Welcome to your Fashion & Textiles Subject Research Guide
Watch the video to meet your Academic and Digital Library Liaison – Jennifer Ouson, then have a look in the sections below to find useful and relevant resources for your course.
If you are not able to find what you are looking for please contact your Academic Digital Library Liaison, listed at the bottom of the page, who will be happy to help you with all library and subject research needs.
Online Resources
Bloomsbury Visual Arts Hub
Bloomsbury Visual Arts is the leading publisher in the fields of fashion and design, with a fast-growing presence in art history and visual culture and architecture providing access to high quality and cutting-edge scholarship alongside theory and practice texts for students. Bloomsbury Visual Arts digital hub offers access to online collections such as the Design Library, Applied Visual Arts, International Encyclopedia of Surrealism, Art Markets and more.
American Vogue Archive
Browse and search the full contents of US Vogue magazine in full color, from the first issue in 1892 to the present. Every page, advertisement, cover and fold-out has been included, enabling you to find articles and images by garment type, designer and brand names.
Credo
A useful resource for all subject areas, featuring reference works such as encyclopedias and dictionaries alongside textbooks.
You can display your search results in a traditional list layout, or you can choose to have them displayed in a concept map where linking themes, people, and events can be explored easily to expand upon your research topic.
Gale Databases
Using Gales PowerSearch you can search across newspapers, scholarly journals, and general reference magazines for content on all topics and subjects. Read current and historical newspaper coverage from local, national and international press, browse general magazine content, and explore articles from scholarly journals and other authoritative sources.
Magazines
The library has current subscriptions to some fantastic magazines, including i-D, TANK, Vogue Paris, Selvedge, ZoomOnFashionTrends. There are also historic stacks of back copies from Embroidery Magazine, Pop, Love, Dazed&Confused, Vogue UK and Vogue Italia.
Tank
Tank not only covers luxurious fashion shoots, but each issue also delves into a prescient cultural theme- at-large.
i-D
i-D is an iconic British magazine founded by designer and former Vogue art director Terry Jones in 1980, and dedicated to fashion, music, art and youth culture, plus it is an excellent resource for issues of race, gender and sexuality.
Selvedge
Selvedge is an independent, 100-page full colour magazine published six times a year and covering every facet of textiles, heavily image led whilst providing a wide-ranging and critical overview of the textile world.
Zoom On Fashion Trends
Zoom On Fashion Trends published twice a year alongside the big seasonal fashion shows, is a fashion forecasting magazine that predicts the future industry trends up to two years ahead.
Library Search
eCore is an essential tool for finding, via one single search box, information from the physical and online library resources available to you, including:
- Research Starters
- Library catalogue
- Ebooks
- Magazines articles
- News and newspaper articles
- Encyclopedia articles
- Additional Online Resources
Fashion Weeks
Fashion weeks happen at two main times across the world, with the big four fashion capitals being around February for their A/W collections and around September for their S/S collections. A fashion week allows fashion designers, brands or “houses” to display their latest collections in the highest profile runway shows, and for buyers and the media to take a look and showcase the latest trends to the rest of thew world.
The links below will take you to the sites for each of the fashion capitals fashion week web sites where you can watch live coverage and get news updates as it happens!
ClickView
ClickView is Edinburgh College’s media player. It contains TV & Radio programmes recorded from free-to-air channels and Audio & Video produced by staff.
For sign in guidance, please visit our Clickview page.
Linkedin Learning
LinkedIn Learning is an online digital learning website that provides access to a library of video tutorials in the creative, technology, software and business industries.
For sign in guidance, please visit our Linkedin Learning page.
Referencing
Referencing at Edinburgh College: Online Course
Our online course (approx. 30min) provides a simple introduction to referencing and plagiarism using the Harvard system of referencing. If you are new to referencing this is the ideal place to start. We provide introductory guidance on what referencing is, why you need to reference, and how to correctly reference some of the most common sources in your assignments.
The course is divided into 7 sections. Sections have short activities that you can undertake to test your own understanding of the topics you have read about.
Cite Them Right: Referencing Support
This is a comprehensive guide to referencing and plagiarism. Cite Them Right provides full guidance on how to correctly reference all sources in your assignments, with guidance available on Harvard and numerous other styles of referencing.
You can use Cite The Right to help format references, look up answers to your referencing questions, support with paraphrasing and summarising from sources, and follow an in depth tutorial to test your knowledge and learn even more.
Downloadable Guide
This is a double-sided A4 sheet that you can print and take away with you. It details how to reference some of the more common sources you may need to reference and uses the Harvard system of referencing. Please be aware that this is most easily understood after completing our Referencing at Edinburgh College course (approx. 30mins).
Support
Contact Jennifer Ouson at jennifer.ouson@edinburghcollege.ac.uk
Find contact information for the Library team by visiting our Contact and Support page