The 'Get it @ Dal button', which you will see in most journal article databases is very important, since it helps you to locate journal articles -- to access the electronic full-text directly, to find the journal location in Novanet, or to order the journal article through Document Delivery.
Sexton Library has digitized the full run of the Journal of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada, and The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada's Journal, from 1924-1973.
DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.
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A journal is a periodical publication that contains scholarly information in a subject area. Scholarly or academic journals are collections of journal articles written by professors, researchers, or experts in a given field. Journals are one type of serial, which is any publication published in parts (usually in regular intervals). Other types of serials are magazines and trade publications. Articles that undergo a review process by other experts before publication are known as peer-reviewed.
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Some important architecture journals are:
Journals are available in print in the Sexton Library (shelved alphabetically by their title -- no call numbers are used).
The Dalhousie Libraries also provide access to hundreds of electronic architecture journals through the Novanet catalogue. Specific subject categories include: architecture, arts & crafts, fine arts (general), gardens, landscape architecture & parks, and visual arts. You can browse the journals and also search through the contents of specific journals.
You can also go to the Databases for Journal Articles and More tab on this Subject Guide to see a list of databases (like Avery, JStor) to search for journal articles.
Many of the most important architecture journals are only available in print. This means that you will have to come to the Sexton Library to read or scan/photocopy articles you are interested in, or complete a Novanet Express photocopy request.
You can still use many of the journal databases to find citations for journal articles that are only available in print. For example, to find full-text articles from the journal Abitare (not peer-reviewed), try the following steps:
Peer-reviewed journal articles go through a checking or verification process before they are published. Other experts in the same field of study as that of the article, examine the article's content to make sure it is valid and correct before the article is published. Articles that have gone through this validation process are known as peer-reviewed articles.
This is a visual image of the peer-review process:
https://ucsd.libguides.com/CAT3/peerreview
