VCU Libraries: Inside The Collection

Find It Gene provides users with comprehensive information on known and predicted genes. There is gene-specific information on species ranging from bees to orangutans. Within the results for a particular gene, users are given information on everything such as the lineage, gene type and scientific name of the organism. There are more than 14 million […]

Find It With Birds of North America Online, anyone can learn all there is to know about a particular bird from their beak to their flight. It provides comprehensive life histories for each of the 716-plus species of birds breeding in the United States (including Hawaii) and Canada. Information on each bird includes images and […]

Find It Knovel Library provides users  with technical information in engineering and applied science. Information comes from books, conference proceedings, databases and other materials from more than 100 sources. Interactive tables and graphs display data in clear ways.  Users can download materials in a PDF or an Excel spreadsheet. Knovel also contains a feature called […]

Find It VCU Libraries offers a trial of streaming videos from Psychotherapy.net. Faculty are invited to access this item from the Trials web page.  Test this from home or remote locations to see how the streaming holds up. Feedback will be important to making a purchasing decision. The trial goes through Oct. 10. Psychotherapy.net includes interviews, lectures […]

Find It Anatomy.TV provides users with quality, in-depth information on the entire composition of the human body. The database divides the body into nine sections for users to search through, including the head and neck, the foot and ankle and the thorax and abdomen. Along with the general structure, users are given the MRI, slides […]

VCU Libraries in 2015 expanded its access to Web of Science (WOS) databases with the addition of new titles and backfile coverage for existing titles. BIOSIS Citation Index: expanded version of BIOSIS Previews with cited indexing Book Citation Index: cited indexing for more than 30,000 books in social sciences, humanities and sciences; see the YouTube […]

Find It CRCnetBASE is a collection of more than 9,300 ebooks in more than 350 subject areas with a focus on science, technology and medicine. It has won awards for best reference, best platform and outstanding academic resource. It’s also accessible from any mobile device. The database also includes collections with specific focuses: CHEMnetBASE includes chemical and […]

Find It Artists and designers browse Material ConneXion Database for ideas and inspiration. Engineers and innovators search this resource for new materials that meet unique performance needs. It also offers photographs of more than 7,000 advanced materials. Fifty to 60 juried, selected materials are added to the database each month. Selected materials are beautiful, functional, […]

Find It Oral Pathology Review Images gives dentistry students a new and improved way to study oral abnormalities. Dr. Dennis Page of the Department of Oral Pathology at the VCU School of Dentistry developed this collection to help students learn about the most common abnormalities of the oral cavity. The collection includes images of soft tissue […]

Find It The Social Science Electronic Data Library includes more than 680 health and social science datasets from more than 285 studies all chosen by an expert panel from Sociometrics for their technical quality, substantive quality, policy relevance and potential for secondary data analysis. Nine topical data archives are in the collection: The American Family, […]