Databases: D

Dance Collection Catalog

Search for citations in the New York Public Library's extensive collection of dance materials. To limit your search, select Dance Research Collection, one of the lowermost options, from the drop-down menu.

Dance in Video VCU

Coverage: 1950s-present

Productions and documentaries covering ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance. Includes documentaries about choreographers and videos on dance training.

Dentistry and Oral Sciences Source (DOSS) VCU

Indexing and abstracts for 160 dental journals, most with full-text available. Also includes full-text of 30 books and IADR/AADR Meeting Abstracts.

Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI) VCU

Coverage: 1973 - present

International index to articles in more than 450 design and craft journals. Also contains data on designers, craftspeople, studios, schools, workshops, and firms.

designinform VCU

Coverage: Late nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Resource for research into the history of modern design and the applied arts. Designinform consists of three linked databases: Design Abstracts Retrospective (DAR), Design ProFILES (DP), and ReVIEW.

Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford DNB) VCU

Browsable, searchable, illustrated collection of more than 50,000 biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of Britain's past. Living persons are excluded.

Directory of Open Access Journals

Information and links for free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. Subject and alphabetical title searches are available.

Directory of Published Proceedings

Coverage: 1994 - present

References to published materials from conferences, congresses, meetings and symposia.

DIRLINE (Directory of Health Organizations)

Directory of over 8,500 organizations concerned with health and biomedicine.

Dissertation Abstracts Online VCU

Coverage: 1861 - present

Replaced by Dissertations and Theses Full Text.

Dissertations and Theses Full Text (ProQuest) VCU

Coverage: 1637 - present

Full text for most dissertations from 1997 to the present. Includes full text for some earlier dissertations, along with over 2.4 million dissertations and theses citations from around the world.

Dissertations from VCU VCU

Coverage: 1996 - present

Search all VCU dissertations/theses submitted to UMI. View 24-page previews; download full-text (PDF format) of those published after 1996.

Documenting the American South

Coverage: 1600-1900

Documenting the American South (DocSouth), a digital publishing initiative sponsored by the UNC Libraries, provides access to digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture.

Dow Jones Factiva VCU

Comprehensive, full text up-to-the-minute news and business source from Dow Jones and Reuters. Replaces Dow Jones Interactive.