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  1. Bloomsbury Fashion Central

    Description: A digital hub for interdisciplinary research in fashion and dress. Content includes reference works, articles, e-books, case studies, biographies, video content, photos from fashion shows, and tens of thousands of images.

    Bloomsbury Fashion Central contains 5 collections:
    - Berg Fashion Library
    - Fairchild Books Library
    - Bloomsbury Fashion Business Cases
    - Bloomsbury Fashion Photography Archive
    - Bloomsbury Fashion Video Archive

    Publisher: Bloomsbury

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Reference Works, Art & Design

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  2. Brill Journals Collection

    Description: Hundreds of journals covering the arts and humanities, health and life sciences, engineering and technology, science and the social sciences.

    Coverage: 2000-

    Publisher: Brill

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Social Sciences, Science, Journals, History, Art & Design, Literature

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  3. Ebook Central

    Alternative titles: previously known as 'EBL Ebook Library'
    also known as 'ProQuest Ebook Central'

    Description: A full-text e-book database providing access to a small selection of e-book titles

    Please login for onsite and remote access

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Science, E-books, History, Art & Design, Literature, Biography, Family History

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  4. E-book Collection via EBSCOHost

    Alternative titles: previously known as 'Netlibrary'

    Description: A full-text e-book collection providing access to around 3,500 titles

    Publisher: EBSCO

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Science, E-books, Art & Design, Literature

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  5. Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Parts 1 & 2

    Alternative titles: also known as '18th Century Collections Online'
    also known as 'ECCO'

    Description: Contains nearly 200,000 books published between 1701 and 1800. Covering all subject, his vast, searchable library includes books, pamphlets and broadsides from the UK, the Commonwealth and the Americas.

    Coverage: 1701 to 1800

    Publisher: Gale

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: E-books, History, Art & Design, Literature, Biography, Family History

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  6. EUP journals online

    Alternative titles: also known as 'Edinburgh University Press journals collection'
    also known as 'EUP Complete Collection'

    Description: A full-text journal database providing access to over 40 journal titles published by Edinburgh University Press. The collection covers arts, humanities and social sciences, and includes scientific data, online journals and research materials at undergraduate, postgraduate and research levels. Please login for onsite and remote access

    Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Social Sciences, Journals, Art & Design, Literature

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  7. Fashion Studies Online: The Videofashion Library

    Alternative titles: also known as 'The Videofashion Library'

    Description: 1,200 hours of video about fashion including fashion shows, designer profiles, garment design and documentaries. This collection features content from the archives of Videofashion, a provider of fashion footage.

    Publisher: Alexander Street Press

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Art & Design

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  8. Grove Art Online

    Description: Available through the Oxford Art Online platform, a scholarly art encyclopedia, encompassing all aspects of visual culture. It features over 45,000 articles (including over 15,000 subject entries and over 22,000 biographies), bibliographies, and nearly 7000 searchable images.

    Publisher: Oxford University Press

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Art & Design

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  9. Humanities International Complete

    Description: A full text and A&I database covering the humanities, with full-text from over 1,800 journal and book titles, plus data from the Humanities International Index containing over 2.9 million records from more than 2,300 journals

    Publisher: EBSCO

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Social Sciences, History, Art & Design, Literature, Biography, Family History

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  10. India, Raj and Empire

    Alternative titles: also known as 'Raj, India and Empire'

    Description: A digital archive covering the history of South Asia between the foundation of the East India Company in 1615 and the independence to India and Pakistan in 1947. The archive is taken from the manuscript collections of the National Library of Scotland.

    Coverage: 1615 to 1947

    Publisher: Adam Matthew Digital

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Social Sciences, Government & Official, History, Art & Design, Literature, Biography, Family History

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  11. John Johnson Collection : an archive of printed ephemera

    Description: A full-text digital archive of from the ephemera collection of the Bodleian Library, illustrating everyday life in Britain in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. Over 22,000 items and almost 60,000 images are currently available, with over 150,000 images on completion

    Coverage: 1700 onwards

    Publisher: Proquest

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: History, Art & Design

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  12. JSTOR

    Description: A digital library of more than 6,500 eBooks and 2,600 scholarly journals covering many topics including humanities, social sciences, and sciences.

    Coverage: 1800 onwards

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Business, Social Sciences, Science, Journals, History, Art & Design

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  13. Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals

    Alternative titles: also known as 'Gale Primary Sources: Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals'
    previously known as '19th Century UK Periodicals'

    Description: A digital archive which covers the events, lives, values and themes that shaped the 19th century world. This resource consists of a multi-part collection and subjects range from art to business, and from children to politics. The periodicals are presented in their original published context.

    Coverage: 1801 to 1900

    Publisher: Gale

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Journals, History, Art & Design, Literature

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  14. Oxford Journals Online

    Alternative titles: previously known as 'OJO'

    Description: A database containing hundreds of journal titles covering life sciences, mathematics, physical sciences, medicine, social sciences, humanities, and law, from Oxford University Press.

    This resource's content is now accessed on the Oxford Academic platform

    Coverage: 1996 onwards

    Publisher: Oxford University Press

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Social Sciences, Science, Journals, Music, History, Art & Design, Literature

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  15. Screen Studies Collection

    Alternative titles: also known as 'ProQuest Screen Studies Collection'

    Description: Current publications related to film scholarship alongside detailed and expansive filmographies. Includes the specialist index FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Database and the detailed and complementary filmographies created by the American Film Institute and the British Film Institute; AFI Catalog and Film Index International.

    Publisher: Proquest

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Social Sciences, Reference Works, Journals, Music, Catalogues & Bibliographies, E-books, History, Art & Design

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  16. Vogue Archive

    Description: A searchable archive of American Vogue, preserving the work of the world's greatest fashion designers, stylists and photographers and is a record of American and international fashion, culture and society from 1892 to the present day.

    Publisher: Proquest

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Journals, Art & Design

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