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Design
This site presents relevant resources in the field of your education.
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Bloomsbury Design Library
Bloomsbury Design Library provides access to a range of reference works covering history, theory and practice of crafts and design, from prehistoric times to the present day.
Contents include: Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design, World History of Design, Encyclopedia of Asian Design, museum collection images, exhibition archives, Timeline of the History of Design, and much more.
Students are allowed to use the contents of the database in study projects.
Access to Bloomsbury Design Library (Access outside VIA: Select VIA University College as your institution. Use your login for MyVIA. Remember to enter the full email address.)
Guide: Bloomsbury Design Librarys help functionality
Contact: Anja Egedius Sørensen, aes@via.dk
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Bloomsbury Fashion Central
Bloomsbury Fashion Central provides access to the two databases Fairchild Books Library and Fashion Photography Archive.
Fairchild Books Library contains approximately 150 full-text e-books about fashion. Topics include construction, draping, fashion business management, history, illustration, journalism, marketing, promotion, pattern making, styling, product development, sustainable fashion, textiles, and more.
Fashion Photography Archive contains more than 750,000 images featuring forty years of contemporary fashion history. Furthermore, the archive provides access to a number of videos, biographies, and articles, covering topics like fashion cities, catwalk shows, textiles, etc.
Students are allowed to use the contents of the database in study projects.
Access to Bloomsbury Fashion Central (Access outside VIA: Select VIA University College as your institution. Use your login for MyVIA. Remember to enter the full email address.)
Guide: Bloomsbury Fashion Centrals guide
Contact: Anja Egedius Sørensen, aes@via.dk
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Furnitureindex.dk
Index of Danish Furniture from the 20th and 21st century created by Design Museum Denmark. Contains information and pictures of more than 10.000 furniture. It is possible to search for designer, model, function and period. Det er muligt blandt andet at søge på designer, model, funktion og periode.
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Kunstindeks Danmark and Weilbachs Kunstnerleksikon
Access to Kunstindeks Danmark, where you can find artists and artworks in Danish state-owned and state-subsidised museums.
Access to Weilbachs, the digital version of the printed encyclopaedia of Danish artists and architects.Access to Kunstindeks Danmark and Weilbachs Kunstnerleksikon
International articles
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Business Source Premier
Business Source Premier is one of the industry's most widely used research databases that provides full text access to more than 2,500 journals, including full text of more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. This database covers all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Contains articles from journals such as Harvard Business Review, The Economist and Newsweek. In addition to articles, the database also contains SWOT analysis, company and industry profiles. The database is updated daily.
Access to Business Source Premier (Access outside VIA: Select VIA University College as your institution. Use your login for MyVIA. Remember to enter the full email address.)
Contact: Stine Godsk Skyum, stgs@via.dk
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Communication & Mass Media Complete
Article database within communication and mass media.
Access to Communication & Mass Media Complete (Access outside VIA: Select VIA University College as your institution. Use your login for MyVIA. Remember to enter the full email address.)
Contact: Gitte Jensen, gj@via.dk
Market information
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MarketLine Advantage
Market Line is an international business database, where it is possible to find:
- Over 30,000 company profiles often with background description, SWOT analysis and competitors.
- More than 10,000 industry profiles at country level, unified Europe or globally.
- Country profiles with comprehensive description of each country, including PESTLE analysis (Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal and Environmental)
- Selected case studies
- Statistics on countries and markets
Access to MarketLine Advantage (Access outside VIA: Select VIA University College as your institution. Use your login for MyVIA. Remember to enter the full email address.)
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Passport
Market Database containing analytics and statistics:
- Industry reports for various products and services containing the information on market shares and size, estimates of future development, distribution patterns
- Consumption behaviour and trends
- Country reports including facts, analysis on economics, business, society and energy, import / export
Passport is published by: Euromonitor
Access to Passport (Access outside VIA: Select VIA University College as your institution. Use your login for MyVIA. Remember to enter the full email address.)On Passports site you can find manuals and video tutorials, that will guide you on how to use the database
Tutorial Videos
Passport for Academics - Introduction
PEST Analysis
Search Tree
Keyword Searching and Refining Results
Dashboards
Contact: Stine Godsk Skyum, stgs@via.dk
Ecolabels
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Ecolabelling Denmark
The two officially approved ecolabels in Denmark: The Nordic Ecolabel and the European Ecolabel.
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Oeko-tex
Health labelling for textiles. Information about how to get the label and products who have the label. Only in Danish.
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The EU Ecolabel
EU homepage about ecolabels. Products with the ecolabel and criteria for receiving the ecolabel.