Popular Databases

1. PubMed/MEDLINE VCU
   The primary database of information in biomedical and health sciences fields.
2. Academic Search Complete VCU VIVA
   Comprehensive scholarly multi-disciplinary full-text database. Includes over 5,500 full-text periodicals and indexing/abstracting for over 9,500 journals. Covers science, social sciences, mathematics, engineering, and many other subjects.
3. Web of Science VCU
   Citation databases including Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, and Social Sciences Citation Index for searches by cited reference, topic, and author.
4. PsycINFO (Psychological Abstracts) VCU VIVA
   APA database of abstracts for psychological literature. Includes journals, dissertations, reports, book chapters, and other scholarly documents. Covers 1887 - present (limited coverage from 1887 - 1926).
5. CINAHL Complete VCU
   Expanded version of the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature with full text for over 1300 journals, plus evidence-based care sheets, legal cases, drug records, and more than 200 books.
6. Social Work Abstracts VCU
   Abstracts of articles from social work and other related journals on a variety of social work topics. Produced by the National Association of Social Workers, Inc.
7. JSTOR VCU
   Searchable backfiles of core journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. (Backfiles end 3 - 5 years prior to current date).
8. Google Scholar
   Scholarly literature crawled by Google.
9. Project Muse VCU VIVA
   Portal to electronic collection of about 200 journals from 30 not-for-profit publishers.
10. WorldCat.org
    Over 1 billion items (books, music, video, and articles) in more than 10,000 libraries worldwide.