Contact: Michael Miyazaki
(301) 961-6761 or E-mail: mmiyazaki@csa.com

For Immediate Release

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals Available on IDS

BETHESDA, Maryland, USA (22 April 2004) -- Researchers investigating any aspect of architecture can now get answers from the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals, newly available on the Internet Database Service (IDS) from CSA.

The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals offers the most comprehensive listing of journal articles on architecture and design. The database includes bibliographic descriptions and indexes on subjects such as the history and practice of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, historic preservation, and interior design and decoration. It contains nearly five hundred thousand entries surveying more than seven hundred American and international journals.

This valuable research tool covers not only the international scholarly and popular periodical literature, but also the publications of professional associations, American state and regional periodicals, and the major serial publications on architecture and design of Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. It also features obituary citations providing architects, architectural historians, and researchers with an excellent source of biographical and professional information about architects. Recently it has incorporated records of the Burnham Index of Architectural Literature from the Art Institute of Chicago.

The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals joins other significant art and design databases available through IDS including ARTbibliographies Modern and Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI).

CSA is offering complimentary trial access to the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals. To request a trial, send e-mail to sales@csa.com or sign up at www.csa.com.

The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals is published the Getty Research Institute; its content is produced by the Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library at Columbia University. The Getty Research Institute, an operating program of the J. Paul Getty Trust, is committed to bringing together all the resources and activities required to advance understanding of the visual arts taken in their widest possible significance. The work of the Research Institute takes its place within the collaborative context of the Getty Center as a whole, including the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, the international projects and research of the Conservation Institute, and the philanthropic outreach of the Grant Program.

CSA, a Cambridge Information Group company, is a leading publisher of bibliographic databases and print journals used by more than 4,000 research institutions worldwide. CSA annually publishes more than 700,000 abstracts culled from more than 14,000 sources. Its award-winning Internet Database Service provides Web access to more than 100 bibliographic databases covering major areas of research including materials science, environmental sciences and pollution management, biological sciences, aquatic sciences and fisheries, biotechnology, engineering, computer science, sociology, information technology, art history, political science, and linguistics.

For further information, contact Michael Miyazaki, Marketing Manager, CSA (Tel. +1 301 961 6761 / E-mail: mmiyazaki@csa.com).

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