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Basic Features
Searching the UW Catalog
- Books
- UW Libraries Catalog Index to Help Topics Searching
- Use the Advanced Search mode; provides flexibility in narrowing topics
- Advanced Search allows limiting by location, publication type, language, year, and illustration
- Check location, call number, and availability
- Use subject heading links to find related books
- Use proper names for fastest searches: landscape architect names, garden names
- Journals
- Search by title
- If available, electronic journal links are at the top
- Note "View additional copies..." link below location/call number box; this will indicate if each volume has been checked out
- The Center for Urban Horticulture Library Catalog
- This library catalog can be accessed from the UW Library Catalog, as well
Searching the Summit Catalog
- Note the location of the "Request this item" link
Searching World Cat
- Two ways of accessing: UW Library Homepage or here
- World Cat searches the catalogs of research libraries internationally
- Use World Cat when you are trying to find how many books that have been done on a specific subject
Critical Thinking
Information Literacy
Information Literacy
- Critical Evaluation of Resources (UC Berkeley Libraries)
- Is the information suitable?
- What is its scope? Overview or in-depth?
- Book: What kind of study is it? Is it for novices, specialists or in-between? Who is the intended readership?
- Periodicals: What is its target audience?
- Popular: Sunset Magazine, Metropolitan Home, Dwell (Written for the general public)
- Professional: Landscape, Landscape Architecture (Contain many diagrams used by professionals; articles tend to be more reliable than popular press.)
- Scholarly: Garden History, Landscape Research, Environment and Behavior A, Landscape Planning (Peer-reviewed; because of peer-review, these articles should be the most reliable.)
- Importance of peer-review: Hallmarks of a peer-reviewed article: Look for author’s credentials, footnotes, bibliography.
- Some periodical indexes will differentiate peer-reviewed articles; See CSA / ASCE Civil Engineering Abstracts Database
- Is the writer an authority?
- Who is the writer? What are his/her credentials? If in doubt, do a biographical research on the author. A Google search is a start, or use a citation index, like Web of Science, to check the number of times an author has been cited.
- What is the writer’s bias? Who pays the author? To whom is the author beholden?
- If it is a book, who published it? Is it self-published? Is it a popular publisher (Chronicle or Taschen, for example), professional-oriented (Norton, Wiley, or Rizzoli), or university press (MIT, U of California, U of Washington)?
- Does the author rely on primary, secondary or tertiary research documents?
- Primary
- Presents author's original work
- Relies on first-hand sources, experimental data, eye-witness accounts or archival information
- Court records/government documents
- Personal narratives/autobiographies
- Original drawings/photographs
- Correspondence
- Contemporary newspaper accounts
- Interviews/oral histories
- Secondary
- Analysis after an event, removed by one or more steps
- Describe, interpret, and evaluate primary sources
- Book reviews
- Journal articles
- Dissertations
- Scholarly books
- Textbooks
- Tertiary
- Compile, organize, and summarize secondary sources
- Bibliographies
- Periodical databases
- Almanacs
- Encyclopedia articles
- Dictionaries
- If the writer seems authoritative, find his/her other works and use his/ her bibliographies and footnotes to find other reliable information.
- Assessing Web Sites
- Who wrote it? (Is an author credited?) What are his/her biases?
- Does the author use any footnoting? If so, does s/he credit any print resources or use primary research sources?
- If the author uses hyperlinks to corroborate points, where do they lead? Are the sites authoritative? Are many of the links dead?
- How timely is the site? Look to see when it was last updated, usually at the bottom.
- What type of website is it? Who runs the site? Is it an organization with an agenda? Check the fine print about the sponsor. What does the URL tell you?
- “.coms” can be reliable, but they can also try to sell you something; is it a news organization? Use them with caution.
- “.orgs” can be reliable, but are sometimes fronts for bogus institutions. Corroborate the authenticity of the website’s owner. Does it have an ideological bias and how does this manifest itself?
- “.gov” information should be reliable, but it depends on the bias of the government and its reporting agency.
- “.mil” information should be reliable, but militaries are bureaucracies like any other large organization with self-interests and biases.
- “.edu” information should be the most reliable, but this can vary. Stick with large, reputable universities and colleges.
- Who links to the site? Google ranks the relevancy of a site by the number of others that link to it.
- Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask; University of California, Berkeley
- Searching the World Wide Web (Purdue University Online Writing Lab [OWL])
Research Databases
Periodical Databases | Electronic Journals | Newspapers
Periodical Databases
- Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
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Coverage: Covers c. 1900 to the present
Full Text: No
PDF: No
Provider: OCLC FirstSearch
Access: UW Restricted
Note: Indexes worldwide periodicals on landscape architecture, architecture, city planning,
interior design, and historic preservation
- Art Abstracts/Art Index Retrospective
- Coverage: Covers c. 1900 to the present
Full Text: No
PDF: No
Provider: OCLC FirstSearch
Access: UW Restricted
Note: Indexes worldwide periodicals on art, architecture, and landscape architecture; in the "Database Selection Area" Biographies Plus Illustrated and Humanities and Social Sciences Retro can be checked; has subject headings at top
- America History and Life
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Coverage: Varies; most journals began post-W W II
Full Text: Yes
PDF: Yes
Provider: ABC-Clio
Access: UW Restricted
Note: Covers American and Canadian history; can search for articles, book reviews, media reviews, collections and dissertations/theses; includes link for articles that cite a selected article
- Historical Abstracts
- Coverage: Varies; most journals began post-W W II
Full Text: Yes
PDF: Yes
Provider: ABC-Clio
Access: UW Restricted
Note: Focuses on world history from 1450 to present; can search for articles, book reviews, media reviews, collections and dissertations/theses
- Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Online
- Coverage: In some cases back to 19th century
Full Text: No
PDF: No
Provider: RIBA
Access: Public
Note: This database has citations for books, periodicals and others sources
- Agricola
- Coverage: Varies
Full Text: No
PDF: No
Provider: National Agricultural Library
Access: Public
Note: This agriculture database does have articles on landscape architecture
- GeoBase
- Coverage: Varies
Full Text: No
PDF: No
Provider: Ovid
Access: UW Restricted
Note: This geology database does have articles on landscape architecture
Multidisciplinary Databases
Other Historical Databases (UW Library History Links)
American Ethnic Studies Databases (UW Library Links)
Electronic Journals
- JSTOR (Full-text of academic journals including landscape architecture history journals, including those in Architecture and Architectural History)
- Journal of Planning Literature (Good for large-scale planning topics; consists of reviews of literature)
- 'Scape Magazine
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Newspapers
- Proquest (Use "Databases Selected" in the upper left corner, scroll down to list of newspapers)
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Image Databases |
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History Sites
- General
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Individual Works
- Bloedel Reserve, Bainbridge Island, WA
- Druid Hills, Decatur, GA
- Gas Works Park, Seattle, WA (City of Seattle, Department of Parks and Recreation)
- Gas Works Park, Seattle, WA (Washington State Department of Ecology)
- Japanese Garden, Washington State Arboretum (City of Seattle, Department of Parks and Recreation)
- Kubota Gardens, Seattle, WA
- Montauk Friends of Olmsted Parks
- Portland Trails, Portland, ME
- Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY
- Saint James Square, San Jose, CA
- Stanford University, Stanford CA
- United States Botanic Garden, Washington, DC
- Yosemite National Park, Yosemite, C
- Landscape Architects
- Callaway, William B.
- Haag, Richard
- Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Olmsted Brothers
- Museums
Image Databases
Professional Organizations
Schools
Writing Resources
Forming a Paper Topic | Finding Biographical Information | Finding Book Reviews | Reference Sources in Landscape Architectural History | Style Guides
Forming a Paper Topic
Finding Biographical Information
- American Society of Landscape Architects Firm Finder
- Birnbaum, Charles A., and Karson, Robin, Pioneers of American Landscape Design, (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000), AUP Reference, SB469.9 .P56 2000
- Brief Biographies of American Architects (Society of Architectural Historians)
- Biographical Information on Landscape Architects (University of California Berkeley)
- Grove Art Online
- Nicolin, Pierluigi and Repshiti, Francesco, Dictionary of Today's Landscape Designers, (Milan: Skira, 2003), AUP Reference SB469.37 .D53 2003
- Tishler, William H., American Landscape Architecture Designers and Places, (Washington, DC: Preservation Press, 1989), AUP Reference, SB470.53 .A44 1989
- UW Libraries Biographical Links
- Washington Secretary of State Historical Records Search
Finding Book Reviews
Reference Sources in Landscape Architecture
- Christensen, Alan Jay, Dictionary of Landscape Architecture and Construction, (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005), AUP Reference SB469.25 .C48 2005
- Evert, Klaus-Jurgen, Dictionary of Landscape and Urban Planning, (Berlin: Springer, 2001), AUP Reference SB49.25 .L49 2001
- Goulty, George A., A Dictionary of Landscape, (Aldershot, UK: Avebury Technical, 1991), AUP Reference QH75 .G645 1991
- Jellicoe, Geoffrey and Susan, The Oxford Companion to Gardens, (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1986), AUP Reference SB469.25 095 1986
- Johnson, Catherine Roy, Olmsted in the Northwest Private Estates and Residential Communities, (Seattle, WA: Firends of Seattle's Olmsted Parks, 1997), AUP Reference SB470.54 .P33 J64 1997
- Mann, William A., Landscape Architecture : an Illustrated History in Timelines, Site Plans, and Biography, (New York : John Wiley, c1993), AUP Reference SB470.5 M37 1993
- Morrow, Baker H., A Dictionary of Landscape Architecture, (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1987), AUP Reference SB469.25 .M67 1987
- Profiles in Landscape Architecture, (Washington, DC: American Society of Landscape Architects, 1992), AUP Reference SB469.9 .P76 1992
- Shoemaker, Candace A., ed., Encyclopedia of Gardens, (Chicago, IL: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2001), AUP Reference SB465 .E63 2001 v. 1
- Streatfield, David C., California Gardens: Creating a New Eden, (New York : Abbeville Press, c1994), AUP Stacks SB466 .U65 C295 1994)
- History of Landscape Architecture (University of California Berkeley)
Style Guides
- Gibaldi, Joseph, MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, (New York: Modern Langugage Association, 2003) (4 copies in Odegaard Reference) OUGL, LB2369 .G53 2003
- MLA Formatting and Style (Purdue University Online Writing Lab [OWL])
- Styles Manuals and Writing Guides (California State University Los Angeles Library)
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