Library Guides: AMD 510: Foundations of Scholarship in Textiles and Clothing: Indexes &amp; Databases

Outside Resources

Windowswear.com
"This is a retail visual merchandising database and community .... Its archives date back to 1931." Full access to this resource is not available through the library. The AMD program reportedly has a subscription.

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Apparel & Textile Databases

Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window
Access thousands of articles covering a wide range of subjects. A good starting point for research. You can sort your results by academic journals, magazines, news and other included source types.
Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window
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.
ABI/INFORM Global This link opens in a new window
Search worldwide business periodicals for in-depth coverage of business topics.
ABI/INFORM Global tutorial
Web of Science Core Collection This link opens in a new window
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.
Scopus This link opens in a new window
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
Bloomsbury Fashion Business Cases This link opens in a new window
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).
Berg Fashion Library This link opens in a new window
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
Vogue Archive This link opens in a new window
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
Women's Wear Daily This link opens in a new window
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

Women's Wear Daily (Publisher's Website)
This proxified link to the publisher's website grants access to only THREE concurrent users. So if you can't access the platform at any given time, chances are that three users are already accessing it. You may therefore need to try again later.
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) iLibrary
This is the knowledge base of OECD which contains books, papers, podcasts and statistics. When prompted to login, select "Sign in via your institution" option. Search for Iowa State University then use it to login. You'll be automatically authenticated if you are already logged in with your University ID.

AATA Online This link opens in a new window
AATA covers literature related to preservation and conservation of our material culture heritage. As a part of the Getty Conservation Institute the database also includes subject-specific bibliographies.
America: History and Life This link opens in a new window
Covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With indexing for 1,700 journals from publications going back to 1910.
Artstor on JSTOR This link opens in a new window
The Artstor Digital Library is a nonprofit resource that provides over 2.5 million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research. Artstor also includes multimedia such as videos, oral histories, panoramas, etc.
Business Source Elite This link opens in a new window
Business Source Elite provides full text for nearly 1,060 journals covering business, management, economics, finance, banking, accounting.
Business Source Elite tutorial
Credo Reference: Academic Core Collection This link opens in a new window
This is a good starting place for term papers - to get a basic overview of almost any topic. It also includes short videos and high-resolution art images across all subject areas. Results link out to content in other databases provided by the ISU Library.
Design and Applied Arts Index: DAAI This link opens in a new window
The Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI) contains over 212,000 annotated references from more than 500 design and craft journals and newspapers published from 1973 onwards, and data on over 50,000 designers, craftspeople, studios, workshops, firms etc., making it the largest index of its kind in the world.
EconLit This link opens in a new window
Find articles from hundreds of economics journals.
Godey's Lady's Book This link opens in a new window
According to the Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica, Godey’s Lady’s Book pioneered a format still employed by magazines devoted to women’s issues. Founded in 1830, the magazine focused on women’s domestic issues including fashion, health, and home. Also published were works of fiction, poetry, and essays by eminent scholars of the time, among them, Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Godey's Lady's Book tutorial
HEARTH: Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition, History This link opens in a new window
Titles published between 1850 and 1950 were selected and ranked for their historical importance. The full text of these materials, as well as bibliographies and essays on the wide array of subjects relating to Home Economics, are all freely accessible on this site.
Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Historical Abstracts covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR spans many disciplines, primarily in the humanities, social sciences, and life sciences. It includes digitized current and back issues of academic journals, books and primary source materials.
OTEXA: Office of Textiles and Apparel This link opens in a new window
The Office of Textiles and Apparel is responsible for maintaining and strengthening the competitiveness of the U.S. textile and apparel industries. The database includes detailed information about trade data, trade preference programs, export promotion and other programs that impact textile trade policy.
SAGE Business Cases This link opens in a new window
Sage Business Cases provides faculty, students, and researchers with access to authoritative business cases from over 120 countries and across all business disciplines.
Small Business Source This link opens in a new window
The Small Business Source is a comprehensive resource for small business owners and those interested in starting a business. Users may search within specific ‘Business Topics’ and ‘Business Types’ relevant to their needs.

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Finding Newspapers and Other News Content

Finding Newspapers
This guide provides information and links for accessing current and historical newspapers. The information is available mostly online but some historical content is available on microfilm.