Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals offers three Look ups or browsable indexes, so you can easily find spelling or format variations of, for example, an author's name or a journal title. You can find the Look up links in the advanced search page and they are available for the following searchable fields: author, publication, and subject/artist. For a description of these fields, please see the searchable fields table to the right.
Note: Look ups are also available from the Command Line search (through the Look up terms link).
To use and locate a Look up or browsable index, select the field from the advanced search pull-down menu. If a Look up is available, under the search row you will see a link to the Look up. Other Look ups and browsable indexes will be listed in the Limit To section of the advanced search page.
Select the Look up link and then you will see a browsable and alphabetical index for that field. There are some indexes that will not display an alphabetical list before searching for the term, rather you will have to enter a term first, and then the alphabetical list of matches will display.
Once you locate the index term that you would like to add to your search, mark the item, and then click the Add to search button. The index term will now appear in the advanced search form along with the appropriate pull-down menu selection.
An accessible version of the Searchable Fields table is available below.
| Field Name | Label | Search Examples & Explanation |
| Abstract | AB | AB(brutalist) The abstract provided by the journal is reproduced with little or no modifications. If no abstract is provided, one is created by the ProQues editorial team, drawing on the article’s text and concepts. Abstracts are available from 1987. |
| Accession Number | AN | AN(198001790) Search the unique database ID for articles and documents. |
| Anywhere | ALL | ALL(frank gehry) Enter keyword(s) without a field code label to search the entire record. |
| Author | AU | AU(Etherington-Smith, Meredith) Finds documents written by a particular author. Use the Look Up list to verify the various formats of the same name. |
| Conference | CF | CF(international congresses for modern architecture) Use to find articles related to specific conferences |
| Corporate Author | CA | CA(CAST architecture) Search for a company or other organizations responsible for the content of an article |
| Document Title | TI | TI(Barcelona) Locates the occurrence of search words in the title of the article. |
| Document Type | DType | DType(Interview) Finds specific document types such as article, business case, company profile, market research. |
| International Standard Serials Number | ISSN | ISSN(02794977) Looks for the eight digit International Standard Serials Number (ISSN), where available. Hyphens are optional. |
| Issue | ISS | ISS(11) Searches the issue number of a resource. |
| Language | LA | LA(Spanish) Original language of the document. |
| Notes | NT | NT(Madrid) Use to search the notes field - displayed as "Supplemental Data" |
| Physical Description | PH | PH(axonometric drawings) Use to find articles with a particular graphic feature - displayed as "Document Feature" |
| Publication Title | PUB | PUB(AA files) Use to search for a specific journal title |
| Publication Year | YR | YR(1987) Use to find a specific publication year |
| Reviewed Work | RV | RV(architecture) Use to find titles of reviewed books and exhibitions - displayed as "Related Work" |
| Source type | SType | STYPE(other) Finds pecific source types such as books, newspapers or scholarly journals. |
| Subject / Artist | SA | SA(Office buildings) use the Subject / Artist search field to look for articles about a specific subject or architect |
| Update | UD | UD(2017-07-26) Use to search for articles uploaded to the database on a particular day. Use the date format: YYYY-MM-DD |
| Volume | VO | VO(100) Volume of a resource. |