Description: Business Source Complete covers all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting, banking, finance, and more.
Time Period: 1886 to present
Sources: Indexes more than 6,700 journals and magazines plus thousands of reports and other sources.
Subject Headings: Art & Architecture, Business, Education, News, Social Sciences (Accounting, Finance, Management, Business Education, Banking, Economics, Marketing, Computer Science)
Scholarly or Popular: Scholarly
Primary Materials: Abstracts, Case Studies, Citations, Conference Papers, Journal Articles, Magazine Articles, News, Other, Report, Reviews, Trade Publications
Information Included: Abstracts, Full Text, Citations
FindIt@BALL STATE: Yes
Print Equivalent: None
Publisher: EBSCO
Updates: Daily
Number of Simultaneous Users: Unlimited
Description: Art Index Full Text, a key database for art, provides full text articles from more than 300 titles. Of the 600 titles indexed, 280 are peer reviewed. The database also covers subjects such as interior design, costume design, architecture and landscape architecture. Art Index Full Text indexes titles back to 1984 and contains the full text of articles beginning in 1994.
Time Period: 1984 to present
Sources: Indexes more than 600 titles and contains full text articles from more than 300 periodicals.
Subject Headings: Art & Architecture, Humanities, Mobile
Scholarly or Popular: Scholarly
Primary Materials: Abstracts, Citations, Dissertation and Theses, Journal Articles, Magazine Articles, Reviews, Trade Publications
Information Included: Abstracts, Full Text, Citations
FindIt@BALL STATE: Yes
Print Equivalent: none
Publisher: EBSCO
Updates: Daily
Number of Simultaneous Users: Unlimited
Description: PsycInfo is a key database in the field of psychology. Includes information of use to psychologists, students, and professionals in related fields such as psychiatry, management, business, and education, social science, neuroscience, law, medicine, and social work.
Time Period: 1887 to present
Sources: Indexes more than 2,500 journals.
Subject Headings: Education, Mobile, Psychology, Social Sciences (Psychology)
Scholarly or Popular: Scholarly
Primary Materials: Journal Articles
Information Included: Abstracts, Citations, Linked Full Text
FindIt@BALL STATE: Yes
Print Equivalent: None
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Updates: Monthly
Number of Simultaneous Users: Unlimited
Here are some notes about search terms to use for your topics. Use Business Source Complete or Art Index, both of which are linked above, to find articles about your topics. Use quotes around phrases. Use one or more of the OR'd terms in your search. ORing fashion OR "fashion industry" OR clothing OR "clothing & dress" OR "clothing industry" in a seperate search box may be helpful, especially with topics in the table below with an asterisk after them.
Topic | Business Source Complete Terms |
AI* | "Artificial Intelligence" OR AI Could OR examples of AI (e.g. ChatGPT). Could use AI issues such as displacing designers, its affect on human creativity, the use of its trend prediction capabilities to enable fast fashion. AI can also be used in possitive ways to help make production less wasteful. |
Body image/advertising | Put body image in one search box and advertising in another box. Could also add "body image" OR "self image" OR "self perception" OR "well being" OR shame. You could also search in PsycInfo for articles on this topic. |
Counterfeit* | "product counterfeiting" OR forgery OR "bootleg goods" OR bootlegs OR "commercial product counterfeiting" OR "counterfeit goods" OR "counterfeiting of products" OR "forgery of products" OR "passing off product counterfeiting" |
Environment sustainability* | "environmental responsibility" OR "environmental, social, & governance factors" OR "Social responsibility" OR “corporate accountability” OR “corporate citizenship” OR “corporate responsibility” OR “corporate social accountability” OR “corporate social responsibility” OR CSR “social responsibility” OR “social responsibility of industry” OR "corporate image". |
Fast fashion | "fast fashion" A related term would be "Sustainable fashion". A phrase search for fast fashion returns about 2,000 articles; ORing it with sustainable fashion returns more than 3,600 articles. There isn't a subject entry for either of these in Business Source Complete but the term is used in the Subject field. |
Fur | fur OR "fur garments" OR "animal fibers" OR "hide & skins" OR "leather jackets" OR "leather industry" OR "sea otter skin" |
Labor issues* | There isn't a single term for labor issues, so use examples of issues that reflect the specific topic that interests you. There are terms for "child labor" OR "factory safety" OR "forced labor" OR "industrial safety" OR "Work environment" OR "Quality of work life". |
Sourcing*/ Supply Chain* |
Use "industrial procurement". Related terms include "sustainable procurement" OR "supply chains" OR "textile industry" OR suppliers OR "strategic sourcing" OR "textile industry" OR "cotton manufature" OR "textile product manufacturing" |
Technology* | Technologies which automate the manufacturing process can help reduce the use of child labor (see Labor issues above). Technology can also aid in tracking the supply chain and help provide transperancy (see sourcing above). Use of AI may have ethical implications (see AI above). Technology can be used to make manufacturing less expensive and makes fast fashion more feasible. |
Trade wars* | Use "International trade disputes". Related terms would include "international economic relations" OR "international Trade" OR tariffs OR "export subsidies" |
Description: Kanopy is a film database containing more than 30,000 films from more than 1,000 producers. It includes the Criterion Collection, Media Education Foundation, The Great Courses, News Day Films and more.
Note: Creating a profile allows you to access your Dashboard, where you can create and share a watch list. Here's how you do it, see Creating a Kanopy account near the bottom of the page. Also, Kanopy blocks video viewing on mobile devices in the device's native browser.
Time Period:
Sources: Select from more than 30,000 films.
Subject Headings: Art & Architecture, Business, Education, English & Linguistics, General, Health, History, Humanities, Music, Philosophy & Religion, Psychology, Science, Social Sciences, Technology
Scholarly or Popular: Semi-scholarly
Primary Materials: Videos
Information Included: Streaming Video
FindIt@BALL STATE: No
Print Equivalent: None
Publisher: Kanopy
Updates: Daily
Number of Simultaneous Users: Unlimited