VCU Libraries: Inside The Collection

The four AIRAs that we will be introducing in this Roundup are: MintelProvider:  MintelName of AIRA: Mintel LeapStatus:  Enabled, included in subscriptionURL: https://www.mintel.com/products/leap-market-intelligence-ai/ Additional Information: Users must authenticate with their VCU email address for access and confirm work is for educational purposes. Brief Summary:Mintel Leap is an AI-powered research platform designed to help users access […]

VCU Libraries now offers Scopus, one of the world’s largest multidisciplinary abstract and citation databases. Covering scholarly literature across the basic and health sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities, Scopus provides citations and abstracts from academic journals, books, conference proceedings, preprints, patents and more. As VCU advances a research strategy centered on transdisciplinary collaboration to […]

The four AIRAs that we will be introducing in this Roundup are: EBSCOProvider:  EBSCOName of AIRA: EBSCO Natural Language Search [name change coming July 7, 2026 to AI-assisted search; see Additional Information]Status:  Enabled, included in subscriptionURL:  https://about.ebsco.com/artificial-intelligence/products/natural-language-search Additional Information: Message from EBSCO: To more clearly communicate how the feature works and the value it provides, […]

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 […]

Harris Stilson’s films offer rare scenes of Richmond a century ago A century ago, Richmonder motorman Harris H. Stilson ran one of the city’s now-defunct streetcars along the Old Clay Street line for 25 cents an hour. An amateur photographer, he brought his camera along to work and shot footage across the Richmond area. Traversing […]

The Art Browsery, located on the fourth floor of James Branch Cabell Library, is a curated display of books selected to spark your imagination. Visual arts librarian Carla-Mae Crookendale and arts collection librarian Emily Davis Winthrop handpick visually striking new titles on art, craft, and design, giving these books a moment in the spotlight they […]

Collaboration is a common practice in collection development in Special Collections and Archives, which houses records for many of Richmond’s seminal organizations. This year marks the centennial of the founding of the Junior League of Richmond, which has entrusted thousands of documents, images, scrapbooks, memorabilia and other materials to VCU Libraries’ care. More than 10 […]

VCU Libraries has licensed access to Science of Synthesis (SOS) by Thieme. It is a collection of curated, evaluated organic synthetic methods, available as an e-book series and searchable database. SOS provides critical reviews of synthetic methodology in organic and organometallic chemistry, organized systematically and logically by main functional groups. It provides an overview of an area, […]

VCU Libraries has upgraded access to AccessAnesthesiology, AccessEmergencyMedicine, AccessMedicine, and AccessSurgery from five simultaneous users to unlimited users.  This upgrade brings all of VCU Libraries’ McGraw-Hill Medical subscriptions to unlimited user licenses, broadening institutional access to core health sciences content in clinical and educational settings. Other McGraw-Hill Medical subscriptions include AccessPharmacy, AccessPhysiology, and JAMAevidence.  Ebook […]

VCU Libraries Special Collections & Archives added several new, exciting artist books to their collection in 2025. Here are a few highlights: The things we take (and the things we couldn’t) (2024), edition of 16 By Gino Romero, published by Booklyn, New YorkWooden box, 4 artworks, relief print, sticker, screws, glue, packing paper “I did […]