News

The fourth update of the year brings a host of new content and functionality:

NEW CONTENT

• Nine new articles for the Online Exclusives section of the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion
• 10 new e-books
• New collection page for the Commercial Pattern Archive (CoPA), with images to follow in 2012

 
NEW FUNCTIONALITY

• Direct linking through to third-party hosted journal content using an OpenURL resolver
  
• Activation of external links to Oxford Art Online for subscribers on SAMS as “Grove Art” (as well as “Oxford Art Online”)
  
• Internal links from V&A images to articles on individual designers in the A to Z of Fashion

The Berg Fashion Library has been awarded with an ALPSP (Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers) Highly Commended Certificate for Publishing Innovation 2011. The Winner was announced at the 2011 ALPSP International Conference at Heythrop Park, near Oxford, UK from 14-16 September.

Now Live! More content including images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Berg has partnered with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York to bring 2000+ images from the internationally renowned Costume Institute’s collection to be available through the Berg Fashion Library. 500 images are now live on the site.

New this month:

• Seven new articles for the Online Exclusives section of the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion

• 500 images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. This is the first of four groups of images from the Met

• Lesson Plans with links through to online content

• Several hundred links to Oxford Art Online

The Berg Fashion Library has been shortlisted for the for the ALPSP (Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers) Award for Publishing Innovation 2011. The Winner will be announced at the 2011 ALPSP International Conference at Heythrop Park, near Oxford, UK from 14-16 September.

Glowing write-ups in Reference Reviews and Booklist

The Encyclopedia and Berg Fashion Library received the following praise from Oscar Courtney, Assistant Librarian at Manchester Metropolitan University, in Reference Reviews:

"An absolutely absorbing resource ... I never tired of discovering many of the numerous and fascinating facts, contained within, and it was a joy!"

Following up from their starred reviews of the Berg Fashion Library and Encyclopedia, Booklist also ran a feature in their Focus: Inside the 2011 Dartmouth Medal Winner article:

"In a world of fewer new reference sources either in print or online, the hard work, will, and determination of Berg have come to fruition in an exciting new resource. Congratulations to the little company that could."

Read the full article.

More content LIVE on the multi-award winning Berg Fashion Library

The newly added Classic and Modern Writings on Fashion are 67 seminal pieces which together form the foundations of fashion theory and methodology. They include classic and contemporary essays and primary sources and are an essential grounding for any student or scholar of fashion, dress and costume.

Joanne B. Eicher, Editor of the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, and Phyllis Tortora, Editor of the North American volume, discuss the challenges of creating a 10-volume, 3.6-million-word major reference work on dress across cultures and throughout history. They also discuss how the study of fashion has changed over time and why fashion is anything but frivolous.

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Multi-award winner Berg Fashion Library is updating with fantastic new content!

The first update to the Berg Fashion Library is now live and includes:

New Images:

• 600 images from MoMu Fashion Museum, Belgium
  
• 230 sample images from collections including the London College of Fashion and The Museum at FIT

Journal Links:

The Berg Fashion Library now includes links to Berg journal articles. This enables subscribers of both products to seamlessly jump to journal content from Berg Fashion Library.

The Berg Fashion Library has won its fourth award in as many months!

It won The Bookseller's FutureBook Digital Innovation Award for Best Website 2011, as announced in a ceremony in Central London on 17 March.

From The Bookseller:

Berg Fashion Library was praised for being both well-executed and having a clear business strategy behind it. Kate Wilson, NosyCrow founder, commented: "A beautifully presented website that was distinctive from the other websites, which were marketing tools, by being an established business in itself". Jo Naylor, general manager, digital content sales at John Wiley, said Berg was "an incredibly ambitious project in terms of output and business model, with a highly successful and beautifully produced result".

This award is just the latest in a series of acclaim bestowed on the Berg Fashion Library and Berg Encyclopedia of Word Dress and Fashion, which have won:

• 2011 Dartmouth Medal (awarded to print and online)
• ALA Outstanding Reference Source (awarded to print and online)
• Independent Publishers Guild Frankfurt Book Fair Digital Award

For more information on the above awards, please click here.

The Independent Publishers Guild has awarded Berg the Frankfurt Book Fair Digital Award for the Berg Fashion Library.

From the IPG:

Berg Publishers has secured its second success in this category, having won its previous incarnation—the E-Publishing Award—in 2008. It triumphed this time for the successful launch of the Berg Fashion Library, which was hailed by the judges for its ambition and for better-than-forecast sales figures. “This is an amazing project that has been carefully developed and beautifully executed,” they said. “It will be used for a very long time in its market.” Judges also hailed the breadth of digital innovation on display from independents in this category.