Fashion Design & Merchandising

Articles are found in periodicals which are published on a regular basis (weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, quarterly, etc.) These include:

• Newspapers
• Magazines
• Trade Publications
• Scholarly Articles

Current events are usually discussed in periodicals long before they become the subject of a book.

Periodicals often contain information on the latest trends, products, research and theories.

Watch the video in this section from ProQuest Research Companion about Scholarly Articles.

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Explore library online article resources in this section.  Try searching with keywords like 'fashion merchandising', 'fashion design', 'fashion industry' or other combinations of related terms. Ask a Librarian if you need help.

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Take Finding & Evaluating Articles with a Librarian to learn strategies for doing research with articles. This workshop is available live in-person at the Library and over Zoom, and self-paced in Canvas.

Key Topics in this Workshop

• Use a general article database to search for scholarly and non-scholarly articles
• Discover and use effective search terms
• Use search techniques to narrow results
• Evaluate and troubleshoot search results
• Distinguish between scholarly and non-scholarly articles (peer review process)

Who should attend? Students who want to learn research techniques and strategies for finding articles. You will use a general article database useful for many different types of research topics in this workshop.

Prior experience needed? No prior experience is needed. 

TIP: You can use your own research topic for several of the research activities in this workshop.