My Subject: Fashion and Textiles: Databases

New Resources

We have subscribed to some exciting new resources to enhance our online provision in the visual arts. These packages include eBooks, cutting-edge articles from leading design writers and a wealth of visual material including high quality images.

Berg Fashion Library Amazing fashion resource includes eBooks, academic articles, a fashion exhibition archive, museum images and directory.
Bloomsbury Applied Visual Arts Includes graphics, illustration, fashion, interiors, film, photography, animation.
Bloomsbury Architectural Library This is a key digital resource for the study of architecture, urbanism and interior design. It gives access to a wide-range of texts and images from historical to contemporary material.
Bloomsbury Design Library Provides cutting-edge scholarly coverage of design and crafts worldwide from 1500BC to the present day.

Subject Databases

Art Full Text Historical and contemporary fine art, some applied arts and design. Some material is available in full-text.
The Fashion and Race Database
Vogue Archive (US) The (US) Vogue Archive contains the entire run of Vogue Magazine from 1892 to the present, reproduced in high quality page images. The latest issue is added each month.
Alexander Street Video Fashion Collection
Art Bibliographies Modern Mainly 20th/21st century coverage of fine art including design.
Design & Applied Art Index Covers all aspects of design, applied arts and crafts. There are links to some full-text material.
Arts and Humanities Citation Index Scholarly coverage of arts and humanities subjects including some design.
Research Collective for Decoloniality & Fashion An experimental platform which aims to address issues of the imbalance of power in fashion systems.
JSTOR Middlesex subscribes to JSTOR's Arts & Sciences digital library which contains thousands of scholarly articles from acdemic journals.

Databases: Finding Information

These databases may be useful for finding information for your research whether it's visual or text-based. On this page are a few which are especially good for art and design subjects, but there are more available from My UniHub.

Professional Databases

Fashion Monitor Use this link to set up and access your account. UK provider of news,events and contacts in the fashion, style and beauty industries.
WGSN Fashion Provides forward trend analysis and creative intelligence for designers and fashion professionals, Set up your own account by registering with a personal ID and password.
WGSN Interiors An online trend forecasting and product design tool for the industrial design home and interiors markets across 16 product categories, including furniture, lighting, textiles.
LinkedIn Learning 1000s of high quality tutorials on software, professional and presentation skills. Make the most of free access to LinkedIn Learning and your time at Middlesex University, activate your LinkedIn Learning account and connect it to your LinkedIn profile page
FT.com Financial Times online is a great source of fashion news, interviews and comment with high quality images.
Le Book

Generic databases

Library Search Library Search enables you to search library resources simultaneously. Find books, articles, reports, DVDs, CDs and more. Login through My UniHub to access fully.
Kanopy Kanopy is an online streaming service for films and documentaries
Box of Broadcasts BoB lets you access TV or radio programmes from a range of channels. You'll need to enter "Middlesex University" to set up an account the first time you login.
Global Newsstream Global Newsstream allows you to search across a huge range of national and international newspapers

The Alternative Guide to Postgraduate Funding

Alternative Guide to Postgraduate Funding The Alternative Guide (AGO) is a web resource for current and prospective postgraduate students (any subject, any nationality) who are looking to fund PhD, Masters, and PGCE study in the UK through grants from charities, trusts, and foundations.