Research Skills for Architecture, Design & Planning
Search the Internet - selected starting points for academic and scholarly research
Academic web gateways
- Scirus
- an Internet search engine which searches over 200 million science-specific Web pages
- indexes recent reports, articles, and patents
- use link via University of Sydney Library to access the full text of articles in those journals for which our Library has a subscription
- Search: Scirus
- Google Scholar
- indexes multidisciplinary scholarly literature
- includes peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles
- sources include academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations
- use link via University of Sydney Library web site to access the full text of those journals for which we have a subscription
- Search: Google Scholar
- Other specialist search engines from Google
- Google Book Search
- Google Earth
- installed on computers in the Architecture Library
- can be downloaded free to your computer from Google web site
- Google Maps
- Google Patent Search
Reference online
- Acronyms
- Citation & Style Guides
- Dictionaries, Thesauri, Phrase Finders & Acronyms
- Directories: Ejournals & Etexts [electronic journals, electronic texts and books]
- How to find a thesis
- Encyclopaedias & Factfinders
- Grammar and Writing Resources
- Patents
Subject guides online
- Architecture Subject Guide
- Architecture - Internet Resources - subject gateways for architecture, design and urban planning
- Information Technologies Resources Guide
- Urban Planning Resources
- Internet Guide for Project Management
- Subject Guides to Library and Research Information - multidisciplinary
Go deeper
- Searching the Internet - University of Sydney Library guide to the free Internet - search engines and subject directories, email discussion lists and newsgroups