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WGSN Fashion (Worth Global Style Network)
WGSN is the world's leading trend forecasting and analysis service, equipping style-driven businesses around the world with future intelligence and creative inspiration on what's new and what's next through digital subscription and bespoke research services.

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WGSN Lifestyle & Interiors (formerly Homebuildlife)
Online trend forecasting and product design tool created exclusively for the interiors, home and consumer products markets. The service combines seasonal forecasts up to two years ahead of season, as well as daily updates on new design directions and influences.

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ProQuest: Arts & Humanities Database
Interdisciplinary resource for contemporary studies in the arts and humanities. Subject coverage includes art, design, archaeology, architecture and classical studies.
British Standards Online (BSOL)
Updated daily, BSOL is the most complete collection of current, draft and withdrawn British Standards available anywhere.

BSOL includes all British standards and international and European standards that have been adopted as British standards (e.g. Eurocodes, OHSAS).

Note: this is searched by Discovery. However, if you know you are looking for standards it is quicker to search BSOL directly.

To view the PDF online select 'Quick View'. To download and view offline select 'Download PDF'
More information about downloading/viewing offline:
The FileOpen plugin is needed to download standards and to read them offline. You can install FileOpen on your own laptop, but downloading of standards via FileOpen is not currently available in the university PC labs.

When you download a standard to read later, you will still need an internet connection to authenticate the documents the first time you open them. After that, you will be able to access the documents offline. The file downloaded is licensed to a sole named user who is permitted to install a single electronic copy of it, for use on a single computer. You are permitted to print a single copy of a document. Printing one or many pages, or the entire document will count as a single print so it’s recommended that if you need a printed version, that you print the entire document.

If you encounter any issues opening the standard, please try opening from your Downloads folder, by right-clicking (or using Command key on iOS) and selecting "Open with Adobe Acrobat Reader".
Business Source Premier
Alternative login route: Use https://www.ebsco.com/ then click on Person Icon, then Find your organization. Type Heriot Watt and select campus. Click on choose databases and choose Business Source Premier.

A business research database providing full text for 2,300 journals. Also contains some market research reports, company and industry reports and SWOT analyses.
ProQuest: Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI)
This database covers all aspects of design and crafts, from textiles and ceramics to vehicle design, advertising and sustainability. Covers journal articles, exhibition reviews and news items from 1973 to the present.
EDITED
EDITED is the industry standard tool used by fashion retailers to help get pricing and product right, see products launched, sell out, replenishment, price change data and more. Includes market analytics, retail reports, visual merchandising, runway reports and runway collections.
JUST STYLE
Access Note:no need to login once connected.

Provides a blend of up-to-the-minute information, insights and intelligence. Market coverage includes apparel sourcing and supply chain issues to emerging markets and manufacturing.
Mintel
Alternative login route: Use https://www.mintel.com/ then click "LOGIN" on the home page and then "Need federated login?"

A database of UK consumer market research reports and related material with detailed analysis. Provides access to global market data including market size and share via Mintel Market Sizes.
Nexis Uni
Access to UK and international newspapers and trade press, with foreign language news sources in over 26 languages including full text access to The Financial Times (with a 30 day embargo).
Textile Technology Complete
Textile Technology Complete coverage is both domestic and international. It includes major resources from the scientific community covering the apparel, home furnishings, flooring and polymer industries.
Vogue Archive
The Vogue Archive provides access to the full run of American Vogue, from 1892 to the current month. Every page, cover, advertisement, image, and fold out is indexed, searchable, and viewable in high-resolution colour. A "LibGuide" to the archive is available at http://proquest.libguides.com/voguearchive Subject Coverage:
• Fashion history
• Gender studies
• Marketing and advertising
• Photography and graphic design
• Popular culture
• Textiles and dress

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Over 400,000 pages are included in the Archive, constituting a treasure trove of the work from the greatest designers, photographers, stylists and illustrators of the 20th and 21st centuries. The Archive is both an essential primary source for the study of fashion and a unique record of American and international popular culture.

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A lot of Textile journal tiles are indexed in Scopus. If you've been searching round the houses but haven't found the articles you know are out there, please give Scopus a go...

Scopus
Alternative login route: Use https://www.scopus.com/home.uri then login via the "Institution" icon on the home page, then "Check access" and then sign in via institutional access.

Scopus is one of the leading databases of peer-reviewed citations and abstracts, covering 21,000 titles from 5,000 publishers in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.

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Textiles and Design: Specialised databases

Databases for Textiles, Fashion and Design

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