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AATA Online: Abstracts of International Conservation Literature 
AATA Online is a comprehensive database of 100,000 abstracts of literature related to the preservation and conservation of material cultural heritage. A service of the Getty Conservation Institute in association with The International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works. Free registration required.

ABC-CLIO eBook Collection  
Collection of online books. 

Academic Search Complete  [EBSCO]  
Academic Search™ Complete is a scholarly, multidisciplinary database containing over 6,100 full-text journals, as well as indexing and abstracting for over 10,000 publications, including journals, monographs, reports, conference proceedings and more.  SUNYConnect

ADA Compliance Guide    
FIT username & password required for access.
Limit 1 user at a time. Please EXIT when finished searching ADA Compliance Guide.
Americans With Disabilities Act.  Includes definitions of disability, reasonable accommodation, substantially limited, major life activities, undue hardship, readily achievable barrier removal, program accessibility and all the other key terms in the law.

Alt-HealthWatch [EBSCO]  
Focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness.  Contains full-test articles for more than 180 international journals and reports; and access to hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, original research and book excerpts. SUNYConnect

AP Images   
Photographs from the Associated Press (AP) newswire.

Architectural Index  (from 1982 to the present) 
An index to periodical articles on architecture and interior design. You may search for building type/subject, architect/designer/firm name, location/city, state or country, descriptor keywords, or author. At the home page, click on "I ACCEPT" to begin searching.

Art Full Text * & Art Index Retrospective 1929-1984 * 
From H. W. Wilson. Includes many full-text articles and images. Subjects covered: "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, Video". The Library currently has Art Index in print form and Art Index Retrospective on CD-ROM.  Click for more information about Art Full Text & Art Retrospective.

Artnet   
NOTE: Available to Graduate Program students only. Please contact the School of Graduate Studies at 212-217-4300 for details.

Artnet’s Fine Art and Design Price Database is an illustrated online database of 3.8 million fine art and design auction results. Covering more than 182,000 international artists and designers, the Fine Art and Design Price Database subscription allows users to search auction results dating back to 1985.

ArticleFirst *   [FirstSearch] 
Periodical index to citations (not full-text) to articles in over 12,500 periodicals on various subjects. Very good for popular, women's and fashion magazines. SUNYConnect

ARTStor  *  
The ARTstor Collection currently contains over 550,000 images.  The Collection documents artistic traditions across many times and cultures and embraces architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual culture.  For a tutorial on Using ArtStor [link to the Department of the History of Art], click here.

Note: As of July 2008, use the following browsers to access ArtStor:

PC Users:
Windows XP – IE 7.0*, Firefox 2.0.0.11
Windows Vista – IE 7.0*, Firefox 2.0.0.13
*FIT does not support IE 7.0 on campus computers.

Mac Users:
Mac OSX 10.5.2 – Safari 3.1. Firefox 2.0.0.13, Firefox 1.5.0.6
Mac OSX 10.4.11 – Safari 3.1, Firefox 2.0.0.6

Associates Programs Source  [EBSCO]  
Offers resources specific to the research needs of two-year colleges.  Includes nearly 1,000 full text journals as well as a dozen full text books.  SUNYConnect

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BCIN: Bibliographic Database   
Bibliographic database of CHIN (Canadian Heritage Information Network) focusing on conservation and restoration of culture. Includes citations from the Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts (prior to 1998), technical reports, conference proceedings, journal articles, books, and more.

Bibliography of the History of Art [BHA]   
Limit 1 user at a time. Please EXIT when finished searching BHA.
The Bibliography of the History of Art indexes and abstracts articles, art-related books, conference proceedings, dissertations, and art exhibition and dealer's catalogs. This index covers European and American art from late antiquity to the present. The Bibliography of the History of Art includes and extends the coverage of its two predecessor art indexes: RAA (Repertoire d'Art et d'Archeologie) from 1973 to 1989 and RILA (International Repertory of the Literature of Art) from 1975 to 1989.

Business & Company Resource Center with PROMT and Investext Plus *  [Gale] 
Business and Company Resource Center is a fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings,investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Predicast's PROMT and Investext Plus databases are fully integrated in this database. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information.   NOVELny

Business & Marketing Magazine Index: 1995-2006  [FIT Library]  
Index created in the FIT Library for periodical titles in the FIT Library which are not indexed by other sources. Topics include cosmetics & toiletries, fashion accessories, footwear, menswear, childrenswear, retailing, jewelry, and more. The titles indexed are available in the Periodicals Department, 6th floor.

Business Searching Interface [EBSCO]     
The Business Searching Interface (BSI) provides business researchers with the highly-refined tools that they need in order to conduct sophisticated searches for the business content that they require. Through the use of the new business-specific interface, the full text business content of Business Source® Premier  can be located and retrieved more quickly and with greater precision than ever before.  Since the content of the Business Source databases is gathered from a wide variety of sources including Academic Journals, SWOT Analyses, Trade Publications, Industry Profiles, Company Profiles, Market Research Reports, and Product Reviews, the new interface allows users to easily refine their searches to extract only the content from their preferred source-types.
In addition, BSI also features easy access to search options for Company, Industry, Author, Subject, and Publication lists all from the Basic Search Screen.  SUNYConnect

 Business Source Complete *   [EBSCO]     
Business research database, providing the full text for more than 8,800 serials. Provides full text back to 1965 (or the first issue published for that journal) and searchable cited references back as far as 1998.  Includes full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.  SUNYConnect

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Canadian Reference Centre [EBSCO]  
Includes leading Canadian periodicals and international (U.S. & U.K.) periodicals in full text; full-text reference books; approximately 85,000 full-text biographies and an image collection of over 440,000 photos, maps and flags.  SUNYConnect

CHIN (Canadian Heritage Information Network)  
A museum and heritage information gateway. Includes conservation and preservation; Canadian artists and culture; virtual exhibitions; museums and collection management; intellectual property; and reference and bibliographic resources in humanities and natural sciences.

 CINAHL Plus with Full Text *   [EBSCO] 
CINAHL Plus with Full Text provides indexing for 3,024 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, with indexing back to 1937. CINAHL Plus with Full Text also contains searchable cited references for more than 1,160 journals and provides full text for hundreds of journals, plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. PDF backfiles to 1937 are also included.  SUNYConnect

 ClipArt.com [School Edition]  
With more than 6 million clipart images, photos, Web graphics & art, backgrounds, buttons, icons, illustrations, fonts and sounds, you'll never run out of ways to use Clipart.com content. Great For: Web sites, newsletters, brochures, advertisements, announcements, labels, e-greetings, Web templates, holiday and religious occasions and more. 

Clipart.com includes: Clipart Images, Photos, Web Graphics, Illustrations, Photo Objects, Fonts, Sounds

• Works with: Photoshop, ImageReady, Illustrator, Quark, Word, Publisher and more.

Computer Source [EBSCO]  
Contains nearly 300 full-text journals and magazines covering computer science, programming, artificial intelligence, cybernetics information systems, robotics and software.  Includes both technical journals and consumer computer titles.  SUNYConnect

Computers & Applied Sciences Complete [EBSCO]  
Covers the research and development sprectrum of the computing and aplied sciences disciplines and is a resource for research concerning the business and social implications of new technology.  Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,800 academic journals, professional publications and other reference sources, with full text for more than 730 periodicals.  SUNYConnect

Credo Reference *   
Credo Reference [formerly xreferplus] is a reference collection from over 50 publishers, which has a network of cross-references that cut across topics, titles and publishers.  Has short, concise entries.  Includes dictionaries, guides, encyclopedias, US census and more...

Custom Newspapers * [Gale] 
Contains 150+ full-text newspapers, including the New York Times since 1995.  NOVELny

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DAAI: Design & Applied Arts Index * (from 1973 to the present) 
A periodical index for fashion designers, graphic design, architecture, photography, design and crafts. Also includes databases for Education, Organizations, Archives and Periodicals. [The Library also has a print version; consult StyleCat   Library Catalog for location and holdings.]

Directory of Home Furnishings Retailers  
The Home Furnishings Retailers database features detailed information on 2,900 retailers and wholesalers in the U.S. and Canada, with contact information for 8,300 key executives and buyers.
FIT username & password required for access.
 Limit 1 user at a time. Please EXIT when finished searching Directory of Home Furnishings Retailers.

DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals *   
Covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals; many subjects and languages.  Note:  Journal title search is easy; article search is limited.

DonegerOnline / Doneger Creative Services [Online only through Digital Library on Library web page]   
Online trend forecasting for colors, fabrics and silhouettes for womenswear. Corresponds to the D3 print forecast books. Note: The online service is NOT available on the workstations in the Library.  Required username & password available through “Digital Library” on Library web page .

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EBooks [FirstSearch]       
OCLC catalog of online electronic books available through libraries worldwide. SUNYConnect

EBSCO Databases: Multiple Databases Search  [Open EBSCOhost Web] 
Periodical indexes and other sources including many full-text articles on various topics, and a photo image collection.    NOVELny

EBSCO Animals *  [EBSCO] 
Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.    NOVELny

EBSCOhost Español [EBSCO]   

EBSCOhost Text Only [EBSCO]    

ECO: Electronic Collections Online *  [FirstSearch]      
An OCLC collection of scholarly journals.  SUNYConnect

Education Research Complete *   [EBSCO]  
Collection of full text education journals. Education Research Complete also covers areas of curriculum instruction as well as administration, policy, funding, and related social issues.

Environment Complete [EBSCO]  
Contains over 1,950,000 records with full text form more than 680 journals; provides coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystems, ecology, energy, renewable resources, natural resources, marine science, pollution & waste management, and environmental technology, law and public policy, and more.  SUNYConnect

ERIC *  [EBSCO]    
ERIC®, the Educational Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and resources. The database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. ERIC provides full text of more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.  SUNYConnect

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Fashion Designers: Index to Visual Resources in the FIT Library  [FIT Library]  
Indexes created in the FIT Library to access various resources on current fashion designers available within the FIT Library. Fashion Runway Collections Magazines is indexed by Designer and by Year/Season/Show.  Videofashion Index can also be searched by Designer and by Year. 

Fashion Runway Collection Magazines Index [FIT Library]  
Indexed by designer/brand or year/season to various fashion runway collections magazines since 2000.  Magazines are kept at the Periodicals Desk, 6th floor.  Ask by magazine name, date and volume number. 

Fashion Snoops [Campus only; no remote access]   
Fashion trends for girls, boys, junior women and young men. News items, reports of runway shows and retail stores.

FashionDVD Index   
FashionDVD is a subscription service which covers fashion runway shows.  The format is DVD and all are available at the Circulation Desk, 5th floor. The Index allows you to search by year/season or designer/brand name.

FirstSearch Databases 
Includes many topics such as: Conferences & Proceedings; Education; Engineering & Technology; General & Reference; Medicine & Health Sciences; Public Affairs & Law. SUNYConnect

Databases include [See separate description for description of each database]:

• ArticleFirst      • Ebooks       •ECO: Electronic Collections Online
• WorldAlmanac       • WorldCat (includes Internet resources)

FITDIL: FIT Digital Image Library      
Use your FIT username & password to access FITDIL.
Contains approximately 23,000 digital images.  Includes FIT student work, original fashion design illustrations from FIT's Special Collections, highlights from the Museum at FIT, and over 8,000 images from FIT's History of Art Department that are used by faculty in the classroom. 

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment  
Journal from the Ecological Society of America.

• Click on Search the Journal. 

• Highlight Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

• Begin your search.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia *  [EBSCO] 
Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries. Searchable by subject or keywords within the entry.   NOVELny

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Gale Cross Searchable Databases [PowerSearch]  
Periodical indexes and other sources including many full-text articles. Topics include general interest, science and health, business information on companies and products, art, politics.  Cross Searchable Databases [PowerSearch] allows you to search multiple databases at the same time.    SUNYConnect.

Gale Virtual Reference Library *   [Gale] 
Includes resources on fashion, literature, business, religion, science, culture & society, history and more. SUNYConnect 

General Business File ASAP (from 1980 to the present) [Gale] 
Analyze company performance and activity, industry events and trends as well as the latest in management, economics and politics. Access to a combination of broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings with full text and images available.

General OneFile *   (from 1980 to the present) [Gale]  
A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles-- many with images. Updated daily. SUNYConnect 

GreenFILE *  [EBSCO]     
A bibliographic database of information about environmental concerns, such as global warming, energy conservation, natural resources, and pollution. GreenFILE covers content going back more than 35 years and contains backfiles to volume one, issue one for Bioscience, Journal of Environmental Planning & Management , Journal of Ecology, and Conservation Biology.  Contains bibliographic information for key non-scholarly titles such as: E -The Environmental Magazine, Natural Life, and Mother Earth News. Contains nearly 300,000 records, full text for certain titles and searchable sited references for more than 200 titles as well.

Also available free at: www.greeninfoonline.com.
A comprehensive online resource of over 45,000 articles on world-wide visual arts and culture from pre-history to the present, with links to images and further information on museum and other art-related web sites.

Greenwood Digital Collection  See ABC-CLIO eBook Collection

Grolier Online Encyclopedias  
Includes access to the Encyclopedia Americana, New Book of Knowledge and Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia as well as Roget's II: The New Thesaurus and the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th ed. NOVELny
 

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HarpWeek  
HarpWeek is the full-text, full-image electronic version of Harper’s Weekly magazine. Coverage is limited to the Civil War years (1857 to 1865). Includes news, fiction, editorials, advertisements, travel narratives. Good for images of clothing of the period. SUNYConnect

Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module *   [Gale]  
Use this Resource Center to find magazines, journals, newspapers, definitions, directories, and information on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, Prescription Drugs, Herbal remedies, and alternative or complementary treatments, etc. Included are links to diet, cancer, and health assessment sites as well as government databases. Material contained in this Resource Center is intended for informational purposes only. SUNYConnect

Health Reference Center Academic  [Gale]  *
NOTE: Subscription ends 6/30/2010
Over 239,000 articles (some full-text) from health-related reference books, pamphlets, periodicals and directories. Find articles on fitness, pregnancy, medicine, nutrition, diseases, public health, occupational health and safety, alcohol and drug abuse, HMOs, prescription drugs, and more.    

Health Source: Consumer Edition [EBSCO]  
Consumer health information, providing access to nearly 80 full text consumer health magazines and related resources covering cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, aging, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, and more.  SUNYConnect

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition [EBSCO]  
Provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines, with access to over 800 abstracted and indexed journal.  Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong.  SUNYConnect

Hoover's Online   
Company information includes history, products, people, industry, competitors, news, financial information and more.

Humanities International Complete [EBSCO]  
Comprehensive coverage of the humanities, with full text for more than 890 journals with worldwide content pertaining to literary, scholarly and creative thought.  SUNYConnect

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Image Collection [EBSCO]  
As part of EBSCO's MasterFILE Select and other EBSCO databases, Image Collections contains photographs of people, natural science, places and history. Images of maps and flags are also available.   NOVELny

InfoTrac OneFile  See General OneFile

IngentaConnect  * 
Search for citations to articles on many differenct subjects. A table of contents and article alerting service is also available. Includes subject resource guides: web links, associations, etc.  SUNYConnect

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JSTOR    *       
The JSTOR archive holds the complete digitized back runs of core scholarly journals, starting with the very first issues, some dating as far back as the 1600s. New titles and disciplines are being added regularly. JSTOR also links to images in the ArtStor Digital Repository. The capacity for searching across disciplines opens up vast possibilities for scholarship and research.  

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Kids Search [EBSCO] 
Look for subjects of interest by automatically searching across all applicable databases simultaneously.  Search by topic, subtopic, or keywords; simultaneous searching across all subscribed databases; sort results by relevance, as well as by date; filter search results by source type.

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 Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) with Full Text  *   [EBSCO]    
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstract (LISTA) contains full text for more than 240 journals and a dozen full text monographs.  Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.  SUNYConnect

Literature Resource Center LRC, Scribner, Twayne US, Twayne English, and Twayne World Authors *  [Gale]  
Combines Gale’s most used literary databases to cover more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, with in-depth coverage of the 2,000 most studied authors. Includes biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis. Search by Author, Name, Title, Genre, Literary Movement or Theme, or combine criteria to create your own custom search.  SUNYConnect

 LitFinder      
"Covering world literature and authors throughout history, LitFinder contains a wealth of literary works including over 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. For students or patrons seeking a deeper view into literature, LitFinder also includes secondary materials like biographies, images, and more! From Shakespeare's sonnets to poems by Donald Hall or short stories from Edgar Allan Poe to works by Annie Proulx, LitFinder has you covered."  SUNYConnect

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Magazine / Newspaper Finder 
Browse the library's collection for a full-text electronic journal or database. Search by journal title. [Test Version]

MasterFILE Premier * [EBSCO]  
Contains full text for more than 1,900 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more. This database also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books, 84,011 biographies, 83,472 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 192,999 photos, maps & flags.   MasterFILE Premier now offers PDF backfiles (as far back as 1975) for key publications including American Libraries, Foreign Affairs, History Today, Judaism, Library Journal, National Review, Saturday Evening Post, etc   SUNYConnect

Material ConneXion [Campus only; no remote access]    
Material ConneXion is a collection of over 1,400 materials and processes.  Includes 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.

 MEDLINE with Full Text  * [EBSCO]    
Comprehensive source of full text for medical journals, with full text for more than 1,470 journals indexed in MEDLINE®.  MEDLINE® provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals. Included are citations from Index Medicus, International Nursing Index, Index to Dental Literature, HISTLINE, SPACELINE, PREMEDLINE®, AIDSLINE®, BIOETHICSLINE®, and HealthSTAR®. SUNYConnect

Military & Government Collection *  [EBSCO]    
Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles.  SUNYConnect

Mintel Reports   Available only to current FIT students & employees.   
The Mintel Reports database contains market research reports covering global consumer markets, with emphasis on the U.S., UK, and Europe. The reports cover apparel, cosmetics, accessories, and home products, each report analyzing market size and trends, segmentation, and consumer attitudes and purchasing habits. The service also offers market and product news updates, useful top-10 lists, tables, and demographic statistics from a variety of newspapers and trade publications.  

MRI+   

Marketing research for products, including  Mediamark Reporter.  Note:

Multiple Databases Search [EBSCO Databases]  See EBSCO Databases

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National Newspaper Index / NNI * (1977 - to the present) [Gale]  
Provides quick access to the indexing of America's top five newspapers in one seamless search: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Lost Angeles Times and The Washington Post. New York Times indexing includes the Book Review and the Arts & Leisure sections. Note: This database is an index only. For full-text articles from these papers, use Custom Newspapers.    NOVELny

netLibrary eBooks  *  
FIT participates in the SUNYConnect shared collection of over 4600 electronic books, including more than 700 copyrighted books and over 3800 public domain titles. The titles in the core collection of 700 books in reference, computer science, medicine and health, humanities and social sciences may be “checked out.” (SUNYConnect)
• Log on to the site from any computer connected to the FIT Network.
• Create your account by selecting a username and password.
• You may then use your account on any computer with Internet access. SUNYConnect

 New England Journal of Medicine 
New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) includes full text access from 1993 to the present; citation/abstract access for the 1975-1992 timeframe.  Earliest abstract date: January 2, 1975; earliest HTML full-text date: July 5, 1993.  SUNYConnect

New York State Newspapers *  [Gale] 
Includes the databases of ten major newspapers published in the state of New York, including The New York Times, The New York Post, and The New York Observer. SUNYConnect

New York Times *  [Gale]  
Full-text since 1995 through Custom Newspapers. Also available through New York State Newspapers.

New York Times Historical *   [1851-2005]  [ProQuest]   
PDF images of articles, advertisements, and more from the New York Times.

Newsletters ASAP *  [Gale] 
Newsletters ASAP provides access to information from specialized business, industry and technology newsletters issued by various news services and industry watchers.

Newspaper Source Plus [EBSCO] 
Includes over 1500 full text newspapers, providing more than 27 million full text articles.  Comprehensive full text for major national (U.S.) and international newspapers.  Features more than 583,000 television and radio news transcripts, videos and podcasts.  SUNYConnect

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 Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center * [Gale SUNYConnect]
"Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center (OVRC) draws on the acclaimed social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources, including selections from Bioethics for Students. The result is a dynamic online library of current event topics--the facts, as well as the arguments, of each topic's proponents and detractors. OVRC's unique features include Topic Overviews -- frameworks which allow students to explore each topic's many facets -- and exclusive electronic access to Gale's Information Plus reference program of statistics, government data, legislation and more."   SUNYConnect
The Library has a number of Opposing Viewpoints in print.  Use StyleCat   Library Catalog to search for specific titles.

Oxford Art Online *  
A comprehensive online resource of over 23,000 subject entries, 21,000 biographies, 500,000 bibliographic citations, 40,000 image links and 5,000 images contained within Grove Art Online on world-wide visual arts and culture from pre-history to the present, with links to images and further information on museum and other art-related web sites. 

Includes: Grove Art Online,  The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.

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Panjiva       
Now available on campus and off campus. FIT username & password required for access.
International sourcing directory for apparel.  "Panjiva uses a purely data-driven approach to rate offshore manufacturers along a variety of dimensions so that buyers can make smarter sourcing decisions."

Points of View Reference Center [EBSCO] 
Full text database designed to provide essays that present multiple sides of a current issue.  For over 250 topics, provides an Overview, Point, Counterpoint, and a Critical Thinking Guide.  Essays are from leading political magazines on both sides, newspapers, radio & TV transcripts, primary source documents and reference books.  SUNYConnect

Pop Culture Universe: Icons | Idols | Ideas    
Covers decades from 1920s to 2000s.  Information on American and world popular culture, past and present.  Includes: Arts & Visual Culture, Business & Advertising, Ethnic & Group Culture, Fashion & Appearance, Film, Food & Drink,  Literature, Music, Politics, Recreation & Leisure,  Religion & Spirituality, Sports, TV & Radio, Technology & Media.

Tip:  To find information about architecture & housing, click Browse on the upper-right hand of the screen; click Architecture & Housing under Subject; click the decade you want to view.

PowerSearch: Gale Cross Searchable Databases  
Periodical indexes and other sources including many full-text articles. Topics include general interest, science and health, business information on companies and products, art, politics.  Cross Searchable Databases [PowerSearch] allows you to search multiple databases at the same time.  SUNYConnect  Click for information about Gale Virtual Reference Library.

Databases available [See separate description for description of each database]:

• Business & Company Resource Center with Investext Plus
• Custom Newspapers • Literature Resource Center
• Expanded Academic ASAP • Newspapers ASAP
• Gale Virtual Reference Library • New York State Newspapers
• General Business File ASAP • National Newspaper Index
• Health Reference Center Academic • Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
• PROMT
• InfoTrac OneFile • Twayne Authors Series
 

Primary Search *   [EBSCO] 
Provides full text for over 50 children's magazines and over 100 children's pamphlets, designed for the elementary school student.   NOVELny

Professional Development Collection *  [EBSCO]     
Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 550 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports.Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world.  SUNYConnect

PROMT [Gale SUNYConnect]  
PROMT -- Predicast Overview of Markets and Technology. Use this database to research companies, the products and technologies they produce, and the markets in which they compete. Includes summaries and full text from nearly 1,000 business and trade journals, industry newsletters, newspapers, market research studies, news. releases, and investment and brokerage firm reports. SUNYConnect

ProQuest Databases
Databases include:
• Wall Street Journal (1984 - Current)  *  
• Wall Street Journal Historical (1889-1987) *
• New York Times Historical (1851-2001)  *

ProQuest Platinum: Periodicals
Covers a broad range of material: business, education, general reference, health, language arts, sciences, social sciences, and many other curriculum-specific subject areas.  NOVELny

Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection [EBSCO]  
Contains 570 full text journals and nearly 50 books and monographs, with full text content from relevant magazines and health reports.  Coverage is particularly strong in child and adolescent psychology and various areas of counseling.  SUNYConnect

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Regional Business News *   [EBSCO]    
With daily updates, Regional Business News provides comprehensive full text for regional business publications (including titles from Crain Communications). This database has full text for more than 50 sources.  SUNYConnect

RDS TableBase [Gale] 
Comprised of tabular information of a strategic nature, RDS TableBase aids users in making precise selection of tables that meet their searching needs. Many of the table records also have textual content which supports the data in the tables. The tables provide information such as: market share, market size, capacity, production, imports, exports, sales, product and brand rankings, forecasts, healthcare statistics and demographics.

Religion & Philosophy Collection [EBSCO] 
Contains nearly 300 full text journals covering topics such as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy.  SUNYConnect

Research Starters - Sociology [EBSCO] 
TRIAL Database -- Trial ends 6/30/2010
“Research Starters is intended to be a starting point for student research, designed to complement Academic Search and major subject-specific EBSCOhost databases. Each Research Starters subject module includes summary articles on 500+ topics in that subject area, written by experts in those fields of study. Each article includes an author-supplied abstract, topic overview, application of concepts, definition of terms and concepts, bibliographies (which include links to relevant EBSCOhost articles), suggested reading, and a short author biography.”  SUNYConnect

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ScienceDirect  *  
Provides unlimited access to over 700 full-text Elsevier Science journals in the fields of science, technology and medicine. Users can access over 1.2 million articles. SUNYConnect

SRDS Media Solutions 
To open services click on "Click here to access SRDS services."
Includes advertising rates for newspapers, magazines, interactive media, radio and television; geographic market profiles; links to media websites; and much more.  Print versions are available in the Media Collection, 4th floor, Reference Department.

STAT-USA/Internet * 
Department of Commerce site for business, economic and trade information, including current economic statistics. Includes the National Trade Data Bank [NTDB]. See also USA Trade Online.

Statesman's Yearbook   
Limit 1 user at a time. Please EXIT when finished searching Statesman's Yearbook.
Politics, cultures and economics of world countries & states.

StyleCat Library Catalog  *  
The Gladys Marcus Library’s online catalog shows holdings for books, periodical titles, audio/visual materials, and many other resources of the library. Click for Tips for Searching StyleCat   Library Catalog.   [Note: StyleCat may be searched on the Web using any computer and any Internet browser; it does not require the FIT Network or a password.]

Stylesight       
Assess current trends, collaborate and analyze trend forecasts &  reporting for effective results during a design cycle. Stylesight's image library is over two million images of Women's, Men's & Children's fashion as well as Interiors including coverage of all Designer Collections from New York, Paris, London, and Milan as well as Los Angeles, Sao Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro and more.  Includes fashion images from streets & store windows of key fashion & interior design stores in major US cities as well as Tokyo, Hong Kong and the South of France. New content is uploaded daily.

SUNYCat: SUNY Connect Union Catalog  
SUNYConnect is a joint initiative of the SUNY Provost’s Office of Library & Information Services and the libraries of the 64 SUNY campuses to share collections and services across the State University of New York.  The Union Catalog allows holdings of all SUNY libraries to be viewed and utilized as a single library. SUNYConnect

You can now request books, photocopies of articles or other materials that are not in the FIT Library collection through ILLIAD, the Library's new online interlibrary loan service. Click for details.

Super Search  

• Search up to 60 databases * simultaneously, including StyleCat Library Catalog; 
• Select one for more databases to search;
• Search databases by subject;
• Search all available databases using a basic or advanced search;
• Not all Digital Library databases are available through Super Search .  Use Digital Library for access to all databases.

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Textile Fabric Bulletins Index 
Textile Fabric Bulletins Index, produced in the FIT Library Reference Department, provides subject access to bulletins from the International Fabricare Institute (IFI) and the Neighborhood Cleaners Association (NCA). Topics covered include fabric characteristics, all aspects of cleaning garments and other textile products, cleaning equipment, processes and chemicals.

Textile Technology Complete (TTC) [EBSCO]   
Textile Technology Complete which replaces Textile Technology Index (TTI) includes the content in TTI, plus full text for over 50 journals and over 50 books and monographs.  Some entries as early as 1845.

*Textile Technology Complete includes the following full-text backfiles:
*Textile Chemist & Colorist, American Dyestuff Reporter and its predecessor Textile Chemist & Colorist back to 1/1/1969, volume 1, issue 1 
*AATCC Review: Full text backfile to 1/1/2001, volume 1, issue 1
*Journal of Textile Institute full text backfile to 1910, volume 1, issue 1
*Textile Outlook International, HFN: Home Furnishings News, Textile History, and many more!

"Textile Technology Complete is designed to serve academic institutions and libraries by providing extensive coverage of the scientific and technological aspects of textile production and processing. This collection contains over 400 periodical titles, and thousands of titles drawn from books, conferences, theses, technical reports, and trade literature. Journals cover the major resources from the scientific community as well as the apparel, home furnishings, flooring, and polymer industries."

Gale Cross Searchable Databases [PowerSearch]  Click here.

 TNS-MI Ad$pender        
[Formerly CMR]  TNS Media Intelligence monitors brands across a multitude of media, including TV, radio, print, the Internet, cinema and outdoor. The company offers analyses, including tracking of advertising expenditures.

Ad$pender: Includes expenditure information on millions of brands across 18-media, Ad$pender helps you quickly focus on the activity in your competitive market.

Trade Associations  
[This is part of "Business & Company Resource Center with PROMT and Investext Plus"; Go to "Advanced Search"; Choose "Associations" under "Content Area:".]
Find information about trade associations and other business groups. 

Twayne Authors Series Twayne World, English, and US Authors *  [Gale]   
Twayne World, US, and English Authors each contains the full text of 200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, US, or English authors, for a total of 600 individual full-text titles.   NOVELny

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USA Trade Online 
From STAT-USA and the Foreign Trade Division of the U.S. Census Bureau, you can find specific U.S. export and import information on more than 18,000 commodities world wide. See also STAT-USA.

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Videofashion Index [FIT Library]  
Indexed by designer/brand or year/season to Videofashion since 1992.  Videos are at  at the Circulation Desk, 5th floor.  Ask by call number TT500.V535 and volume/item number.

Vocational & Career Collection [EBSCO] 
Full text coverage for nearly 350 trade and industry-related periodicals, covering topics such as computer & data processing, electrical technology, nursing, interior design, law enforcement & criminal justice, marketing & advertising, hospitality & tourism, construction, and more.  SUNYConnect

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Wall Street Journal * [1982-Current]  [ProQuest]  
Full-text articles from the Wall Street Journal (Eastern Edition) through ProQuest database: "News - ProQuest Newspapers"

Wall Street Journal Historical *   [1889-1989] [ProQuest]  
PDF images of articles, advertisements, and more from the Wall Street Journal.

WGSN (Worth Global Style Network)    
WGSN is now the current, up-to-date version as used by the industry.
Worth Global Style Network provides forward trend analysis are creative intelligence for executives, designers, marketers and buyers. WGSN provides 24/7 access to future trends, color palettes and real-time trend tracking. Access commercial catwalk product direction, 1,500 brands per season, over 15,000 original sketches and graphics, and 4,000,000 product images.

WorldCat *   [FirstSearch]     
Online catalog to books, audio/visual and other materials in libraries worldwide and to Internet sites; does not include FIT holdings--use StyleCat Library Catalog for FIT holdings. Find URL addresses of and hot links to Internet accessible information resources.  SUNYConnect

WorldCat Dissertations *  [FirstSearch]     
A database of all dissertations and theses available in WorldCat.  SUNYConnect

WWD Online (Women's Wear Daily)   
Full-text and some photographs from 1994 to the current issue.

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