Online Articles & Reference

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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.

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.
WWD is now fully working, including viewing multi-page documents and slideshows. To access:

Click the WWD link.
Click the blue button: "Step 1: Click Here to Initiate Connection"
Click the blue button: "Step 2: Click Here to Continue to WWD.com"
You will be connected to WWD

For Screenshots or more information, see our WWD Tips page.

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WGSN is a fashion database that provides access to 4 million images, information on trade shows, fashion trend analysis as well as information on interiors and beauty. WGSN is divided into 18 categories, including:

News - read over 40 news stories each day.
Trends - includes current and future trends.
Catwalks - images and video from the fashion shows.
What's in Store - to see what is currently in stores around the world.
And much more

Password Required: For on-campus access you will be asked for the University's username and password. For off-campus access you will be asked to enter your name and student (or faculty) id, followed by the University's username and password.
Email to request the University's WGSN username and password.

When connecting to WGSN you may encounter a Security Warning, view our Connecting to WGSN page to learn more about accessing WGSN.

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.
Password Required: Email to request a password.

Motion Picture & Television Subscription Databases

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IMDb Pro (Internet Movie Database) IMDb is an online database of information related to movies, actors, television shows, production crew personnel and more. IMDB is a freely accessible database. The library can provide you with access to IMDbPro, which contains additional information including showbiz contacts, films currently in production, actor and movie rankings and industry news.
Password Required: Email to request a password.

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.

Architecture & Interior Architecture Resources

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BuildingGreen brings the best research, thinking, and writing to you through many publications, including Environmental Building News, the GreenSpec directory of green products, and the BuildingGreen Suite of online tools.

We have a trial subscription to this resource to decide whether we will make it a part of the Library's Collection.

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.

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.

Materials Subscription Database

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Material ConneXion is an online collection of over 1,400 materials and processes. The online materials database allows you to discover the latest and most exciting materials originating from a large spectrum of industries—typically unnoticed or difficult to reach by the design community. All the materials are juried into the database by a panel of material specialists and knowledgeable professionals.

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.

If you are having trouble accessing any of the Online Resources contact , the Systems and Online Resources Librarian.