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BERG & OXFORD DEBUT
WORLD DRESS COLLECTION
www.bergfashionlibrary.com
<http://www.bergfashionlibrary.com/>
Launching 20 September 2010!
For anyone who has scoured shops for the perfect fabric, pored over
pages of international fashion magazines, or pondered the meaning of
dress from the burka to the brassiere ...your ultimate online resource
has arrived. From dance costumes in French Polynesia to runway couture
in New York, the BERG FASHION LIBRARY spans the globe and the centuries
to uncover the vastness of world dress.
Launching September 2010, the BERG FASHION LIBRARY is a new portal that
offers users fully cross-searchable access to an expanding range of Berg
content that also includes the Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion
in a convenient online format. With the abundance of images, e-books,
and reference works that this accessible resource has to offer the
possibilities are endless.
Features of the BERG FASHION LIBRARY include:
* Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion: 3.6 million words
and the equivalent of 10 volumes in print
* Colour image bank: including 1600 images from the V&A Museum's
internationally renowned fashion collection and 2000 from the
Encyclopedia
* E-Book collection: full text of c.60 Berg fashion e-books with
regular updates
* Extra reference resources: including an A-Z of Fashion and The
Dictionary of Fashion History by Valerie Cumming, C.W. Cunnington and
P.E. Cunnington
Functionality of the BERG FASHION LIBRARY includes:
* Rapid access to content via a single-term quick search, or for
more targeted results - a sophisticated advanced searching
* Taxonomy: a purpose-built classification system for the study of
dress, will guide users via search and browse tools to the information
they need and help refine search results
* Cross-referencing both within the resource, and externally
* Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) will be available at chapter,
article, and entry level; ensuring content can be reliably located
* Interfaces with citation management tools will mean the content
can be referenced accurately and with ease
* Unlimited concurrent access via IP recognition,
ATHENS/Shibboleth, library cards, and username and password for remote
users
* COUNTER compliant usage statistics and library branding for
users within the institution
* Marc21 records (from publication)
* Customization tools for individual needs
* Social networking tools provided so that items within the portal
can be shared by means of users' tags and links
* Extensive online help and customer and technical support
Sneak Peek of What's to Come:
* Cross-searchable functionality with Berg fashion e-journals
Fashion Theory
<http://www.bergpublishers.com/bdlink.aspx?id=93662&link=http%3a%2f%2fww
w.bergpublishers.com%2fBergJournals%2fFashionTheory%2ftabid%2f524%2fDefa
ult.aspx> , Fashion Practice
<http://www.bergpublishers.com/bdlink.aspx?id=93662&link=http%3a%2f%2fww
w.bergpublishers.com%2fBergJournals%2fFashionPractice%2ftabid%2f3730%2fD
efault.aspx> , and Textile
<http://www.bergpublishers.com/bdlink.aspx?id=93662&link=http%3a%2f%2fww
w.bergpublishers.com%2fBergJournals%2fTextile%2ftabid%2f518%2fDefault.as
px> for mutual subscribers. Available as part of the first update
(early 2011)
* Classic and Modern Writings on Fashion - 67 primary documents
and seminal essays on the subject of fashion
* Two thousand images from The Costume Institute at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, which will be added in stages from 2011
onwards.
For more information on all the fashion world has to offer please
contact:
Kate Farquhar-Thomson: [log in to unmask] or +44 (0) 1865
353423
www.bergfashionlibrary.com <http://www.bergfashionlibrary.com/>
Launching 20 September 2010
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