Design Research Resources
Selected databases featured in the library's subject guides. (Harvard ID and PIN required.)
For more options see Databases
Catalogs
HOLLIS | Harvard Library Mobile Web
WorldCat
WorldCat (FirstSearch)
Borrow Direct
HathiTrust Digital Library
Image and Multi-Media Sources
HOLLIS Images
ARTstor
Kanopy (streaming on-demand video)
OnArchitecture
Pidgeon Digital (illustrated talks by architects and designers)
AP Multimedia Archive (700,000 Associated Press photographs,charts and graphics)
GSD Events Video Index
Article Databases
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (1930-)
Academic Search Premier
Architectural Publications Index (interfiled with RIBA Catalogue)
Art Index Retrospective (1929-1984) and Art Full Text (1983-)
BuildingGreen Suite (articles, technical information, case studies)
Business Source Complete
CuminCAD (Cumulative Index of Computer Aided Architectural Design)
Design and Applied Arts Index
Environment Index (1973- )
Google Scholar
GreenFILE
INSPEC
JSTOR (Access to selected journals, excluding recent issues)
Nexis Uni
PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) (1972-)
Urban Studies Abstracts
Web of Science Citation Index (ISI) (1900-)
Materials
GSD Materials Collection Guide
Material Order Search
Dissertations and Theses
Dissertations and Theses Full Text (ProQuest
Citation Tools
Chicago Manual of Style
RefWorks
Research Management and Citation Tools at Harvard
Reference Sources
Encyclopedia of Aesthetics
Grove Dictionary of Art Online
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
MADCAD (online access to full text standards from ASTM, ASHRAE, IES, ICC, and USGBC LEED Reference Guides, as well as the text and CAD files for the Wiley graphic and design standards.
Statistics, Maps and Data
China Geo-Explorer ( part of China Data Online)
PolicyMap
Simply Analytics
Social Explorer (Census data and maps)
(Digital) Sanborn Maps 1867 - 1970
FIMO (Fire Insurance Maps Online
Geospatial and Statistical Data Resources