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

This guide is available as a PDF here:  Guide to CumInCAD (pdf - 174kb)

Open CumInCAD in a separate window.


Why use the 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

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

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Searching

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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)

Viewing Search Results Pages

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Viewing Individual Citations

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