Requests for Books, Databases, and DVDs
The VCU Libraries maintains the Requests for Books, Databases, and DVDs list to identify these and other print and electronic materials that are a high priority for purchase if additional funds were to become available. You may request that we add an item to the list through the Purchase Suggestion form. We also have a separate Requests for Journals list.
| Title | Price |
Publisher | Subject | Librarian |
| ACP Medicine | $1,045 | Am College of Physicians WebMD Professional Pub. |
Health Sciences | Lynne Turman |
| American Civil War: Letters and Diaries | Alexander Street | Humanities | Kevin Farley | |
| American Film Institute (AFI) Catalog | ProQuest | Arts | Yuki Hibben | |
| American Film Scripts Online | Alexander Street | Arts | Yuki Hibben | |
| American Law Yearbook | Reference | Renee Bosman | ||
| America's Best Colleges | US News & World Report | Education | Bettina Phifer | |
| America's Best Graduate Schools | US News & World Report | Education | Bettina Phifer | |
| Analytics: Library of English Literature Microform Collection | $3,178 | OCLC- WorldCat | Humanities | Kevin Farley |
| AP Style Guide | $7,000 | Associated Press | Reference | Karen Cary |
| Arden Shakespeare CD-Rom | $3,995 | Primary Source Media | Humanities | Kevin Farley |
| Barbara Bates' Health Assessment Video streaming video |
$2,000 | FITNE | Health Sciences | Lynne Turman |
| Barbara Bates' Health Assessment Video - DVD | $1,800 | FITNE | Health Sciences | Lynne Turman |
| Biblical Archaeology Society Online Archive | BAS | Humanities | Kevin Farley | |
| Black Drama | $4,500 | Alexander Street | Humanities | Kevin Farley |
| Black Thought and Culture | Alexander Street | Humanities | Kevin Farley | |
| Black Short Fiction | Alexander Street | Humanities | Kevin Farley | |
| Black Women Writers | Alexander Street | Humanities | Kevin Farley | |
| Bloom’s Literary Reference Online Database | Chelsea House | Humanities | Kevin Farley | |
| Book Art | $25,000 | Arts | Yuki | |
| Books of the Fairs | $12,000 | Primary Source Media | Humanities | Kevin Farley |
| Books@Ovid | $77,000 | Ovid | Health Sciences | Lynne Turman |
| British Humanities Index Online | Whitston Publishing | Humanities | Kevin Farley | |
| British Parliamentary Papers | $100,000 | Humanities | Kevin Farley | |
| CAB Abstracts | $10,835 | CABI | Health Sciences | Lynne Turman |
| Clinical Resource@Ovid | $8,500 | Ovid | Health Sciences | Lynne Turman |
| Clotel, or The President’s Daughter | $845 | ROTUNDA Publications | Humanities | Kevin Farley |
| Cold Spring Harbor Protocols Online | $1,960 | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press |
Health Sciences | Lynne Turman |
| Colonial Williamsburg Digital Library Online: Past Portal | $500 | Colonial Williamsburg Foundation | Humanities | Kevin Farley |
| Columbia Earthscape | $1,195 | SPARC | Business | Karen Cary |
| Communication Abstracts | $4,000 | CSA | Business | Karen Cary |
| Community of Scholars | $12,500 | CSA | Health Sciences | Lynne Turman |
| Contemporary Scripts: Theatre Curriculum | $1,000 | Arts | Yuki Hibben | |
| Core series titles: Art History, Architecture, History & Criticism of Film; Theatre Arts | $10,000 | Arts | Yuki Hibben | |
| Country Reviews/Countrywire | $149 | Countrywatch | Business | Karen Cary |
| CQ's Guide to Current American Government | $28 | Reference | Renee Bosman | |
| Criminal Justice Periodicals Index | $6,500 | ProQuest | Social Sci. | Karen Cary |
| Criminal Justice Reporter | $2,800 | BNA | Social Sci. | Karen Cary |
| CSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts | CSA | Political Sci. | Karen Cary | |
| Datamonitor | Datamonitor | Reference | Bettina Phifer | |
| Dictionary of Literary Biography | $4,463 | Gale | Humanities | Kevin Farley |
| Digital National Security Archive | ProQuest | Political Sci. | Karen Cary | |
| DiscoveryGate®: ChemInform Reaction Library | $9,661 | Elsevier | Science | Ronke Lawal |
| DiscoveryGate®: Current Synthetic Methodology | $2,786 | Elsevier | Science | Ronke Lawal |
| DiscoveryGate®: Derwent Journal of Synthetic Methods | $3,537 | Elsevier | Science | Ronke Lawal |
| DiscoveryGate®: IMRW | $548 | Elsevier | Science | Ronke Lawal |
| DiscoveryGate®: MDL® Available Chemicals Directory | $2,334 | Elsevier | Science | Ronke Lawal |
| DiscoveryGate®: MDL® Comprehensive Medicinal Chemistry | $969 | Elsevier | Science | Ronke Lawal |
| DiscoveryGate®: MDL® Drug Data Report | $3,932 | Elsevier | Science | Ronke Lawal |
| DiscoveryGate®: MDL® Metabolite Database | $3,746 | Elsevier | Science | Ronke Lawal |
| DiscoveryGate®: MDL® Patent Chemistry Database | $4,447 | Elsevier | Science | Ronke Lawal |
| DiscoveryGate®: MDL® Reference Library of Synthetic Methodology | $2,467 | Elsevier | Science | Ronke Lawal |
| DiscoveryGate®: MDL® Screening Compounds Directory (formerly ACD-SC) | $2,786 | Elsevier | Science | Ronke Lawal |
| DiscoveryGate®: MDL® Solid-Phase Organic Reactions | $2,048 | Elsevier | Science | Ronke Lawal |
| DiscoveryGate®: MDL® Toxicity Database | $3,940 | Elsevier | Science | Ronke Lawal |
| DiscoveryGate®: ORGSYN Database | $646 | Elsevier | Science | Ronke Lawal |
| DiscoveryGate®: xPharm® | $1,027 | Elsevier | Science | Ronke Lawal |
| Dod's Pariamentary Companion | www.dodonline.co.uk | Reference | Renee Bosman | |
| Dolley Madison Digital Edition | $395 | ROTUNDA Publications | Humanities | Kevin Farley |
| DVDs: Dance Curriculum | $4,000 | Arts | Yuki Hibben | |
| DynaMed | $38,832 | EBSCO | Health Sciences | Lynne Turman |
| Early American Newspapers, Series 1, 1690-1876 | Readex | Humanities | Kevin Farley | |
| Early American Newspapers, Series 2, 1758-1900 | Readex | Humanities | Kevin Farley | |
| Early American Newspapers, Series 3, 1829-1922 | Readex | Humanities | Kevin Farley | |
| Early American Newspapers, Series 4, 1756-1922 | Readex | Humanities | Kevin Farley | |
| Early American Newspapers, Series 5, 1777-1922 | Readex | Humanities | Kevin Farley | |
| Early English Books Online | $132,000 | ProQuest | Humanities | Kevin Farley |
| EIU Viewswire | Economist Intelligence Unit | Business | Bettina Phifer | |
| Embase | $120,000 | Elsevier | Health Sciences | Lynne Turman |
| Emedicine | WebMD | Health Sciences | Lynne Turman | |
| Encyclopedia of American Catholic History | $80 | Liturgical Press | Humanities | Kevin Farley |
| Encyclopedia of American Industries | $520 | Gale | Business | Karen Cary |
| Epocrates | $9,400 | Epocrates.com | Health Sciences | Lynne Turman |
| ESTC English Short Title Catalog | $3,000 | RLG | Humanities | Kevin Farley |
| Ethnic NewsWatch: A History™ | ProQuest | Social Sci. | Cristina Ramirez | |
| Facts & Comparisons Online 4.0 | $6,000 | Health Sciences | Lynne Turman | |
| Faculty of 1000 Biology and Medicine | $9,886 | Science Navigation Group | Health Sciences | Lynne Turman |
| Family & Society Studies Worldwide | EBSCO | Social Sci. | Karen Cary | |
| Federal Civil Judicial Procedures and Rules | Reference | Renee Bosman | ||
| Federal Criminal Code and Rules | Reference | Renee Bosman | ||
| FIAF International to Film Periodicals | ProQuest | Arts | Yuki Hibben | |
| Film Index International | ProQuest | Arts | Yuki Hibben | |
| Film & Television Literature Index: Full Text | ProQuest | Arts | Yuki Hibben | |
| Harper’s Weekly: Gilded Age— Sections I-VI, 1878-1912 |
$49,500 | Harpers Magazine Foundation | Humanities | Kevin Farley |
| History Universe: Access to African American Studies | $5,845 | CIS | Humanities | Kevin Farley |
| Hoover's Handbook of Emerging Companies | Business | Bettina Phifer | ||
| Hoover's Handbook of Private Companies | Business | Bettina Phifer | ||
| Humanities Abstracts Online | $4,000 | Humanities | Kevin Farley | |
| IIMP Full Text | ProQuest | Arts | Yuki Hibben | |
| IIPA Full Text | ProQuest | Arts | Yuki Hibben | |
| Index to 19th Century American Art Periodicals Online | RLG | Arts | Yuki Hibben | |
| InfoPoems/Retriever | $12,750 | www.infopoems.com | ||
| International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text | EBSCO | Arts | Yuki Hibben | |
| International Security and Counter Terrorism Reference Center | EBSCO | Political Sci. | Renee Bosman | |
| Journal Citation Reports - more years | Health Sciences | Lynne Turman | ||
| Journal of Emily Shore | $100 | ROTUNDA Publications | Humanities | Kevin Farley |
| Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism | $250 | Johns Hopkins University Press | Humanities | Kevin Farley |
| Journal Use Report | Thomson Scientific | Science | Ronke Lawal | |
| Latin American Women Writers | Alexander Street | Humanities | Kevin Farley | |
| Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama and Fiction | Alexander Street | Humanities | Kevin Farley | |
| Law of Evidence in Virginia | Reference | Renee Bosman | ||
| Letters of Christina Rossetti | $560 | ROTUNDA Publications | Humanities | Kevin Farley |
| Letters of Matthew Arnold | $840 | ROTUNDA Publications | Humanities | |
| LexiComp Online | $49,000 | Health Sciences | Lynne Turman | |
| MDConsult - additional book collections | Elsevier/MDConsult | Health Sciences | Lynne Turman | |
| Melville’s Typee | $545 | ROTUNDA Publications | Humanities | Kevin Farley |
| Merck Index Online | Merck Co. Inc. | Science | Ronke Lawal | |
| Monographs: Collection enhancement of Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and | $5,000 | Humanities | Kevin Farley | |
| other foreign languages | ||||
| Monographs: Retrospective collection enhancement of Religious Studies, | $10,000 | Humanities | Kevin Farley | |
| Philosophy, and International Studies | ||||
| Musical recordings: Collection enhancement in the area of World Music | $3,000 | Music | ||
| New Mergent modules: Historical stock pricing | $3,500 | Mergent | Business | Karen Cary |
| New Mergent modules: Global industry reports | $3,500 | Mergent | Business | Karen Cary |
| Nineteenth Century Drama | $40,000 | Readex/Newsbank | Humanities | Kevin Farley |
| Nineteenth Century Masterfile | $3,000 | Paratext | Humanities | Kevin Farley |
| North American Women's Drama | Alexander Street | Humanities | Kevin Farley | |
| North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Colonial to 1950 | $4,500 | Alexander Street | Humanities | Kevin Farley |
| Nursing Consult | $8,000 | Elsevier/MDConsult | Health Sciences | Lynne Turman |
| Official Index to the Times 1906-1980 | ProQuest | Humanities | Kevin Farley | |
| Old English Corpus | $200 | Humanities | Kevin Farley | |
| OxResearch | Business | Karen Cary | ||
| Papers of George Washington Digital Edition | $4,111 | ROTUNDA Publications | Humanities | Kevin Farley |
| Periodicals Archive Online | ProQuest | Reference | Jill Stover | |
| Periodicals Index Online | ProQuest | Reference | Jill Stover | |
| Pharmaceutical News Index | $10,460 | ProQuest | Health Sciences | Lynne Turman |
| PIER: Physicians' Information and Education Resource | Am College of Physicians | Health Sciences | Lynne Turman | |
| PRS Online | $4,995 | PRS Group | Business | Karen Cary |
| ProQuest Accounting and Tax | ProQuest | Business | Karen Cary | |
| ProQuest Civil War Era | ProQuest | Humanities | Kevin Farley | |
| ProQuest Historical Annual Reports | ProQuest | Business | Karen Cary | |
| Proteome BioKnowledge Library/BioBase Proteome Databases | Incyte/BioBase | Science | Pete Kirlew | |
| Rare Books | $15,000 | Arts | Yuki Hibben | |
| Readers Guide Retrospective | $4,000 | H.W. Wilson | Humanities | Kevin Farley |
| Reference USA | Reference | Karen Cary | ||
| Research in Dance Education Database (RDEdb) | $850 | National Dance Education Organization | Arts | Yuki Hibben |
| RLIN Archives and Manuscripts Collection | $5,000 | RLG | Humanities | Kevin Farley |
| Science of Synthesis Houben-Weyl Methods of Molecular Transformations | Houben-Weyl or MDL | Science | Pete Kirlew | |
| Scopus | $146,772 | Elsevier | Health Sciences | Lynne Turman |
| Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period | Alexander Street | Humanities | Kevin Farley | |
| Shepard's | Lexis/Nexis | Reference | Renee Bosman | |
| Simmons Choice 3 | ||||
| SimplyMap | $8,500 | Geographic Research | Business; Soc. Sci. | Karen Cary |
| Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries® | Alexander Street | Music | Kevin Farley | |
| Southern Women and Their Families in the 19th Century: Papers and Diaries-- Series H: Selections from the Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Special Collections Library, Duke University--Part 3: North Carolina and Virginia |
$6,380 | CIS Congressional Information Service | Humanities | Kevin Farley |
| STATRef - additional titles, more seats? | Teton Data Systems | Health Sciences | Lynne Turman | |
| Terrorism Research Center | $10,000 | www.terrorism.com | Political Sci. | Karen Cary |
| Trubner’s Oriental Series 102 Volume Set | $9,500 | Routledge | Humanities | Kevin Farley |
| Unbound Medicine | $12,000 | Health Sciences | Lynne Turman | |
| Vanderbilt TV News Archive | Mass Comm. | Karen Cary | ||
| WARC database (formerly Market Research Abstracts) | Business | Karen Cary | ||
| Victorian Literature and Culture Series [VLCS Digitized] | ROTUNDA | Humanities | Kevin Farley | |
| Video Encyclopedia of Physics Demonstrations (University Editions) | Education Group | Science | Pete Kirlew | |
| TOTAL | $1,113,438 | |||