For September only UNLV faculty and students can try out CUMINCAD.
CUMINCAD stands for Cumulative Index of Computer Aided Architectural Design. The CUMINCAD database provides access to full-text PDFs of all proceedings from ACADIA, eCAADe, SIGRADI, CAADFutures and additional CAD-related organizations, from 1985 onwards -- 7000+ research papers. You must log in as a new user in order to access the pdf files, but you can do a search without needing to log in.
To try it out go to http://www.library.unlv.edu/trials.html
If you like it be sure and let me know so that I can pursue getting more long-term access!
For those of you interested in Building Information Modeling [BIM]**: there are many papers in the database on that topic.
**Remember that the Architecture Studies Library has recordings of two events from last spring where BIM was explored:
April 25, 2006 -- panel discussion in the library at which representatives of Autodesk, Bentley, and Graphisoft presented their BIM products. Video and DVD available
May 17, 2006 presentations by Glenn Fellows and Russ Sanders at the AIA Las Vegas meeting. Video and DVD available.
