VCU Libraries is participating in trials of three online products from Springer. These trials are an opportunity to test and evaluate resources under consideration for addition to our online collections. Members of the VCU community are invited to explore these resources and help inform future decisions about purchases. Trial products are only available from computers on the campus network. Trials end on October 30, 2009. Please send comments and feedback to Lynne Turman.

• Springer Protocols contains more than 18,000 molecular biology and biomedical protocols, many from the classic series Methods in Molecular Biology.


• Springer Images includes more than 1.5 million photos, tables, graphs, and histograms from Springer publications and images.MD. Images can be saved and downloaded as PDFs or Powerpoint.


• Springer Ebooks includes access to all English/International language book content from 2005-2009, as well as book series dating back to 1997. This constitutes close to 19,000 titles.