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Fashion Marketing and Management library resources

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Databases

Key databases relevant for Fashion Marketing and Management are listed below.

  • Art, Design & Architecture the key online resource for art and design. Includes access to hundreds of journals. Select Full Text under the search box, and for the most academic articles, select Peer-Reviewed.
  • Business of Fashion provides intelligence, analysis and advice for the global fashion and beauty industries
  • Business Source Ultimate contains company profiles, case studies, market research reports and peer-reviewed journals. 
  • Box of Broadcasts -BoB TV and radio streaming service for education. This service allows you to view, record, create clips and share broadcast programmes from over 60 TV and radio channels. BoB video tutorials
  • Bloomsbury Fashion Central Bloomsbury Fashion Central includes 4 databases:
    • Fairchild Books Library 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.
    • The Berg Fashion Library includes the Berg Encyclopedia of World Fashion and Dress (2,000 images and 800 in-depth journal articles), Reference Works, 150+ eBooks, and over 17,000 colour images including those from the Victoria & Albert Museum's collection.
    • The Fashion Photography Archive has more than 775,000 runway, backstage, and street style images of work by over 400 fashion designers from the 1970s to early 2000s.
  • Cite Them Right: all the guidance you need to reference resources in your academic work
  • The Drum provides insights, guidance, inspiration and solutions for the marketing and media industries.


    To access premium content off-campus you’ll need to create a personal account on     The Drum’s BSU registration page using your Bath Spa email address. This involves accepting The Drum’s Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy. 

  • Euromonitor Passport provides data and insight on industries, economies and consumers worldwide, which can help you to analyse market context and identify future trends. Make sure you register with your Bath Spa email address.

Watch the Euromonitor Passport help videos to get started using the database

  • Fashion Studies Online provides videos on fashion and costume, including videos about designers, major fashion weeks (London, Paris, Milan, New York) and interviews with leading fashion personalities
  • Gale Business Insights explores the world's companies through expert analysis such as SWOT analyses, financial statements, case studies and articles from academic journals, trade magazines, news outlets and more. Business Insights gives you access to over 4,000 full-text publications including newspapers, trade journals, magazines, and peer-reviewed academic journals.
  • Harper's Bazaar Archive includes the complete run of U.S. Harper’s Bazaar, from 1867 to the present, fully indexed and searchable
  • Kanopy is a streaming service that provides access to over 18,000 films, including major blockbusters, documentaries and the Criterion collection. It has lots of Fashion content (runways, documentaries, films)
  • LinkedIn Learning (previously called Lynda.com) allows you to learn software, creative, design and business skills. New courses and videos are added every week. LinkedIn Learning tutorial.
  • Statista is a comprehensive statistics platform with access to over 1.5 million data sets and with revenue forecasts up to 2025/2026 on over 400 industries. It also features many thousands of downloadable reports, studies and dossiers relating to a wide range of subject areas.
  • Vogue Archive is a unique record of American and international fashion, culture and society from 1892 to today
  • WGSN Fashion and Insight provides forecasting, market intelligence and trend analysis for style, fashion and design, and includes a fashion image library.

If you're looking for a particular database that's not listed here, try the Database A-Z.

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Weblinks
  • Ads of the World is an advertising archive showing videos and photographs from campaigns from around the world.
  • Art UK contains images of artworks that are in public collections in the UK (over 3,200 public museums, art galleries, country houses, civic buildings and other institutions)
  • Artcyclopedia grants access to good-quality images of artworks from galleries and museums around the world. These can be used for study purposes.
  • Bath Spa Library YouTube for video tutorials on how to use Library resources
  • Business of Fashion has Fashion News, Analysis and Business Intelligence from the leading digital authority on the global fashion industry. Some content is paywalled but much is free
  • Chartered Association of Business Schools (CABS) Academic Journal Guide 2021
  • Drapers is the go-to site for fashion business. Some content is paywalled but much is free
  • Inter-Library Loans found a really interesting article or book that we don’t have access to? Apply for a copy from a non Bath Spa Library here
  • Library Hub Discover (was Copac): Many university research library catalogues in one place – search for books or journals here
  • SCONUL Access: A scheme which allows many university library users to borrow or use books and journals at other libraries which belong to the scheme; it covers most of the university libraries in the UK and Ireland
  • VADS: Visual Arts Data Service which provides access to good-quality images of artworks from galleries and museums around the world. These can be used for study purposes
  • Vogue Business sign up to Vogue Business to stay updated with newsletters, event invites & promotions via email. Some content is paywalled but much is free
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