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Academic Search CompleteVCU VIVA
Multi-disciplinary database providing indexing, abstracts, and full-text access for thousands of peer-reviewed journals and periodicals, among other materials. Covers science, social sciences, mathematics, engineering, and many other subjects.

African Diaspora, 1860 - PresentVCU
Personal accounts, video, and primary sources document the global migrations and contributions of people of African descent.

ArchivesSpace
VCU Special Collections & Archives database for searching archival and manuscript collections held by VCU Libraries.

ArticleFirstVCU VIVA
Citations for items listed in the table of contents of thousands of journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture.

Associates Programs SourceVCU VIVA
Full-text journals and books covering a range of subjects including substance abuse counseling, forensics, criminal justice, biotechnology, health information technology, robotics, graphic arts, interior design, and others.

Book Citation IndexVCU
Citation counts and cited reference search for books, journals, and conference proceedings in the social sciences, humanities, and sciences.

Britannica OnlineVCU
Access to Encyclopaedia Britannica, news, magazines, journals, web sites, research tools, and multimedia.

Center for Research Libraries Catalog - CRLVCU
U.S. and international newspapers, journals, government documents, foreign dissertations, archives and other primary source materials available through interlibrary loan and digital delivery.

Conference Proceedings Citation Index - ScienceVCU
Covers published literature from the most significant conferences, symposia, seminars, workshops, colloquia, and conventions worldwide, from 1990 - present.

Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Social Sciences & HumanitiesVCU
Covers published literature from the most significant conferences, seminars, workshops, symposia, colloquia, and conventions worldwide, from 1990 - present.

Current Contents ConnectVCU
Provides access to tables of contents, abstracts, and bibliographic information from the most recently published issues of leading scholarly journals, as well as thousands of relevant websites.

Data Citation IndexVCU
Provides a single searchable interface to discover the most highly cited scholarly research data from a variety of repositories worldwide.

Derwent Innovations IndexVCU
Research tool that provides access to cited and citing patents, articles, and full-text patent data sources. Provides a comprehensive and international overview of inventions in three categories: chemical, electrical and electronic, and engineering.

EBSCOhost Research DatabasesVCU VIVA
Databases covering education, art, health sciences, and social sciences.

FirstSearch DatabasesVCU VIVA
Provides access to a wide variety of articles in a number of databases as well as the OCLC WorldCat catalog of international library holdings.

Google Scholar
Open web resource that allows users to search for journal articles, citations, theses, preprints, and book availability on the web. How to use Google Scholar at VCU

Government Printing Office (GPO) Monthly CatalogVCU VIVA
Citations for publications of the U.S. government. Includes legislative materials and the vast array of publications from the executive branch agencies.

Grzimek's Animal LifeVCU
Image-rich dynamic web version of the 17-volume standard print Encyclopedia of Animal Life. Peer-reviewed, comprehensive coverage on all forms of animal life with articles from international experts.

HathiTrust Digital Library
Vast repository of digital content. Searchable access to millions of books, journals, and other serials covering all subjects and many languages. Full-text access to public domain and open access items.

Latin American Newspapers Series I & IIVCU
Digitized Central and South American newspapers published from 1805 to 1922 in Spanish, Portuguese, and English, chronicling the evolution of Latin America through eyewitness reports, editorials, legislative information, advertisements, and more.

MasterFILE PremierVCU VIVA
Indexing, abstracts, and select full-text periodicals, reference books, and primary source documents. Covers business, health, education, and science, among other disciplines. Includes an extensive image collection with photos, maps, and flags.

NCBI Global Query
The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) provides access to biomedical and genomic information. This query allows you to search across NCBI databases simultaneously. Results indicate the number of records in each database.

O'Reilly for Higher EducationVCU VIVA
E-books, videos, live online training, case studies, and interactive learning programs on topics ranging from programming and IT networking to graphic design, project management and business strategy.

Opposing Viewpoints in ContextVCU
Full-text access to differing points of view on current social issues. Includes essays, overviews, primary source documents, biographies, articles, tables, charts, graphs, podcasts, and images.

Oxford English DictionaryVCU VIVA
Searchable, browseable full text of the Oxford English Dictionary, containing definitions, etymological analysis, variant spellings, and pronunciation.

Oxford Reference OnlineVCU VIVA
Access to dictionaries and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. Titles cover virtually all subjects in the humanities, social sciences, business, the sciences, language, and general reference.

PapersFirstVCU VIVA
Index to papers included in every congress, conference, exposition, workshop, symposium, and meeting received at The British Library Document Supply Center.

ProceedingsVCU VIVA
Citations for every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received at The British Library. Provides a list of papers presented at each conference.

ProQuest DatabasesVCU VIVA
Databases covering the sciences, health sciences, arts, business, and social sciences.

Social Sciences Citation IndexVCU
References and article abstracts from journal literature across a variety of social sciences disciplines. Search by cited reference, topic, and author. Web of Science Tutorial

Washington PostVCU
The Washington Post covers local, national and global news, national security and politics, business, technology, arts and entertainment, health and medicine, and sports. Opinion columnists focus on politics, economics, culture, and global concerns.

Web of ScienceVCU
Cross-search multiple databases including the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, Book Citation Index, and Conference Proceedings Citation Index, as well as Chemical Indexes.

WorldCat (via FirstSearch)VCU VIVA
Consolidated catalog of items held by OCLC member libraries worldwide. WorldCat FirstSearch is the subscription version of the WorldCat database, with advanced search options and result listing by number of copies available.

WorldCat.org
Open-access version of the WorldCat catalog of books, music, video, articles, and more held by OCLC member libraries worldwide.