Berg Fashion Library
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Informed by prestigious academic and library advisors, and anchored by the forthcoming 10-volume Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion (July 2010), the Berg Fashion Library is the first online resource to provide access to interdisciplinary and integrated text, image, and journal content on world dress and fashion. The Berg Fashion Library offers users cross-searchable access to an expanding range of essential resources in this discipline of growing importance and relevance and will be of use to anyone working in, researching, or studying fashion, anthropology, art history, history, museum studies, and cultural studies. Key Content, Features, & Benefits: updated at least three times a year to keep students, scholars, and professionals at the cutting edge of their subject. The full text of Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion online
E-Book collection: full text of approximately 60 Berg fashion e-books with regular updates bringing in-depth coverage of key topics alongside the breadth of the Encyclopedia . An extensive colour image bank including 1,600 images from the Victoria & Albert Museum's internationally renowned fashion collection and 2,000 from the print Encyclopedia. Extra reference resources, including an A-Z of Fashion and a Dictionary of Key Terms. Cross-searchable functionality with Berg fashion e-journals: Fashion Theory, Fashion Practice, and Textile. Specially-created taxonomy guides users to the information they need, and allows them to refine by place, period, themes, textiles and more, providing a rich and efficient research experience. Powerful searching allows both quick and advanced searching of text and/or images, and users can also build and save their own searches and content. Individual control to suit specialist needs enables users to change the font, background colour and contrast. Fully cross-referenced both within the resource and externally via OpenURL and DOIs at book, chapter, article, and entry level make this resource, and others in your collection, more discoverable to researchers. More content to be incorporated after launch, making this a resource that is always up-to-date and continually expanding in scope and depth. Bundle deals also available on whole range of Oxford Schools Online titles - please contact us for details. FREE TRIAL: this database is available on 30 day FREE TRIAL, simply click on the Free Trial option below and ensure you include your email address on the order form. Prices increase on 1st April each year.
Format: Online
Key stage: 4
Age range: 14-16+
