Featured Resources for Faculty of Science and School of Fashion and Textiles
SciFinder-n, the enhanced version of SciFinder, is a comprehensive database for chemical research, developed by the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS). It offers extensive content, from journal articles to detailed information on chemical structures, properties, and reactions. You can search the content by topic, author, substances by name, CAS Registry Number, or even by drawing the chemical structures (see the tutorial here).
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Just-style.com is an online resource dedicated to providing comprehensive news, analysis, and insights into the global apparel and textile industry. It caters to professionals across the supply chain, offering in-depth coverage of key topics such as market trends, manufacturing innovations, sustainability practices, and regulatory developments.
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Media Resources
“Surprised to learn from her Nigerian grandmother that ‘traditional’ African wax printed fabrics were a colonial invention made in the UK and Holland, British-born filmmaker and fashion designer, Aiwan Obinyan, sets out on a journey across the globe to trace the two-hundred year history of this iconic textile.
From the intricate hand-crafted batiks of Indonesia to the cotton fields of North America and from European industrial mills to the bustling markets of West Africa, the story of how one fabric came to symbolise a continent, its people and their struggle for freedom." - from Kanopy.
From the intricate hand-crafted batiks of Indonesia to the cotton fields of North America and from European industrial mills to the bustling markets of West Africa, the story of how one fabric came to symbolise a continent, its people and their struggle for freedom." - from Kanopy.
“The planet is being overwhelmed with clothes. Close to 56 million tons of clothes are sold every year. In Europe, the amount purchased has almost doubled since the year 2000. Thanks to fast disposable fashion, you can constantly renew your wardrobe. But producing clothes at such a low price has a very high environmental cost. This film explores the bad practices of the textile industry, the most polluting industry in the world after oil.” - from Kanopy.
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中國近代圖書庫 (Books of Modern China)
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中國近代報紙庫 (Chinese and English Newspaper of Modern China)
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