Bloomsbury is the preeminent fashion publisher for the academic market. We publish leading textbooks via our Fairchild Books imprint (click here), and from Bloomsbury we publish the award-winning Berg Fashion Library (click here) , Fashion Theory and other scholarly journals (click here), a large list of scholarly monographs (click here), and a host of other fashion-related materials. We are interested in learning about your thoughts on new directions in digital publishing we are currently considering. Please help us by responding the following brief, 12-question survey.

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* 1. Please tell us a bit about yourself.

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* 2. If you'd like to join our fashion mailing list, please tick the button below.

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* 3. If you will be attending ALA MidWinter and would be interested in discussing Bloomsbury's digital plans in person, please tick the button below.

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* 4. In what type of institution do you work?

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* 5. If your institution subscribes to any fashion subscription resources (or if you have these sites on your ‘wish list’ for future subscriptions), please rank them in order of importance for your institution, with #1 being most important:

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* 6. If you indicated "others" in the previous question, or if any of the products are on your wish list, please list them:

As noted above, Bloomsbury imprints publish a wide variety of fashion-related digital content.

We are considering moving all of our digital content onto a single, unified platform. Doing so would open up a number of product opportunities. For example, we could continue to offer the Berg Fashion Library (click here) as a standalone subscription, but for interested institutions, we could offer related content sets like the forthcoming Fashion Photography Archive (click here) , an archive of up to a million fashion images from the pre-digital photography era, or host textbook offerings from Fairchild Books and AVA Publications (click here) using the same indexing and allowing for cross-searching and inter-linking among modules. One model would be for students to purchase ebooks individually and then link through to our library subscription products so as to engage in a rich learning experience.

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* 7. Would digital textbooks from Fairchild Books and AVA Publications made accessible via the same interface and indexed using the same taxonomy as the Berg Fashion Library be relevant to your users' needs?

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* 8. Does your institution:

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* 9. Hypothetically, Fairchild Books textbooks could be offered to students along with free short term access to related research databases like the Berg Fashion Library. Would packaging database access with a textbook purchase be problematic for the library, whether it already subscribed to the research database or not?

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* 10. Would your institution be likely to purchase an online product that offered help for students launching their careers in the fashion business (help finding internships, developing a resume and cover letter, job postings, etc.) ?

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* 11. Would you be more likely to purchase if the Careers content were on the same platform, available through the same access control system and was integrated with whatever other Bloomsbury subscription content was accessed by your institution?

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* 12. Feel free to add any additional comments.

Thank you for participating!

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