 1929  .
• Old Maps Online .

• Historical Map Web Sites
• Persuasive Cartography - The PJ Mode Collection .

• The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library:
• American Panorama: An Atlas of United States History .

• Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States

    Books     

1. A Few canned subject browsing in JumboSearch; click on the links for resutls:

• "Architecture -- Designs and Plans" (e-ttitles at Tufts
• "Architecture -- Designs and Plans" print as well as e-titles at Tisch
• "Architectural drawings"  (books, journals and videos)

2. JumboSearch   for Books 

The library's catalog includes ebooks from the following collections, which you can search separately as well:

• Double check in the e-book collections below:
• ACLS Humanities E-Book
• Library Stack (independent ebooks on art, architecture, media studies, ...
• SAGE Knowledge (social Sciences)


• All Subjects:
• eBook Collection (in EBSCOhost)
• JSTOR
• Project MUSE
• ProQuest EBook Central

Note: WorldCat (renamed to be Libraries Worldwide on the Tisch Library homepage) is still a better place to get a fuller picture of  books on a topic, even though interlibrary loan service is currently very limited.)

Check the Boston Public Library's catalog for eBooks (and  sign up for a BPL eCard , Tufts students and faculty eligible)

"Digital books" on Internet Archive

Open Educational Resources (OER)
online alternatives that are accessible and free to all students

 Journal Articles 

A. All-Subject Databases

• JSTOR
• Project Muse

B. Art and Architecture Databases

• Art & Architecture Source
• Architecture  (Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals)

C. Related Subjects Databases

• In EBSCOhost databases, you can select to search across the following databases, among others:
• America: History & Life
• Art & Architecture Source
• Bibliography of Asian Studies
• Historical Abstracts (World history and culture)
• History of Science, Technology and Medicine
• Women's Studies International

 

**Search by the title of the article in JumboSearch when the full text is not readily available in the databases.

 

Select e-journals

• Architecture and culture
• Architectural History
• Architectural record
• Buildings & landscapes: journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum
• Journal of Architectural and Planning Research
• Journal of Housing and the Built Environment
• Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
• Twentieth Century Architecture
• Urban history review / Revue d'histoire urbaine

    Magazine and Newspaper Articles 

Current

• Access World News (rich regional news)
• Factiva(More international coverage)

Historical

• American Periodicals (1741-1940)
• Black Studies Center (Journals and newspapers, some historic)
• Accessible Archives
• America's Historical Newspapers
• Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
• Newspapers.com