Article databases
One can begin a search for full-text content by using Articles+. Limit a broad search to something more specific by choosing among the facets listed on the left-hand side. The DISCIPLINE and SUBJECT TERMS section allows you to select specific disciplines/subjects you wish to include and/or exclude in a search.
There may be content that is NOT available online, and it maybe useful or preferable to perform searches in specific databases, like:
- America: History and Life with Full Text This link opens in a new windowIndexes books and journal articles on the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. 1954+
- Art & Architecture Source This link opens in a new windowAn important resource containing indexing and/or full-text to hundreds of art, archaeology, architecture, design, media and related journals and books in English and Western European languages, as well as art reproductions and images. Incorporates the H.W. Wilson databases--Art Index, Art Abstracts, Art Full Text, Art Index Retrospective—as well as Art & Architecture Complete and Art Source.
- Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals This link opens in a new windowIndexes journal articles published worldwide on architecture and design, archaeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation.
- Bibliography of the History of Art This link opens in a new windowIndexes and abstracts articles, books, conference proceedings, dissertations, and art exhibition and dealer's catalogs, covering European and American art from late antiquity to the present. Includes coverage for 1990-2007, as well as its predecessor index, RILA (International Repertory of the Literature of the Art), 1975-89. See also History of Art Bibliography. 1975-2007
- International Bibliography of Art This link opens in a new windowCurrently includes some indexing created by the Getty Research Institute (from the Bibliography of the History of Art, the former definitive scholarly resource--books and journals--for western art history). Indexing will continue in the coming months and may expand to include art from Asia, Latin America and Africa.
- SAH Archipedia This link opens in a new windowAuthoritative online encyclopedia of the built world published by the Society of Architectural Historians and the University of Virginia Press. It contains histories, photographs, and maps for 8,500+ structures and places within the United States. Though consisting of mostly buildings, one can find landscapes, infrastructure, monuments, artwork, and more.
Garden & Landscape Journals
Two journals that may be of interest include HORTUS: A Gardening Journal (in Marquand, call number SB450.9 .H677), and Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes (previous title Journal of Garden History; both available in Marquand or online: search by Title in the Library Catalog. There's also Garden History, published in London.
JSTOR provides access to a number of important garden/landscape journals in full.
Browse current journal issues using BrowZine. Search for GARDEN to see some titles. Landscape Architecture journals may be found via this link.
Specific book titles
For books and other materials on Central Park, pull up the library catalog, select Subject (browse) at the top and search for CENTRAL PARK NEW YORK and you will see the library has lots:
- Central Park (New York, N.Y.) (224)
- Central Park (New York, N.Y.)—Anecdotes (2)
- Central Park (New York, N.Y.)—Buildings, structures, etc (1)
- Central Park (New York, N.Y.)—Conservation and restoration (1)
- Central Park (New York, N.Y.)—Description and travel (2)
- Central Park (New York, N.Y.)—Drama (2)
- Central Park (New York, N.Y.)—Exhibitions (1)
- Central Park (New York, N.Y.)—Fiction (15)
- Central Park (New York, N.Y.)—History (49)
- Central Park (New York, N.Y.)—History—19th century (3)
- Central Park (New York, N.Y.)—History—20th century (2)
- Central Park (New York, N.Y.)—History—Civil War, 18611865 (2)
- Central Park (New York, N.Y.)—History—Civil War, 18611865—In art (2)
- Central Park (New York, N.Y.)—History—Pictorial works (10)
- Central Park (New York, N.Y.)—In art (28)
- Central Park (New York, N.Y.)—In art—Catalogs (1)
- Central Park (New York, N.Y.)—Juvenile fiction (2)
- Central Park (New York, N.Y.)—Maps (4)
- Central Park (New York, N.Y.)—Maps, Topographic (1)
- Central Park (New York, N.Y.)—Periodicals (5) (includes the annual reports pub. in 19th c.)
- Central Park (New York, N.Y.)—Pictorial works (24)
- Central Park (New York, N.Y.)—Planning (1)
- Central Park (New York, N.Y.)—Poetry (1)
- Central Park (New York, N.Y.)—Songs and music (4)