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Dance Collection Catalog: Citations to the extensive dance materials collection of the NY Public Library. Serves as an index to dance periodicals.

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.

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); Abstracts of dissertations (some theses) completed in the US and abroad. Abstracts back to 1980.

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.

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