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Press Releases

Press Releases are provided as a service to help VIVA institutions publicize VIVA resources and services on their local campuses.

2025: OER Publication - Community and Public Health Nursing
2024: VIVA awarded IMLS National Leadership Implementation Grant
2024: VIVA Open Course Grants: Spring Awardees
2024: VIVA Open Adopt Grant Fall 2023 Recipients
2023: KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd. Partnership
2023: EAST Growing Shared Print Collections

2023: Removing Barriers to Hyku Adoption

2021: VIVA Builds Statewide Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Collections
2019: Course Redesign Grant Program
2019: Open and Affordable Course Content Initiative
2019: New Ebook, Media, and Data Content
2018: VIVA Open Textbook Network: Student Savings Exceed Expectations in Pilot Year
2017: VIVA Dramatically Expands Shared E-book Collection
2016: VIVA Supports Open Access and Open Educational Resources for Virginia Students
2016: Extensive STEM-H Full-Text Content Added to VIVA’s Collections
2015: Statewide Access to EBSCO Nursing and Social Science Full Text Resources
2015: Statewide Access to Oxford Scholarship Online E-books - Now Available through VIVA
2014: Extensive New Full-Text Content in the Sciences Added to VIVA’s Subscriptions
2013: Renegotiation of Modern Language Association International Bibliography Contract Provides Savings and Brings New, Extensive Literature Resources to VIVA
2013: Universal Borrowing Pilot Allows Students and Faculty to Borrow Books Directly from Other VIVA Institutions
2013: Innovative E-book Program Brought to Virginia through VIVA
2013: Access to Extensive STEM-H E-Book Collections
2011: Statewide Access to ProQuest’s Dissertations and Theses–Full Text
2011: Contemporary Women’s Issues Offers Global Research Reach
2011: History Comes Alive in American History in Video Collection
2010: APA PsycNET Now Available to VIVA Institutions
2008: VIVA Libraries acquire immediate access to Mergent Online and Mergent Horizon Business Databases
2008: VIVA Libraries acquire access to EBSCOhost Information Services Journals and Databases
2008: VIVA acquires access to Safari Tech Books Online
2008: VIVA provides access to the PBS Streaming Video Library Collection
2007: IEEE Xplore and Blackwell Journals Now Available to VIVA Insitutions
2006: Gale Virtual Reference Library Now Available To All VIVA Institutions
2006: Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection Now Available To All VIVA Institutions
2005: VIVA Adds Four Institute of Physics Journals
2005: Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Edition, Now Available Through VIVA
2005: ENGnetBASE: Online Engineering Handbooks Now Available Through VIVA
2005: Institute of Physics Publishing journals Now Available Through VIVA
2005: Comprehensive Literary Database, Literature Resource Center,
2004: BioOne Licensed for VIVA Libraries
2004: VIVA Funding Strengthened for 2004-06 Biennium
2004: VIVA Adds Over 100 New Medical and Nursing Journals
2003: VIVA Wins Governor's Technology Award
2003: VIVA Adds R.R. Bowker for Books in Print and Ulrich's Web
2003: VIVA Provides Online Access to 15 Nature Journals
2003: The Virtual Library of Virginia wins SOLINENT award for Virginia Heritage Project
2002: VIVA Licenses Online Journals from American Mathematical Society
2002: VIVA Brings Back Britannica Online
2001: Gale Business Database Expands Coverage
2001: New One-Stop Search Engine from Gale
2001: Harper's Weekly Reconstruction Era, Part II (1872-1877)
2001: Virginia Heritage Project Provides Access to Manuscript Collections
2001: VIVA Licenses Online Journals from Cambridge University Press
2001: VIVA Licenses Online Journals from Oxford University Press
2001: VIVA Licenses Online Journals from American Chemical Society
2000: Harper's Weekly Reconstruction Era (1866-1871)
2000: Annual Reviews Online Now Available to VIVA Libraries
2000: Online Nursing Journals Now Available to VIVA Libraries
2000: Project Muse Expands Offerings of Online Social Science and Humanities Journals
2000: NEH awards grant to VIVA Virginia Heritage Project Task Force
2000: Science Online now available through HighWire Press
2000: Internet access to historic texts from UVA and netLibrary
2000: Full-Text Scientific Journals from Highwire Press
1999: Ovid Databases in Health Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities
1999: CIAO International Affairs Database
1999: HarpWeek, Harper's Magazine Civil War era