Preparing for Thesis Research is a strategic bibliographic guide for architecture graduate students beginning their professional report, thesis, or dissertation work at UC Berkeley. For additional assistance please consult the Environmental Design Library reference staff, 210 Wurster Hall.

UCB Architecture students who have determined their thesis or dissertation topic, and have done a preliminary search, may want to make an appointment with librarians David Eifler (building science) or Elizabeth Byrne (all other architecture) for assistance in preparing a thorough literature search.

UC Berkeley faculty, registered students, and staff who are off campus may use items marked UCB Only or UC Only by using the Library's proxy service or the Virtual Private Network (VPN).

Compiled by Elizabeth Byrne, Environmental Design Library
Content updated: August 25, 2008

• Authoring a PhD: how to plan, draft, write and finish a doctoral thesis or dissertation, Patrick Dunleavy. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
  Environmental Design, Bioscience LB2369.D85 2003
• Destination dissertation : a traveler's guide to a done dissertation / Sonja K. Foss and William Waters. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2007.
  Main Stacks LB2369.F59 2007
• Developing effective research proposals, Keith F. Punch. London: Sage, 2000.
  Environmental Design H62 P92 2000
• The dissertation, an architecture student's handbook, Iain Borden and Katerina Ruedi. 2nd ed. Oxford; Boston: London: Architectural Press, 2006.
  Environmental Design NA2108.B67 2006
• The dissertation journey, a practical and comprehensive guide to planning, writing, and defending your dissertation, Carol M. Roberts. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Corwin Press, 2004.
  Education/Psychology LB1742.R63 2004
• Guide to the successful thesis and dissertation: a handbook for students and faculty, James E. Mauch, Namgi Park. 5th ed. New York: M. Dekker, 2003.
  Print: Environmental Design LB2369.M377 2003
  Online 4th ed. via NetLibrary UCB Only http://www.netlibrary.com/summary.asp?id=12607
• How to write & publish a scientific paper, Robert A. Day. 5th ed. Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Pr., 1998.
  Environmental Design, Bioscience, Chemistry, Engineering T11 D33 1998
• Making sense, a student's guide to research and writing: geography & environmental sciences, Margot Northey, David B. Knight. 2nd ed. Don Mills, Ont.: Oxford Univ. Pr., 2001.
  Environmental Design G70 N67 2001
• A manual for writers of research papers, theses, and dissertations: Chicago style for students and researchers, Kate L. Turabian, rev. by Wayne C. Booth et al. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.
  Environmental Design LB2369.T8 2007
• The portable dissertation advisor, Miles T. Bryant. Thousand Oaks, Calif: Corwin Press, 2004.
  Education/Psychology LB1742.B79 2004
• Principles of art history writing, David Carrier. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991.
  Environmental Design N380.C37 1991
• Proposal writing: the art of friendly and winning persuasion, William S. Pfeiffer, Charles H. Keller, Jr. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000.
  Environmental Design, Business, Engineering PE1479 B87 P47 2000
• Proposals that work: a guide for planning dissertations and grant proposals, by Lawrence F. Locke, Waneen Wyrick Spirduso, Stephen J. Silverman. 4th ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2000.
  Environmental Design Q180.55 P7 L63 2000
• Surviving your dissertation : a comprehensive guide to content and process, Kjell Erik Rudestam; Rae R Newton. SAGE Publications, c2007.
  Environmental Design, Business, Optometry LB2369 .R83 2007
• Writing empirical research reports : a basic guide for students of the social and behavioral sciences, Fred Pyrczak and Randall R. Bruce. 3rd ed. Los Angeles: Pyrczak Pub., 2000.
  Environmental Design LB2369 P97 2000
• Writing for design professionals: a guide to writing successful proposals, letters, brochures, portfolios, reports, presentations, and job applications for architects, engineers, and interior designers, Stephen A. Kliment. NY: W.W. Norton, 2006.
  Environmental Design NA1996 K57 2006
• Writing the doctoral dissertation: a systematic approach, Gordon B. Davis, Clyde A. Parker. 2nd ed. Hauppauge, NY: Barron's, 1997.
  Environmental Design LB2369 D357 1997

• The Chicago manual of style. 15th ed. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Pr., 2003.
  Print: Environmental Design Z253.U69 2003 Reference
  Online UCB Only
• Citing your sources (UC Berkeley Library) Excellent overview of how and why to cite, how to avoid plagiarism. Includes a short bibliography of style manuals, and examples of citations for both print and electronic publications.
  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/instruct/guides/citations.html
• Columbia guide to online style, Janice R. Walker and Todd Taylor. 2nd ed. NY: Columbia Univ. Pr., 2006. One of the most thorough guides to citing electronic resources available.
  Environmental Design PN171 F56 W35 1998 Reference
  Engineering PN171 F56 W35 2006 Reference
  Online via ebrary UCB Only
• Electronic styles: a handbook for citing electronic information, by Xia Li and Nancy B. Crane. 2nd ed. Medford, NJ: Information Today, 1996.
  Environmental Design PN171 F56 L5 1996 Reference
• Instructions for Preparing and Filing Your Thesis or Dissertation UCB Graduate Division. See also their guide, Publishing Your Dissertation in Dissertation Abstracts. http://grad.berkeley.edu/policies/dissertation_publish.shtml
• The MLA style manual and guide to scholarly publishing. 2nd ed. rev. NY: Modern Language Assoc. of America, 2008.
  Environmental Design PN147 G444 2008 Reference, Doe Reference, Main Stacks
• MLA handbook for writers of research papers, Joseph Gibaldi. 6th ed. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2003.
  Education/Psychology LB2369.G53 2003 Reference, Doe Reference, Moffitt
• Style sheets for citing Internet resources: MLA, APA, Turabian (UC Berkeley, Library) Gives examples of different styles, and basic guidelines for formatting citations from a variety of electronic resources, adapted from the Columbia guide to online style.
  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/instruct/guides/citations.html

Managing bibliographic citations is a necessary and sometimes tedious aspect of written research. Use one or both of the following computer-based bibliographic management programs to manage citations, format papers, and create bibliographies in a variety of styles. Each program allows you to download citation information directly from selected online databases into your own bibliographic database.

• EndNote: A sophisticated proprietary bibliographic management software and a powerful tool for reseachers. It may also be purchased on campus from the Computer Store--The Scholar's Workstation. Citations saved in RefWorks can be exported to EndNote.
• RefWorks -UCB Only RefWorks is a web-based bibliographic management service licensed by The Library for use by all current UCB faculty, staff and students. It allows you to create your own personal database by importing references and/or images from online databases, and use these references in writing papers and automatically formatting the paper and bibliography in seconds. As a web-based product, RefWorks is available to users across various platforms including Windows, Mac, Unix, etc. Although it lacks the power of EndNote, its ease of use makes it attractive. RefWorks also serves as a complement to EndNote, since citations saved to RefWorks can later be exported to EndNote. To sign up for an individual account, use the RefWorks New User form.
• Creating Bibliographies in RefWorks  http://www.refworks.com/tutorial/basics%20quick%20bibliography.htm
• Online tutorials (UC Berkeley, Library) Here's a helpful directory of online tutorials for using EndNote and other bibliographic management software.
  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/PUBL/endnote.html

• Case study research: design and methods, Robert K. Yin. 4th ed. Los Angeles, Calif.: Sage Publications, 2009. Applied social research methods series v. 5.
  Environmental Design, Business, Education Psychology H62Y56 2009
• Conducting research literature reviews: from the Internet to paper. Arlene Fink Los Angeles: SAGE,2010.
  Environmental Design, Education-Psychology Q180.55.M4 F56 2010
• The Craft of research, Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams. 3rd ed. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Pr., 2008.
  Environmental Design, Art History/Classics, Business, Education-Psychology, Main, Optometry, Physics, Q180.55 M4 B66 2008
• Critical evaluation of resources, UCB Library guide to making sense of what is out there and evaluating its authority and appropriateness for your research
  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/instruct/guides/Evaluation.html
• Design methods, John Chris Jones. 2nd. ed. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1992.
  Environmental Design TA174.J66 1992
• Design research, methods and perspectives, Brenda Laurel, editor. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003.
  Environmental Design, Engineering TA174.D483 2003
• Doing science, design, analysis, and communication of scientific research, Ivan Valiela. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
  Environmental Design Q180.A1.V35 2001
• Finding Historical Primary Sources (UC Berkeley, Teaching Library)
  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/instruct/guides/PrimarySources.html
• Getting it right, R & D methods for science and Engineering, Peter Bock. San Diego, Calif. : Academic, 2001.
  Engineering Q180.55.M4.B625 2001
• Inquiry by design: environment/behavior/neuroscience in architecture, interiors, landscape, and planning, John Zeisel. Rev. ed., New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2006.
  Environmental Design, Education/Psychology BF353.Z44 2006
• The Investigative reporter's handbook: a guide to documents, databases and techniques, Brant Houston, Len Bruzzese, Steve Weinberg. 4th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2002.
  Environmental Design PN4781 I578 2002
• Paper trails, a guide to public records in California, Stephen Levine and Barbara T. Newcombe. 2nd ed. San Francisco: Center for Investigative Reporting; Sacramento: California Newspaper Publishers Association, 1996.
  Environmental Design CD3111.N48 1996 Reference Desk, Public Health, Doe Reference
• Quantitative research methods in the social sciences, Paul S. Maxim. NY: Oxford Univ. Pr., 1999. Online table of contents via U.S. Library of Congress.
  Business HA29 M2968 1999
• Research design: qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches, John W. Creswell. 2nd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2003.
  Environmental Design, Main, Business, and Public Health H62 C6963 2003
• Researching and writing in the humanities and arts, Christine A. Hult. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1996.
  Environmental Design AZ186 H85 1996
• The SAGE handbook of applied social research methods / Leonard Bickman, Debra J. Rog, editors. Los Angeles: Sage, 2009
  Environmental Design, Main Stacks, Optometry H62.H24534 2009
• Social research methods: qualitative and quantitative approaches, W. Lawrence Neuman. 5th ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2003.
  Environmental Design HM571 N48 2003
• Statistical design and analysis of experiments: with applications to Engineering and science, Robert L. Mason,... 2nd ed. New York: J. Wiley, 2003. Wiley series in probability and statistics. Table of contents.
  Online via Knovel UC Only
• Tricks of the trade: how to think about your research while you're doing it, Howard S. Becker. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Pr., 1998.
  Environmental Design H91 B38 1998
• Visualizing research : a guide to the research process in art and design / Carole Gray and Julian Malins. Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004.
  Environmental Design, Art History/Classics NK1170.G68 2004;
  Online via ebrary UCB Only

• Handbook of interview research, context & methods, editors, Jaber F. Gubrium, James A. Holstein. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 2002.
  Anthropology H61.28.H36 2002 Reference, Education/Psychology, Environmental Design, Main
• Interviewing as qualitative research: a guide for researchers in education and the social sciences, Irving Seidman. 3rd ed. NY: Teachers College Pr., 2006.
  Education/Psychology, Social Welfare, and Environmental Design H61.28 S45 2006
• Interviewing for social scientists: an introductory resource with examples, Hilary Arksey and Peter Knight. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 1999.
  Main HM526 A75 1999
• InterViews: learning the craft of qualitative research interviewing / Steinar Kvale, Svend Brinkmann. Los Angeles: Sage, 2009.
  Business H61.28.k56 2010
• Learning from strangers: the art and method of qualitative interview studies, Robert S. Weiss. NY: Free Pr., 1995.
  Environmental Design HN29 W42 1995
• Qualitative interviewing: the art of hearing data, Herbert J. Rubin and Irene S. Rubin. Thousand Oaks: Sage Pubications, 1995.
  Environmental Design, Main, Moffitt H62 R737 1995

• Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the U.S., Peter B. Hirtle, an excellent, concise guide to determining what is in the public domain.
  http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/training/Hirtle_Public_Domain.htm
• Eyewitnessing: the uses of images as historical evidence, Peter Burke. Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ. Pr., 2001.
  Environmental Design, Anthropology, Main, & Moffitt H61 H83 2001
• Image-based research: a sourcebook for qualitative researchers, Jon Prosser, ed. Bristol, PA: Falmer Pr., 1998.
  Environmental Design and Anthropology GN347 I43 1998
• Picture researcher's handbook, an international guide to picture sources and how to use them, Hilary and Mary Evans. 8th ed. London: Pira International, 2006.
  Environmental Design N4000.E8 2006 Reference
• Researching the visual: images, objects, contexts and interactions in social and cultural inquiry, Michael Emmison. London: Sage, 2000.
  Environmental Design, Main HM500 E56 2000
  Online via ebrary UCB Only
• Visual anthropology: essential method and theory, Fadwa El Guindi. Walnut Creek, Calif.: AltaMira Press, 2004. Online table of contents.
  Anthropology, Moffitt GN347.E5 2004
• Visual anthropology: photography as a research method, John Collier, Jr., and Malcolm Collier, rev. and expanded ed. Albuquerque: Univ. of New Mexico Pr., 1986.
  Print: Environmental Design GN347 C64 1986
  Online via NetLibrary UCB Only
• Visual methodologies: an introduction to the interpretation of visual materials, Gillian Rose. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2001.
  Environmental Design and Main P93.5 R67 2001
• Visual methods in social research, Marcus Banks. London: SAGE, 2001.
  Environmental Design, Anthropology, Main HM500 B35 2001
• Visual research methods in design, Henry Sanoff. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1991.
  Environmental Design NA2750.S25 1991

Here is a selected list of specialized architecture and related research guides. See also Environmental Design Library Guides for a complete list of subject guides and other useful research tools.

For a guide to UCB library catalogs see Guide to Library Catalogs. For information for off-campus access to The Library's catalogs see Connecting from Off Campus.

• Guide to Library Catalogs, help in determining which UC library catalog to use, and how to use them.
  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/Catalogs/guide.html
• OskiCat is the UCB Library catalog, however, it does not include holdings from all the affiliated libraries on campus, such as Law and Earthquake Engineering, which are only in the Melvyl catalog. Quick guide to OskiCat (PDF) .
  http://oskicat.berkeley.edu/
  
• Melvyl. The Melvyl catalog is your best first place to look for books on your topic. It contains approximately 25 million holdings in all 10 UC campuses and selected other libraries, including the California Historical Society and the Center for Research Libraries. When you need more than Melvyl offers, try WorldCat.
• WorldCat database (OCLC).UC Only A database of more than 52 million records in all disciplines from approximately 17,000 libraries worldwide, presenting 400 languages. Use UC-eLinks to identify items at UCB, and the Request UC Only feature to request materails not at UCB through Interlibrary Borrowing.
• UC-eLinks provides a way to easily move from an article or book citation to the electronic version of the item; to check to see if the item is available on your campus or to Request items not available on your campus.
  http://www.cdlib.org/about/uc-elinks/overview.html
• Getting articles using UC-eLinks, 4-minute video demonstrating how to access items identified in most online UC library resources.
• Using UC-eLinks with Google Scholar, 2-minute video explaining how to access full-text of sources found in Google Scholar. 
• UC-eLinks Citation Linker, UC-eLinks interactive form to identify resources in the UC Libraries, and if not available at UCB, initiate an interlibrary loan request. Select either book, article or book chapter, and complete as much information as possible.
  http://ucelinks.cdlib.org:8888/sfx_local/cgi/core/citation-linker.cgi
• Other catalogs: You can identify resources not in the UC system by using the catalogs of other U.S. and international libraries. On the UCB Library home page, check Other Library Catalogs, or on The Library's SunSITE visit Libweb: Library Servers via WWW for links to over 2000 pages from libraries in over 70 countries.
• Subject Headings Tips: Use the Advanced Search feature which allows you to combine (and, or, not) keywords, authors, subject headings and more, and limit by date, language, etc. For more tips, see Subject Searching in Melvyl, a 3-minute tutorial.
• Current awareness service UC Only Once you have created a successful search in Melvyl keep yourself informed as new items are added to the catalog that match your original search. Use the Update feature in Melvyl. Note that you can have several update profiles simultaneously. Many periodical indexes offer similar services.
• Preferred Searches in OskiCat. You can create "alerts" to be notified of new acquisitions on your topic. For instructions go to http://lib.berkeley.edu/BIOS/oskicat.html#lists.
• Interlibrary Borrowing Service UC Only The Library will try to borrow materials not available on campus. Make your request electronically through the UC-eLinks and Request feature in online databases, via the online request form or at any reference desk.
  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/services/interlibrary_loan.html
• NRLF (Northern Regional Library Facility), the off-campus storage facility for the northern campuses of the UC Libraries. Materials located in NRLF can be requested online in OskiCat by clicking on the REQUEST tab and completing the form that appears, or by filling out the form on the NRLF website. Most material is delivered within 48 hours (excluding Sundays), and requests for some articles can be filled electronically. When you are browsing the shelves, please keep in mind that nearly one-third of the Environmental Design Library's collection is stored in NRLF.
  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/NRLF/

For information about off-campus access to The Library's online resources see Connecting from Off Campus.

See the following web guides for descriptions of the core journal article indexes for architecture, and some related ones.

• Architecture: Indexes & Abstracts: A long list of journals with good coverage of architectural topics.
  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/architecture_articles.html
• Key Architecture Indexes: A comparative to the four most important architectural indexes.
  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/architecture_indexes_key.html
• Article Indexes for Engineering: A guide to periodical indexes in Engineering.
  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENGI/listdbs.html
• Art and Art History Indexes: Broad list of indexes in art and art history, many of which include architecture.
  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ARTH/arthistresources.html#artindexes
• Other Article Databases: 250 electronic indexes and databases on all subjects, alphabetically arranged.
• Electronic Resources by Subject, Type, and Title
  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/find/types/electronic_resources.html

• UC-eLinks provides a way to easily move from an article or book citation to the electronic version of the item, to check to see if the item is available in print on your campus, or to electronically request items not available on your campus.
• Getting Articles Using UC-eLinks, a 4-minute video demonstrating how to access items identified in most online UC library resources.
• Using UC-eLinks with Google Scholar, a 2-minute video explaining how to access articles found in Google Scholar.
• UC-eLinks Citation Linker. UC-eLinks interactive form to identify resources in the UC Libraries, and if not available at UCB, initiate an interlibrary loan request. Select either book, article or book chapter, and complete as much information as possible.

Once you have created a successful search in a periodical index, keep yourself informed as new items that match your original search appear. Using the alert service, you will receive an e-mail notifying you of new citations added to the database on your topic. Use the CSA Alert in Avery Index, ARTbibliographies Modern, BHA, Bibliography of the History of Art, Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management, e-psyche, ERIC, GeoRef, PAIS International, PsycINFO, and Sociological Abstracts; and Alerts in Web of Knowledge Databases (Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences, or Science Citation Indexes). Note that you can have several update profiles simultaneously. Not all periodical indexes offer this service.

For a convenient list of journal titles available online to UC users, see CDL's (California Digital Library) Find e-Journal, or the UCB listing at Electronic Journals.

Few architecture journals are available online, but many interdisciplinary journals cover architecture. [NOTE: You may also search Melvyl or OskiCat under name of a specific journal to see if it is available online.] Many of the vendors which aggregate collections of full-text journals (e.g., Project Muse, JSTOR, ECO, Ingenta, etc.) offer their own search Engines, but be aware that their searching capacity is rarely as sophisticated as actual periodical indexes. Below is a selective list of "packages" of many different journals offered full-text. Also note that periodical indexes that use UC-eLinks, such as Avery Index, will link the citation to the electronic version when it is available in the UC Libraries.

• Academic Search Complete - UCB Only Indexes and abstracts articles in more than 10,900 journals and other publications in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian and Portuguese; full-text is available for over 5300 journals. Covers articles published 1865 to present.
• AltPress watch via ProQuest - UCB Only A full-text resource that covers newspapers, magazines, and journals of the alternative and independent press. Coverage generally begins 1995--; East Bay Express is included starting 6/01.
• American Periodicals Series Online, 1740-1900 - UCB Only Includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century. More than 1,000 titles including Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine, the first American professional journals, and several popular magazines still in publication, such as Vanity Fair, Harper's, and Ladies' Home Journal.
• ECO (FirstSearch Electronic Collections Online) - UCB Only Includes the full text of scholarly journals in a variety of subject areas. OCLC/ECO includes all of the original content, images, and bibliographic information for all journals.
• Google Scholar- Lists selected journal articles, books, preprints, and technical reports in many subject areas (though more specialized article databases cover architecture and design more completely). Some listings include links to related articles and to other sources that cite the item. Includes content from free resources (such as ArXiv.org and university websites) as well as subscription resources (such as electronic journals from selected publishers). Use the UC-eLinks option, when available, to find the UCB access to a publication. Be sure to set Google Scholar Preferences to "UC libraries," and under Bibliography Manager, select "RefWorks" or "EndNote" to easily export citations into your database.
• HarpWeek - UCB Only Full-image reproductions of Harper's Weekly from its beginning in 1857 to 1912. Provides access to information about 19th and early 20th century advertising, illustrations, culture, history, literature, and notable figures.
• Ingenta Connect - UCB Only Provides full-text access to domestic and international scholarly & academic publications, in a wide range of subject areas, including architecture and design.
• JSTOR - UCB Only A full-text archive of interdisciplinary scholarly journal literature. A list of included journals by discipline is available. Includes full-text of several art and architectural history journals from their beginnings to five years from present. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians is included.
• Lexis-Nexis academic - UCB Only Provides access to thousands of full-text news, business, and legal sources from newspapers and periodicals. This web product is not the full version of Lexis-Nexis.
• Making of America - Full-text access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles from 22 journals with 19th-century imprints. The collection is particularly strong in the areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.
• Project Muse - UC Only Full text of over 40 scholarly journals, covering the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, and many others.
• Research Library (ProQuest)- UCB Only Indexes more than 2,500 magazines and journals from 1971 to present on art, business, humanities, health, social sciences, and sciences. Interfaces available for many languages. Some full-text.

For newspapers on the web see News Databases via Electronic Resources, The Library's web page.

• Access World News/America's Newspapers via NewsBank - UCB Only Coverage begins with 1991(U.S.) or 1996 (international). Provides selected full-text articles from regional, national, and translated international news media, including newspapers, wire services, and broadcasts. Other newspaper databases also availablevia NewsBank.
• Ethnic NewsWatch via ProQuest - UC Only Full-text coverage of approximately 100 newspapers and other periodicals from 1960 to present published by ethnic and minority presses in the U.S. Includes articles published in African-American, Hispanic, Latino, Chicano, Native American, Asian, Jewish, Arab, and European/Eastern European publications.
• Historical Newspapers (Proquest) - UCB Only Full-text of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, LA Times (1881-1986) and San Francisco Chronicle (1865-1922). To search all of the newspapers, on the ProQuest home page click on the Database: Multiple databases... menu list down arrow. Then select from the menu list the newspaper you wish to search. Select Historical Databases for earliest years, and Proquest Newspapers for more recent years.
• Historical Newspapers Online - UCB Only Contains four major historical resources: Palmer's Index to the Times (London) 1790 to 1905; The Official Index to the Times (London), 1906 to 1980; The Historical Index to the New York Times, 1851-September 1922; Palmer's Full Text Online 1785-1870, providing access to the full text articles referenced in Palmer's index to the Times.
• Lexis-Nexis academic - UCB Only Includes full-text newspapers and selected periodicals.
• U.S. newspaper archives on the web Provides links to web versions of dozens of U.S. newspapers and their full-text, online back files.
  http://metalab.unc.edu/slanews/internet/archives.html
• World news connection - UCB Only Contains full-text translated transcriptions and summaries of radio and television broadcasts, newspaper articles, conference proceedings, periodicals and non-classified technical reports, from all over the world.

See the Using Images for Research section of this guide, for information on doing visual research. See also Digital Images and Copyright by 2Learn.ca Education Society, Canada, 1997-2006.

• Image and sound databases: From the UCB Library homepage, select Electronic Resources, by Type: Images and Sound Databases, for links to more than 40 resources. Many are UC Only or UCB Only.
• Aerial photos: The Earth Sciences & Map Library has an excellent collection of aerial photos of California, 1939--present. A master index is available. Some digitized aerial photos of the San Francisco Bay Area are available on The Library's website.
  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/aerial2.html
• American memory: historical collections for the national digital library (Library of Congress) The multimedia collections of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures, and text from the Library's Americana collections. Over one million items are currently available online.
  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/amhome.html
• Atlases, maps and gazeteers From the UCB Library homepage, select Electronic resources: Types, Atlases, Maps & Gazetters, for links to and descriptions of important digital map collections. See also the Earth Sciences & Map Library's homepage for additional print and electronic map resources.
  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/
• ARTstor - UCB Only A repository of more than 500,000 digital images and associated catalog data. The collection is designed to be used by students and faculty for teaching and research in the arts and many other disciplines. Includes several collections such as: The Mellon International Dunhuang Archive; Native American Art and Culture from the Smithsonian; the Harthill Archive of Architecture and Allied Arts, etc.
  Guide to built environment image collections in ARTstor (PDF) http://www.artstor.org/using-artstor/u-pdf/artstor-architecture-handout.pdf
• California heritage project. The California Heritage collection is a digital "archive" containing photographs, pictures, and manuscripts from the collections of The Bancroft Library. Includes many historical images of SF Bay Area places.
  http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/calheritage.html
• Cities and buildings database compiled by the Univ. of Washington Libraries. An international image database of cities and buildings; search the database by country, city, style, title, architect, date of construction, as well as other fields.
  http://content.lib.washington.edu/cities/
• David Rumsey Collection Over 11,000 maps online, many of city blocks and building illustrations. The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North and South American maps and other cartographic materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia and Africa are also represented. See also their Visual Collections, Architecture.
  http://www.davidrumsey.com/
• Environmental design videotapes in the Media Resources Center A list of environmental design videos at UC Berkeley.
  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/EnvidesignVid.html
• Great Buildings A searchable, gateway site to plans, drawings and photographs of buildings worldwide throughout history. Also available on CD-ROM.
  http://www.greatbuildings.com/
• Image Sources for the Built Environment compiled by the Environmental Design Library, a list of print and electronic sources with plans, illustrations and photos of architecture, landscape architecture and urban design.
  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/research_images.html
• MOAC, Museum Online Archive of California, a searchable collection of more than 75,000 images from California museums and cultural institutions.
  http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/moac/
• Online Archive of California, Over 120,000 images; 50,000 pages of documents, letters, and oral histories; and 8,000 guides to archival collections. Organizes images into thematic and institutional collections, such as historical topics, nature, places, and technology. Select "Images," then search.
  http://www.oac.cdlib.org/
• Plat maps, also called fire insurance maps, show a variety of details, including actual lot boundaries, special uses, building materials and building footprints. See an overview of Sanborn and other fire insurance maps
  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/sanborn.html#general
• -----. Digital Sanborn maps, 1867-1970 (UMI) - UCB Only Site provides digital access to more than 660,000 large-scale maps of more than 12,000 American towns and cities. The maps "are large-scale plans containing...information such as the outline of each building, the size, shape and construction materials, heights, and function of structures, location of windows and doors. The maps also give street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers."
• -----. Fire insurance maps (UC Berkeley, Library) Links to description of and indexes to fire insurance maps.
  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/sanborn.html
• -----. Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, San Francisco, California, 1899/1900, courtesy of San Francisco Genealogy. The black and white maps presented here are from six volumes that covered San Francisco in 1899 and 1900. To locate a specific location, consult the various indexes to locate the correct Map Sheet. Then select the appropriate link.
http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sf/sanborn/sanborn.htm
• San Francisco Maps, courtesy of San Francisco Genealogy. Guide and links to historic, street and other maps.
http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sf/sfmaps.htm
• San Francisco Public Library Digitized Images Searchable by Subject or Neighborhood.
  http://sfpl.org/index.php?pg=0200000301
• Sanborn CitySets San Francisco UCB Only Multi-layered digital maps of a core area of downtown San Francisco.
• SPIRO Architecture Visual Resources Center, Univ. of California, Berkeley. The visual online public access catalog to approximately 25% of the AVRL's collection of over 275,000 35mm slides. The collection is available to UCB faculty and graduate students.
  http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/spiro/
• UC Image Service provides access to several digital collections. Requires use of Luna Insight software. For information see the AVRL's UCB Off-campus access to digital images
  http://arch.ced.berkeley.edu/resources/archslides.htm
  http://www.imageservice.cdlib.org/

Archival and other original materials are often difficult to locate, so check in directories of archives and special collections to locate manuscripts, drawings and other unpublished materials. Use WorldCAT UC Only, Online Archive of California, and other guides to determine which institutions have collections on your topic. See also the list of Library Catalogs and Special Collections in Reference Sources on Architecture, an Environmental Design Library reference guide. Note that many archival and special collections are reproduced on microform and available in the Library. See Microform Collections below for a selective listing.

• How to Research in an Archive, University of Texas, Austin, Alexander Architectural Archive, An excellent introduction to effective and efficient use of an archive.
  http://www.lib.utexas.edu/apl/aaa/instruction.html
• Using Archives, a practical guide for researchers, Library and Archives Canada. Another good guide to using archives for research.
  http://www.collectionscanada.ca/04/0416_e.html
• Architectural records in the San Francisco Bay Area: a guide to research, California Cooperative Preservation of Architectural Records, Waverly B. Lowell, project director. New York: Garland, 1988. Garland reference library of the humanities vol. 799.
  Environmental Design NA2125.C22 S2631 1988 Reference desk
• Architecture Archives Martin Aurand, Architecture Librarion and Archivist, Carnegie Mellon University. Links to numerous architectural archives in North America.
  http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/ma1f/ArchArch/
• ArchivesUSA UCB Only directory of manuscript repositories, records from the National Union Catalogue of Manuscript Collections, and the names and detailed subject indexing of over 42,000 collections. Bancroft Library, UCB's special collections and rare book library, has extensive holdings related to architecture. Finding aids for many are available through the Online Archive of California.
  http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/
• British archives: a guide to archive resources in the United Kingdom, Janet Foster & Julia Sheppard. 4th ed. Houndmills, England, New York: Palgrave, 2002.
  Doe Reference . Directories CD1040 .F67 2002 Ref
• Directory of archival and manuscript repositories in California, Diance S. Nixon, Society of California Archivists 4th ed. [Berkeley, Calif.?] 1996
  Environmental Design CD3111.A72 Reference
• Directory of archives and manuscript repositories in the United States, National Historical Publications and Records Commision. 2nd ed. Phonix: Oryx Press, 1988.
  Environmental Design CD3020.D49 1988 Reference Desk
• Environmental Design Archives, UC Berkeley. Drawings, papers and other archival materials of mostly Bay Area and Northern California architects and landscape architects. Available by appointment only.
  http://www.ced.berkeley.edu/cedarchives/
  Links to similar archival collections: http://www.ced.berkeley.edu/cedarchives/links.html
• International Archive of Women in Architecture documents the history of women's involvement in architecture by collecting, preserving, storing, and making available to researchers the professional papers of women architects, landscape architects, designers, architectural historians and critics, and urban planners, and the records of women's architectural organizations, from around the world
  http://spec.lib.vt.edu/IAWA/
• Online Archive of California Over 120,000 images; 50,000 pages of documents, letters, and oral histories; and 8,000 guides to archival collections. Includes finding aids for architectural manuscripts and drawings in the UCB Bancroft Library, Environmental Design Archives, and many other California collections. Can search all collections at once.
  http://www.oac.cdlib.org/
• Repositories of Primary Sources, University of Idaho Library's international list
  http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html
• Subject collections: a guide to special book collections and subject emphases as reported by university, college, public, and special libraries and museums in the United States and Canada, Lee Ash. 7th ed., rev. and enl. New Providence, N.J.: R. R. Bowker, c1993.
  Doe Reference Z731 A78 1993 vol.1-2 (c1993)
• UNESCO Archives Portal, Architecture. Architectural archives organized by continent, then country.
  http://www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_archives/pages/Archives/Architectural_Archives/

Call ahead for hours and an appointment.

Additional electronic biographical resources are available from The Library's home page: go to Electronic Resources by Type and select Biographical Sources.

• Biographical information on architects Environmental Design Library bibliographic research guide to UC Berkeley library and web-based biographical information on architects.
  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/architecture_biography.html

Note that in several journal article databases you may limit your search to reviews.

• Book review sources for environmental design Environmental Design Library's Bibliographic guide to book reviews on architecture, city planning, and landscape architecture. Includes search instructions for each database.
  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/research_bookreviews.html
• Book and film review databases UCB Only Electronic sources for book reviews

Use citation indexes to track the work and impact of a particular author by looking up a reference to a work you have identified as helpful, and identifying journal articles citing that work. A good way to identify other authors working on the same topic. Also useful as journal article indexes. For a guide to using the citation indexes use the ISI Tutorial For a guide to citation searching see Cited Reference Searching. For creating current awareness updates, see ISI Alerts.

The following citation indexes are available on the web as part of the ISI Web of Knowlege, or Web of Science.

• Arts & humanities citation index UCB Only Covers the journal literature of the arts and humanities, including architectural history. It indexes 1,100 journals and covers individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.
  Paper ed.: 1976--2001; Doe Reference AJ3 A7
  Online eds.: 1975--; web version
• Science citation index expanded UCB Only Covers the journal literature of the sciences, including Engineering and building science. It indexes 5,300 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines, with all cited references captured.
  Paper ed.: 1961--2001; Bioscience Q151 A12 S35 Index Area
  Online ed.: 1900--; web version
• Social sciences citation index UCB Only Covers the journal literature of the social sciences. It indexes 1,700 major journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as covering individually selected items from over 3,300 scientific and technical journals.
  Paper ed.: 1956/65--2001; Main Stack H71 A12 S6
  Online ed.: 1970--; web version

Dissertations not owned by UC Berkeley may often be borrowed through Interlibrary Service. Note that ordinary Melvyl subject searches will frequently miss dissertations which often are not given subject treatment; in Advanced Search use title or keyword searches in combination with format dissertations.

• Dissertations and Theses (ProQuest) UCB Only Formerly called Dissertations Abstracts. Includes citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester. Some abstracts included. UC dissertations since 1996 are available full-text to UC users. UCB master's theses are not included in this database. Note also that not all universities submit their students' dissertations or theses to Digital Dissertations. Includes instructions for purchasing theses and dissertations in the database. How to find a UCB thesis or dissertation Provides browsable call numbers to locate College of Environmental Design (CED) professional reports (PRs), theses, and dissertations. Doe Library maintains an archival, non-circulating copy of all UCB dissertations and most master's theses. The Environmental Design Library has a copy of most CED theses, PRs and dissertations. Due to space constraints, only the most recent ten years of UCB theses, dissertations and PRs are kept on site; older volumes are stored at NRLF.
  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/research_theses.html
• Index to theses. A comprehensive listing of doctorate theses with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain and Ireland since 1716.
  http://www.theses.com/idx/registered_users/quick.html
• Dissertations underway and dissertations recently completed in architectural history (since 1994).Compiled by Itohan Osayimwese, sponsored by the Society of Architectural Historians.
  http://www.splankin.com/DissertationsUnderway.htm
• Art Bulletin U.S. and Canadian Ph.D. dissertations. PhD dissertation authors and titles in art history and visual studies are published each year in caa.reviews. Titles can be browsed by subject category or year.
  http://www.caareviews.org/dissertations

Papers from conferences, symposia, colloquia, etc., are indexed somewhat haphazardly through journal article indexes. Note types of materials covered when using an unfamiliar index. The databases below provide good access to papers and conferences.

• PhDia  
  A forum for discussion of issues related to the education of doctoral students in architecture. Membership includes leading voices in academia, the profession and doctoral students. PhDiA sponsors a peer-reviewed journal and supports regular conferences. Compiles lists of recent dissertation topics. Organized by UCB architecture alum Doug Noble.
  http://www.phdia.org/PhDiAmore/home.html
• PapersFirst via FirstSearch/OCLC - UC Only Contains 580,000+ citations for the papers presented at worldwide conferences, symposia, meetings, expositions, congresses, and workshops received at The British Library. Excellent source for interdisciplinary work; the index covers disciplines in the social sciences, sciences, arts, and the humanities from October, 1993 to the present.
• Proceedings via FirstSearch/OCLC - UC Only Indexes worldwide conferences, symposia, meetings, expositions, and congresses, covering a wide variety of disciplines. Each proceedings provides a list of papers presented. Individual records for each paper may be found in the PapersFirst database, cited above. Covers 1993 to present.

• Building Codes & Regulatory Resources Environmental Design Library guide to locating codes, especially for California and the San Francisco Bay Area.
  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/Codes.html
• BuildingGreen Suite UCB Only Electronic collection of resources, including GreenSpec building products directory, Environmental Building News, and more. How to Find Standards a guide to finding standards compiled by the UCB Kresge Engineering Library.
  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENGI/standrds.html
• How to Find Technical Reports A guide to technical reports in the UCB Kresge Engineering Library and how to find other technical reports.
  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENGI/techrpts.html
• Material Connexion, the global resource of new and innovative materials for architects, artists, and designers. George M. Beylerian, Andrew Dent; Anita Moryadas, ed. Hoboken, N.J.: J. Wiley, 2005.
  Environmental Design TA403.6.B4568 2005
• NTRL (National Technical Reports Library) NTRL is the gateway to indexes, abstracts, and technical reports of the National Technical Information Service (NTIS). Especially good for construction and related technical architectural information. Indexes and archives US government-sponsored research and worldwide scientific, technical, engineering, and business-related information from 1964 to present. Central source for the sale of unclassified and publicly available information from research reports, journal articles, data files, computer programs and audio-visual products from Federal sources. Information from other international government departments and organizations including those from Canada, Japan, the former Soviet Union, Western and Eastern European countries is also available. Some full text.
  How to locate NTIS documents at UCB Libraries: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENGI/NTISdocs.html
• Product and Manufacturer Information UNLV Architectural Librarian's links to major sources of architectural product information.
  http://www.library.unlv.edu/arch/rsrce/webresources/index.php?catid=62
• Standards and Specifications compiled by the UCB Kresge Engineering Library, includes how to find and purchase standards, links to organizations that develop standards, links to sites with full-text standards. The Engineering Library houses a large collection of technical reports from federally sponsored research. This collection of over 700,000 pieces in paper or microform formats is particularly strong in reports from NASA, DOE, and the EPA.
  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENGI/standrds_links.html
• Technical Handbooks Selected listing of major architectural handbooks and manuals in the Environmental Design Library.
  ://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/architecture_reference.html#technical
• Electronic Handbooks, Manuals, Dictionaries compiled by the UCB Kresge Engineering Library. UCB Only Includes computer software manuals, and other dictionaries and handbooks related to architecture and Engineering.
  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENGI/ebooks.html
• Trade and Product Literature Selected listing of major sources of architectural trade and product literature.
  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/architecture_reference.html#specifications

The UCB Libraries, including the Environmental Design Library, have a number of microform collections of valuable research resources, including American Architectural Books, the British Architectural Library Drawings Collection, the R.I.B.A. Library Rare Books Collection, and other collections.

• Library Catalogs and Special Collections, important resources, including many microforms in the UCB collections.
  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/architecture_reference.html#catalogs
• Microform Collections for Art Historians, UCB Art History Library. Includes several important research collections reproduced on microfilm, e.g., the Alinari Photo Archives, Conway Library, the Courtauld Institute of Art, exhibition catalogs, Index of Ancient Art and Architecture, Marburger Index, etc.
  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ARTH/artmicroforms.html

Community and professional organizations can be valuable information resources, e.g., local historical societies; neighborhood preservation groups; regional and national associations. Some directories are available in the Environmental Design Library and many organizations have web sites. See also the Archives section above for a list of Library Archives and Special Collections. See the guide Finding Local Information for selected links to California and San Francisco Bay Area libraries and historical societies. Also consult the Organizations and Libraries section of the Environmental Design Library's various architectural subject research guides.

Consult the excellent guide Web Research Strategy.

• Librarians' index to the Internet. A subject guide to Internet resources constructed by librarians. Includes almost 3,000 links to Internet resources briefly annotated.
  http://lii.org/
• Find websites: Recommended Search Engines, UCB Library quick guide to best search Engines.
  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/find/types/websites.html

• Evaluating Scholarly Content Online (UC Berkeley, Teaching Library), a 5-minute tutorial
  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/doemoff/tutorials/scholarlycontentonline.html
• Evaluating Web Pages (UC Berkeley, Teaching Library)
  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html
• Finding Information on the Internet: a Tutorial (UC Berkeley, Teaching Library) Comprehensive, well-organized, clearly written.
• Searching the Web (Yahoo!) Links to approximately 30 sites with online web searching tutorials.
  http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/World_Wide_Web/Searching_the_Web/How_to_Search_the_Web/

• Architecture and building Compiled by the Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas Architecture Librarian. Topics covered include architecture, building and construction, design, planning, preservation, energy and the environment, and landscape architecture.
  http://library.nevada.edu/arch/rsrce/webrsrce/main0013.html
  Search Engines: http://library.nevada.edu/arch/rsrce/webrsrce/main0013.html#Internet%20Sites:%20Lists%20and%20Architecture%20Search%20Engines5456
• Architecture Internet Resources compiled by the Environmental Design Library, a guide to major gateway sites for architecture on the web.
  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/Gateway.html
• Archinect Includes news, discussion, jobs, competitions, etc., in an attempt to bring together designers from around the world to introduce new ideas from all disciplines.
  http://www.archinect.com/

• BAKER is a fee-based, library document delivery service. BAKER locates the material in the Berkeley collection, checks out or photocopies the material as appropriate, and delivers the material to your department. If an electronic version of an article you requested is available, BAKER will either send you the downloaded article by e-mail, or refer you to a web site where the article can be viewed and printed.
• Book Purchase Recommendation Form We welcome your recommendations for purchases.
• Research Library Cooperative Program The Library participates with Stanford University and the University of Texas at Austin in the Research Library Cooperative Program, allowing graduate students to have full borrowing privileges at those institutions. You may also use Socrates, the Stanford library catalog, to identify materials you need, then request them online.
• Graduate Services Collection, Second Floor Doe Library Graduate Services offers core noncirculating research collections supporting UC Berkeley's graduate programs in the humanities and history, course reserves for graduate humanities and social sciences courses, a congenial study space for graduate students and faculty, and a seminar room.
• Library Computer Use Policy Understand and comply with the policy on use of library computers.
• Make sure you understand and comply with the legal terms of use of licensed electronic resources.
• Library Services for UCB Graduate Students A comprehensive guide to UCB Library services aimed specifically at graduate students.
  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/services/for_users/grad_students.html

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