Databases: Business: Multidisciplinary

ABI/INFORM Complete VCU

Coverage: 1971 - present

Abstracts and many full-text articles on business, finance, management topics from business periodicals. Three parts: Global; Dateline; and Trade & Industry. Includes Wall Street Journal.

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.

ACM Digital Library VCU

Coverage: dates vary by publication

Bibliographic citations and full-text of Association for Computing Machinery articles from journals, magazines, and conference proceedings. Coverage of most journals is from volume 1 to present; Communications of the ACM is 1978 to present.

Arts and Humanities Citation Index via ISI Web of Science VCU

Coverage: 1975 - present

Database of references cited in articles from 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals. Search by cited reference, topic, and author.

Web of Science Tutorial 

Black Studies Center VCU

Coverage: 25,000 B.C. - present

Black Studies Center is a digital core collection of primary and secondary sources in arts, history, literature, politics, and religion that record and illuminate the Black experience, from ancient Africa through modern times.

Britannica Online VCU

Access to Encyclopaedia Britannica, news, magazines, journals, web sites, research tools, and multimedia.

Business Source Complete VCU

Coverage: 1886 - present

Bibliographic and full text content from scholarly business journals and other sources including peer-reviewed business publications. Indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886.

Conference Board Research Online Collection VCU

The Conference Board's research online collection

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.

ebrary: Academic Complete Collection VCU

Over 33,000 recent electronic books from university presses and other scholarly publishers covering all disciplines.

EBSCOhost Research Databases VCU

Databases covering education, health sciences, and social sciences.

Economia y Negocios VCU

Coverage: Early 1980s - present

Keywords supplied in Spanish and English. More than 73,000 records provide coverage for more than 320 Spanish and Portuguese-language periodicals published in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Spain, the United States and elsewhere.

Gartner Advisory

Access is via the MyVCU portal. The Gartner link is on the Resources gadget. Full-text of Gartner Group research and advisory services for information technology and business. Provided by VCU Technology Services.

Google Scholar VCU

Scholarly literature crawled by Google.

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Historical Statistics of the United States Millennial Edition VCU

Coverage: 18th Century - present

The Millennial Edition of Historical Statistics of the United States enhances coverage of Native Americans, slavery, poverty, race, and ethnicity. Innovative search strategies allow users to focus research across historical periods.

LexisNexis Academic VCU

Full-text legal, business and news information.

Materials Business File VCU

Coverage: 1985 - present

Citations focusing on industry news, international trade data, government regulations, and management issues related to the metals and materials industries.

New York Times VCU

Coverage: 1851 - 2006

More than a newspaper for an American city, the New York Times is an international record of national and world news, as well as personal stories of how events affect individuals.

Oral History Online VCU

Index to English language oral histories publicly available on the Web and/or held by repositories and archives around the world. Includes interview level records if possible, and links to multi-media if available.

ProQuest Databases VCU

Databases covering the sciences, health sciences, arts, business, and social sciences.

RefWorks

Citation management tool for storing and managing references; creating bibliographies. Supports most citation styles. Requires an individual account set up from a VCU Libraries link. Available to VCU and MCVH-VCU email account holders.

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Sanborn Maps (Virginia) VCU

Fire insurance maps of many localities in Virginia. Dates vary, but most are from late 19th century to mid-20th century. Used to trace history, growth, and development of cities and towns.

Virginia Business Magazine

Business intelligence for and about Virginia's business community.

Vogue Archive VCU

Coverage: 1892 - Present

Image-rich primary source for the study of fashion, gender and modern social history. It presents a portrait of its era through photographs, articles, and advertisements. Contains every page of Vogue Magazine from 1892 to the present.

Voice of the Shuttle

Coverage: Pre-history - present

Voice of the Shuttle, established in 1994, provides a structured and briefly annotated guide to online resources for a wide range of academic disciplines in the humanities -- and points toward the transformation of those disciplines as they interact

Web of Science VCU

Coverage: 1965 - present

Citation databases including Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, and Social Sciences Citation Index for searches by cited reference, topic, and author.

WGSN (Worth Global Style Network) VCU

Coverage: 1998 - Present

Focusing on the areas and intersections of fashion, style, and commerce, WGSN provides a global view on trends in design. Its archive contains more than 5 million images from the runways, the street, retail outlets, and design sketches.

World News Connection VCU

Compiled from thousands of non-U.S. media sources, covers significant socioeconomic, political, scientific, technical, and environmental issues and events.