Update 4 Live: New Articles, E-Books and Links to Oxford Art Online
January 6, 2012
This fourth update brings a host of new content and functionality:
NEW CONTENT
1. Nine new articles for the Online Exclusives section of the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion:
- Snapshot: African Print Textiles from China, Nina Sylvanus (Africa)
- Costa Rica, Jose Blanco (Latin America and the Caribbean)
- Snapshot: Paterson, New Jersey, Silk Industry, Mary Masilamani (The United States and Canada)
- Black Leather Jacket, Marilyn DeLong, Monica Sklar, Kelly Mohs Gage and Juyeon Park (The United States and Canada)
- Snapshot: Film and Fashion in Post-Mao China, Juanjuan Wu and Yao Chen (East Asia)
- Hair, Sarah Cheang and Geraldine Biddle-Perry (Global Perspectives)
- Global Denim, Daniel Miller and Sophie Woodward (Global Perspectives)
- Snapshot: Nineteenth-Century Medical Views on Dress, Margaret Deppe (Global Perspectives)
- A Brief History of the Purse up to 1930, Kathleen Campbell and Jean McElvain (Global Perspectives)
2. 10 new e-books:
- Aesthetic Economy of Fashion, The
- Beads and Bead Makers
- Body Dressing
- Clothed Body, The
- Clothing as Material Culture
- Dressing Up Debutantes
- Fashion Foundations
- Fashion under Fascism
- Fashion Zeitgeist
- Fashion's World Cities
3. 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