VCU Libraries: Inside The Collection

Find It Special Ed Connection provides practitioners and researchers access to a vast array of legal, regulatory, administrative and advisory resources all centered on special education issues. Included are statutes, regulations, administrative decisions, court cases, state-specific pages, advisory tips and more. Clustered by topics and subtopics and intricately intertwined, the materials in Special Ed Connection […]

Find It Mergent Online now offers Investext Snapshot. You can find authoritative analysis of companies, industries and markets from analysts at the top investment banks and research firms.  This “snapshot” of Investext offers up to three reports each day on 42,000 companies and two reports for over 100 industries. Reports are available 14 days after […]

Inspiration and creativity are not bound by disciplines. Libraries provide a crossroads for the exchange of ideas and exploration of materials across subject matters. That thinking brought Berwyn Hung, who teaches creativity, and his students to James Branch Cabell Library. “Students are very much in their own bubble,” says Hung. “They need as much outside […]

Find It VCU Libraries provides access to a vast resource of historical and contemporary information via the Times Digital Archive.  Recording centuries of British and world history, culture, politics and business, The Times (London) was established in 1785, and is the oldest daily newspaper in continuous publication. The Times Digital Archive is an online, full-text facsimile of more than 200 […]

Find It Advancing our understanding of the history and present of women’s contributions to the literary, cultural and political life of Great Britain, VCU Libraries provides access to the landmark database, Orlando:  Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present. Orlando exemplifies digital humanities’ efforts to broaden access to little known or studied […]

Find It VCU Libraries offers The Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century, a landmark digital collection for African-American studies. With this resource, researchers have access to historical analysis and context, original newspaper accounts and crucial first-person records of the experiences of those seeking greater political and cultural freedom in the turbulent 20th century. Records reveal not only […]

Find It Mergent Archives is an online database featuring a vast, indexed collection of corporate and industry related documents, containing hundreds of thousands of reports covering over 100 countries and industries. It uses a reliable and easy-to-navigate system designed to meet your historical research needs. The archive includes the following collections: The Moody’/Mergent Historical Corporate […]

For much of the 20th century, librarians fielding questions relevant to the topic of race and violence guided researchers to historical and general social science resources. Scholars found articles about people, court cases, or events in databases like America: History and Life, or Sociological Abstracts. Primary evidence might be most easily found in newspapers, and […]

Find It Journal Citation Reports (JCR) is available on the InCites platform from Thomson Reuters. It continues to provide journal citation data along with the calculated Impact Factor and Eigenfactor score but has been enhanced to include all years of data from both the Science and Social Sciences editions. New features include: • Network graphs […]

Find It When deciding where to submit their research for publication, most faculty use the topic, audience and reputation of the journal as their main criteria. Subjective judgment and advice on how to choose can be supplemented by computerized tools like Manuscript Matcher. Manuscript Matcher uses an abstract and, if provided, a reference list to generate a list of suggestions of […]