Berg Fashion Library

Alternate Titles: Bloomsbury Fashion Central

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Key content: 

• Bibliographic Guides, with links through to online content

• Lesson Plans with links through to online content

• The Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion online – updated twice a year

• Online exclusive articles available only to subscribers

• E-Book collection: full text of c.70 Berg fashion e-books with regular updates

• An extensive colour image bank with thumbnails that link through to enhanced content. This includes
  
  1,600 from the V&A Museum's internationally renowned fashion collection
  230 sample images from collections including the London College of Fashion and The Museum at FIT
  2,000 images from the print Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion
  2,800 from the Philadelphia Museum of Art
  970 from the Bath Fashion Museum
  2,200 from the Commercial Pattern Archive (CoPA) database
  2,000 from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute collection
  600 from MoMu Fashion Museum, Belgium
  NEW! 500 images from Kerry Taylor Auctions
  NEW! 500 images from the Los Angeles County Musuem of Art

• Links to E-Journals: cross-searchable functionality with fashion e-journals Fashion Theory, Fashion Practice, Textile and the new Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice for mutual subscribers (now published by Routledge, Taylor & Francis)

•  Links at article level to Oxford Art Online

• Classic and Modern Writings on Fashion: 67 seminal pieces on fashion, including classic and contemporary essays and primary sources

• Extra reference resources, such as an A-Z of Fashion* and The Dictionary of Fashion History by Valerie Cumming, C.W. Cunnington and P.E. Cunnington
  

• Museum Directory

• Specially-created taxonomy guides users to the information they need, and allows them to refine by place, period, themes, textiles and much more

 Access open only to UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)

Permitted Uses
Research or Private Study? Yes
Linking? Yes
Learning Management System? Yes
Text and Data Mining? No
Alumni Access? No
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Anthropology; Art History; History; Theatre; Visual Arts

Images, Primary Sources