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Guide to CumInCAD
(Cumulative Index of Computer Aided Architectural Design)

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Why use CumInCAD?

- Use CumInCAD to locate conference papers and journal articles on computer aided architecture design.

- Time span: 1998 – current; selective coverage back to 1960

- Full text and illustrations are provided for more than half of the journal and conference papers in the database.

Getting Started

Searching

Search Tips

CumInCAD is very literal and it will search all words that you enter. Searches are conducted across all fields in the database (i.e., author, title, source) and in the article abstracts. Use terms that you think may appear in an article abstract on the topic you are researching.

To do this...		Use this...
Search a single term		Type in your term.
Search multiple terms		Type in terms. Do not use AND, OR, or NOT between your terms.
Search an exact phrase		Enclose the phrase in quotes (e.g. "design studio")
Locate synonyms		Type in each synonymous term. Do not use OR. To find all articles on cars, in the search box type: car automobile vehicle
Exclude a word from your search		Type a dash and then the search term (e.g. -virtual)
Truncation		Use an asterisk to search all variations of a word root (e.g. itelligen* locates both intelligence and intelligent)

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

Architecture & Landscape Architecture Library

Guide to CumInCAD (Cumulative Index of Computer Aided Architectural Design)