- Citing your sources (also called referencing) is an essential part of your academic work and is explained fully on our library referencing webpage.
- The Library also has a printed guide to citing your references using the Harvard (Author-Date) system (Word and PDF versions available).
- Cite Them Right Online shows you how to reference a wide range of sources (books, journal articles, web sites) using exactly the same Harvard style used at Brookes.
- Endnote is a tool for storing and organising your references, and it will also work with Word or Pages to create a fully formatted bibliography from your reference library.
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Academic Search Complete
A scholarly multi-disciplinary database with access to more than 8,500 full text journals, including about 7,300 peer-reviewed titles. Includes abstracts to a further 4,000 journals, plus some books, reports and conference proceedings : includes full text journal articles for business, construction, law and real estate management.
Architects Journal
This is available via the Construction Information Service (CIS). GETTING ACCESS - click on the below link and enter your Brookes email address. Please create an account and click the 'keep me logged in' box.
Art Full Text
General art, design and architecture index which includes the full text of journal articles. Useful for researching interior design.
ARTStor
A scholarly multi-disciplinary database with access to more than 8,500 full text journals, including about 7,300 peer-reviewed titles. Includes abstracts to a further 4,000 journals, plus some books, reports and conference proceedings : includes full text journal articles for business, construction, law and real estate management.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
Covers all aspects of architecture. This is the biggest index of architecture articles in the world and is a US publication, so subject terminology and spelling may be different to British practice.
British Architectural Library Catalogue
Royal Institute of British Architects' British Architectural Library Catalogue provides references to books and journal articles on architecture.
British Standards Online
This includes access to the full text of all current British Standards.
Business Source Complete
A huge database of academic journal articles, magazine articles, trade journals, reports, country profiles, industry profiles, and company profiles on all aspects of business including management.
Construction Information Service
This is a very comprehensive database of full text architectural, construction and planning information which includes BRE reports and papers, articles from the Architects' journal, seminal books in the built environment subject area, building regulations and specification material. GETTING ACCESS - Click on the Create a New Account (blue link) and then create an account using your Brookes email address and then once logged in click the 'keep me logged in' box.
Detail Inspiration
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Emerald Insight
This database contains academic and theoretical articles on management and business, including business strategy and the environment and aspects of quality control. The database provides abstracts from 1969 onwards and the full text of many journal articles is available from 1989.
Factiva
International news database providing archive of over 12,000 sources from 152 countries in 22 languages. Leading national newspapers, trade and professional journals, the BBC Monitoring Service (transcripts of world radio broadcasts) are all included.
Lexis+
Lexis+ is a large database of cases, legislation, journal articles and practice-focused books on law. It also contains a number of local and national British newspapers.
PADDI
This database is an index of journal articles and papers on Irish architecture.
RIBApix
A growing number of photographs and images from the collections of the British Architectural Library at RIBA have been digitised. All images on this site are copyright of the RIBA, but low resolution copies may be downloaded free of charge for personal use.
Science Direct
Contains around 2500 full text journals published by Elsevier, mainly in science, technology and medicine. Full text coverage for most journals in the collection is available from 2002 to present.
Web of Science
This host service provides a single route to many of the key scientific databases subscribed to by Brookes. These are: the Web of Science Core Collection (including the Science Citation Index); MEDLINE; Biosis Citation Index; Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science; and Journal Citation Reports. Databases can be searched individually or together and bibliographic records will link to any full-text content available via Full Text Finder.
Finding journals
All of our journals are listed on LibrarySearch on the Library home page so you can search for a specific journal there (choose the Journal titles tab and then enter your journal title.)
To look for journal articles on a topic, rather than from a specific journal, you should use a database: see the section above for more information about searching databases.
Books and ebooks
Find all our books and electronic books using LibrarySearch (the search box on the Library homepage). Search and then select Book from the Search tools menu on the left. You can further limit your search to eBook if you only want electronic books.
Websites
- Architectural Association School of Architecture Archive - consists of 500 cubic feet of documents and in excess of 2000 architectural drawings, paintings and works on paper. It documents the administrative and educational history of the AA and acts to preserve examples of the Association's material culture and graphic output. The process of gathering together and listing all surviving material was started in 2007 and a long-term cataloguing project is underway to make accessible the Archives' complete holdings and ongoing accessions.
- Building Centre, London - in Central London, was established in 1931. It has, since then, developed to become an independent forum dedicated to providing information and inspiration to all sectors of the built environment. The Centre is open to all involved in architecture and construction; it is a place where you can learn and develop knowledge and join the ongoing debate about the built environment. The Building Centre operates as the commercial arm of The Building Centre Trust which is an educational charity, focusing on the built environment.
- Chartered Institute of Housing - Includes a media section with easy online access to a wide range of newspaper articles.
- CIBSE - (Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers) is the standard setter and authority on building services engineering. It publishes Guidance and Codes which are internationally recognised as authoritative, and sets the criteria for best practice in the profession.
- e-architect - is useful for architecture news, information about: world architects, buildings, photos and architectural developments. It also provides building news from around the globe and is a resource for researcher of world architecture & architects. This is updated daily.
- Images of England - is a ‘point in time’ photographic library of England’s listed buildings, recorded at the turn of the 21st century. You can view over 300,000 images of England’s built heritage from lamp posts to lavatories, phone boxes to toll booths, mile stones to gravestones, as well as thousands of bridges, historic houses and churches.
- National Building Specification - offers distinctive, innovative specification and information solutions to construction industry professionals. It has produced specification products for over 30 years, such as the national standard specification system for the UK. It produces a range of information products, including The Construction Information Service, a joint venture with IHS. From 2005 it has been publisher of the Building Regulations Approved Documents for England and Wales.
- It is part of RIBA Enterprises Ltd, which is wholly owned by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).
- National Statistics
- National Trust
- Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment - has developed strong working partnerships with many of the leading stakeholders in urban design and architecture, both in the UK and internationally.
- RIBA-Royal Institute of British Architects
- Royal Town Planning Institute
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