FDM 4750: Retail Analytics

Search worldwide business periodicals for in-depth coverage of business topics.
ABI/INFORM Global tutorial

Business Source Elite provides full text for nearly 1,060 journals covering business, management, economics, finance, banking, accounting.
Business Source Elite tutorial

This database covers almost all subject areas and is especially good at interdisciplinary areas. Good place to start for class assignments. It contains full text articles for more than 6,500 journals.

A cross-searchable portal providing access to an expanding array of content collections including the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, Fashion Business Cases, eBooks, Reference Works and Images. Also includes a Museum Exhibition archive.
Berg Fashion Library tutorial

Bloomsbury Fashion Business Cases aims to bridge the nexus between fashion education and the industry. It presents real-world cases on challenges facing the business of fashion, tackling important issues such as sustainability, technology, ethics, and leadership. Cases are periodically updated with new content including those by Educators for Socially Responsible Apparel Practices (ESRAP).

This archive contains the WWD’s full run of past issues and supplements from its inception in 1910. Its deep archive contains records of how the fashion industry developed over the 20th century. Students and researchers from fashion, business, gender studies and history benefit from the primary source material that includes advertisements and images presented in page-image format with searchable text.
Women's Wear Daily tutorial

An archive of Vogue, the fashion and lifestyle magazine, from the first issue in 1892 to the present, reproduced in high-resolution color page images. It contains every page, advertisement, cover and fold-out, with rich indexing enabling you to find images by garment type, designers, and brand names.
Vogue Archive tutorial

This database contains full text articles from nearly 1,200 business magazines and journals. Includes Marketline company profiles - search "[company] and marketline"

Factiva is a global news and data platform that has 30,000+ sources from 200 countries. Useful for research requiring current information on companies, industries, and financial markets. For help with Factiva contact Jeff Kushkowski, kushkows@iastate.edu.

Web of Science Core is a database of “core publications” across all disciplines. This database has a cited reference search tool that can be used for searching for a specific item from a citation.

A large database containing scholarly journal articles and conference papers on any topic in science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts & humanities. Includes cited references and h-index information.
Scopus tutorial