| Finding Books | Drexel University History |
| Recommended Databases | Additional Information |
| Recommended Websites |
Finding Books
| Searching the catalog for books on your topic | |
| Try a keyword search: | campus and planning |
| planning and urban design | |
Recommended Databases
| Avery Index – ELECTRONIC The Avery is the largest database devoted to architecture and design journals.This is a good place to look for precedent, or case studies. Click here for a guide on how to use the Avery Index. |
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| BuildingGreen.com – ELECTRONIC This electronic resource includes articles from Environmental Building News as well as GreenSpec, a convenient way to search for environmentally conscious building materials. |
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| Google Scholar – WWW Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.To link to Drexel full text from Google Scholar, first add Drexel in the Library Links within Scholar Preferences. |
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| Proquest – ELECTRONIC Large multi-disciplinary database with a lot of full-text access. It covers just about everything and is often a good place to start. Recommended Websites
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Drexel History
Check out the website of the Drexel University Archives:
http://archives.library.drexel.edu/
Especially this page, listing all buildings with their dates:
http://archives.library.drexel.edu/buildings
Additional Information
| The Charrette Website: http://www.drexel.edu/westphal/charrette/2011/ |
