Periodical Databases     Back to Top

Applied Science & Technology Abstracts
Periodical articles about computer science, engineering, food industry, physics, textile industry, applied mathematics, and more (1983 - present).

Art Abstracts
Includes topics in fine arts, architecture, art history, fashion design, and more.

Business and Company Resource Center
Company and industry information along with scholarly and general business periodicals.

Computers and Applied Sciences Complete
Academic and professional journals covering research and development in computing and applied sciences. Provided by SUNYConnect.

Custom Newspapers
A collection of national and international newspapers. Provided by NOVELny.

Textile Technology Index
Covers the scientific and technological aspects of textile production and processing.

Web of Science
Search for citations to scholarly journal articles in all subject areas. Conduct cited reference searches for articles that cite a previously published work. (1970 - present)

WWD Online
Searchable database of fashion and clothing industry information from Women's Wear Daily, 1994-present. On-campus use only.

Reference     Back to Top

Reference Books: Fashion Technology
An active catalog link for reference books in this subject. Reference books are located in the Information Commons room (map).

Contemporary Fashion, 2nd ed.
The publisher says this source has "biographical and critical coverage of primarily U.S. designers, milliners, footwear designers, fashion companies and textile houses."

Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion
Academic encyclopedia from Scribner's/Gale.

Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear Through the Ages
A broad overview of costume traditions from diverse cultures, ranging from prehistoric times to the present day.

Bissonnette on Costume
A visual dictionary of fashion covering the 18th to the 20th centuries, from the Kent State University Museum.

Fashion Era
Images of womens clothing, fashion history, costume history, textiles and social history from the 1800s to 2000.

Oxford Art Online/Grove Art Online
Art reference sources including Grove Art Online, an encyclopedia covering visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the present.

Trade Data: U.S. Imports and Exports of Textiles and Apparrel
Statistics, data, and reports from the Federal government.

Web Sites     Back to Top

ARTstor
Digital images and information about works of visual art, including architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design from many times and cultures. For more information, also see An Introduction to ARTstor.

Films On Demand
Over 5,000 academic-level educational streaming videos covering most subject areas, from Films Media Group.

Gladys Marcus Library at FIT
Excellent site for finding fashion information on the Web, maintained by the Fashion Institute of Technology.rn

netLibrary
Search the contents of thousands of books online.

New York Public Library Digital Gallery
The New York Public Library has developed this image database to provide free and open online access to thousands of images from the original and rare holdings of their specialized Research Libraries. Spanning a wide range of visual media, the NYPL Digital Gallery offers digital images of drawings, illuminated manuscripts, maps, photographs, posters, prints, rare illustrated books, and more.

Philadelphia University: Paul J. Gutman Library
Links to sites about textile arts, textile chemistry, textile technology, and the textile industry.

United States Department of Commerce, Office of Textiles and Apparel
Includes import and export data, information on overseas markets, trade agreements, and textiles and apparel legislation.

United States Department of Labor, OSHA Library/Reading Room Page
Review the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's statistics and inspection data, manuals, hazard information bulletins and directories.

Virtual Library Museums Pages
Provides links to museums' Web pages worldwide.

WGSN (Worth Global Style Network)
Covers many aspects of the fashion industry. After accessing WGSN, Buffalo State users must enter an additional required username/password, accessible here (Internet Explorer users must type "BSCLOGON\" before the user name).

CAMIO (Catalog of Art Museum Images Online)
A growing collection of paintings, photographs, prints, sculpture, drawings, architecture, textiles, decorative arts and more, from prominent art museums (including the Albright-Knox). Images from many cultures and time periods are available.

VADS: The Online Source for Visual Arts
The Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) features a portfolio of visual arts collections with over 100,000 digital images, searchable by keyword, theme, collection, etc. From the Farnham Campus of the University College for the Creative Arts, UK.

Local Resources     Back to Top

Fashion Textile Technology Program at Buffalo State

Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto, Canada
The museum celebrates the style and function of footwear in four impressive galleries. Over 4,500 years of history and a collection of 20th century celebrity shoes are reflected in the permanent exhibitions.

Textile Museum of Canada
The only museum in Canada exclusively devoted to the collection, exhibition, and documentation of textiles from around the world.

Professional Organizations     Back to Top

American Apparel and Footwear Association
National trade association for the apparel and footwear industries.

American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists
Dedicated to education, technical applications and research, and communication for the textile wet processing industry.

ASTM International
Provides a forum for the development and publication of voluntary consensus standards for materials, products and services.