111 Stuckeman Family Building, University Park, PA 16802-1921
phone 814 865 3614 - fax 814 865 5073 - email arch@psulias.psu.edu

Guide to the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals

This guide is available as a PDF here

Go to the Avery Index

Why use the Avery Index?

- Use the Avery Index to locate articles in journals.

- Subjects covered include: the history and practice of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, historic preservation, furniture, and interior design and decoration in more than 700 international magazines.

- Time span: 1934 – current; selective coverage back to 1741.

- Does it have full-text? No, but Avery can help you connect to full-text articles.

Getting Started

Creating Relationships Between Words: Boolean Operators

Use this term...		To do this...
AND		Narrow search and retrieve records with all of the words it separates.
OR		Broaden search and retrieve records with any of the words it separates.
NOT		Narrow search and retrieve records that do not contain the word following it.

Searching

Search Results Display

Finding Illustrations, Elevations, or Plans

Using Truncation

Truncate a search term using an * (Asterisk) to broaden your search to include all forms of a root word (e.g. river* finds rivers, riverfront.)

TIP: When looking for forms of a commonly used term (e.g., buil*;, which finds built, build, builds, building, buildings) the truncation symbol may retrieve too many irrelevant articles. To retreive a list of more targeted citations, "OR" together the forms of the word you want to use (e.g. building OR buildings)

Searching Across Subject Areas

This guide created by:
S. J. Movahedi-Lankarani qum7@psulias.psu.edu
09/2007

Architecture & Landscape Architecture Library