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, […]

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, […]

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 […]

VCU Libraries continuously improves its collection with strategic choices designed to meet the diverse needs of the VCU academic community. New acquisitions for 2019-20 include these.  Afro-Americana Imprints, 1535-1922: This digital edition of one of the world’s preeminent collections for African-American studies contains more than 12,000 printed works, including books, pamphlets and broadsides, providing researchers […]

Find It JoVE, Journal of Visualized Experiments, is a set of video “journals” demonstrating research protocols and methods. JoVE videos typically show the techniques demonstrated by researchers in their labs and have high production quality. The videos can be used to help train new members of a lab group on a technique. The videos also can […]

Find It Methodology is relevant to research in all disciplines. SAGE Research Methods is a database that focuses on methods over subject. That makes SAGE Research Methods very useful for research methods classes. It is also useful for researchers writing a methods section in a thesis, journal or dissertation.  There are several key ways to use SAGE Research Methods: […]

Find It Did you know that the Uniworld database is useful for budding entrepreneurs and locating details on business competitors, career opportunities and foreign internships?  This database covers multinational companies with headquarters in over 200 countries and 20,000 industries. Uniworld is a basic and effective resource for locating company information.  The power of this database […]