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Gladys Marcus Library
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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.
Academic Search
Premier
[EBSCO]

Academic Search™ Premier contains indexing for over
8,000 publications, with full text for more than
4,450 of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or
further are available for well over one hundred
journals, and searchable cited references are
provided for more than 1,000 titles. Includes
full text peer-reviewed journals. Academic
Search Premier contains unmatched full text
coverage in biology, chemistry, engineering,
physics, psychology, religion & theology, etc.
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 and 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.
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
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
[CD-ROM only in Library]
A periodical index for architecture and architects.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals on CD-ROM
is available only through selected "Digital Library"
workstations, Reference Room, 4th floor. At those
stations, return to the Desktop; click on the Avery
Index to Architectural Periodicals icon.
The Library also has a print version; consult
StyleCat
Library Catalog for location and holdings.
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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.
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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 Periodicals Services, 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 Premier
[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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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.
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.
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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.]
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.
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• EBSCO Host:
• MasterFILE Select
• Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
• Academic Search Premier
• CINAHL Databases
• Textile Technology Index
• General Science Collection
• Library, Information Science & Technology
Abstracts
• MasterFile Premier
• MasterFile Select
• Military & Government Collection
• Primary Search via Searchasaurus
• Professional Development Collection
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Regional Business News
• Education Research Complete
• EBSCO Animals
• TOPICSearch
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• EBSCOhost Espanol
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EBSCOhost Text Only
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Business Searching Interface
• Kids
Search
• Book Review With Reviews
• Searchasaurus
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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.
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EBSCOhost Español
[EBSCO]

Las instrucciones en EBSCOhost están
en español. Los artículos están en inglés.
The instructions are in Spanish in EBSCOhost.
The articles are in English.
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.
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 in
Periodicals Services, 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
• WorldAlmanac
• WorldCat (includes Internet resources)
FITDIL: FIT Digital Image Library
The FIT Digital Image Library [FITDIL]
is database of approximately 9,045 digital
images from various FIT collections. Currently
FITDIL has several Department of the History of Art collections and
images from the Library's Special Collections:
Frances Neady Collection, Highlights from the Joseph
Love Archives, The Bergdorf Goodman Highlights, The Halston Hats Collection, The Jerry Miller
Highlights.
Click for more information. How to access the
Library Special
Collection slideshows:
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on Slideshows.
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Select
Slideshow Author : Library.
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Select
Folder : Library Special Collections.
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Select
from the list the slideshow you wish to view.
Frontiers
in Ecology and the Environment
Journal from the Ecological Society
of America.
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on Search the Journal.
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Highlight Frontiers in Ecology and the
Environment.
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Begin
your search.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
[EBSCO]

Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries.
Searchable by subject or keywords within the entry.
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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.
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 • Junior Edition, K12
• 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
Veiwpoints Resource Center
• Informe! • PROMT
• General OneFile • Twayne Authors Series
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
General Science Collection
[EBSCO]

This database offers full text coverage
for more than 60 of the most popular science
publications. Providing information on all aspects of
the scientific world, the General Science Collection
offers full text information dating back as far as 1992.
Global Books in Print
Provides information about books which are available
in print worldwide.
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.
Grove Art Online
See Oxford Art Online
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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]

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.
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Here & There Forecast
Online
Online trend forecasting service reports on trends in a funky,
fresh way that incorporates European high fashion into the
American sportswear sensibility.
NOTE:
Here & There Online is unavailable until further
notice.
Hoover's Online
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