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Off-Campus (Off VU Network) Access to Electronic Resources
On-Campus (Using VU Network) to Access Electronic Resources
- No passwords needed; click on electronic resources below for access.
VU Library Search - VU Library Search enables students, faculty and staff to simultaneously search any or all of the electronic resources using a single search entry point.
A-Z Electronic Resources List
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Journals, Magazines and Newspapers
- EBSCOhost (INSPIRE) -- Electronic resources offering full-text coverage to popular and scholarly publications.
- ProQuest -- Career & technical education, nursing & social science.
- LexisNexis Academic -- News, business, legal research, medical information and general reference sources.
- NewsBank -- Full-text articles from newspapers.
- SIRS -- Contemporary issues, government documents, and arts & humanities.
- INSPIRE -- Indiana's Virtual Library linking users to full-text articles.
- Informe (INSPIRE) -- Popular Spanish-language magazine articles and pamphlets.
Reference Resources
- AccessScience -- Online version of the highly acclaimed McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology.
- ARTstor - A repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images.
- Gale - Online content from reference books and periodicals.
- Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center -- Varied viewpoints surrounding today's complex social issues.
- Facts.com -- World news, science & controversial issues.
- Literature Resource Center -- Information on literary figures from all time periods writing in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, journalism and more.
- LitFinder (INSPIRE) -- Entire texts of essays, plays, poems, speeches, and stories.
- Encyclopedia Britannica Online -- Articles from Encyclopedia Britannica, Britannica Concise Encyclopedia, Britannica Student and Elementary Encyclopedias and Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus.
- Biography Resource Center (INSPIRE) -- In-depth coverage on more than 320,000 individuals past and present.
- Oxford Music Online -- Full text coverage of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, the New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 3 simultaneous users only.
- Credo Reference - Collection of reference books.
- VU netLibrary Collection -- Access to over 6,500 electronic books.
- Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) - Policy documents, presidential directives, national strategy documents, theses and reports from universities, organizations and local and state agencies.
Open Access Periodicals on the Web
Open access publications exist on the Web and are freely accessible. Many of the publications are scholarly and quality-controlled (peer-reviewed), especially from the scientific and medical disciplines.
- Directory of Open Access Journals -- Quality-controlled scientific and scholarly journals.
- BioMed Central -- More than 100 Open Access journals covering many areas of biology and medicine.
- FreeMedicalJournals.com -- Scholarly articles from medical journals.
- Highwire Press -- Free articles in scholarly journals provided by Stanford University Libraries.
- Public Library of Science (PLoS) -- Published research articles from scientists and physicians.
- PubMed Central (PMC) -- Features the U.S. National Library of Medicine's digital archive of life sciences journal literature.
- Looksmart's Find Articles -- Articles from over 700 publications.
- MagPortal -- Articles from many popular magazines and trade publications.
Citation and Abstract Resources
Each is an index to peer-reviewed scholarly content to journal articles, papers, theses, books, technical reports, etc. Some full text is available. Check the library's Find Periodical Titles website to see if your journal is online in EBSCOhost, ProQuest, etc., or use the online interlibrary loan forms for books or articles to submit an interlibrary loan request.
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