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VIVA: Public Core Collection

Virginia's Academic Library Consortium

This guide has variable layouts and houses the majority of the "sub" pages for VIVA's website.

 

Core Collections of VIVA Content

The VIVA Public Institution Core Collection

VIVA maintains a core collection of resources for the public institutions.  This content is available at all 39 public member libraries.

Current Subscriptions/Purchases:

ACM Digital Library

ACS Journals, Science Essentials package (individual institutions can opt in for larger packages, with central money subsidizing their selection)

ABC-CLIO: America: History & Life and Historical Abstracts

American History in Video

BioOne.1

Brill Ebooks

  • Classical Studies (2016-present), paid via a cost share
  • Languages and Linguistics (2016-2017, 2018-present)
  • Literature and Cultural Studies (2016-present)
  • Middle Eastern Studies (2017-present), paid via a cost share
  • Social Sciences (2016, 2017-I, 2018-present)

Chadwyck Healey African American Poetry Database; American Poetry Database; English Poetry, 600-1900; and English Verse Drama Database, all hosted at the University of Virginia

EBSCO Databases

  • CINAHL with Full Text
  • EBSCOhost Collection, including Academic Search Complete; Alt HealthWatch; Associates Programs Source; Business Source Complete; Communication & Mass Media Complete; Computers & Applied Sciences Complete; Consumer Health Complete; Education Research Complete; Environment Complete; Fuente Academica; Health Source - Consumer Edition; Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition; Hospitality & Tourism Complete; Humanities International Complete: Legal Collection; MasterFILE Premier; MedicLatina; Military & Government Collection; Newspaper Source Plus; Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection; Religion and Philosophy Collection; Salud en Espanol (CHC Spanish Version); Vente et Gestion; Women's Studies International
  • EconLit with Full Text
  • MLA International Bibliography with Full Text
  • Political Science Complete
  • SocINDEX with Full Text

Factiva (Dow Jones)

Films on Demand Master Academic Collection and Archival Films and Newsreels Collection

HarpWeek: The Civil War Era: 1857-1865, Reconstruction I: 1866-1871, and Reconstruction II: 1872-1877

IEEE/IET Electronic Library (IEL)

IOP Journals and IOP Ebooks Releases 1, 2, and 3

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Journal of Cell Biology

Literature Online

Gale Literature Resource Center

Mergent Online, Horizon, Intellect, and Analytics, and Investext Snapshot

Nature

New England Journal of Medicine

OCLC FirstSearch/WorldCat Discovery, also with ArticleFirst, Medline, Electronic Books, ECO A&I, Clase and Periodica, ERIC, GPO, PapersFirst, ProceedingsFirst, WorldCat Dissertations & Theses, OAIster, and ArchiveGrid

O'Reilly for Higher Education

Oxford English Dictionary

Oxford Reference Premium

Oxford Scholarship Online (2015-present)

Oxford University Press Journals, custom package

Project Muse Standard Collection

ProQuest Academic Complete and College Complete

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses

PsycINFO

Science

SciTech Premium Collection, with GeoRef, Sports Medicine and Education Index (formerly Physical Education Index), and Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts

Social Explorer

Springer Ebooks

  • Behavioral Science/Behavioral Science & Psychology (2005, 2013-present)
  • Biomedical and Life Science (2005, 2013-present)
  • Computer Science, including the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (2005, 2013-2017)
  • Earth and Environmental Science (2005, 2013-2014)

Taylor & Francis/CRCnetBase Evidence-Based Ebooks, all frontlist content 2015 forward and the ENGnetBASE Archive, including legacy (pre-2015) content.

Ulrich's

University Press Scholarship Online

  • Columbia UP, New York U, Stanford UP, U of Chicago Press, U of Mississippi Press, U of Minnesota Press, U of North Carolina Press, UP of Florida, UP of Kentucky, and Yale UP (2016-present)
  • Cornell, Edinburgh, and Princeton (2019-present)
  • MIT Press and U of California Press (2016-2019)

Wiley Journals:  Database Model

Wiley UCBM Model Ebooks

 

Additional perpetual access content:

Annual Reviews, perpetual access for content from 2000 to 2016.

Cambridge University Press Journals, perpetual access for content from 2001 through 2007.

Duke University Press Journals, perpetual access for content from 2005 through 2007

EBL Ebook DDA Pilot Program, perpetual access to 43 purchased titles.

Elsevier Ebooks, 2013 (not including Chandos or Woodhead titles and not including the French, German, or Plastics Engineering Hanser titles) and 2014 (not including the French, German, or Spanish collections) ebook collections