College of Home Economics Databases

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Bloomsbury Food Library

Bloomsbury Food Library is a growing and vibrant digital resource with an extensive collection of food studies content that reflects the interdisciplinary nature of this diverse subject, making it an essential resource for students, researchers, and scholars studying courses as wide-ranging as food, history, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, human geography, sustainability, agriculture, culinary arts, literary studies, political science, and development studies.

Expiry: 31 July 2024


FairChild Books Interior Design Library

Fairchild Books Interior Design Library offers all-in-one digital access to just under 70 acclaimed textbooks and dedicated supplementary resources from Fairchild Books, to support course delivery and learning across the entire interior design curriculum.

Expiry: 31 July 2024


Bloomsbury Fashion Central: Fairchild Books Library (BFL)

Bloomsbury Fashion Central is a dynamic digital hub for interdisciplinary research in fashion and dress. Content is peer reviewed by industry and academic experts and includes interconnected major reference works, exclusive articles, scholarly eBooks, case studies, biographies, lesson plans, bibliographic guides, textbooks, video content, runway and backstage photos and videos from fashion shows, and tens of thousands of images from museums around the world to create a rich educational resource.

Fairchild Books Library is a comprehensive textbook library that offers access to more than 150 core texts and multimedia resources, from the market leader in fashion education for the last 50 years.


Food Science Source

The Premier Full-Text Resource for Food Industry Research

This extensive full-text database is designed to support the informational needs of the food industry at all levels. It offers cover-to-cover content for hundreds of publications all directly dealing with food industry-related issues.

Food Science Source provides users with access to vital information from numerous industry-leading sources while offering unmatched coverage integral to all aspects of food science, nutrition and related areas. This database also provides quick access to critical information, including complete full text with images, tables, charts and other graphical content from many key titles. It also includes benchmarks and best practices, providing examples of food science-related practices and developments from a world-wide range of industry players.


Child Development & Adolescent Studies

Exploring Many Areas of Growth and Development of Children and Adolescents

This bibliographic database is today’s source for references to the current and historical literature related to growth and development of children through the age of 21.

Child Development & Adolescent Studies includes all issues of Child Development Abstracts & Bibliography from 1927 to 2001, previously published by the Society for Research in Child Development, and new coverage on child rights and welfare issues. It includes more than 417,000 records with over 18,000 new records added each year.


Hospitality & Tourism Complete

An Essential Resource for Hospitality and Tourism Research

This full-text database is a trusted and unique resource for information covering all areas of hospitality and tourism. In addition to full-text journals, it provides magazines, company and country reports, books and newspapers.

Hospitality & Tourism Complete includes full text for the top resources in the field, including the Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Education. Many of these resources are unique to the database and not available in any version of Business Source.

In addition to its full-text resources, the database includes all the comprehensive indexing and abstracts from Hospitality & Tourism Index (HTI). Sources are both domestic and international in range and scope.


Textile Technology Complete

Full-Text Comprehensive Coverage of Textile Production and Processing Resources

This extensive resource, which is the full-text counterpart of Textile Technology Index, provides coverage of the scientific and technological aspects of textile production and processing. Formerly the Institute of Textile Technology’s Textile Technology Digest, this database traces the body of knowledge in textile science and technology as far back as the early years of the 20th century.

Textile Technology Complete contains indexing and abstracting for more than 470 periodical titles, and nearly 905,000 records drawn from books, conferences, theses, technical reports and trade literature. Coverage spans the domestic and international arenas and includes publications covering major resources from the scientific community, as well as the apparel, home furnishings, flooring and polymer industries.This database also includes full text for nearly 75 journals, as well as more than 50 books and monographs, and is updated on a weekly basis to incorporate new content.