LOCATION
36 Bedford Square
London WC1B 3ES
OPENING HOURS
Term-time
Mon - Fri: 10:00 - 21:00
Sat: 10:00 - 18:00
Systems Librarian:
Kirsty Edginton
T: +44 (0)20 7887 4035
kirsty.edginton@aaschool.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)20 7887 4036
library@aaschool.ac.uk
Off-site links are provided below for each resource. Most online resources are available off-site (including ebooks) by using an AA username and password. Your password can be reset via the AA website.
REDUCED ACCESS FOR MEMBERS: Please note that due to license agreements, some online resources are available for educational purposes only, and are therefore only accessible to the school (students and staff) and not to Members. Please see onlines resources available to members here.
Need help using the online resources?
Online resources guide
Finding journal articles
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The ACM Digital Library contains a comprehensive collection of articles and bibliographic records for the field of computing and information technology from 1954 to the present. |
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The AJ Buildings Library showcases thousands of exemplar projects, most from the last 20 years but including major projects back to 1900. Each project featured in the library includes full project data and comprehensive architectural photographs and drawings (plans, elevation, section) – all provided at high resolution. Registration link - please use your AA username and password to access and complete the registration following the instructions and your AA email address to register. Full details: Registration instructions to access AJ and the Buildings Library |
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A&A ePortal by Yale University Press is an authoritative eBook resource that features important works of scholarship in the history of art, architecture, decorative arts, photography, and design. With innovative functionality and extensive metadata, the site includes many out-of-print titles, key backlist, and recent releases from some of the world’s finest academic and museum publishers. |
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Access to Arquitectura Viva, AV Monografías and AV Proyectos online (1998 onwards with occasional scattered issues) provides thematic issues, practices in focus as well as interviews and current architectural news. |
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The a+t online library includes magazines, books and card packs covering affordable housing, density, mixed uses and the privatisation of urban spaces, among other subjects. |
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Artstor is an online digital image library designed to serve educational and scholarly communities with more than one million images on subjects in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences. |
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Bloomsbury Architecture Library Digital resource for the study of architecture, urbanism, and interior design, which offers access to wide-ranging collections of text and image content, from architectural history to design guidance. This database includes the 21st edition of Sir Banister Fletcher’s Global History of Architecture. |
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Bloomsbury Applied Visual Arts This database combines visual inspiration with practical advice on everything from idea generation and research techniques to portfolio development. |
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This database gives a comprehensive global coverage of the history, theory and practice of crafts and design, from prehistoric times to the present day. It offers an expanding range of authoritative references and book content, alongside a rich selection of museum object images, which are fully searchable. |
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Screen Studies is a digital platform covering film history, theory, and practice. It offers a broad range of content including books, screenplays, overview articles and learning resources from Bloomsbury, Faber & Faber, the British Film Institute, Focal Press and Auteur (LUP). |
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Easily access the majority of the Library's online journals. The service can be used to search or browse journals by subject or title and get instant access to articles, and the BrowZine app offers notifications each time a new issue of your favourite journal is released. |
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BDonline provides around the clock news, videos, blogs, culture, reviews of the latest buildings from all corners of the world. |
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Building Types Online is a resource for the study and practice of architectural design. It is based on Birkhäuser's professional architecture books. It includes a large international collection of contemporary buildings, from housing and offices to museums, schools and other building types. |
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Construction Information Service (IHS) Online collection of over 28,000 construction related standards, regulations, technical advice and articles from 500+ publishers.Including JCT contracts, CIBSE documents, legislative and compliance regulations. |
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This online databank gives access to more than 5,500 DETAIL project documentations from more than 55 years of DETAIL. With every new issue of DETAIL, the databank expands by the current projects in question. The Database also includes PDFs of Detail Magazine. |
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Digimap provides digital mapping based on selected Ordnance Survey map products, with full coverage of Great Britain for all of those products. Global Digimap is also currently in development. Data is also available to download for use in GIS and CAD software. |
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The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals produced by Columbia University offers indexes and abstracts articles from 2500 journals concerned with architecture, design and related subjects. Art Full Text and Art & Architecture Complete are research databases providing full-text journals. It covers fine and decorative arts, photography, film as well as architecture and architectural design. OnArchitecture is an audiovisual archive of architecture online containing over 150 interviews with leading architects, and more than 250 portraits of buildings. |
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Access to the Digital Edition of all the numbers published by El Croquis from the year 2001. The collection begins with number 104 and it is updated with each new publication. |
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Includes full-text of leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences and sciences. |
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Kanopy provides access to over 30,000 films and documentaries relevant for your research and study. The videos can be streamed straight to your TV, tablet, iPhone, Android phone or laptop. |
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Knovel is a Web-based application integrating technical information with analytical and search tools to drive innovation and deliver answers engineers can trust. |
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Find here video courses taught by industry experts in software, creative, and business skills. AA school email address required to register. |
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More than 520 volumes of Latin, Greek, and English texts are available in a modern and elegant interface, allowing readers to browse, search, bookmark, annotate, and share content with ease. |
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Access to the New York Times live news, investigations, opinion, photos and video by the journalists of The New York Times from more than 150 countries around the world. Also available is the historical archive and the NYTimes teaching resources. First time registration required using an AA School email address at http://nytimes.com/passes (aaschool.ac.uk only). |
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Overdrive includes magazines such as the New Yorker, New York Review of Books, Wallpaper, Art in America, A+U, Casabella and many more. Download the Libby app in the Apple Store or Google Play to read magazines. |
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Pidgeon Digital is an online Audiovisual collection of illustrated talks by architects and related designers, which has been built up over more than 35 years. |
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Project MUSE is a provider of authoritative humanities and social science books and journals from more than 200 of the world’s most distinguished university presses and scholarly societies. |
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The Proquest Art, Design & Architecture Collection includes the ARTbibliographies Modern, International Bibliography of Art, and Design & Applied Arts Index as well as the Full-text Arts & Humanities Database. The ProQuest Art & Architecture Archive provides searchable archives of journals and trade magazines tracing the history of photography, design, fine art and architecture over the twentieth century. |
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Large collection of Physical Sciences and Engineering publications, covering a range of disciplines, from the theoretical to the applied. Includes journals such as: Solar Energy, Energy and Buildings as well as Building and Environment. |
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Taylor & Francis Online Journals Explore the Taylor & Francis online journals and articles by subject. |
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A global website available in English and Spanish, tectonica-online includes the principal contents from the journal’s almost 20-year history, as well as newly incorporated material. |
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Oxford's Very Short Introductions series offers concise and original introductions to a wide range of subjects - from Public Health to Buddhist Ethics, Soft Matter to Classics, and Art History to Globalization. |