Step One: To locate articles that pertain to your topic, you will want to first search an index that specializes in architectural subjects. The Avery Index is the most comprehensive index of this kind. It covers architecture and related journals from the 1870's to the present. (Link to the Avery Index or other periodical indexes from Indexes, Abstracts, and Full Texts on the UT Libraries website).
Here is an example of an article cited in the Avery Index. Note that the "title" listed here is the title of the article, not the journal title. The title of the journal is Blueprints. What else can you learn from this citation?
TITLE:
After Bilbao: Gehry speaks about recent work / Karen Eisenberg.
PHYSICAL DETAILS: photos.
IN: Blueprints 2000 Winter, v.18, n.1, p.11.
NOTES: Talk at the National Building Museum, Washington, 8 Nov. 1999.
OTHER AUTHORS: Eisenberg, Karen.
SUBJECTS:
Architects--United States--Gehry, Frank O.
Gehry, Frank O., 1929- Frank O. Gehry and Associates.
National Building Museum (U.S.).
Avery Call Number: AB B626
Record ID: NYCA00-V7527 /
To locate this article you will need to write down (or print out):
(Please ignore the Avery Call Number. These numbers are not used in UT libraries.)
Step Two: Next you will need to determine the location of the journal you need.
NOTE: While some online indexes offer articles online, you will not find full-text articles in the Avery Index. That means you will need to locate them in one of three places:
Do a Title Search in the Library Catalog for the journal you are looking for. The catalog record will tell you which volumes are in the stacks (in which case you will need to write down the call number). If it was published in the last couple of years, it will likely be in the Reading Room where current journals are shelved alphabetically by title. When an online version of a journal is available, a link will appear in the journal's record in the Library Catalog.
If the library does not own the journal you are looking for, you may use Interlibrary Loan to get a photocopy of the article(s) you want, just as you would a book. (Locating Books)
