Databases: Format

AccessAnesthesiology VCU

Search anesthesiology reference tools for practice guidelines, procedure videos, drug information, and quick answers. Includes full-text clinical textbooks for anesthesiology.

AccessEmergencyMedicine VCU

Search for diagnosis and treatment of a broad range of emergency cases. Includes videos, images, and more than a dozen emergency medicine textbooks.

AccessMedicine VCU

Collection of over 60 medical textbooks from McGraw-Hill including Harrison's Online. Also features case files, diagnostic tools, self-assessment questions and patient handouts.

AccessPediatrics VCU

Includes Rudolph's Pediatrics and 10 other full-text books, multimedia, drug information and other resources.

AccessPharmacy VCU

Allows selection by core curriculum topic, browsing by organ system, review of textbooks, or searching across leading pharmacy online references.

AccessSurgery VCU

Resource for surgical education including textbooks, videos, drug information, and board review questions.

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 Biographical Database VCU

Coverage: 1790 - 1950

Large collection of biographies with full text access to the primary source material.

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.

Art Index Retrospective VCU

Coverage: 1929 - 1984

Electronic version of Art Index, volumes 1-32. Contains all citations found in the print version. Supplements Art Index (1984 - present).

ARTstor VCU

ARTstor is a digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences.

Birds of North America Online VCU

Comprehensive reference covering the life histories of North American breeding birds. Includes images and videos of plumage, behaviors, habitat, nest, and eggs. Contains songs and calls.

Classical Music Library VCU

World's largest multi-label database of recordings for listening and learning in libraries. Browse, search, create playlists.

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) VCU

A comprehensive source for research and study in international affairs. Includes journals, books, working papers from university research institutes, conference proceedings, and policy briefs.

Counseling and Therapy in Video VCU

Hundreds of therapy sessions, case consultations, lectures, and interviews. Features over 175 therapists practicing more than 50 therapeutic approaches. Includes 55 teaching and discussion guides.

Dance in Video VCU

Coverage: 1950s-present

Productions and documentaries covering ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance. Includes documentaries about choreographers and videos on dance training.

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.

eBook Collection from EBSCOhost VCU

A collection of thousands of electronic books from leading university, trade and professional publishers. Formerly NetLibrary.

ebrary: Academic Complete Collection VCU

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

Education in Video VCU

Teaching demonstrations, lectures, documentaries, and primary source footage of students and teachers in actual classrooms. Covers hundreds of special topics and themes.

ENGnetBASE VCU

Full-text searchable database of CRC Press Engineering Handbooks. Search or browse individual handbooks, or search multiple handbooks. Texts are in interactive PDF format.

ENVIROnetBASE VCU

Full-text searchable database of more than 150 CRC Press books on a wide range of environmental topics. Search or browse individual books, or search multiple books. Texts are in interactive PDF format.

Ethnographic Video Online VCU

Hundreds of classic and contemporary documentaries on the study of human culture and behavior covering every region of the world.

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.

Jazz Music Library VCU

Comprehensive collection of jazz recordings covering thousands of artists, ensembles, albums, and genres from all over the world from the beginnings of jazz to today.

Knovel Library VCU

Reference works on engineering, chemistry, material science, environmental science, microelectronic materials. Utilizes interactive tables and allows customization of data using Interactive Data System similar to common spreadsheet applications.

Material Connexion VCU

Collection of over 4,500 innovative materials and processes. Resource for designers of all disciplines - industrial, furniture, packaging, graphics, fashion, interior design, landscape architecture, and transportation.

MATERIALSnetBASE VCU

Full-text searchable database of more than 50 CRC Press materials science handbooks and reference books. Search or browse individual books, or search multiple books. Texts are in interactive PDF format.

MD Consult VCU

A clinical library online; includes reference books, journals, and patient education materials. Includes an option for a personal account.

Medical Letter, The VCU

Coverage: 1988 - present

Searchable database of articles from The Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics from 1988 - present. Also includes a drug interactions program, patient education brochures and two electronic handbooks.

Music Index VCU

Coverage: 1979 - present

Citations to the international literature on all aspects of music. Includes more than one million records from 650 music periodicals. Indexes book reviews, reviews of recordings, tapes, and performances, and notes first performances and obituaries.

NetAnatomy VCU

Designed to teach basic human anatomy to students of the health professions. Contains images and information in 3 areas: radiographic anatomy, cross-sectional anatomy, and gross anatomy. Provided by the VCU School of Allied Health Professions.

Oxford Art Online VCU

Integrated searchable access to Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, and more.

Oxford Music Online VCU

Integrated searchable access to The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Grove Music Online, The Oxford Companion to Music, and more.

Poets On Screen VCU

Nearly 800 clips of poets reading their own or other poets' works. Requires RealPlayer or Windows MediaPlayer. (Part of Literature Online)

PsycTHERAPY VCU

Contains over 300 videos featuring therapy demonstrations showing clinicians working with individuals, couples, and families. Covers more than 200 topics.

R2 Digital Library VCU

Collection of over 300 full-text books in the health sciences.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature VCU

Coverage: 1969 - present

Citations and abstracts to the international music literature. Indexes many foreign-language journals. Includes citations to dissertations and essays in books. Focuses on academic research.

Safari Books Online VCU

Books on all aspects of computers, programming and the web from such publishers as O'Reilly, Sams, New Riders and Adobe.

Serial Set Maps VCU

The maps published as part of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set.

SpringerImages VCU

Access to nearly 2 million photos, graphs, histograms and tables in science, technology and medicine. Includes content from images.MD, among many other sources.

STAT!Ref Electronic Medical Library VCU

Full-text cross-searchable reference books for the health professional. Includes Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment and DSM-IV-TR.

Theatre in Video VCU

Over 250 of the world's most important plays. Includes over 100 documentaries about productions and interviews with authors, directors, and actors.

WorldCat (via FirstSearch) VCU

Consolidated catalog of items held by libraries worldwide.