Databases: Social Sciences: Multidisciplinary
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Academic Search Complete
VCU
- Coverage: 1887 - present
- Comprehensive scholarly multi-disciplinary full-text database. Includes over 5,500 full-text periodicals and indexing/abstracting for over 9,500 journals. Covers science, social sciences, mathematics, engineering, and many other subjects.
- AP Images VCU
- Coverage: 1840's - present
- More than 3.5 million historical and contemporary news photographs with thousands more added daily. In addition, the collection includes over 100,000 graphics, containing logos, graphs, maps, and timelines, as well as audio clips and news stories.
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ArticleFirst
VCU
- Coverage: 1990 - present
- Citations for items listed in the table of contents of more than 12,000 journals in a broad cross-section of disciplines.
- British Periodicals II
- Coverage: 1680s-1930s
- Full-run coverage of more than 300 British journals relating to literature and the arts published from the 1680s to the 1930s. Provides access to almost 3 million pages with high resolution facsimile images.
- Catalog of US Government Publications (CGP)
- Coverage: 1976 - present
- Indexes over 500,000 historic and current government publications. Provides direct links to online publications when applicable.
- 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.
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eBook Collection from EBSCOhost
VCU
- A collection of thousands of electronic books from leading university, trade and professional publishers. Formerly NetLibrary.
- Google Scholar VCU
- Scholarly literature crawled by Google.
- How to use Google Scholar at VCU
- JSTOR VCU
- Searchable backfiles of core journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. (Backfiles end 3 - 5 years prior to current date).
- JSTOR collections available at VCU
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Oxford Reference Online
VCU
- Provides access to more than 140 dictionaries and reference works published by Oxford University Press. The titles cover virtually all subjects in the humanities, social sciences, business, the sciences, language, and general reference.
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Project Muse
VCU
- Portal to electronic collection of about 200 journals from 30 not-for-profit publishers.
- Statistical Abstract of the United States
- Up to date figures on many aspects of American life and population.
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WorldCat.org
- Over 1 billion items (books, music, video, and articles) in more than 10,000 libraries worldwide.
Database Availability
- VCU Available on OR off-campus with EZProxy
- Libraries Available in either Library
- Cabell Available in Cabell Library
- Tompkins-McCaw Available in Tompkins-McCaw Library
- Sponsored by VIVA, The Virtual Library of Virginia
- Mobile-enabled