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Architectural Design

About databases

Access: On and off campus. Log in using your Holmesglen student email address (HolmesglenUsername@student.holmesglen.edu.au) and password. Read online or download / save pdf. 

Find: Journals, conference papers, newspapers, reports and other publications.

Search by key concepts

e.g. tall buildings

Search by subjects

e.g Architecture

Search by words

e.g. Modernist Australian Architecture

Databases A - Z: Visit the Databases page for a full list of available databases.

Google Scholar: Provides a simple and broad coverage search for scholarly literature. A good place to start if you are unfamiliar with the subject area. 

A database is an online collection of the best newspapers, journals, reports and statistics from around the world.

Unlike Google, Databases are part of the "Hidden web". The Library pays subscriptions to these databases, providing students with free access to expert information that isn't available on the free web.

To access the databases, you must log in with your Holmesglen email address (HolmesglenUsername@student.holmesglen.edu.au) and password (same as Brightspace).

Databases A - Z: Visit the Databases page for a full list of databases available through Holmesglen Library.

Use Google Scholar to search for resources in Library databases and more.

Set up your Library Links in Google Scholar.

On the Google Scholar homepage, at the top of the page click on Settings.

In Google Scholar settings, select Library links.

In the text book, type in Holmesglen and select 'Holmesglen Institute - Access@HolmesglenLibrary'.

Click Save.

Now when you search Google Scholar you can click on Access@HolmesglenLibrary next to the resource to access it through our databases.

For more detailed instructions, visit our Google Scholar guide.

Databases - Building, construction and architecture