Click on one of these links for a list of databases containing materials of this type or format.
- Academic search engines
- Broad searching across multiple disciplines and scholarly subscription databases or free web search engines
- Broad searching across a family of databases with a common interface (federated searching)
- Search results not restricted to a particular format
- Article searching
- Predominantly resources used to locate articles in published periodicals
- Emphasis on scholarly research
- Catalogs (about publications)
- Bibliographic tools that give additional information about a resource
- Some include analytical tools or reviews about resources
- Chemical and physical properties
- Predominantly covers resources that provide factual information about matter
- Includes tables, formulas, chemical compounds and structures, etc.
- Information about DNA, genes, and genomic maps
- Conference proceedings, preprints and working papers
- Predominantly resources used to locate information not (yet) published in periodicals
- "Gray literature"
- Countries and cultures
- Predominantly full text narrative resources with some tabular/statistical information on countries and cultures
- Ebook packages
- Search for full-text electronic books offered through various collections
- Most offer full text searching capabilities, though some limit search terms to the title, author, table of contents and notes fields
- Many of the individual ebooks will also be listed in Addison
- Ejournal packages
- Search for full-text journals offered through a publisher's platform
- Most offer full text searching capabilities, though some limit results to ejournals included in VT's subscription
- Not comprehensive searching on a topic as it only includes journals listed by the publisher in that search interface
- Many of the individual ejournals will also be listed in the Journal Title Database
- Encyclopedias, dictionaries and almanacs
- Encyclopedias, dictionaries,glossaries, almanacs, and other reference sources used to give researchers a starting point when in an unfamiliar area
- Includes general and subject-specific sources
- Funding opportunities
- Student and faculty funding (grants, scholarships and research funding)
- Governance
- Sources, both indexes and full-text, documenting the operations of governments
- Census resources are located in the Statistics and data sets category
- Handbooks and manuals
- Primarily for resources that are "how-to" guides
- Subject specific and "library research" tutorials
- Multimedia
- Predominantly resources where it only searches, or is possible to limit searches, to multimedia format types with a scholarly application
- Scanned and electronically produced images of maps go here; GIS data appears in Statistics and data sets
- Scanned images of music scores appear in Music Recordings and scores
- Audio recordings of speeches, personal narratives and the like will be found in Narratives, diaries, and letters
- Music recordings and Scores
- Scanned images of scores
- Electronically produced scores (images, mp3, MIDI, etc)
- Streaming music databases
- Narratives, diaries and letters
- Personal narratives, diaries, letters, speeches, memoirs, autobiographies, and other personal correspondences
- Indexes and full-text
- Includes audio recordings
- Newspapers and magazines
- Does not include articles from trade journals
- Indexes and full-text
- Popular magazine articles
- Poetry and short stories
- Indexes and full-text collections of short format literature
- Patents and trademarks
- U.S. and international patents and patent applications
- Trademarks
- Laws about patents and trademarks will be found in the Governance category
- Professional and trade literature
- Literature for the profession
- Gateways to trade journals
- Indexes and full-text collections of articles from trade journals
- Reports, standards and financials
- Technical standards
- Official or formal record of the activities of a committee or corporate entity, a special investigation, or the proceedings of a governmental body
- Publications that are a separately issued record of research results, research in progress, or other technical studies
- White papers, technical reports, and periodically published in sources other than journals and magazines
- Business assessments by third parties
- Reviews and critiques
- Not limited to reviews of books and performances
- Scholarly and non-scholarly
- Reviews and critiques of books, articles, performances, artistic creations
- Product reviews
- Reviews of companies and industries will be in the Reports, standards, and financials category
- Statistics and data sets
- Compiled statistics and collections of survey instruments and raw data
- GIS
- Census data
- Public opinion polls
- Theses and dissertations
- Indexes and collections
- Print and electronic
- Individual theses and dissertations published at VT will also be listed in Addison
- Virginia Tech information
- Current and historical information
- Includes information in all formats
