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Fashion & Consumer Studies: Articles & Databases

General databases

These databases search over 16,000 full text journals, magazines and newspapers - a good place to start and to find interdisciplinary sources

Academic Search Complete
ProQuest Central
ProQuest Central is the largest multidisciplinary database with over 12,665 titles, with over 9,745 titles in full-text. This is a great source for research in almost any field of study.

Google Scholar
another way of searching journal content. Many of the articles can be found full text in the above 3 databases or one of over 100 others
Kent Library via Google Scholar
How to set up Google Scholar on your personal browser to link to articles available full text in Kent Library databases

Discipline specific databases

ARTstor
database of high quality images from museums around the world, including collections of fashion and historical costume
New York Times with Index: Proquest Historical Newspapers
Full text and image of the New York times from 1851 until 5 years ago, with significant fashion coverage and includes advertiesements from throughout the years