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Art Full Text [1984-]
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This offers full text plus abstracts and indexing of an international array of peer-selected publications, now with expanded coverage of Latin American, Canadian, Asian and other non-Western art, new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, and feminist criticism. Full text coverage for selected periodicals is also included. Reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals is also included. Also includes access to Art Index Retrospective.
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.
Berg Fashion Library
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Berg Fashion Library provides integrated text and images on world dress and fashion covering historic periods. The resource includes the Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, e-books, e-journals, museum directories, reference works, and images.
Business Source Complete
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Has full text for more than 10,300 serials. Contains scholarly publications covering all disciplines of business including marketing, management, economics, finance, accounting, and MIS. Additional materials include country economic reports, case studies company profiles, SWOT analyses and industry reports. Coverage varies by title, but in general dates back to the mid 1990s. Updated daily.
Click the blue 'additional information' icon to search Business Videos only.
Claritas 360
Claritas 360 is a platform that lets marketers and advertisers analyze markets based on comprehensive Claritas' consumers’ profiles and identify target consumer groups for their products and services. 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.
Factiva
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Factiva is a good source for international business and company news. It includes full text news reports from more than 10,000 sources from 159 countries and available in 22 languages.
Fairchild Books Library
Offering everything a person needs to know to enter—and thrive—in the fashion industry, Fairchild Books Library provides content that covers a full spectrum of topics in fashion including construction, draping, fashion business management, history, illustration, journalism, marketing, promotion, theory, pattern making, styling, product development, sustainable fashion, textiles, and more.
Grove Art Online
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Provides access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (1996) with constant additions of new material and updates to the text, plus extensive image links. Also incorporates content from The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics and The Oxford Companion to Western Art.
Industry Reports
Provides detailed information about industries. Offers lengthy research reports on industry markets, brief reports on business environments, and company profiles. Access is available for Kent campus only.

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.

Kanopy Streaming
Kanopy has many fashion, textile and design-related documentaries and lessons.
Market Share Reporter Online
Entries in this directory provide market share data and rankings of companies, products, and services. Database starts with 2010. Earlier years available in print in the KSU Main Library.
Material ConneXion
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Materials database containing more than 4,500 materials and processes. Includes photographs, and company/vendor contact information. Can search materials by keyword, material type, manufacturer name, and manufacturer location.
Mintel Market Research Reports
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Provides research reports covering European, UK-specific, and US consumer markets. The reports analyze market drivers, sizes and trends, market segmentation, along with consumer attitudes and purchasing habits. The reports are supplemented by brief digests of relevant recent events, UK and US demographic and economic statistics and useful lists.
Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Uni)
Nexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790, with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.

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 (Available at Kent Campus Only)
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Textile Technology Complete is a scholarly and professional database covering scientific and technological aspects of textile production and processing. Containing over 400 periodical titles, it also draws on current technical reports, books, and trade literature. Also includes resources about apparel, home furnishings, and polymer industries.

TOBETDG (formerly Doneger)
Tobe & The Doneger Group (TOBETDG) offer consumer insights and trend forecast services for the fashion merchandising and design industry. Access to TOBETDG 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.
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
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Profiles over 100, 000 U.S. companies, 90 percent of which are private. Intended for librarians, executives, students, analysts, marketers, and other professionals who require current company and industry profiles.
WGSN (World Global Style Network)
WGSN is a major fashion trend forecaster. The site includes both long-term and seasonal trend analysis, real time industry news and coverage of catwalks, trade shows and street fashion. Users do not need a personal account to access site content. However, if you wish to download images, you will need to create a personal account. To create a personal account for the first time or to reactivate an expired account, log into Flashline and go here: https://www.wgsn.com/accounts/edu/.
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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Advertising Age Data Center
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A subsection of the Advertising Age site, the Data Center provides statistics, ranking lists and other information useful for marketing and advertising purposes.

Alexander Street
A by-request streaming video service for educational institutions.
American Periodicals Series Online
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American Periodicals Series Online contains page images of more than 1,100 historic American magazines, journals, and newspapers. These resources illuminate the development of American culture, politics, and society across some 150 years. Articles can be searched by author, source, and words in the complete text. Updated quarterly.

Consumer Behavior 2019-2020 / by Richard K. Miller and Kelli Washington
Publication Date: 2019

Entrepreneurial Studies Source
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Provides full text access to more than 125 periodicals, 135 reference books, case studies, thousands of company profiles in the area of entrepreneurship and small business. Also includes over 600 videos with transcripts and related articles from the Harvard Faculty Series and Vator.TV, a social network site for high-tech entrepreneurs.
Google Scholar
Use to search for 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.

International Consumer Markets 2020-2021 / by Richard K. Miller and Kelli Washington
Publication Date: 2020
Leisure Business Market Research Handbook 2019-2020 / by Richard K. Miller and Kelli Washington
ISBN: 9781577832737

LinkedIn Learning
LinkedIn Learning, formerly Lynda.com, is an online education company offering thousands of video courses in software, creative, and business skills.

Kent users log in using FlashLine credentials.
New York Times
Create a new NYT account:
1. Navigate to NYT pass page: https://myaccount.nytimes.com/verification/edupass
2. Click "Create Account” and complete registration fields

Already have a NYT Account and need to renew:
1. Navigate to NYT pass page: https://myaccount.nytimes.com/verification/edupass
2. Click "Already have an account? Log in here"
3. Log in with existing NYT username / password.

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
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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.
SRDS Media Solutions
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Discontinued. Access ended December 31, 2020.
Standard Rate and Data Service (SRDS) provides detailed ad rates, editorial or programming content, circulation, and other basic information for a variety of advertising media, including radio, television, newspapers, and consumer magazines. Includes Business Media Advertising Source, Consumer Media Advertising Source, Newspaper Advertising Source, Radio Advertising Source, TV & Cable Source, Print Media Production Source, and Local Market Audience Analyst.
Wall Street Journal
Provides full page and article images with searchable full text from the Wall Street journal, Eastern edition

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