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These resources are only available to students currently enrolled student or employees of The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale. All resources require usernames and passwords that you can get in person at the library OR email the library from your ai email address (@stu.aii.edu). We're sorry but we can not give the information out over the phone or to an email that is not your ai email account.
Please be aware that many of these resources MUST be accessed through the link listed here. If you bookmark the link you may not be able to get into it from the bookmarked link. Please bookmark this page instead.
Art resources
Oxford Art Online
The Grove Dictionary of Art contains 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts - painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography - from prehistory to the present day.
NEW!!! Need help figuring out how to seach Oxford Art Online? Follow our tutorial on basic search skills for Oxford Art Online.
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Business/Company resources
Hoovers
Hoover's, Inc., delivers comprehensive company, industry, and market intelligence to 12 million companies, with in-depth coverage of 40,000 of the world's top business enterprises.
Marketresearch.com
MarketResearch.com Academic makes detailed market research reports from leading sources.
Employers USA must access via the library’s website “Search Other Sources” page Password : 954+ your student ID # (making a 9 digit number)
Search 13 million US businesses. Retrieve address and telephone numbers. You can sort by city, state zip. You can search by name, SIC code, NAICS code.
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Demographic resources
Dictionaries, Thesaurus and more
Fashion & trend forecasting sources
Marketresearch.com
MarketResearch.com Academic makes detailed market research reports from leading sources.
Fashion Snoops
facts, figures and photos from around the world that you need and want among the coverage pages, including lifestyle trends, runway, retail, street, vintage, trade shows, happenings, market intelligence, news and editorial. The forecasting services offer focused, on-trend, accurate, invaluable reports, that include such topics as emerging trends, design and color direction, key bodies, graphics, and fabrics.
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Green (Eco) resources
Building Green Suite
Articles, reviews, and news from Environmental Building News (EBN) are integrated with product listings from the GreenSpec products directory and project case studies from the High-Performance Buildings Database.
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Magazine articles
eLibrary
Electric Library contains hundreds of thousands of magazine articles, TV and radio transcripts and newspapers.
HW Wilson OmniFile Full-Text
HW Wilson contains thousands of journal articles. HW Wilson is one of the oldest journal article indexing companies in the world
Need help searching HW Wilson? Please go to our tutorial on searching HW Wilson
Proquest Articles and Business Resources
ABI Complete [business-focused content], Proquest Research Library [multisubject], PQ Psychology,
National Newspapers 27 [full text of major regional dailies], Electric Library
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Self-paced online software tutorials
Total Training
Online training on Adobe, Microsoft and Apple software programs.Currently over 150 courses are available with more being add all the time.
Virtual Training Company (VTC)
In-depth training on hundreds of today's most sought-after applications, with over 55,794 narrated QuickTime movies. You have access to ALL VTC content! Movies can be streamed over any Internet connection directly to your computer.
Stock Photography
Getty images
1/2010 - Everyone needs to sign a new Getty Contract with us. Please come into the library or email us for the Getty Contract form. We must have this before we can give you the new password.
WARNING: PLEASE under NO circumstances should you change anything in the My Account/Profile area. If you do, you will disable the account.
First time users must come into the library and sign an I-Promise form to get the password to log in. After an I-Promise form is on file we will be able to send you updated passwords if you email us, aifl_library@aii.edu from your ai student email account.
Getty is one of several large vendors of licensed and other rights-managed stock imagery, editorial imagery (e.g., pix of celebs, news events) and motion video. They sell to advertising and PR professionals. We are their first academic customer. The Art Institutes are licensing a subset of their full line: royalty-free RF images. All the other rights-managed images are viewable at Gettyimage.com, but need to be purchased by the user if wanted. They are not included in the AI subscription.
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A to Z list of all the resources on this page
ALL databases require usernames and passwords for accessing. Access is only available to current students and faculty at The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale. You must come into the library in person or request this information using your aii.edu email account. We are sorry but we can not give you the information over the phone or send it to a non aii email account.
Building Green Suite
Articles, reviews, and news from Environmental Building News (EBN) are integrated with product listings from the GreenSpec products directory and project case studies from the High-Performance Buildings Database.
eLibrary
Electric Library contains hundreds of thousands of magazine articles, TV and radio transcripts and newspapers.
Employers USA must access through this link (Employers USA )
Search 13 million US businesses. Retrieve address and telephone numbers. You can sort by city, state zip. You can search by name, SIC code, NAICS code.
Fashion Snoops
facts, figures and photos from around the world that you need and want among the coverage pages, including lifestyle trends, runway, retail, street, vintage, trade shows, happenings, market intelligence, news and editorial. The forecasting services offer focused, on-trend, accurate, invaluable reports, that include such topics as emerging trends, design and color direction, key bodies, graphics, and fabrics.
Getty images
All users must come into the library and sign an I-Promise form to get the password to log in the first time. After an I-Promise form is on file we will be able to send you updated passwords if you email us, aifl_library@aii.edu from your ai student email account.
Getty is one of several large vendors of licensed and other rights-managed stock imagery, editorial imagery (e.g., pix of celebs, news events) and motion video. They sell to advertising and PR professionals. We are their first academic customer. The Art Institutes are licensing a subset of their full line: royalty-free RF images. All the other rights-managed images are viewable at Gettyimage.com, but need to be purchased by the user if wanted. They are not included in the AI subscription.
Hoovers
Hoover's, Inc., delivers comprehensive company, industry, and market intelligence to 12 million companies, with in-depth coverage of 40,000 of the world's top business enterprises.
HW Wilson OmniFile Full-Text
HW Wilson contains thousands of journal articles. HW Wilson is one of the oldest journal article indexing companies in the world.
Marketresearch.com
MarketResearch.com Academic makes detailed market research reports from leading sources.
Oxford Art Online
The Grove Dictionary of Art contains 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts - painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography - from prehistory to the present day.
Oxford Premium Reference
Dictionaries, Thesauruses, Encyclopedias, Quotation Sources, Maps.
Proquest Articles and Business Resources
ABI Complete [business-focused content], Proquest Research Library [multisubject], PQ Psychology,
National Newspapers 27 [full text of major regional dailies], Electric Library
Total Training
Online training on Adobe, Microsoft and Apple software programs.Currently over 150 courses are available with more being add all the time.
Virtual Training Company (VTC)
In-depth training on hundreds of today's most sought-after applications, with over 55,794 narrated QuickTime movies. You have access to ALL VTC content! Movies can be streamed over any Internet connection directly to your computer.
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