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Architectural and Art Resources:
Avery index to architectural periodicals
Provider: CSA
Provides citations to journals in the fields of architecture, city planning, interior design, historic preservation and archaeology. Covers 1930-present.
Avery index to architectural periodicals
Provider: RLG
Provides citations to journals in the fields of architecture, city planning, interior design, historic preservation and archaeology. Covers 1930-present.
Built in America
Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record. Provides digital access to images of measured drawings, photographs, color transparencies, and data pages including written histories, and supplemental materials that document achievements in architecture, engineering, and design in the United States and its territories. Includes a comprehensive range of building types and engineering technologies. Covers 1933-present.
Grove dictionary of art
Provider: Oxford
Includes full-text articles on every aspect of the visual arts from prehistory through the present. Contains images and provides links to related sites.
Art index
Provider: Wilson
Offers abstracts of journals, museum bulletins and yearbooks in the fields of art, architecture, decorative arts and photography. Covers abstracts from 1929-present, full-text articles 1997-present.
Arts & humanities citation index
Provider: FirstSearch
Citations to more than 1,300 arts and humanities journals and to relevant articles on arts and humanities in over 5,800 social science and science journals. Records include articles, bibliographies, editorials and reviews. Covers 1980-present.
Bibliography of the history of art
Provider: CSA
Offers abstracts of journal articles, books, conference proceedings, dissertations and exhibition and dealer's catalogs. Includes European and American art from late antiquity to the present. Covers 1973-present.
Visual Resources links
Links to resources with sources of images, including many to do wtih architecture and city planning.
Social Sciences Resources:
Sociological abstracts
Holdings:
1963-
Publisher: Bethesda, Md. : Cambridge Scientific Abstracts,
Provider: CSA
Provides abstracts of journal articles, books, book chapters,
dissertations and conference papers in the fields of sociology, social
work and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
Records added after 1972 contain in-depth abstracts of journal
articles. Covers 1963-present.
PolicyFile
Provider: Chadwyck-Healey
Provides online access to abstracts and full-text articles on public
policy research and analysis from think tanks, university research
programs, research organizations and publishers.Covers a wide range of
topics from international trade to health care reform, from
telecommunications regulation to terrorism. Coverage varies.
Multi-disciplinary Resources:
ProQuest Research Library
Provider: ProQuest
Provides citations and full-text magazine and journal articles in a wide variety of disciplines, both scholarly and popular in scope. Covers 1971 - present.
JSTOR
Provides full-text and page images from many of the top journals in most academic disciplines. Coverage is from the inception of the journal through three to five years ago.
Area Studies:
Africana Studies resources (Trico database page)
East Asian Studies resources (Trico database page)
Latin American Studies Resources (Trico database page)
Indexes to Historical Sources:
19th century masterfile
Provider: Paratext
Offers millions of citations to periodicals, newspapers, books, patents and government documents published prior to 1925.
Periodicals index online (Chadwyck)
Index to journal articles in the arts, humanities, and social sciences,
including some published as far back as 1770. Includes periodicals in
English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, and other Western languages.
History-Primary Sources (Trico database page)
The New York times on the Web
Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1851-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1851-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1851-present.
Publisher: [New York, N.Y.] : New York Times.
Washington post (Washington, D.C. : 1974)
Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1877-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1977-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1877-present.
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : The Washington Post Co.,
Census Resources:
American factFinder
For 1990 and 2000 Census information. Hosted by the U.S. Census Bureau, this website provides access to population, housing, economic and geographic data from the latest Decennial Census, the Economic Censuses and Surveys, and the American Community Survey. Users can view reference maps and create comparison tables and thematic maps which can be downloaded or printed.
CensusCD 1980
CensusCD 1980, allows access to the complete results of the 1980 US census, down to the census tract. Over 2,500 demographics, and geographic identifiers exist for every geographic area. A full set of 1980 maps, along with mapping software, have also been included.
Social Explorer
Offers access to reports and interactive maps for the U.S. Census, 1940 through 2000. A project of Queens College, sponsored by the New York Times and the National Science Foundation.
Philadelphia NIS neighborhoodBase
Provides information from the U.S. Census and several city agencies on a variety of topics, including housing, population, land use, utilities, and more. Census information is from 2000; other city information is more recent. A project of the Cartographic Modeling Lab at the University of Pennsylvania.
Historical Census Browser
Provides information from the U.S. censuses taken each ten years from 1790 to 1960. A project of the University of Virginia Geostat Center.
Philadelphia resources:
Philadelphia Architects and Buildings
FREE REGISTRATION REQUIRED FOR SEARCHING. Brings together the
collections, data, images and professional expertise of The Athenaeum
of Philadelphia, the University of Pennsylvania Architectural Archives,
the Philadelphia Historical Commission, the Pennsylvania Historical and
Museum Commission, and several local cultural institutions, enabling
free access to information on the built environment of the five-county
Philadelphia area.
Places in Time
Places in time: Historical Documentation of Place in Greater Philadelphia This site has links to a rich variety of images, documents, maps, and views of Philadelphia and surrounding counties from throughout its history; site built and maintained by Cites Professor Jeff Cohen.
The Greater Philadelphia GeoHistory Network
The Greater Philadelphia GeoHistory Network is a pilot project of the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL) to develop a web-based repository of geographically organized historical information about Philadelphia, its geography, its buildings, and its people.
Metropolitan Philadelphia Indicators Project (MPIP)
"MPIP maintains and updates a set of social, economic, and environmental indicators that portray the quality of life in the region's communities" - provides maps, data, and reports. MPIP is a product of Temple University and the William Penn Foundation, with partners in many areas of the city.
Philadelphia NIS neighborhoodBase
Provides information from the U.S. Census and several city agencies on a variety of topics, including housing, population, land use, utilities, and more. Census information is from 2000; other city information is more recent. A project of the Cartographic Modeling Lab at the University of Pennsylvania.
PhillyHistory.org
Provides online access to over 50,000 photographs from the collections of the Philadelphia Department of Records. Also provides digital access to the Philadelphia historical streets index and the Philadelphia historical photograph index.
Philadelphia Films : Videos from the Tri-College collection
Videos from the Tri-Co libraries about the Philadelphia area.
The Feature Films listed at the bottom of the page take place in Philadelphia, or were filmed in the area.
The Feature Films listed at the bottom of the page take place in Philadelphia, or were filmed in the area.
philly.com
Calling itself "the region's home page," this website provides local news, entertainment guides, classifieds and more.