Guide to Apparel Merchandising Research 
Apparel Databases

Databases

Arts & Humanities Search.
This citation index references approximately 1,300 of the world's leading art, design, and humanities journals.

Current Contents.
This multidisciplinary, current awareness resource provides indexing and tables of contents to over 6,000 journals covering a broad range of disciplines. Many clinical and social/behavioral journals are included in this database.

Directory of Open Access Journals

 

Dissertation Abstracts International.
This resource provides a subject, title, and author guide to over 1.2 million doctoral dissertations and masters theses written since 1861.

    Current Research - SDSU- provides access to the full text (pdf) of recent dissertations and theses completed at SDSU.

EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier

A database that includes peer reviewed journals, Academic Search Premier provides full text access to over 4,600 periodicals some as far back as 1975. Over 8,000 journals are indexed. Full text coverage includes a wide variety of disciplines: biology, chemistry, engineering, humanities physics, psychology, religion, sociology, to name a few.

 

EBSCOhost Business Source Premier and Regional Business News

Provides full text for more than 7,400 scholarly business journals and other sources, including full text for nearly 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage includes  full text (PDF) for more than 350 scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922. Regional Business News provides full text coverage for regional business publications including 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

 

EconLit

Provides citations and abstracts for dissertations and articles in more than 620 journals, books and working papers on economics. Coverage dates from 1969 to present.

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe.
Provides online access to full-text and bibliographic information from newspapers, news and business magazines, newsletters, wire services, broadcast transcripts, and biographical sources. 

ProQuest.
This resource provides access to several different bibliographic and full-text databases covering a wide variety of disciplines and topics.

PsycINFO. 1887+.
This American Psychological Association database covers journal articles, book chapters, and book literature in psychology, as well as psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as sociology, education, anthropology, and others. It contains citations with abstracts to journals, books, and book chapters in psychology and the behavioral sciences.

Sociological Abstracts. 1963+.
The Sociological Abstracts database indexes and provides abstracts for journal articles from sociology and related disciplines. (305.So15).

Web of Science

Multidisciplinary database of citations and abstracts from journal literature includes Social Science Citation Index, 2001-present and Science Citation Index Expanded, 1992-present.

Paper Resources

Art Index, 1929-1998  (Periodicals/Lower Level 705 Ar73)

Apparel Digest, 1984-1998 (Periodicals/Lower Level 677.028 AP48)

B.H.A.: Bibliography of the History of Art, 1991-1998 (Periodicals/Lower Level 016.7 R4512)

The Clothing and Textile Arts Index 1980-1993. (Periodicals/Lower Level 646.3 C652)

World Textile Abstracts 1969-2000 (Periodicals/Lower Level 677.05 W893)
 

Other Useful Databases/Indexes/Abstracts:

ERIC.
The premier national database of educational literature from 1966 to the present.

LexisNexis Congressional Universe.
Comprehensive access to U.S. legislative information from Congressional Information Service, Inc.

MarciveWeb DOCS.
Provides citations to United States government publications from July 1976 to the present.