ELECTRONIC RESOURCES 

ABI/Inform (Proquest Direct) - Business periodicals for information on advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, and computers.  Also contains information on 60,000+ companies.

Art Index - A bibliographic index that includes the subjects: art, architecture, decorative arts, fashion design, graphic arts, interior design, landscape, painting, sculpture, textiles, video and television.

Dissertation Abstracts-  Ph. D. dissertations and selected masters theses accepted in the US
Dissertations Full-Text - University of Mississippi dissertations online, 1997-

ERIC (EBSCOhost) - Provides citations and abstract information from over 750 educational journals and related documents from the Educational Resource Information Center and educational symposium report literature dating back to 1967.

MEDLINE - (EBSCOhost) - A comprehensive medical database to 3, 200 international journals in clinical and research biomedicine produced by the National Library of Medicine.

PsycINFO -  (EBSCOhost).  Provides indexing and abstracts for over one million articles in 1,500 journals from over 50 countries provided by the American Psychological Association.  Also includes abstracts for dissertations, books and book chapters ranging in date from 1984 to the present.

Web of Knowledge - Includes Web of Science ( Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index )  1981-Present, and Medline 1950-Present.

SocINDEX with Full Text   (EBSCOhost ) - A sociology research database.  The Database contains abstracts for 640 core journals dating back to 1895.  1,420 journals are selectively covered with 547 books and monographs as well as 6,711 conference papers.

GENERAL OR RELATED INDEXES

Academic Search Premier - (EBSCOhost).  A full-text database spanning academic disciplines with coverage of popular press and scholarly publications, including peer-reviewed journals.

Lexis Nexis - Provides access to a wide range of business, news, legal and reference information.

World Cat - Over 36 million records of any type of material (mostly books) cataloged by OCLC member libraries.  Includes manuscripts written as early as the 11th century.

HOW TO FIND:

 Journals

Once you have your article citations, you can use one of two tools to help locate the journal you need in the library.

Journal Finder is recommended as the place to start. Enter the name of the journal in the search box to see if the journal is available in paper or online.

The Library Catalog can also tell you what journals are available in paper and online, but it does not contain as comprehensive a list of online resources as Journal Finder.

 Books

The Library Catalog can be searched by keyword, author, title, or subject heading to find books, dissertations done at UM, and other library materials.

ELECTRONIC JOURNALS

Electronic Journals are available through many of the databases listed above.  They can also be found by searching the UM  Catalog or "Journal Finder"

SELECTED PRINTED RESOURCES

Contemporary Fashion.  Ref. TT 505 A1 C66 2002. 

Dictionary of Travel, Tourism and Hospitality.  Ref. G 155 A1 M390 2003. 

Encyclopedia of Food & Culture. Ref. GT 2850 E53 2003.  

Fairchild's Dictionary of Textiles.  Ref. TS 1309 F35 1996. 

SELECTED WEBSITES

Family and Consumer Science Resources Online.

The site contains information on apparel, careers, child development, consumer & family economics, family living, food science, links to general information, house & interior design, educational resources and grants.

Fashion.net.

 Fashion designers, label and magazines make up the fashion segment of this website.  The luxe living segment contains information about the body, home, services, transportation and travel.  The third site map is art.  Art if composed of online museums and galleries, design and careers.

Food and Nutrition Information Center (FNIC). 

The Food and Nutrition Information Center (FNIC) at the National Agricultural Library (NAL) has been a leader in food and human nutrition information dissemination since 1971.  FNIC's web site provides a directory to credible, accurate, and practical resources for consumers, nutrition and health professionals, educators and government personnel.

Internet Resources. American Library Assoc. - ACRL.

This site has been developed by the Association of College and Research Libraries of the American Library Association.  It contains  wealth of information on fashion and costume resources on the Internet. Both the contemporary nature of fashion as well as the historical aspect of costume are extremely well served by the visual and hypertext medium of the Internet.  The fashion industry and fashion devotees have created sites that provide access to runway shows, designers, models, trade information, and current events. Costume historians have designed sites that can be used to research costumes, locate visuals, and document the creation of accurate historical garments.  This selected list of Internet sites covers many aspects of fashion and costume history that will be of interest to both the serious scholar and those interested in fashion for fun.

Website descriptions were taken from the website discussed

updated 5/1/06