Research
Subject Guides
Doing research in history, or architecture, or biomedical engineering? Looking for videos, newspapers, or census data? Whatever your subject or research need, we have a guide describing the many resources available to you through the U.Va. Libraries.
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Databases A-Z Databases A to Z
Get to the database you want quickly and easily with this alphabetical browsing list.
Research Tips & Tools Reseach Tips and Tools
Having trouble getting articles from off Grounds? Looking for help creating a bibliography or citing your sources? Need a book or journal that U.Va. doesn’t own? Check out these tips and tools for doing your research.
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- Academic Search Complete A large database of articles from scholarly journals and newspapers, covering all subjects.
- ARTstor Images of world art from all periods, including paintings, drawings, prints, historic photographs, architecture and design.
- Dissertations & Theses: Full Text A searchable index of dissertations, with full text provided from 1997 on.
- Factiva Articles from over 6,000 newspapers and periodicals, plus company and business information.
- JSTOR Contains older issues of scholarly journals, from first publication to 3-5 years ago.
- LexisNexis Academic Includes news, business information, legal information, statistics, and more.
- Libra (UVa's Institutional Repository) Libra makes publications available to the world and provides safe and secure storage for the scholarly output of the U.Va. community.
- MLA Bibliography Lists books and articles on literature in all languages.
- Oxford English Dictionary In addition to definitions, provides quotations illustrating word usage over time.
- PsycINFO A database of books and journal articles about psychology and related disciplines.
- ScienceDirect Provides full text of books and articles published by Elsevier Science.
- Web of Knowledge/Web of Science Indexes journal articles in many subjects, and provides cited reference searching.
- WorldCat A catalog of books, videos, manuscripts, and other materials in thousands of libraries worldwide.
