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ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research)  VCU
Coverage: (1962 - present)
Archive of social science data for research and instruction. Includes data files for use with statistical software, such as SAS or SPSS. Topical archives include health, aging, education, criminal justice, and substance abuse.
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IEEE Xplore  VCU
Coverage: 1988 - present
Full-text articles from over 12,000 publications from IEEE and IEE including journals, magazines, transactions, and proceedings. Select content from 1952-1987.
images.MD  VCU
Online encyclopedia of over 50,000 medical images. Search and save images in a personalized account or locally for use in lectures and presentations.
Index to Current Urban Documents (ICUD)  VCU
Coverage: (Volume 29 - present)
Index to and full-text of reports and research generated by various governmental and civic entities in approximately 500 selected cities in the United States and Canada.
IndexCat: Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, U.S. Army 
Coverage: (15th Century - 1950)
Comprehensive subject catalog of books, pamphlets, dissertations, reports and some journal articles published from the 1400s through 1950 and held by the National Library of Medicine.
INSPEC  VCU
Coverage: (1969 - present)
The premier database for physics, computer science and electrical engineering information. Includes citations, abstracts, and some links to full-text. Part of Engineering Village; one of the default databases.
International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP)  VCU
Coverage: (1998 - present)
Full abstracting and indexing for about 85 scholarly and popular current periodicals from 1998 forward. Full-text is provided for 24 of these journals. Also included in the database are retrospective citations from about 40 journals.
International Index to the Performing Arts (IIPA)  VCU
Coverage: (1998 - present)
Citations and abstracts for information drawn from 200 international performing arts periodicals from 1998 forward. Also included in the database are retrospective citations from about 46 periodicals.
International Medieval Bibliography (IMB)  VCU
Leading bibliography of the European Middle Ages (c. 400-1500). Covers articles in journals and miscellany volumes worldwide. Click on "Enter Databases" and then on "Go".
IPA: International Pharmaceutical Abstracts  VCU
Coverage: (1970 - present)
Abstracts of pharmacology research and information. Produced by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP).
iPOLL  VCU
Coverage: (1935-)
Contains nearly a half-million questions from surveys conducted since 1935 by over 150 academic, commercial, and media survey organizations such as Gallup, CNN, Pew Research Associates, the Wall Street Journal, and others.
Iter Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance  VCU
Portal to resources including a bibliography of citations for books, articles, and essays on all aspects of medieval and Renaissance life. Also includes a directory of scholars, Iter Italicum, a collection of Capito letters, and more.

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