http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/tags/A/multimedia.html en Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:39:14 -0400 webmaster@lib.vt.edu webmaster@lib.vt.edu http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/africa-knowledge-project.html <div style=" width: 200px; float: left;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/A/S_akp.jpg" alt="African Knowledge Project" height="165px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/icons/L_vtonly.gif" title="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" width="15" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://www.africaknowledgeproject.org/index.php/index/search" title="Africa Knowledge Project" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://www.africaknowledgeproject.org/index.php/index/search')" shape="rect">Africa Knowledge Project</a> </span></h2><p>The <i>Africa Knowledge Project</i> indexes the full text of articles, reports, dissertations, short stories and folktales, plus audio and music files on Africa and the African diaspora. 1968-present.  <span class="majax-erm-advisory" title="e1001175"> </span></p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/africa-knowledge-project.html">Full record</a></p> Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:42:00 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/africa-knowledge-project.html Article searching Countries and cultures Governance Multimedia Music recordings and scores Newspapers and magazines Poetry and short stories Theses and dissertations Restricted to Virginia Tech users http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/african-music-database.html <div style=" width: 200px; float: left;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/A/S_akp.jpg" alt="African Knowledge Project" height="165px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/icons/L_vtonly.gif" title="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" width="15" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://www.africaknowledgeproject.org/index.php/amd/search" title="African Music Database from Africa Knowledge Project" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://www.africaknowledgeproject.org/index.php/amd/search')" shape="rect">African Music Database from Africa Knowledge Project</a> </span></h2><p><em>African Music Database</em> provides all types of African music beginning with highlife, traditional cultural groups, popular music, hiplife, and jazz. The growing database will feature music from artists in Africa and the global diaspora. Each work is downloadable in MP3. 2006-present. <span class="majax-erm-advisory" title="e1001193"> </span></p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/african-music-database.html">Full record</a></p> Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:00:00 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/african-music-database.html Countries and cultures Multimedia Restricted to Virginia Tech users http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/art-architecture-complete-from-ebsco.html <div style=" width: 200px; float: left;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/E/S_ebsco.jpg" alt="EBSCOhost interface" height="123px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/icons/L_vtonly.gif" title="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" width="15" /> <img alt="This resource provides a mobile interface; see description for link" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_mobile.gif" title="This resource provides a mobile interface; see description for link" width="10" /> <a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/help/screencasts/ebsco/index.html"><img alt="Screencast tutorials available for this resource" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_screencast.gif" title="Screencast tutorials available for this resource" width="20" /></a> <img alt="database provides Get VText links" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_getvtext-20.gif" title="database provides Get VText links" width="80" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&amp;profile=ehost&amp;defaultdb=vth" title="Art &amp; Architecture Complete from EBSCOhost" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&amp;profile=ehost&amp;defaultdb=vth')" shape="rect">Art &amp; Architecture Complete from EBSCOhost</a> </span></h2><p><i>Art &amp; Architecture Complete</i> indexes citations, abstracts, and some full text from journals, magazines, trade publications, and books covering all aspects of art and architecture. It also includes a large image collection. 1901-present.  <span class="majax-erm-advisory" title="e1001169"> </span></p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/art-architecture-complete-from-ebsco.html">Full record</a></p> Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:42:00 -0500 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/art-architecture-complete-from-ebsco.html Article searching Ebook packages Multimedia Professional and trade literature Mobile interface Screencast tutorials available Get VText Restricted to Virginia Tech users http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/americas-historical-imprints.html <div style=" float: left; width: 200px;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/N/S_newsbank.jpg" alt="Newsbank Readex" height="103px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/icons/L_vtonly.gif" title="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" width="15" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://infoweb.newsbank.com/?db=EAIX" title="America's Historical Imprints from Newsbank-Readex" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://infoweb.newsbank.com/?db=EAIX')" shape="rect">America's Historical Imprints from Newsbank-Readex</a> </span></h2><p><em>America's Historical Imprints</em> is a digital collection containing virtually every book, pamphlet, and broadside published in America over a 200-year period. It is comprised of a vast range of publications, including advertisements, almanacs, bibles, broadsides, catalogs, charters and by-laws, contracts, cookbooks, elegies, eulogies, laws, maps, narratives, novels, operas, pamphlets, plays, poems, primers, sermons, songs, speeches, textbooks, tracts, travelogues, treaties, and more. Scanned pages available as JPEG, TIFF, and PDF. <span class="majax-erm-advisory" title="e1000847"> </span></p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/americas-historical-imprints.html">Full record</a></p> Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:42:00 -0500 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/americas-historical-imprints.html Countries and cultures Encyclopedias, dictionaries, and almanacs Governance Multimedia Music recordings and scores Narratives, diaries, and letters Newspapers and magazines Poetry and short stories Restricted to Virginia Tech users http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/american-history-in-video-from-alexander-street-press.html <div style=" float: left; width: 200px;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/A/S_alexander-street-press-videos.jpg" alt="Alexander Street Press videos" height="133px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/icons/L_vtonly.gif" title="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" width="15" /> <img alt="Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/icons/L_viva.gif" title="Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia" width="36" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://ahiv.alexanderstreet.com/" title="American History in Video from Alexander Street Press" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://ahiv.alexanderstreet.com/')" shape="rect">American History in Video from Alexander Street Press</a> </span></h2><p><i>American History in Video</i> provides streaming Flash videos covering American history, most with transcripts. It includes programs from the History Channel, A&amp;E, and Biography Channel, plus documentaries, newsreels, and archival footage. Users who establish profiles can create playlists of videos and video clips with persistent URLs to include in course pages. Video coverage from 1492 to late 20th century. <span class="majax-erm-advisory" title="e1000904"> </span></p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/american-history-in-video-from-alexander-street-press.html">Full record</a></p> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:42:13 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/american-history-in-video-from-alexander-street-press.html Multimedia Restricted to Virginia Tech users VIVA http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/aquaculture-compendia-online-from-cabi.html <div style=" float: left; width: 200px;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/C/S_cabi.jpg" alt="Centre for Agricultural Bioscience International" height="134px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/icons/L_vtonly.gif" title="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" width="15" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://www.cabi.org/ac/" title="Aquaculture Compendia Online from CABI" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://www.cabi.org/ac/')" shape="rect">Aquaculture Compendia Online from CABI</a> </span></h2><p><i>Aquaculture Compendia</i> is an encyclopedic resource covering all aspects of aquaculture, including aquatic animal and plant production, natural resources and environment, biodiversity, trade, food security and safety, and social issues. It provides datasheets, book chapters, article citations, case studies, a glossary, geographic and country data, and pictures. Some full text in PDF. 1932-present. Limit to <span class="majax-erm-concurrentusers" title="e1000144"> </span> simultaneous users. <span class="majax-erm-advisory" title="e1000144"> </span></p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/aquaculture-compendia-online-from-cabi.html">Full record</a></p> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:42:13 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/aquaculture-compendia-online-from-cabi.html Article searching Countries and cultures Encyclopedias, dictionaries, and almanacs Multimedia Reports, standards, and financials Statistics and data sets Restricted to Virginia Tech users http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/animalbase.html <div style=" float: left; width: 200px;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/A/S_animalbase.jpg" alt="AnimalBase" height="147px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is freely accessible" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_free-database.gif" title="This resource is freely accessible" width="20" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/search" title="AnimalBase" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/search')" shape="rect">AnimalBase</a> </span></h2><p><i>AnimalBase</i> provides copyright-free open access to zoological works and provides manually verified lists of names of zoological genera and species. It includes digitized books and journal articles, most from prior to 1900, in their original language. Documents display as scanned images; many can be downloaded as PDFs. You can also search or browse by species, genus, or family. 350 BCE-present.</p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/animalbase.html">Full record</a></p> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:42:13 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/animalbase.html Article searching Ebook packages Ejournal packages Multimedia Narratives, diaries, and letters Freely accessible databases http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/american-slavery-composite-autobiography-from-greenwood.html <div style=" float: left; width: 200px;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/G/S_greenwood.jpg" alt="Greenwood" height="146px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/icons/L_vtonly.gif" title="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" width="15" /> <img alt="This resource is freely accessible" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_free-database.gif" title="This resource is freely accessible" width="20" /> <img alt="Contents of this resource available through Summon" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_summon.gif" title="Contents of this resource available through Summon" width="20" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://gem.greenwood.com/ip.asp?c=1054" title="American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography from Greenwood" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://gem.greenwood.com/ip.asp?c=1054')" shape="rect">American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography from Greenwood</a> </span></h2><p><i>American Slavery</i> contains both an overview of the collection of former slave narratives with related links (available without charge from the home page) and the collection of narratives themselves. Each narrative is delivered as a PDF as originally transcribed, with some interviews available as sound files. Searchable by name of narrator, interviewer, or master, the county or state where the narrator lived in slavery, the narrator's age or year of birth, or the location of the material in the print version (volume and page). 1920s-1940s (original interviews). <span class="majax-erm-advisory" title="e1000149"> </span></p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/american-slavery-composite-autobiography-from-greenwood.html">Full record</a></p> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:42:13 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/american-slavery-composite-autobiography-from-greenwood.html Multimedia Narratives, diaries, and letters Freely accessible databases Restricted to Virginia Tech users Contents of database in Summon http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/american-memory-from-the-library-of-congress.html <div style=" float: left; width: 200px;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/L/S_LoC-am.jpg" alt="Library of Congress" height="116px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is freely accessible" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_free-database.gif" title="This resource is freely accessible" width="20" /> <img alt="Contents of this resource available through Summon" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_summon.gif" title="Contents of this resource available through Summon" width="20" /> <img alt="Gold open access - publishing" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/icons/L_open-access-gold.gif" title="Gold open access - publishing" width="14" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html" title="American Memory from the Library of Congress" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html')" shape="rect">American Memory from the Library of Congress</a> </span></h2><p><i>American Memory</i> is a gateway to the Library of Congress’s digitized American historical materials, organized into more than 100 thematic collections. Original formats include manuscripts, prints, photographs, posters, maps, sound recordings, motion pictures, books, pamphlets, and sheet music. Each collection provides explanatory features to make the materials easy to find, use, and understand. Collections may be browsed individually, searched individually (including full-text searching for many written items), or searched across multiple collections. 1400s-present.</p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/american-memory-from-the-library-of-congress.html">Full record</a></p> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:42:13 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/american-memory-from-the-library-of-congress.html Catalogs (about publications) Multimedia Music recordings and scores Narratives, diaries, and letters Newspapers and magazines Poetry and short stories Freely accessible databases Contents of database in Summon Gold open access: publishing http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/american-journeys.html <div style=" width: 200px; float: left;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/A/S_americanjourneys.jpg" alt="American Journeys" height="190px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is freely accessible" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_free-database.gif" title="This resource is freely accessible" width="20" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://www.americanjourneys.org/search.asp" title="American Journeys" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://www.americanjourneys.org/search.asp')" shape="rect">American Journeys</a> </span></h2><p>American Journeys indexes the full text of more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later. Read the words of explorers, Indians, missionaries, traders and settlers as they lived through the founding moments of American history. Includes more than 150 rare books, original manuscripts, and classic travel narratives. 1000s-1840s</p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/american-journeys.html">Full record</a></p> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:42:13 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/american-journeys.html Catalogs (about publications) Countries and cultures Multimedia Freely accessible databases http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/alcohol-studies-database-from-rutgers.html <div style=" width: 200px; float: left;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/A/S_alcohol.jpg" alt="Alcohol Studies Database" height="210px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is freely accessible" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_free-database.gif" title="This resource is freely accessible" width="20" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/alcohol_studies/alcohol/advancedSearch.php" title="Alcohol Studies Database from Rutgers" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/alcohol_studies/alcohol/advancedSearch.php')" shape="rect">Alcohol Studies Database from Rutgers</a> </span></h2><p>Contains over 80,000 citations for journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers, and audio-visual materials. Also includes a small collection of educational and prevention materials, including audiovisuals, suitable for students and educators K-12, parents, community workers, and the general public. 1987-present</p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/alcohol-studies-database-from-rutgers.html">Full record</a></p> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:42:13 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/alcohol-studies-database-from-rutgers.html Article searching Catalogs (about publications) Conference papers, preprints, and working papers Handbooks and manuals Multimedia Freely accessible databases http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/agu-digital-library.html <div style=" float: left; width: 200px;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/A/S_agu.jpg" alt="American Geophysical Union" height="119px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/icons/L_vtonly.gif" title="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" width="15" /> <img alt="Contents of this resource available through Summon" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_summon.gif" title="Contents of this resource available through Summon" width="20" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://europa.agu.org/?view=search&amp;adv=1" title="AGU Digital Library" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://europa.agu.org/?view=search&amp;adv=1')" shape="rect">AGU Digital Library</a> </span></h2><p>The <i>AGU Digital Library</i> indexes citations, abstracts, and full text of more than 100 years of Earth and space science research. Cited By references are available for many articles. Lectures/interviews are provided via streaming video. Some book content is available as full-text PDFs, other books provide abstracts to chapters/sections. 1896-1995. Limited to <span class="majax-erm-concurrentusers" title="e1000741"> </span> simultaneous users. <span class="majax-erm-advisory" title="e1000741"> </span></p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/agu-digital-library.html">Full record</a></p> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:42:13 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/agu-digital-library.html Article searching Ejournal packages Multimedia Restricted to Virginia Tech users Contents of database in Summon