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Guide to the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals

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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

First, open the Avery Index in a separate window. The default screen will look like this:

first sample screen shot of the Avery database



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

second sample screen shot of the Avery database


Search Results Display


third sample screen shot of the Avery database



Finding Illustrations, Elevations, or Plans


fourth sample screen shot of the Avery database



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

fifth sample screen shot of the Avery database
This guide created by:
S. J. Movahedi-Lankarani qum7@psulias.psu.edu
08/2008