The University of British Columbia

Trial Period: June 27-July 30, 2011

The Materials Library is produced by an international team of material specialists employed by Material ConneXion.
The online database provides access to images, detailed material descriptions, usage characteristics, and manufacturer and distributor contact information, through a simple, non-technical search interface.

Index to Art in Canada to 1930

A database that indexes works of art listed in Canadian exhibition, auction and collection catalogues, from 1823 (the date of the earliest catalogue so far identified) up to and including 1930.

A new online resource and digital archive focusing on Vancouver and west coast artists and writers, produced through a partnership of The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at The University of British Columbia, and the grunt gallery, Vancouver.

Archivision is a database of 34,000 high quality, professionally photographed images of architecture, landscape architecture, urban
planning, archaeology, and design.

An online journal dedicated to expanding knowledge around green, sustainable, or high performance built facilities and infrastructure systems.

The British Columbia Building Code 2006 (BCBC) sets out technical provisions for the design and construction of new buidings. It also applies to the alteration, change of use and demolition of existing buildings.

The Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture is the most current and comprehensive reference resource for the visual arts of the Classical period.

This online encyclopedia contains over 3,000 entries covering thousands of years of decorative arts production throughout western and non-western cultures.

The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art & Architecture "deals with all aspects of Islamic art and architecture ranging from the Middle East to Africa to Central, South, and East Asia and includes entries on artists, rulers, writers, ceramics, sculpture, metalwork, painting, calligraphy, textiles, and more".

The Grove Encyclopedia of Materials and Techniques in Art offers the most comprehensive, up-to-date information on all aspects of this fundamental area of the visual arts. This reference work provides fascinating historical and current uses of materials and techniques in a wide range of areas from painting and sculpture to non-traditional media such as digital and video art.

The Canadian Public Policy Collection is a collection of monograph publications from Canadian public policy institutes, government agencies, advocacy groups, think-tanks, university research centres and other public interest groups. The organizations included in this collection represent the leading edge of primary research and opinion in all areas of Canadian public policy. Their publications are vital to the understanding of developing issues in every arena of Canadian public life.

The service provides more than one thousand documents to subscribers each year.

ARTstor is a digital library of art images, information about the images, and software tools designed to enhance teaching, learning, and scholarship. ARTstor contains approximately 400,000 images of art, architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, design, archaeology, and other elements of visual culture. The images in ARTstor come from a wide range of civilizations, with initial strengths in European, American, and Asian cultures.

The collection has been derived from several source collections that are the product of collaborations with libraries, museums, photographic archives, publishers, slide libraries, and individual scholars.

ARTstor's proprietary software tools enable users to search for images online, analyze the images through features such as zooming and panning, and to save groups of images for personal or group uses, as well as for use in lectures and other presentations, either online or off-line.