Doing Place-related Research Using Electronic Sources
Here are some suggestions for doing research on "place" in travel, geography, architecture, urban design, etc.
1. Search for articles using Google Scholar. Note that many of the articles will be incomplete: for the complete article, you need to go to the NYU library system. It will help if you customize your browser's version of Google Scholar so that it links directly to the articles at NYU. Look for the "Get at NYU" link: it should take you the "NYU Arch" and a link to the article. Sometimes you need to use the "Advanced" option at the bottom of the "Arch" page.
2. Go to NYUHome > Research. Find the section where it says “E-journals” with an alphabetical title index and a box for “Title Search.” Type in the name of the journal you're looking for, or browse journals using keywords words like architecture, urban, design, travel, etc.
3. Search online periodicals by topic using two essential online databases of scholarly articles: Project Muse and JSTOR.
4. On the Place and Literature website, go to The Reference Room> Doing Research in Literature, Geography, and Architecture, and check out some of the links, especially those that encompass doing research on the web.
5. Take a look at these helpful sites:
Architecture Resources on the Internet
Art on the Web: Architecture Links
ArtSource Architecture Resources
Association for the Study of Literature & Environment
Built and Natural Environments Links (terrain.org)
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Literature of Travel and Exploration Encyclopedia
Places: Forum of Design for the Public Realms
Sense of Place in Literature: Bibliography
Writing of Place: Nature, Place, Environment
