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Fashion Business and Technology : Databases

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Databases provide access to high-quality peer-reviewed journal articles, conference proceedings, book chapters, dissertations and many other resources. 

These databases have been especially selected for this subject area. When carrying out your research for a piece of work, you will need to search more than one database to find all of the journal articles relevant to your topic, as each database covers different journal titles.

Database Spotlight

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EBSCO Magazines Archive

The Library has recently secured online access to a significant archival collection of American-based general magazines.  

Renowned for their high-quality photography, impeccable production, and trend-setting design and editorial styles, these collections will hold significant historical value to social and cultural historians, as well as interdisciplinary research groupings across the Humanities. The Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture and the Centre for the Cultural History of War will also benefit.   

Accessible on Library Search, the archives are hosted by EBSCO, through which researchers already have access to the Time magazine archives.   

The seven new collections comprise: 

  • The Atlantic Magazine (1857 - 2014): Researchers can access primary source material on alternative journalism, addressing activism, the arts, economy, environment and politics.  
  • Ebony (1945 - 2014): The most influential African American general interest magazine, articles cover African American culture, business, Civil rights, and entertainment.
  • Esquire (1933 - 2014): Valuable to researchers looking at 20th-Century current events, gender issues, politics and advertising, Esquire also published work by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, fostered the development of the ‘New Journalism’ in the 1960s, and provided early support for the ‘dirty realism’ literary movement of the 1980s.  
  • Life (1936 - 2000): This iconic US magazine chronicled the major events of the 20th century and largely defined photojournalism.  
  • Sports Illustrated (1954 - 2000): These archives chronicle the evolving role of sports in US culture, from polo and boating to American football and basketball. 
  • The Nation (1865 - 2020): America’s oldest weekly magazine was sponsored by Emerson, Longfellow, and Beecher Stowe, its roots stretching back to the Abolitionist movement. 
  • Vanity Fair (1919-1936; 1983-2000): Access has been extended to the publication's literary interwar years. The magazine’s later years are valuable to researchers in fashion and marketing, as well as complementing our existing Women’s Wear Daily and Harper’s Bazaar archives on the ProQuest platform.  

 

Essential databases

The following are important databases for this subject area, however if you don't see what you're looking for, please go to the Database Directory for Fashion Business and Technology to browse a wider selection.

 

  • ABI Inform Global Essential
    ABI Inform is a collection of databases which cover the literature on business, management, computers, human resources and a wide range of related fields. It provides abstracts of material from 1971 onwards and full text from 1987, although not all journals are available in full text. This database indexes over 1,000 journals and magazines.
  • Business Source Premier Essential
    This is the world's largest full text business database. It provides full text access to over 8,000 business journals and other sources, including more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage includes all disciplines of business, including management, finance, economics and international business. This database provides full text for more than 350 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1965. This database includes searchable cited references for 1,205 journals. It covers the period from 1984 to date and is updated on a daily basis via EBSCO Host.
  • Fame Essential
    Financial analysis database providing company information for over 2.8 million UK public and private companies, searchable by a wide range of criteria. Detailed financial analysis (up to 10 years) for over 600,000 companies plus director and shareholding data.
  • Bloomsbury Fashion Business Cases Essential
    Bloomsbury Fashion Business Cases brings fashion business to life and creates a link between education and industry. Designed to help students develop the essential business skills required by the next generation of fashion industry professionals, this digital resource is global in focus and presents real-world cases on challenges facing the business of fashion, tackling important issues such as sustainability, technology, ethics, and leadership. The resource is tailored to provide the tools to steer students toward success as they transition to a career in fashion. Cases are a popular and effective educational tool for students to learn and apply business concepts to real-life situations, strategies, and dilemmas. Cases provide an overview and background information associated with an issue or problem a company is facing. Students are then asked to review and analyze the background material, evaluate multiple alternative solutions, recommend and justify an optimal solution for the company, and predict outcomes of the solution. Cases provide the opportunity to apply and practice analytic, evaluative, and communication skills.The case collection addresses a wide range of pedagogical needs, from illustrating core classroom principles to fostering in-depth independent research.
  • Design & Applied Arts Index (DAAI) Essential
    This database is a source of information for all aspects of design and crafts, from textiles and ceramics to vehicle design, advertising and sustainability. Covers journal articles, exhibition reviews and news items.
  • Worth Global Style Network (WGSN) Essential
    WGSN an online news and information and fashion images database for the fashion and style industries including fashion forecasting, design, company profiles and news items on e-commerce, finance, advertising and marketing.
  • The Business of Fashion : Professional Essential New
    BoF Professional is an essential daily resource for fashion creatives, executives and entrepreneurs all over the world. Through BoF, members gain in-depth analysis and actionable insights for navigating the rapidly-changing global Fashion industry. BoF Professional includes: Daily industry insights and analyses, case studies and how-to guides, online courses and live webinars. Serving members in more than 125 countries, The Business of Fashion combines independent, agenda-setting journalism with practical business advice, online learning, career-building tools and immersive events, powering positive change in fashion and the wider world. Over time, our pioneering approach has made BoF the fashion industry’s leading source of business intelligence, and one of its most respected and influential voices, simply because you won’t find BoF’s original reporting, analysis and advice anywhere else. The Business of Beauty brings the same kind of agenda-setting coverage to the beauty and wellness space. Today, our talented team of correspondents, editors, analysts, engineers, designers, marketers and more numbers more than 100 people in London, New York, Paris and Milan.

Database Directory

You can use our Database Directory to browse a broader range of databases that are relevant to Fashion, Business and Technology as well as other subjects. The directory also allows you to identify databases that provide access to specific types of resources (e.g. Full Text Articles, Streaming Video, Patents, Theses and Dissertations, and much more).

Database Directory - Fashion Business and Technology

 

Research at the University of Manchester

The University of Manchester's research is internationally recognised. Go to Research Explorer, Manchester's research database, to discover the breadth of research produced by staff across the University.

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