Online Databases & Periodicals
Students of NIFT have access to innumerable electronic journals and magazines through portals of the online databases and periodical publishers subscribed by NRC for all the NIFT Campuses. Following are the details about the subscribed online databases. Additional online journals and magazines generally with print versions are subscribed locally by the Resource Centres.
Fashion Studies
Berg Fashion Library
https://www.bloomsburyfashioncentral.com
Berg Fashion Library is an online database of the Bloomsbury Fashion Central portal that offers fully cross-searchable access to an expanding range of Berg content collections – including the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion online, e-books, reference works, images, and much more. It is interdisciplinary in its coverage – besides fashion and textiles it covers disciplines such as anthropology, art history, history, sociology, geography, folklore, museum studies, theater and cultural studies.
Bloomsbury Fashion Business Cases *
https://www.bloomsburyfashioncentral.com/products/whats-in-bloomsbury-fashion-business-cases
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. This database is tailored to provide the tools to students to steer them in their transition to a career in fashion.
Fairchild Books Library
https://www.bloomsburyfashioncentral.com/
Fairchild Books Library is a repository of e-books published by the world’s leading higher education fashion textbook publisher, Fairchild Books. The topics covered are related to fashion only and include construction, draping, fashion business management, history, illustration, journalism, marketing, promotion, theory, pattern making, styling, product development, sustainable fashion, textiles, and more.
Select Full Text Journals from Publishers/Service Providers *
Clothing and Textiles Research Journal
https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ctra
Dress: The Journal of the Costume Society of America
http://www.tandfonline.com/YDRE
Fashion Theory
http://www.tandfonline.com/RFFT
Fashion Practice
http://www.tandfonline.com/RFFP
Vogue (USA)
http://search.proquest.com/
Video Fashion Library
https://search.alexanderstreet.com/institution/login
The Women's Wear Daily Archive
http://search.proquest.com/
Art, Design and Communication
Bloomsbury Design Library *
https://www.bloomsburydesignlibrary.com/login?recentUrl=/home
Bloomsbury Design Library provides coverage to design and crafts worldwide from ancient to the contemporary period. It offers authoritative references to contents from books and other print resources along with collections of leading museums. This repository serves as a research tool for design and visual arts as it explores the history and context of influential design schools, people, periods, places, and disciplines.
Bloomsbury Applied Visual Arts
https://www.bloomsburyappliedvisualarts.com/login?recentUrl=/
This database from Bloomsbury serves as a guide to visual arts education and combines visual inspiration with practical advice on everything from idea generation and research techniques to portfolio development.
Bloomsbury Fashion Photography Archive
https://www.bloomsburyfashioncentral.com/
This photo archive from Bloomsbury offers access to more than 775,000 digitized and high-quality images that feature forty years of contemporary fashion history along with a timeline, lesson plans, and videos. This archive is curated by Editor-in-Chief Valerie Steele, Director of the Museum at FIT in New York.
Bloomsbury Fashion Video Archive
https://www.bloomsburyfashioncentral.com/about-bloomsbury-fashion-video-archive
Bloomsbury Fashion Video Archive, in partnership with YOOX-NET-A-PORTER, showcases around 3,000 fashion shows presented in Paris, London, New York, and Milan from 1979 to 2003 by 460 international designers.
Select Full Text Journals from Publishers/Service Providers *
Asian Journal of Communication
http://www.tandfonline.com/RAJC
Journal of International Communication
http://www.tandfonline.com/RICO
Journal of Visual Culture
https://journals.sagepub.com/loi/VCU
Apparel and Textile Industry
Fairchild Books Library
https://www.bloomsburyfashioncentral.com/
Fairchild Books Library is a repository of e-books published by the world’s leading higher education fashion textbook publisher, Fairchild Books. This database includes eBooks related to the fashion industry covering construction, draping, fashion business management, journalism, marketing, promotion, theory, pattern making, styling, product development, sustainable fashion and textiles, and more.
Select Full Text Journals from Publishers/Service Providers *
Clothing and Textiles Research Journal
https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ctra
Journal of the Textile Institute
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/tjti20
Textile Outlook International
https://www.textilesintelligence.com/tistoi/
Textile Research Journal
https://journals.sagepub.com/loi/trjc
Humanities & Social Sciences
JSTOR *
https://www.jstor.org/
JSTOR is a leading full-text and multi-disciplinary digital database. The disciplines covered range from art, architecture, culture, media, to psychology, philosophy, economics, business studies and related areas. The subscribed JSTOR package offers access to more than 2300 academic journals and more than 2 million primary sources.
Management & Technology
ABI/Inform Collection *
http://search.proquest.com
ABI/Inform Collection database from Proquest includes ABI/INFORM Dateline, ABI/INFORM Global, and ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry. It provides online access to thousands of business, management and technology periodicals in full text and abstracts. The service provides in-depth coverage of business conditions, trends, corporate strategies and a wide variety of other business topics. Students and researchers can access leading global industry news databases, market research and analysis for the apparel, textile and footwear sectors such as Just series available in ABI/INFORM.
Bloomsbury Fashion Business Cases *
https://www.bloomsburyfashioncentral.com/products/whats-in-bloomsbury-fashion-business-cases
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. This database is tailored to provide the tools to students to steer them in their transition to a career in fashion.
General News and Other Topics
Magzter/Edzter (for remote access) *
http://library.magzter.com / https://www.edzter.com/
Magzter is a leading cross-platform global digital magazine newsstand that provides access to newspapers and magazines in multiple languages on diverse topics ranging from business to lifestyle, photography and general news from a large number of publishers. Please use the Edzter platform for remote/off-campus access to Magzter periodicals.
* Kindly contact your Resource Centre for further details about access.
Academic Writing Tools
QuillBot (Access available through NIFT domain)*
Grammar Checker: Ensure accurate grammar, perform spell checks, verify punctuation, and correct various grammatical errors. Additionally, a complimentary essay checker, grammar checker, and other tools are available to enhance academic success.
Paraphraser: The multilingual paraphrasing tool helps you rewrite and improve the clarity of any sentence, paragraph, or article.
Plagiarism Checker: Enhance academic integrity through the implementation of QuillBot Plagiarism Checker, a tool designed to uphold originality and ensure the authenticity of written content.
Flow: An all-in-one writing space that combines all of QuillBot’s tools in one location with built-in grammar checking, allowing you to paraphrase, summarize, research, create citations, and write your essay without having to switch between tools.
Citation Generator: QuillBot Citation Generator can effortlessly generate accurate citations, streamlining the citation process and ensuring precision in academic writing.
Summarizer: QuillBot Summarizer can seamlessly condense content with precision using features like paragraph mode, key point extraction, and the ability to create custom modes for a tailored summarization experience.
Translator: QuillBot Translator simplifies cross-language communication, ensuring accuracy and clarity in diverse contexts and making language barriers a thing of the past.
Student Resources: Comprises concise instructions on tool functionalities, demonstration videos, and relevant blogs for learning and writing.
Scribbr: www.scribbr.com
Scribbr is an online academic support service that provides a range of services to help students and researchers improve their academic writing.