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Keeping it short and sweet this week, I'd like to remind you of the many incredible e-resources that are at your disposal wherever you are this semester. Fleet's e-collections can help you with coursework, research, and all manner of academic inquiry, but they also offer innumerable paths to escaping from it all. All you need to log into your library account is your name and RISD ID barcode. Need help exploring in the e-resource terrain? Our Research & Instruction Librarians are ready and eager to help. To get you started, this team has provided a few favorites below.

Be safe and well,

Margot McIlwain Nishimura

Dean of Libraries

JSTOR
JSTOR is a research database that provides access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. Fleet Library subscribes to several of JSTOR's Arts and Sciences Collections and, as a benefit of their COVID-19 access plan, has access to the full JSTOR suite of Arts and Sciences databases, including the new Sustainability Thematic Collection, until December 31, 2020. So get your searching and downloading done soon! (And by the way, did you know that your JSTOR search will now also return image results from Artstor?)

See below for a small sampling of covers from journals available on JSTOR: PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art (MIT Press ) ; Native American and Indigenous Studies (University of Minnesota Press) ; and Urban Studies (SAGE)

KANOPY
Kanopy is one of several streaming video sites that the library subscribes to. It provides access to over 6,000 educational documentaries arranged by collection. Subjects include arts, business, health, media, sciences, humanities and education. Because it is a mediated database, you do need to request titles for purchase, and you'll find more about that here. Our librarians highly recommend the following selection from the Kanopy films we've purchased recently: Daughters of the Dust, about a multi-generational family in the Gullah community on the Sea Islands off of South Carolina; Paula Rego: Telling Tales, on celebrated artist Paula Rego, described by one critic as "the best painter of women's experience alive today"; and You, the Living, wherein people of the Swedish city of Lethe, take part in a series of short vignettes, some seconds long, and none longer than two minutes.

BERG ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WORLD DRESS AND FASHION
The 10-volume Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion online explores the dressed and adorned body across cultures and throughout history. Volumes include Africa, Latin America And The Caribbean, The United States And Canada, Central And Southwest Asia, East Asia, Australia , New Zealand And The Pacific Islands , West Europe, East Europe , Russia And The Caucasus, and Global Perspectives. It is part of Fleet's subscription to the Berg Fashion Library, a vast collection of resources, including Reference Works, eBooks, Museum Exhibitions and Research and Learning Tools.