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Art Full Text [1984-] This link opens in a new window
Find article citations from art, architecture, and design journals from 1984 to present with select articles available in full text. Simultaneously searches Art Index Retrospective covering art and design journalism from 1929 to 1984.

ARTstor
ARTstor is a digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. Images are available for use in presentations for educational or other noncommercial uses.

Bloomsbury Fashion Central This link opens in a new window
Access peer-reviewed interdisciplinary research in fashion and dress. Content includes reference works, articles, scholarly e-books, case studies, biographies, lesson plans, bibliographic guides, textbooks, video content, runway and backstage photos from fashion shows, and images from museums around the world.
Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
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Search articles from popular, scholarly, and trade publications. Subjects covered include management, economics, finance, accounting, and international business. Coverage: 1886 to present.
Claritas 360 This link opens in a new window
Search consumer research including demographic, geographic, psychographic, and behavioral data. Users can compile reports using a cross-section of characteristics (e.g. consumer behaviors by geographic location) to determine buying habits, market potential, and more.
Access to Claritas 360 requires a different username and password than your FlashLine login. Please email fashionlibrary@kent.edu from your Kent State email address to request the login information.
Entrepreneurial Studies Source This link opens in a new window
Full text access to periodicals, reference books, and case studies in the area of entrepreneurship and small business. Also includes company profiles, videos with transcripts, and related articles from the Harvard Faculty Series and Vator.TV, a social network site for high-tech entrepreneurs.
Factiva This link opens in a new window
Search content from more than 20,000 news sources, including newspapers, TV transcripts, newswires, and business magazines.
Grove Art Online This link opens in a new window
Search the full text of the Dictionary of Art (1996) with updates, Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and Oxford Companion to Western Art.
IBISWorld This link opens in a new window
Access is available for Kent campus only.
Search a comprehensive industry-market research database which covers every US industry with a 5-digit NAICS code. IBISWorld offers also similarly detailed research on selected industries in China and worldwide.

International Directory of Company Histories
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Gives information on the development of the world's 4,550 largest companies. Entries provide information on founders, expansions and losses, labor/management actions, NAICS codes, key dates, ticker symbol, principal subsidiaries, and competitors and other significant milestones.

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Electronic archive of scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and basic sciences from the earliest issues to within a few years of current publication.
The collections include: Arts & Sciences I-VIII, Business Collection I-III, Ecology & Botany, General Science, and Language and Literature.
Kanopy Streaming This link opens in a new window
Kanopy has many fashion, textile and design-related documentaries and lessons.
Market Share Reporter Online This link opens in a new window
Search annual compilation of reported market share data on companies, products, and services.
Material ConneXion This link opens in a new window
Discover over 4,500 materials by searching or browsing by category, processing, sustainability, and physical properties. Includes photographs and manufacturer contact information.
Mintel Market Research Reports This link opens in a new window
Provides research reports covering European, U.K., and U.S. consumer markets. The reports analyze market drivers, sizes and trends, market segmentation, along with consumer attitudes and purchasing habits.
Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975 This link opens in a new window
Browse photographs, ephemera, memorabilia, and printed material pertaining to Popular Culture in Britian and America from the years between 1950 and 1975.

ReferenceUSA
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Includes information on over 10,500,000 U.S. companies. Search by company name, geographic area, business type, SIC code, yellow page listing, revenue, location, number of employees or any combination of the above. In addition to address and phone number, each entry includes officer names and titles, corporate affiliation, business type and size of yellow page advertising. Toll free and fax numbers are given for some companies.
Sourcing Journal
An online global news and information journal for the textile, soft goods, and apparel industries.

Textile Technology Complete This link opens in a new window
Search citations from over 400 journals, technical reports, books, and trade publications covering textile production and processing, apparel, home furnishings, and polymer industries. Full Text is available for select publications.

Vogue Archive
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Contains the entire run of Vogue magazine (US edition), from the first issue in 1892 to the current month, reproduced in high-resolution color page images. Every page, advertisement, cover and fold-out has been included, with indexing enabling the location of images by garment type, designer and brand names.

Ward's Business Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies This link opens in a new window
Profiles over 100,000 U.S. companies, 90 percent of which are private.
WGSN This link opens in a new window
Explore long-term and seasonal fashion trend analyses, real-time industry news, and coverage of catwalks, trade shows, and street fashion.
A personal account is required to download images. To create an account, access the website while on campus. Click the login button and follow directions to create a new account using your FlashLine email address.

Women's Wear Daily (WWD)
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Provides full text access to Women's Wear Daily. Updated daily. Access limited to Kent campus, with a limit of 10 simultaneous users.
Women's Wear Daily Archive (ProQuest)
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An online archive of Women's Wear Daily, from the first issue in 1910 to approximately 6 months ago, reproduced in full color images. Updated twice yearly.

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Alexander Street This link opens in a new window
Watch educational streaming videos.
American Periodicals Series Online This link opens in a new window
Scanned pages of more than 1,100 historic American magazines, journals, and newspapers from 1740 through 1940. Articles can be searched by author, source, and words in the complete text. Updated quarterly.

Consumer Behavior
ISBN: 9781577833178
Entertainment & Leisure Market Research
ISBN: 9781577833222

Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Search scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts, and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Includes articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
LinkedIn Learning This link opens in a new window
Video tutorials and courses on software, media production, and business skills.
Kent users log in using FlashLine credentials.
New York Times This link opens in a new window
Access news, investigations, opinion, photos, and video by the journalists of The New York Times.
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Once you have your own NYT account, navigate directly to https://www.nytimes.com from your device (or download the app).
New York Times - Historical This link opens in a new window
Search for New York Times articles published from 1851 up to two years ago. Includes the complete paper with full-page and article images in PDF format. NOTE: if you are looking for current New York Times content, please consult either LexisNexis Academic or the New York Times online.

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