VCU Libraries: Inside The Collection

VCU Libraries has digitized the archive of Virginia Dental Association Journals in partnership with the Virginia Dental Association (VDA).  The VDA began publishing the Bulletin of the Virginia State Dental Association in August 1921. In June of 1964, the VDA changed the title of the serial to the Virginia Dental Journal.  Over the years, the […]

James Branch Cabell Library is home to the records of the Girl Scouts Commonwealth Council of Virginia. The Commonwealth Council records include documents, photographs, textiles and artifacts that chronicle the evolution of Girl Scouting in the Greater Richmond, Virginia area. The Commonwealth Council of the Girl Scouts of Virginia — which includes materials from approximately 1913 through […]

Artstor — the digital library of high quality images from leading museums, photo archives,scholars, and artists around the world — is now part of JSTOR, joining scholarly literature, primary sources and helpful tools on one platform to strengthen the depth of your teaching and research. These two resources will become one on August 1, 2024, […]

Need inspiration on your schedule? Explore VCU Libraries’ extensive collection of videos created to make your research process better, faster and smarter. Sessions from the Advance Your Research workshop series can be viewed anytime, anywhere on YouTube. These videos cover key issues for graduate students including literature reviews, research sources and strategies, data management and […]

The Roper Center’s Health Poll Database includes 80 years of health-related U.S. survey questions and answers and covers topics ranging from medical cost and health care use to social determinants of health and much more. Polls can be searched or browsed through a visual map. Demographic crosstabs and trend line charts of questions that have been […]

Did you know that you can search for classes based on textbook costs? In 2019, the Virginia General Assembly passed a law requiring all public higher education institutions to “identify conspicuously in the online course catalogue or registration system…each course for which the instructor exclusively uses no cost or low-cost course materials” (VA § 23.1-1308). At […]

Reach your limit of free news articles? Free full text access is available to the Richmond Times Dispatch, Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Chronicle of Higher Education through their online websites, or through their item records in VCU Libraries Search (Richmond Times Dispatch | Washington Post | New York Times | Wall Street Journal | Chronicle of Higher Education ). Image: AbsolutVision on Unsplash

The Art Browsery, a dedicated book display on the fourth floor, James Branch Cabell Library, offers new, beautiful books that can inform creativity and inspire creations.  During the Covid crisis, the section was retired for safety reasons because glossy paper stock was known to retain the virus. Now, it’s back. Arts librarians at Cabell have […]

VCU Libraries now provides access to the LWW Health Library: Premium Basic Sciences Health Collection, which includes core biomedical science ebooks in anatomy, microbiology/immunology, pathology and physiology. This resource also includes ebooks on basic clinical topics, such as Bates’ Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking, as well as skill performance evaluation lists, case studies, […]

Thanks to an ongoing partnership with Barnes and Noble@VCU, VCU Libraries is able to notify faculty on both the Monroe Park and MCV campuses when a book they are assigning is available as an unlimited user ebook. Although purchasing traditional textbooks (e.g. Algebra 1, Introduction to US History) falls outside of our collection guidelines, we […]