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Slide 2 Online Resources From Oxford University Press Slide 3 This presentation gives a brief description of the Berg Fashion Library It tells you what the Berg Fashion Library is how it can help you how to look for information in it The presentation will take about 4 minutes Slide 4 www.bergfashionlibrary.com The Berg Fashion Library is a unique online portal which offers fully cross-searchable access to an expanding range of Berg content collections including the 10 volumes of the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion online, e-books, reference works, images, and much more. Slide 5 www.bergfashionlibrary.com It is updated three times a year to keep students, scholars and professionals at the cutting edge of their subject. It caters to a wide range of subject areas, including fashion, garment manufacture, anthropology, sociology and geography. Slide 6 www.bergfashionlibrary.com The site has already won several prestigious awards, including the 2011 Dartmouth Medal, the 2011 Frankfurt Book Fair Digital Award, the 2011 Bookseller Futurebook Award for best website and the 2013 Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Electronic Reference Award. Slide 7 www.bergfashionlibrary.com The Berg Fashion Librarys image collection includes 2000 images from the print Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, 1,600 from the Victoria and Albert Museum's internationally renowned fashion collection, 2,000 from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute collection, 600 images from MoMu Fashion Museum, Belgium, and more. 500 images from the Fashion Museum, Bath (of a total of 1,000 to come) and 2,000 images from the Commercial Pattern Archive (CoPA) have recently been added. Mouse over any image to light it up or click to see the full-sized image. Slide 8 www.bergfashionlibrary.com You can search the entire content at once. hat Slide 9 www.bergfashionlibrary.com From the results, you can then either refine the search using the taxonomy in the left column or use the Search Within Results box. military Slide 10 www.bergfashionlibrary.com Slide 11 From content (and results) pages, you can print the page, save it to your personal area My Stuff, send it by email, change the text size and contrast, and share on social networking sites. Slide 12 www.bergfashionlibrary.com You can also explore the site by time or place. Slide 13 www.bergfashionlibrary.com Drag the box on the timeline for images from that period. Slide 14 This presentation shows only a small part of the Berg Fashion Library. If you want to find out more you can: click here for the full product tour read the FAQs look for a live online demo email us at [email protected]@oup.com Slide 15 You can see similar presentations on other Oxford University Press online resources in the Librarian Resource Centre www.oup.com/uk/academic/online/librarians Slide 16 Online Products, Oxford University Press Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, OX2 6DP [email protected] +44 (0) 1865 353705 +44 (0) 1865 353308 For further information about all online resources from Oxford, and to request institutional free trials and price quotations please contact your library supplier or Oxford University Press: