May 2011 Archives

The Periodicals Price Survey reports that 2011 prices for academic journal titles have again increased and pricing for 2012 will likely go up from seven to nine percent. The survey is compiled annually for publication in Library Journal.

VCU Libraries has acquired the entire archive for the prestigious New England journal of medicine. Every article from the journal's last two centuries is now available to VCU users. There are more than 150,000 articles, 478,000 pages, and over 85,000 images in the archive spanning the dates 1812 to 1989. The current subscription for NEJM picks up access from 1990 to the present. The full-text of every issue can be searched, browsed, and downloaded.

VCU Libraries has Methods in enzymology available online back to volume 1, 1955. Over 460 volumes of articles covering theory, techniques, and preparation in biochemistry can now be easily accessed from either campus or from home. This series is truly an essential publication for researchers in all fields of life sciences, including microbiology, biochemistry, cancer research and genetics -- just to name a few.

As well as being able to browse volumes and search the series with ScienceDirect, you can link to articles with the "Get It @ VCU" link from databases such as PubMed, Web of Science, BIOSIS Previews, and SciFinder Scholar.

If you know a volume title, you can search for it in the VCU Libraries catalog and link to the online volume as well.