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RIBA Cataloque

RIBA British Architectural Library Catalogue Linkki avautuu uuteen ikkunaan
The online catalogue consists of an index to over 300 of the world's most respected architectural periodicals held in the RIBA Library.
RIBA quick guide

RIBA	DESCRIPTION	EXAMPLES
Finding variations of a word	Truncation and wildcards ? replaces one symbol $ replaces 0...n symbols	organi?ation compute$ finds computer, computing
Finding variations of a word	Stemming Singular form does not find the plural form.
Phrases	Phrase in quotation marks Truncation cannot be used. The exact character string is searched, and therefore singular form does not find the plural form.	*'information systems'*
Operators	Boolean operators AND, OR, NOT
Operators	Proximity operator NEAR searches the words in any order.	tax NEAR5 reform finds, for example, tax reform and reform of income tax.
Limiting the search to journal articles	If the search is not limited, the database will search from all RIBA Library collections: drawings, books, photographs etc. (Not in electronic form.) The search must be limited to articles by choosing Collections: Articles
Below is an example of a record. It is a single record with almost all articles from the journal. Therefore, search such as saunalahti and Verstas will not necessarily only find Saunalahti School designed by Verstas. The search result will also include records that are about some building in Saunalahti designed by Verstas.