• OneSearch – to locate any item that is available in our libraries, including books, journals, newspapers, and audio/visual materials. Refine your search by using the links below the search bar: Books, Articles, Journals, Video/Films, Newspaper articles
• Course Reserve: a collection of books or articles (pdfs) set aside at the Circulation Desk by your instructor.
• Databases A-Z: Databases contain full-text articles or citations to articles published in academic journals, magazines and newspapers.
• ​Top Architecture Databases- A curated list of architecture research databases
• Top Planning Databases- A curated list of planning research databases
• Research Tips – an online guide designed to help you perform research at the University at Buffalo’s University Libraries, includes citation help. Center for Excellence in Writing- 17 Norton.
• My Account & Delivery+ –  use for book renewal and interlibrary loan. Journal articles and book chapters are delivered electronically to your email and physical items are made available for pick-up at the UB library of your choice. (free of charge)

Borrowing/Loan Periods: Your UB Card serves as your library card. Current UB students, faculty and staff may use their cards to check out books and other materials at any campus library.

Self-check out kiosk/Check-out App - instructions for downloading the app and using the self-check out kiosk.

UB Print Anywhere - UB students receive a semesterly quota of free pages to print assignments at any of 40 print station kiosks. Learn how to easily print your assignments from any computer, a computing site, your smartphone, a USB drive and more.

Background info:;

Gale Virtual Reference Library - includes subject encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference works in broad subject areas, including issues related to planning.

Oxford Handbooks Online - a collection of Oxford Handbooks in four subject modules - Business and Management; Philosophy; Political Science; and Religion. Each handbook takes an aspect of its discipline and unpacks it, explaining the key issues, the classic and contemporary debates on those issues, and setting the agenda for how those debates might evolve.;

Best Basic Resources Guide (created by UB Libraries)