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Art & Architecture Source
Database for visual and applied arts, design and architecture. Includes the databases Wilson Art Full-Text and Art Index Retrospective as well as 750 journals in full-text, references and abstracts from renowned international journals (USA, UK, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Holland), 220 e-books and 63'000 images.
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ARTStor Digital Library
Collections of images from museums, private collectors, photographic agencies, photographers of architecture, etc. for use in research and teaching.
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Berg Fashion Library
Articles and images on fashion from the beginnings until today. Contains images from the V&A Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the "Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion", ca. 150 e-books as well as a museum directory.
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DAAI Design and Applied Arts Index
Bibliographic database from 1973 on new designers and the development of design in the following areas: ceramics, glass, jewelry, wood, metals, textiles and fashion, furniture, interior design, architecture, web design, computer graphics, animation, product and industrial design, landscape architecture.
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EAI Electronic Arts Intermix
This collection of video and media art contains works of art from the beginnings in the 1960s until today. Access for FHNW, HSLU, BFH, ZHdK, HEAD Genève and ECAL.
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IBA - pre-2008
The pre-2009 BHA (Bibliography of the History of Art) references are not included in IBA. They can be searched in this database.
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IBA International Bibliography of Art
Applied art, architectural and art history, museum studies and conservation; bibliographic references from 2008. IBA is the successor of BHA (Bibliography of the History of Art).
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Oxford Art Online
The Swiss colleges are subscribed to The Grove Dictionary of Art, a 34 volume encyclopedia of international art and culture with links to pictures and information in museums and art collections. Access limited to 1 cc.
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further sources
ABI/INFORM
Primarily business and economics (management, finance and banking, accounting, trade, etc.), but includes engineering journals and journals from other fields as well, more than a third of which are available in fulltext. ABI/INFORM Global and Trade&Industry are included in the subscription.
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ACM Digital Library
Information Technology: - ACM Digital Library: all their publications available in full-text (journals, conference reports, newsletters, special interest groups, except for the e-books) - The Guide to Computing Literature: references to other - non-ACM - literature including dissertations and technical reports.
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Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
Architecture, history of architecture, protection of historical monuments, interior architecture, landscape architecture, furniture and interior design, urban planning and development.
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Cambridge Books Online
About 2'000 e-books are available to users at the universities of applied sciences and arts on the Cambridge Core platform. The chapters of the e-books can be opened, saved and printed. Unlimited simultaneous access.
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Dissertations & Theses (A&I)
References for more than 2.4 million dissertations and master's theses worldwide from 1861. Abstracts are available for dissertations from 1980 and for master's theses from 1988. Previews of the first 24 pages are available for some dissertations.
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Factiva
Newspapers and magazines worldwide, including several Swiss publications, as well as company information and press photographs. Alerts are not possible.
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FIAF
Abstracts from 300 film journals since 1972, brief information on 22'000 silent movies, a bibliography of the publications of the members of FIAF (International Federation of Film Archives) and an international directory of film and TV documentation collections.
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Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts
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LinkJournal Citation Reports (JCR)
Provides information on academic journals, such as the impact factor, as a measure to assess the significance of a publication.
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Nexis Uni
Swiss and international newspapers and magazines (e.g. Tages-Anzeiger, Handelszeitung, La Tribune de Genève, Bilan) as well as country and company information (e.g. Creditreform Schweizer Firmen).
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NZZ (via Genios)
Archive of the NZZ and NZZ Folio from 1993 to the present and the NZZ am Sonntag from 2002 to the present.
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Prometheus Bildarchiv
Image database with illustrations from the arts, culture and history published by the Kunsthistorisches Institut der Universität Köln. Access for Berner FH and ZHdK.
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Web of Science
Multidispiplinary database including:
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- Science Citation Index
- Social Science Citation Index (with economics)
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index (with architecture)
- Emerging Sources Citation Index
- Conference Proceedings Citation Index: - Science - Social Sciences & Humanities
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arthistoricum.net
Internet site specialized in art after 1945, produced by the Sächsische Landesbibliothek, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (SLUB).
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Materialarchiv
Historic and current information on materials as well as images. Includes collections of the Gewerbemuseum Winterthur, HSLU T&A and Design, the Sitterwerk, ZHdK, ETHZ, ZHAW and HKB Bern.
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