VCU Libraries: Inside The Collection

Compiled by Karen Cary VCU Libraries recently acquired new online materials featuring game architecture, the complete Wall Street Journal archive, transcripts of European and American witch trials, and much more. Take a look to see what’s newly available to you. These databases may be accessed using the A-to-Z Database guide. Animation Practice Collection:  A collection of resources […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 Student Media Center awarded the staff of Cabell Library with a 2021 ITCHY award. The ITCHys are the annual Student Media Center awards that recognize the achievements of our students and their student media organizations which exemplify the SMC’s principles of Integrity, Tenacity, Creativity and Honesty.  The Student Media Center is the home to […]

Find It Inspec Analytics (IA) enables researchers and professionals to uncover trends and patterns across a wide range of physics, computing and engineering disciplines, locally and globally. Its addition to the Engineering Village platform takes advantage of Inspec’s precise and accurate indexing. IA uses semantic technology to connect each element of the literature, creating a […]

In May of this year, VCU Libraries launched a redesigned website. Based on extensive research and feedback from VCU students, faculty, staff and community members over the course of a year and a half, the new website is focused on connecting users with information at their point of need, while also facilitating discovery of the […]

Find It VCU Libraries is committed to helping our communities identify, explore and understand the systemic racism that infuses all aspects of our lives, so that we can advance our work in confronting that racism.  This online guide provides a launching point for exploring the subject of anti-racism. This is an important, rapidly growing field, […]

Beginning May 18, 2020, the PubMed interface will look different. One of the most used resources of VCU Libraries, PubMed is the world’s premier biomedical and health sciences database, providing access to more than 30 million citations. This free resource is developed and maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and the National […]