Images
Fashion design/history
- Berg Fashion Library Offers fully cross-searchable access to a range of Berg content collections, including the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion online, e-books, reference works, images, etc.
- ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM) ARTbibliographies Modern contains abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, and exhibition reviews. The scope of ARTbibliographies Modern extends from artists and movements beginning with Impressionism in the late 19th century, up to the most recent works and trends in the late 20th century. Photography is covered from its invention in 1839 to the present.
- Fashion Studies Online: The Videofashion Library This link opens in a new window This collection contains videos that retrace the history of fashion, clothing, and costume worldwide. Students and researchers can access a remarkable collection covering the major fashion weeks in Milan, Paris, New York and London, as well as Miami swim and New York bridal collections. Topical segments visit events like the Met's Costume Exhibits, CFDA Awards, and feature interviews with top designers, models, and celebrities of the fashion world.
- French Revolution Digital Archive (FRDA) The French Revolution Digital Archive (FRDA) is a multi-year collaboration of the Stanford University Libraries and the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) to produce a digital searchable database of the key research sources of the French Revolution. The archive is based around two main resources, the Archives parlementaires and a vast corpus of images first brought together in 1989 and known as the Images de la Revolution française.
- WGSN Fashion This link opens in a new window This is is the world's leading online trend forecasting, analysis and research service. It provides creative content, tools and business intelligence to the apparel, style, beauty, design and retail industries. It includes millions of images. A personal account must be created.
- Harper's Bazaar Archive Archive of every issue of Harper's Bazaar from its first appearance in 1867.
- Vogue (US Edition) The complete run of Vogue magazine (US edition), from 1892 to the current month, reproduced in high-resolution color page images. Every page, advertisement, cover and fold-out has been included, with rich indexing enabling you to find images by garment type, designer and brand names. It preserves the work of the world's greatest fashion designers, stylists and photographers and provides a unique historical record of American and international fashion, culture and society.
- Vogue Italia This link opens in a new window The complete run of Vogue Italia one of the most influential and renowned international editions of Vogue from its launch in 1964 to the present. Recognized as the least commercial and most artistic edition, it has a tradition of innovation and bold treatment of current issues and events. Vogue Italias appeal and influence is international, with almost half of its print issues typically being sold outside of Italy. Coverage: 1964 - current
- Women's Wear Daily Archive Constitutes a comprehensive archive of Women's Wear Daily, from the first issue in 1910 to material from within the last twelve months.
- WWD Online (1994-current) WWD.com has some free content but there's much more available with our subscription, including content back to 1994 and weekly magazine to view/download.
- JSTOR JSTOR contains fulltext academic journals in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sciences. JSTOR provides complete journal backruns from the date of initial publication up to a date defined, on a publisher by publisher basis, by a "moving wall". The moving wall is a fixed period of time ranging, in most cases, from 2 to 5 years, that defines the gap between the most recently published issue and the date of the most recent issues available in JSTOR.
- Design & Applied Arts Index (DAII) A leading source of abstracts and bibliographic records for articles, news items, and reviews published in Design and Applied Arts periodicals from 1973 onwards. Topics include ceramics, glass, jewellery, wood, metalsmithing, graphic design, fashion and clothing, textiles, furniture, interior design, architecture, computer aided design, Web design, computer-generated graphics, animation, product design, industrial design, garden design, and landscape architecture.
- Bloomsbury Design Library This database provides scholarly coverage of design and crafts worldwide, from 1500 BCE to the present day. It contains reference and book content, museum object images, and allows students and academics to explore the history and context of influential design schools, people, periods, places, and disciplines.
Textile technology/manufacturing
- Scopus Provides indexing, abstracting of and citation linking to journals in science, technology, medicine, and the social sciences.
- Springer Materials This is the worlds largest database for the identification of physical and chemical properties in Materials Science. It covers data from Materials Science, Physics, Physical and Inorganic Chemistry, Engineering and other related fields. It supports research in the fields of bulk and fine chemical manufacturing, petroleum and petrochemicals, semiconductors and electronic materials, optical metals, ceramics, polymer synthesis and processing, and materials for fuels and energy application.
- Web of Science - All Databases The Web of Science platform provides online access to their core Citation Indexes, and also hosts a number of subject-specific databases.
- Compendex Ei Compendex (1884 to the present) provides international coverage of all fields of engineering including related areas of applied science, management, and energy.
- Textile Technology Index Also known as: |Textile Technology Digest| Originally published as Textile Technology Digest. Provides international coverage of the literature of textiles and related subjects. Coverage includes the various aspects of textile production and processing, and the automation and management systems of these operations. Coverage also includes many of the major resources of the apparel, home furnishings, flooring, and polymer industries.
- Accuris (formerly IHS Standards) This link opens in a new window Accuris provides an index of industry standards from various organizations, and bibliographic information standards from organizations worldwide. NOTE: Full text access for standards from the following organizations: ASA, ASHRAE, ASME, EEMUA, ISO, and NACE.
Streaming Video Databases
- Anthropology Includes full text and streaming video content in |Ethnographic Video Online| and |Anthropology Online| from Alexander Street Press.
- Criterion-on-Demand Criterion-on-Demand issues and solutions: If you encounter a "redirect error" when accessing a film in Firefox, there are two issues that may be causing the problem. Attempt #1 first, followed by #2 (also works in Safari). In Safari, please also ensure that the security plugin is enabled for MS Silverlight. #1: Disable Add-ons that may be causing endless redirects that can't be resolved. #2: Clear the cache and cookie history in Firefox.
- Films on Demand This link opens in a new window This database contains instructional and educational streaming videos from sources such as Films for the Humanities & Sciences and Cambridge Educational in addition to a number of news outlets such as PBS, CNBC, and National Geographic.
- New World Cinema: Independent Features and Shorts, 1990-Present The collection includes full-length feature films from leading independent distributors.
- Theatre in Video This database provides video content types used in theatre education (filmed stage performances, master classes, documentaries, and training material) with teaching tools (playlists, video clips, on-screen transcripts).
Cultural/social
- EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) EDS provides cross-searching of all subscribed EBSCO content (database, journals, ebooks etc.) as well as many other UofA databases.
- Sociological Abstracts This site indexes the international literature of sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. It includes the companion file Social Services Abstracts, which provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas.
- Gender Studies Database Also known as: |Men's Studies|Women's Studies International| Combines NISC's Women's Studies International and Men's Studies databases with the coverage of sexual diversity issues. Also includes relevant contributions from NISC's Child Development & Adolescent Studies as well as Family & Society Studies Worldwide databases.
- America: History and Life America: History and Life provides abstracts covering all aspects of the history of Canada and the United States from prehistorical times to the present. Coverage is very broad and takes in many areas including: popular culture, anthropology, folklore, sociology, cultural studies, business, the arts, law, education and genealogy. Published since 1964.
- Historical Abstracts Historical Abstracts with Full Text covers world history from 1450 to the present, excluding the United States and Canada. Coverage is very broad and takes in many areas including: religion, anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, political science, the arts, law, education and geneology. Published since 1954.