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* Unless otherwise noted, you can access these websites/databases directly, when in the library. To access these resources from home, you will be asked to enter your name and student (or faculty) id number.

Electronic Books

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Ebrary is an online database that provides access to over 2,200 electronic books in the humanities. Ebrary provides tools to create citations as well as highlight and annotate books. Ebrary provides access to books in over 18 different subject areas, including Fine Arts, History, Social Sciences, Technology, and more.

Full Text Magazine Databases

Proquest is an online research database containing articles (many in full text) from over 5000 magazines, journals and newspapers worldwide. Proquest covers a broad range of subjects and includes the following databases: Proquest Research Library, ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry, Hoover's Company Records, and National Newspaper Abstracts.
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WilsonWeb Art Full-Text is an online database containing articles on the following subjects: advertising art, antiques, archaeology, architecture and architectural history, art history, computers in art, crafts, decorative arts, fashion design, folk art, graphic arts, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, motion pictures, museology, non-western art, painting, photography, pottery, sculpture, television, textiles, and video. It includes approximately 500 magazines and journals worldwide with expanded coverage of Latin American, Canadian, Asian and other non-Western art, new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, and feminist criticism.

WilsonWeb OmniFile is an online database containing only full text articles from over 1600 magazines, journals and newspapers. The following subjects are covered: art, technology, agriculture, education, science, humanities, law, library & information science, and business.

Online Reference Books

Oxford Reference is an online database containing the following reference tools:

English dictionaries & thesauruses
English language reference
Bilingual dictionaries: (French, Spanish, German, Irish, Italian, Latin, Welsh)
Subject reference guides: (art & architecture, biological sciences, classics, computing, earth & environmental sciences, economics & business, food & drink, history, law, literature, medicine, military history, mythology, folklore, names & places, natural history, performing arts, physical sciences & mathematics, politics & social sciences, prehistory, religion & philosophy, and science)

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Oxford Art Online is an online encyclopedia of world art and art history, spanning from prehistoric to modern art. It contains artist biographies, information about art movements, timelines of world art, definitions of art terms, and links to image collections. Oxford Art Online includes the following resources: Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.

Art and Design Magazine Indexes

Design and Applied Arts Index contains citations for articles from design and craft journals – you can use these citations to find articles in the library’s current and back issue magazine shelves. It covers topics such as computer arts, graphic design, interior design, product design, and environmental design.

Avery can also help you search for articles in the magazines on the library’s shelves. It provides article citations for journals on architecture and design including city planning, interior design, and landscape architecture.

Fashion Subscription Databases

WWD covers daily news on fashion and textiles. It has news on trends and developments in the industry of fashion, beauty, textiles, and accessories, including business and finance and job listings.
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Doneger is the trend and color forecasting and analysis division of The Doneger Group. Creative Directors report on the apparel, accessories and lifestyle markets in the Women's, Men's and Youth categories through printed publications, online content and live presentations. These industry talents focus on both predictive/forecasting direction for future colors and trends as well as reporting/analysis to provide clients with actionable, up-to-the-minute news. Doneger Creative Services addresses the needs of retailers, manufacturers and other style-related businesses.
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Advertising Subscription Databases

Redbooks covers information on advertisers and advertising agencies, including client lists, advertising budgets, and brands owned by parent companies.

Adforum.com contains print, web, and film ads that you can view online. Many business sectors are represented such as automotive, health, and fashion.
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Motion Picture & Television Subscription Databases

AFI (American Film Institute) Catalog Produced in collaboration with the American Film Institute, the American Film Institute Catalog is the premier resource for studying American motion pictures. It is the most comprehensive and detailed national filmography in the world. The Catalog includes the entire print version, which currently comprises five volumes documenting all films produced in the United States from 1892 to 1971, as well as new content and important updates for all previous records. Also included are records for the Institute’s Top Ten Films for the years 2000 to 2004. The Catalog offers authoritative plot summaries and insider production notes, as well as subject and song indexing for each film record.

WilsonWeb Cinema Image Gallery The Cinema Image Gallery is one of the world’s finest and most comprehensive online collections of still images from movies, television and the entertainment industry. It presents the history of movie-making, still images of films in production, directors working on-set with the stars, set, costume and production design, as well as, hair and make-up shots and rare behind-the-scenes material. Cinema Image Gallery also offers an extensive TV stills archive, covering comedies, dramas, series, TV movies, game shows and thousands of pictures of the stars in this medium. '

Cinema Image Gallery includes over 150,000 superior-quality images, along with a treasure-trove of over 4,000 poster art and lobby cards used to promote the movies.

Business & Company Information

Hoover’s Online contains information on international and domestic companies such as personnel, budgets, products, operations, and competitors. The user interface is the same as Proquest. You can print results pages and change the interface language for searching.

Faculty Development

Journal on Excellece of College Teaching is a peer-reviewed journal published at Miami University by and for faculty at universities and two- and four-year colleges to increase student learning through effective teaching, interest in and enthusiasm for the profession of teaching, and communication among faculty about their classroom experiences.

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