VCU Libraries: Inside The Collection

Find It Research global markets with Passport GMID.  From Euromonitor, a business intelligence company with more than 40 years of experience analyzing developed and emerging markets, Passport GMID provides in-depth analysis, statistics, surveys, and news for industries, consumer markets, and business environments all over the world. Find company and brand shares of leading companies; use dashboards and data to […]

Find It Coloribus Advertising Archive is the largest global archive of commercial advertising around. It contains over 2 million historic advertisements and continuously adds more than 1,000 in addition each day. Coloribus allows users to go through advertisements all around the world to reference. Browse through advertisements released by companies ranging from Ikea to Adidas. […]

Nell Chenault, Emily Davis Winthrop and Carla-Mae Crookendale can help you create, teach and find inspiration. Each of them brings a love and appreciation of the arts, related educational credentials and librarian savvy to their roles in VCU’s creative community. * * * * *  Nell Chenault, Film and Performing Arts Research Librarian Schools and […]

Find It Medicovan, the monthly newsletter for the MCV Campus from 1948-73 has now been added to the digital collection VCU News Publications. This collection also includes VCU Today, VCU Voice, VCU News, and UniverCity News–all of which were official university news sources. According to the Digital Collection’s website, in the years following World War II, the […]

The Chick Larsen Papers give a local perspective to VCU Libraries’ expansive Comic Arts Collection with a look at the life and methods of an award-winning cartoonist. From 1950 to 1954, Carl E. “Chick” Larsen (1923-1991) studied commercial art at Richmond Professional Institute (RPI), the forerunner of VCU. He later became an editorial cartoonist for the […]

Find It VCU has a long history of student publications, many of which are available through VCU Libraries. Now you can access the full archives of Poictesme, a student literary journal, through VCU Libraries’ digital collections. Poictesme publishes undergraduate students’ prose, poetry and artwork once a year. The journal was started in 1980 by the […]

Find It  Digital-Tutors, a vast online video training library, presents professional instruction that is accessible and comprehensive. Designed by industry professionals, video tutorials assist artists and designers in developing skills and learning the latest techniques for two-dimensional and three-dimensional digital art, game development, video and video effects. With more than 24,000 videos and constantly growing, […]

Find It The Chronicle of Higher Education offers national and international news, job postings, advice, facts and figures and more for university faculty and administrators. It also offers forums on topics like “Tech Talk for Befuddled Academics,” “Diversity in the Workplace” and “The Administrative Track.” VCU Libraries faculty and staff can access The Chronicle using […]

These business and industry databases are a great resource for students of business, advertising and mass communications, as well as researchers interested in business trends, entrepreneurship and corporate work. IBISWorld: Reports for all 723 U.S. industries categorized by NAICS include market size, competitors, forecasting, business valuations, benchmarking, business environment and global industry reports. A new […]

Find It Nearly 30 years of VCU history are represented in VCU Libraries newest digital collection, “VCU News Publications.”  The Office of University Relations produced these publications, which carried different titles over the years. These periodicals tell VCU’s official story in news articles, features, calendars and images of students, staff, faculty and leaders. Departments and schools submitted articles […]