Databases: Humanities: Multidisciplinary

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.

ACLS Humanities E-Book VCU

Coverage: Ancient History - Present

Humanities E-Book (HEB) -- offered by the American Council of Learned Socieites (ACLS) -- is a digital collection of significant scholarship in the Humanities.

African American Music Reference VCU

Coverage: 1600 - 1970

African American Music Reference offers the first comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.

Aluka VCU

Coverage: Prehistory - Present

An international initiative to build an online library of full-text scholarly resources from and about Africa, Aluka includes archival documents, books, ecological data, periodicals, reports, maps, and oral histories.

American History in Video VCU

Coverage: 1492 - present

American History in Video provides the largest and richest collection of video available online for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles.

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.

ARTFL: A Textual Database VCU

Searchable database of French-language texts from the 12th to the 20th century. Includes classic French literature, Provencal poetry and other verse, non-fiction prose and technical writing.

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.

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 

Berg Fashion Library VCU

Coverage: Ancient History - present

Provides cross-searchable access to interdisciplinary text and image content on world dress and fashion. Includes e-books, reference works, images, and more.

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.

Blackbird: An Online Journal of Literature and the Arts

Coverage: 2001 - present

An innovative online literary and arts journal, Blackbird features poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and the arts -- as well as interviews with writers and artists. Sponsored by the VCU Department of English and New Virginia Review, Inc.

Book Review Digest Plus VCU

Coverage: 1983 - present

Citations for more than 1 million reviews of fiction and non-fiction books. Includes more than 200,000 review excerpts and full-text reviews.

Britannica Online VCU

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

Clase and Periodica VCU

Coverage: 1975 - present

Citations for documents published in Latin American and Caribbean journals specializing in social sciences and humanities (Clase) and science and technology (Periodica). Clase and Periodica may be searched together or separately.

Classical Music Reference Library VCU

Coverage: Middle Ages - Present

From the ancient Greek modes to modern compositions, Classical Music Reference Library offers comprehensive coverage of all classical genres, spanning music from the Medieval period to the 21st century.

Classical Scores Library VCU

Coverage: Middle Ages - Present

Classical Scores Library contains over 400,000 pages of the most important classical music scores, manuscripts, and previously unpublished material.

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.

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.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online VCU

Coverage: 1700 - 1800

With over 136,000 titles and 26 million pages, ECCO contains every published text of historical significance from Great Britain and Colonial America during the 18th Century.

Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences VCU

Full text reference guide for those working in quality control, economics, probability and statistics as well as for those applying statistical methods in any discipline. Updated annually, with revisions and new articles added quarterly.

Essay and General Literature Index VCU

Coverage: 1985 - present

Citations to essays and articles contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works. Focuses on the humanities and social sciences, with subject coverage ranging from economics and history to criticism of literary works, drama, and film.

Ethnic NewsWatch VCU

Full text newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, native and minority press.

Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text

Contains indexing and abstracts, as well as full-text articles and chapters from journals and books relating to the field of film and television.

Filmakers Library Online VCU

Award-winning documentaries and independent films presenting points of view and historical and current experiences from diverse cultures and traditions world-wide.

Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online VCU

Coverage: Ancient - Present

More than 9,000 pages of material and 300 audio recordings, combined with entries by more than 700 expert contributors from all over the world, make this the most complete body of work focused on world music.

Google Scholar VCU

Scholarly literature crawled by Google.

How to use Google Scholar at VCU 

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.

Humanities Abstracts VCU

Coverage: 1984 - present

Citations and abstracts to articles from English-language periodicals. Periodical coverage includes some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines.

Humanities International Complete VCU

Coverage: Ancient - Present

Providing full text of hundreds of journal articles, books and other published resources from around the world, Humanities International Complete (HIC) includes all data from the Humanities International Index.

Index to Christian Art VCU

Coverage: 30 CE - 1550 CE

With works ranging from apostolic times to the 16th century, the Index of Christian Art documents art found in a broadly-defined Christian context. This expansive archive contains images and full-text records.

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.

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 

Left Index VCU

Coverage: 1982 - present

Covers the diverse political, economic, social, and cultural literature of the left. Also covers some historically significant early left publications.

Literature, Arts and Medicine Database

Annotated multimedia list of prose, poetry, film, video and art for teaching and research in medical humanities.

Luminarium

Coverage: 1350 - 1660

Luminarium, featuring extensive background information on authors and selected full texts of their works, transforms the study of early English literature into a multimedia experience. Links to critical essays, art works, and music sound clips.

Music Online VCU

Coverage: Ancient World - present

Music Online provides the most comprehensive database in streaming audio, video, reference, and scores on the web. Integrated searching by ensemble, genre, historical events and more provides in-depth context for music history.

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.

Ovid Web Gateway Databases VCU

Databases covering education, health sciences, humanities, and social sciences.

Philosopher's Index VCU

Coverage: 1940-present

Indexes scholarly research in all major fields of philosophy. Covers journals, books, and book reviews.

Project Muse VCU

Portal to electronic collection of about 200 journals from 30 not-for-profit publishers.

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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Religion and Philosophy Collection VCU

Coverage: Ancient - present

Nearly 300 full text journals covering topics central to the study of philosophy and world religions, including denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language and history of philosophy.

Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive VCU

Coverage: 1500 - 1865

Presents the history of slavery alongside efforts and actions to end it, drawing from thousands of documents, some very rare, in a comprehensive, conceptual, and global way.

TOCS-IN 0

Coverage: 1992 - present

TOCS-IN provides tables of contents for select Classics, Near Eastern Studies, and Religion print journals. Covers the archaeology, architecture, art, culture, history, literature, and religion of ancient Greece and Rome. Some pre-1992 content.

VCU Menorah Review

Coverage: 2003 - present

The VCU Menorah Review, established in 1984, explores a diverse range of issues related to Jewish life, culture, and history. The review features essays on recent scholarship in Judaic studies.

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.

Wilson Web Databases VCU

Abstract databases covering arts, humanities, social sciences, and science topics.

World News Connection VCU

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