VCU Libraries: Inside The Collection

VCU Libraries added these journals and digital resources to the collection in 2023-24. Journal Backfiles New Journal Subscriptions Reference Titles LWW Health Library bridge ebook collections Compiled by Karen Cary

VCU Libraries collections include many technical and engineering standards from ASTM International, available on ASTM Compass and from IEEE, available on IEEE Xplore. Standards from many other organizations are not part of VCU Libraries’ collections. For these standards, access becomes more complicated.  VCU Libraries’ Interlibrary Loan system includes a form to request standards, but few […]

VCU Libraries has launched the VCU Pressbooks platform for publishing open textbooks and other open educational resources. This initiative is part of a broader program of support for the use of open educational resources (OER).  Pressbooks is free to VCU instructors and makes it easy to create and edit materials and to collaborate with co-authors. […]

PolicyMap is an online data and mapping tool for demographic and socioeconomic analyses. It includes broad categories of data on:  Data is available at common U.S. geographies such as address, block group, census tract, zip code, county, city, state, and Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), as well as other geographies such as school districts, watersheds, hospital […]

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 […]