Tutorial for HONR 278F: Housing, Social Welfare, Affordability and design

The University of Maryland Libraries have many resources that will help with research for your thesis. If you need additional information, please e-mail Patti Cossard or speak with a Reference Librarian at either the Art or Architecture Library's Reference Desk.

Because of licensing agreements, access to bibliographic databases and electronic journals is restricted to UM faculty, staff, and students. These may be accessed from off campus; consult Remote access for further information. For a complete list of electronic resources available to University of Maryland faculty, staff, and students, as well as information about the full range of library materials and services, consult the UM Libraries' home page.

OUTLINE

• Research Skills
  • Getting you started
  • Indexes/Databases
  • Journals
  • Books
  • Newspapers
  • Citation and Bibliography

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The University of Maryland offers a number of tools to get you what you need to be successful in your research project.

Getting Started

• Research Port: libraries portal to electronic resources
• RefWorks: a bibliographic management system
• Interlibrary Loan: when we don't own a resource you need
• Using the Find It button: when you want to see if the library owns a resource

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Housing & Design Indexes and Databases

• Avery Index: contains citations to articles in 1000+ periodicals
• Academic Search Premier: Very broad indexing.
• Journal of Planning Literature Indexes 400+ journals and provides comprehensive coverare of the city and planning literature
• International Regional Science Review: the last issue of each volume contances a subject and author index to approximately 66 English-language planning and regional science journals. IRSR deliberately helps define regional science by publishing key interdisciplinary survey articles that summarize and evaluate previous research and identify fruitful research directions. Focusing on issues of theory, method, and public policy where the spatial or regional dimension is central.
• Alternative Press Index: useful for identifying community-based and alternative public policy
• Ethnic Newswatch: useful for projects in neighborhoods with an ethnic identity
• PAIS International: source for public policy
• PapersFirst: OCLC index of papers presented at conferences worldwide
• Other important Architecture and Design databases

Journals

• ejournals: links to electronic journals are found in ResearchPort
• print journals: call number and location information for print journals is found in the catalog. **n.b. Search under the journal title.

Books:

• Worldcat: bibliography of books worldwide
• USMAI Catalog: access books held on College Park campus as well as all other campuses in the University System of Maryland

Newspapers

• LexisNexis : Major index to news and legal information

Citation and Bibliography: You are honor bound by the University's Code of Academic Integrity to provide proper attributions, source citations and footnotes related to anything that is not your own work. This includes paraphrasing and quotations of ideas or texts and reduction of images (drawings, photos) produced by others.