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 nullPeriodical articles: SCC Library & beyond

Keep up-to-date by browsing professional periodicals (newsletters, trade journals, & scholarly journals) and by searching for articles on a particular topic.

Multiple ways to find articles:

  • Search library databases to quickly find articles on a particular topic*
  • Browse professional journals and other periodicals which are free online
  • Browse the small collection of print periodicals in the the library

AIA Student Periodical

Periodicals free online

Several periodicals in the field of architecture are freely available online. Some are listed here. 

(In addtion to free online periodicals, you will find some for-fee periodicals in library databases like ProQuest. Ask librarians to learn more.)

Article databases

Search Library databases to efficiently find articles on a topic of your choice:null

Suggested databases:

Example periodicals in library databases

  • American Professional Contractor
  • Architect (HTML only)
  • Architectural Record
  • Architectural Review
  • Architects' Journal
  • Builder: The Magazine of the National Association of Home Builders
  • Building
  • Building Design
  • Canadian Architect
  • Concrete Construction
  • Construction Specifier (Canada: Features the latest information on construction documentation, materials and methods.)
  • Houses 
  • Landscape Ecology
  • Masonry
  • Timber Framing
  • Underground Construction
  • Advances in Building Energy Research
  • Architect
  • Architectural Engineering and Design Management
  • Architectural Review 
  • Architectural Theory Review
  • Architecture
  • Architecture Australia
  • arq: Architectural Research Quarterly 
  • Building Design
  • The Canadian Architect
  • Design Issues
  • E: The Environmental Magazine
  • Environmental Design + Construction
  • Frontiers of Structural and Civil Engineering
  • Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering
  • Journal of Architecture and Urbanism
  • Progressive Architecture

Search techniques

To efficiently search library databases, use filters within the database and try search terms you think might be in the article's title, description, or full-text.

Techniques you can use to create database searches:

  • KEYWORDS

Use keywords in your searching. Select words or phrases which you predict will appear in an article title or description or full-text.

  • PHRASE SEARCHING

 Enclose a phrase (a string of 2 or more words) in quotation marks. Example: "global warming"

  • TRUNCATION

Truncate (cut off) search terms using an asterisk. The asterisk works as a wildcard. The search term:  recyc*  will retrieve articles which contain any word starting with r-e-c-y-c, like recycle, recycled, recycling, etc.

  • BOOLEAN OPERATORS

Combine multiple search concepts using the Boolean terms: AND, OR, NOT

Example searches

          cladding

"straw bale construction"

"green architecture"   AND  cladding

"employee retention"  AND  "small business"

"lean manufacturing"  AND  "mechanical engineering"

"green design"  AND  roof*

"green roof"  OR  "roof gardens"

LEED   AND   (architecture OR construction)