The Wait Is Over: ProQuest Invites Librarians to Experience Vogue Archive
The award-winning Vogue Archive—every page from every issue of American Vogue from 1892 to today—will be available for free trial on ProQuest’s websites and online industry news sources around the world from February 2 through February 16. The new and unprecedented product, which puts 120 years of fashion and culture online within fingertip reach, has been named Best New Database of 2011 by Library Journal and Best Content Aggregation Service in the Software Information Industry Association’s CODiE Awards. The Vogue Archive is available to libraries worldwide through ProQuest® services.
"With so many so eager to see the Vogue Archive, we’re opening it for a few weeks. Librarians can now experience this incredible trove for themselves and explore history through the lens of one of culture’s greatest influencers,” said Mary Sauer-Games, ProQuest’s Senior Vice President of Publishing.
Librarians can access the Vogue Archive’s half million image-rich pages, examining the work of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries’ greatest designers, photographers, stylists, illustrators, and more. ProQuest’s signature crisp, clean digital images vividly reproduce Twiggy’s swing dress, Salvador Dali’s surrealist cover for beachwear, Grace Coddington’s elegant, intriguing fashion spreads, and more.
While it is a visual phenomenon, the Vogue Archive is also designed for serious research. It’s supported by precision data, making the smallest details on every page, including ads and covers, fully searchable. Individual images within the pages have been indexed, allowing users to find articles containing a certain garment type, designer, fabric and countless other search fields instantly, with expert results. For example, a search of "Dior" in the Vogue Archive will return in seconds a complete retrospective on the design house including appearances in features, photo shoots, illustrations, and ads, all through the most current issue. Until now, fashion historians conducted these searches manually through rare, fragile archival copies of the magazine.
The Vogue Archive can be experienced by visiting any ProQuest website, including www.proquest.com, Library Journal’s eViews (reviews.libraryjournal.com/category/blogs/eviews/?ref=menu), American Libraries (www.americanlibrariesmagazine.org), or Against the Grain’s News Channel (www.against-the-grain.com).
“We think this free access is going to make a lot of people happy,” said Ms. Sauer-Games. “When the tweets from librarians say they’re crying with excitement, you know the product is right on target.”
About Vogue
The foundation of Vogue’s leadership and authority is the brand¹s unique role as a cultural barometer for a global audience. Vogue places fashion in the context of culture and the world we live in -- how we dress, live, and socialize; what we eat, listen to, and watch; who leads and inspires us. Vogue invests in the industry at large, and continues to lead readers to what will happen next. Thought-provoking, relevant, and always influential, the power of Vogue continues to define the culture of fashion.
Follow us on Twitter @voguemagazine.
About Condé Nast
Condé Nast is home to some of the world¹s most celebrated media brands. In the United States, Condé Nast publishes 18 consumer magazines, four business-to-business publications, 27 websites, and more than 40 apps for mobile and tablet devices, all of which define excellence in their categories. The company also owns Fairchild Fashion Media (FFM), whose portfolio of brands serves as the leading source of news and analysis for the global fashion community. Condé Nast has won more National Magazine Awards over the past ten years than all of its competitors combined.
Follow us on Twitter @CondeNastCorp.
About ProQuest (www.proquest.com)
ProQuest connects people with vetted, reliable information. Key to serious research, the company has forged a 70-year reputation as a gateway to the world's knowledge — from dissertations to governmental and cultural archives to news, in all its forms. Its role is essential to libraries and other organizations whose missions depend on the delivery of complete, trustworthy information.
ProQuest's massive information pool is made accessible in research environments that accelerate productivity, empowering users to discover, create, and share knowledge.
An energetic, fast-growing organization, ProQuest includes the ProQuest®, Bowker®, Dialog®, ebrary®, and Serials Solutions® businesses and notable research tools such as the RefWorks®, and Pivot™ services, as well as its' Summon® web-scale discovery service. The company is headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with offices around the world.