Research and subject guides

Research Guides | Database Guides | Services and Collections | Microform Collections

We attempt to maintain PDF copies of all research, subject, database and services guides available from the University Libraries. Most guides are available on paper in Newman Library (ask at the reference desk).

Database Guides

• Addison
• Addison's New Features
• America: History and Life
• Biblioline Databases
• CSA (Cambridge Scientific Abstract) Databases
• EBSCO Databases
• EBSCO Advanced Search
• EEBO (Early English Books Online)
• Engineering Village
• Eureka Databases
• Get VText
• Historical Abstracts
• InfoTrac Databases
• Ingenta Gateway
• JSTOR
• OVID Databases

Research Guides

• Animal Science
• Architecture and Locate Architecture Articles
• Architecture: images, maps and plans
• Art
• Art History
• Artists
• Biochemistry
• Biographical Sources
• Biological Sciences
• Biological Systems Engineering
• Business Resources
• Case Citation Abbreviations
• Census Publications
• Chemistry and Related fields
• Children's Literature
• Clothing and Textiles
• College Rankings and Guides
• Design Reserach
• Environmental Design
• Environmental Studies
• Federal Law
• Finding Resources (using Library of Congress call numbers)
• Food Science and Technology
• Genealogy and Local History
• Geosciences
• Grants
• Industrial Design
• Interior Design
• Landscape Architecture
• Landscape Architecture: images, maps and plans
• Literary Criticism
• Local History and Genealogical Research in the University Libraries
• Mathematics
• Medieval Art and Architecture
• Mental Measurements Yearbooks & Tests in Print
• Military, Naval, and Aerospace Studies
• Nutrition
• Photography
• Physics
• Plant and Soil Science
• Psychology
• Sustainable Architecture
• Sustainable Design
• United Nations
• Virginia Information Resources

Services and Collections

• Circulation & Reserve
• Maps & Atlases
• Periodicals
• Special Collections
• U.S. Government Documents
• Newman Library

Microforms Collections

• American Literature
• British History Sources to 1700
• British Parliamentary Documents
• Civil War Imprints
• Civil War Service Records & Unit Histories
• ERIC Documents
• English Literature
• ETS tests
• FDR, the New Deal and WWII
• Government Documents
• History of Science & Technology
• Historical US and UK Periodicals
• International Statistics Sources
• Historical Virginia Public Records
• Maps
• Microforms Information and area map
• Newsbank (newspapers)
• Newspapers (microforms/paper/electronic)
• Pre-Civil War US Presidential Documents
• United Nations Documents
• U.S. Foreign Relations: 19th Century
• United States Statistics Sources
• Women's History