Library Collections

The University Libraries has just added 15 more databases to our large collection of primary source materials from AM (formerly Adam Matthew Digital). Two of these are research skills modules that help introduce students to the importance and use of primary sources in the research process. Some are new modules that expand upon existing collections, such as the Mass Observation Project or the Foreign Office Files.  Others cover all-new topics such as Amnesty International, the Olympic Movement, and the Royal Shakespeare Company. Taken together, they represent a substantial addition to our existing collection of primary source archive materials.

All of the collections are accessible via our A-to-Z list of databases. In addition, AM Search provides cross-database search capability across available collections. AM also offers their innovative Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) capability to aid in reading and searching handwritten source materials.

The University Libraries regularly adds new digital content throughout the year. While some are targeted purchases, i.e. backfiles from a single journal title or a small ebook collection, other purchases are much larger in size and scope. Our recent acquisitions from Taylor and Francis fall into that later category. We’ve just added over 25,000 unlimited access ebooks, more than doubling our perpetual ownership of ebooks from them. These include titles from both their STEM and Humanities & Social Sciences collections. In addition we have added several more of their journal archives covering titles in the following subject areas. Purchases like this allow us to provide online access for the university community to important content that may have originally only been available in hard copy form.

New Resources Acquired in FY24

Collection Management works to build unique and dynamic collections of national significance to support all areas of scholarship at Virginia Tech. We regularly assess usage of our resources as we seek to maximize the value of our subscriptions and reflect emerging areas of research at the university. Through prudent management of our budget and data analysis we replace low-use subscriptions with new and requested resources. And, we purchase journal archives and e-book collections with one-time funds or end-of-year money. We do all this to improve access and expand the breadth and depth of the collection, and to save space by replacing and supplementing print resources with online.

Databases

1. A&A Eportal
2. Africa Commons
3. Art and Architecture Source
4. BBC Monitoring, Series 1-4
5. Black Life in America, Series 1-3
6. Disabilities in Society, 17^th to 20^th Century
7. Environmental History: Colonial Policy and Global Development
8. Environmental History: Conservation and Public Policy in America
9. HeinOnline Judges and the Judiciary
10. HeinOnline Labor and Employment: The American Worker
11. HeinOnine State Commitments
12. HeinOnline West Academic Casebooks
13. Hispanic Life in America, Series 1-3
14. Global Data Explorer
15. MadCad (added VA State Code 2021)
16. Medici Jazz
17. Official Methods of Analysis of the AOAC
18. Overton
19. Plumb’s Veterinary Academic
20. Political Extremism and Radicalism, Parts 1-3
21. Power to the People: Counterculture, Social Movements and the Alternative Press
22. Public Health Archives: Public Health in Modern America
23. Rare Book Hub
24. Smithsonian Collections Online – Trade Literature and the Merchandizing of Industry
25. Smithsonian Collections Online – World’s Fairs and Expositions: Visions of Tomorrow
26. South Asia Commons

eBook Collections

1. ACS In Focus – Collections 1-3
2. AMS Continuing Collections – 2024 Collection
3. Bloomsbury Food Library
4. Cambridge Histories Online – 2023 Update
5. Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (24 volumes)
6. Entomological Society of America Ebook Collection on BioOne
7. Essentials in Money and Finance (60 titles)
8. Global Food Histories
9. Human Kinetics Core Collection – 2023 Update
10. Human Kinetics Physical and Health Educations
11. Human Kinetics Strength and Conditioning
12. IGI Ebooks – 2024 update
13. Institute of Physics eBooks – 2023 collection
14. Major References Works from Elsevier, Salem Press, Wiley, World Scientific and others (44 titles)
15. McGraw-Hill Boards and Beyond (VTCSoM only)
16. Now Publishers Foundations and Trends Technology (730 titles)
17. Oxford Very Short Introductions (800+ volumes)
18. Sage Business Cases – 2024 Update
19. Springer Synthesis Collection of Technology
20. Taylor and Francis Ebook Archive 1991-1995
21. Thieme MedOne Veterinary Medicine
22. University of Chicago Press Ebooks Collection – 2023 + 2024

Journals

1. Annals of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology
2. Applied Economics Letters
3. Arrow Journal
4. AVS Quantum Science
5. Biometrics
6. Biophysics Reviews
7. Cancer Letter
8. Chemical Physics Review
9. Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering
10. Housing Policy Debate
11. Journal of Energy Chemistry
12. Journal of Higher Education
13. Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry
14. Journal of Manufacturing Processes
15. Justice, Power and Resistance
16. Materials Today Communications
17. Molecular and Cellular Biology
18. Nature Machine Intelligence
19. Nature Reviews Earth and Environment
20. Omics

Journal Collections

1. AAA Architecture and Design Magazine Archive
2. Brepols Journal Archive (45 titles)
3. Cambridge Journals Digital Archive Update (9 additional titles)
4. De Gruyter Journal Archive (all titles, 2016-2023)
5. Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive, Collection 3: Cinema, Film and Television Part 2
6. Mary Ann Liebert Archive (5 additional titles)
7. Sage Journal Archive (all titles, 1999-2019)

Memberships

1. Linguistic Data Consortium
2. PeerJ Institutional Membership

Newspapers

1. Access World News – 2024 Upgrade
2. Associated Press Collections Online News Features and Internal Communications
3. British Library Newspapers, Part VI
4. Nichols Newspaper Collection
5. Virginian Pilot – 1991-2003

Open Access

1. ACS Read and Publish Agreement (VIVA)
2. Directory of Open Access Books
3. Knowledge Unlatched: KU Select 2024 Sustainable Development Goals
4. JSTOR Path to Open
5. PLOS Read and Publish Agreement (VIVA)
6. Royal Society of Chemistry Read and Publish Agreement
7. SCOAP3 OA Books Collection
8. Springer Read and Publish Agreement (VIVA)
9. University of Michigan Press Ebook Collection (VIVA)

Streaming Media

1. Digitalia Film Library Complete

Other

1. Charleston Advisor

Several new Read and Publish agreements are available through the University Libraries for 2024. These allow Virginia Tech authors to publish their work open access at reduced or no cost.

All new for this year are journal publishing agreements with American Chemical Society, PLOS, and Royal Society of Chemistry.  We were also able to negotiate expanded title coverage with Cambridge University Press and we became an institutional member of PeerJ to streamline the article acceptance process for their journals.

Information on all available discounts and memberships can be found on our Libguide. Please note that for multi-author works the discounts usually only apply to the institutional affiliation of the corresponding author.

Earlier this month JSTOR launched its new Path to Open initiative. Virginia Tech is among over 50 institutions that are supporting this effort financially. While we have long had access to JSTOR subscription databases this is their first foray into Open Access publishing. Members of the Open Knowledge Committee worked with Collections and Technical Services to assess this new model.

This multi-year pilot program provides libraries with affordable access to diverse, high-quality frontlist e-books while supporting small and medium university presses in open access publishing. The collection will grow over time and the books will be converted to open access three years after publication to better support publishers, authors, institutions, and readers worldwide.

The first release contains 100 ebook titles – See https://about.jstor.org/path-to-open/titles/ for the full list. These have been loaded into our library discovery system to facilitate access.

Collection Management works to build unique and dynamic collections of national significance to support all areas of scholarship at Virginia Tech. We regularly assess usage of our resources as we seek to maximize the value of our subscriptions and reflect emerging areas of research at the university. Through prudent management of our budget and data analysis we replace low-use subscriptions with new and requested resources. And, we purchase journal archives and e-book collections with one-time funds or end-of-year money. We do all this to improve access and expand the breadth and depth of the collection, and to save space by replacing and supplementing print resources with online.

Databases

1. Bloomsbury Human Kinetics Core Library
2. Bloomsbury Religion in North America
3. CABI Compendium
4. Coherent Digital: North American City Reports
5. Digital National Security Archive (latest updates)
6. Early American Imprints, Series I+II from the Library Company of Philadelphia
7. Global Data Explorer
8. HeinOnline National Survey of State Laws
9. HeinOnline Voting Rights and Election Law
10. HeinOnline Water Rights
11. Jane’s Air & Space Module
12. Law Library Microform Consortium
13. Making of the Modern World IV, 1800-1890
14. Medici.TV
15. Native American Tribal Histories, Series 1-4 (1813-1880)
16. Pharmacotherapy Principles & Practice
17. ProQuest Disability and the Modern World (VIVA)
18. ProQuest Congressional U.S Serial Set 2, Parts I-N (2015-2020)
19. Readex Black Life in America Series 1 & 2
20. SAGE Research Methods: Foundations
21. Trismegistos
22. Wiley Current Protocols

eBook Collections

1. American Astronomical Society eBooks – 2023 collection
2. American Mathematical Society: Contemporary Mathematics (2021-2023)
3. American Mathematical Society: Mathematical Surveys and Monographs (1943-2022)
4. American Mathematical Society: Proceedings of Symposia in Applied Mathematics (2014-2022)
5. American Mathematical Society: Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics (2021 update)
6. Cambridge Evidence-Based Acquisitions Collection – Politics and International Relations
7. Cambridge Histories Online Archive (Complete Collection, 423 volumes)
8. Classiques Garnier: Grand Corpus des Dictionnaires (IXe-XXe s.)
9. Elsevier Book Series – Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (over 1,000 volumes)
10. Elsevier Methods in Enzymology (reinstatement)
11. IGI Ebooks – 2023 update
12. Institute of Physics eBooks – 2023 collection
13. Major References Works from Elgar, Elsevier, Salem Press, World Scientific and others (20 titles)
14. MIT Press eBooks Library – Computing & Engineering Collection
15. Oxford Handbooks Online:  Additional subject collections including Archaeology, Business and Management, Economics and Finance, Law, Linguistics, Music, Religion, and Social Policy and Social Work (now have all disciplines available, over 1,300 volumes in total)
16. ProQuest Ebook Central Sustainability Collection
17. Royal Society of Chemistry Textbooks Collection
18. SAGE eBooks Evidence-Based Acquisitions Program (all subjects)
19. ScienceDirect Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (2000-2023, over 1,000 volumes)
20. Scientific.net: Foundations of Materials Science and Engineering, vol. 101-103
21. SpringerLink Education
22. Thieme MedOne Education

Journals

1. African Research and Documentation
2. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
3. Animal Welfare
4. Applied Animal Behaviour Science
5. Clinical Liver Disease
6. Economic and Labour Relations Review
7. Hepatology
8. Hepatology Communications
9. Industrial Biotechnology
10. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
11. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
12. Journal of Applied Microbiology
13. Journal of Autoethnography
14. Journal of Building Engineering
15. Journal of Energy Storage
16. Journal of General Virology
17. Journal of Medical Microbiology
18. Journal of Nutrition
19. Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice
20. Journal of Trust Research
21. Letters in Applied Microbiology
22. Liver Transplantation
23. Nature Electronics
24. Strategic Management Review

Journal Collections

1. American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection
2. ArtForum Archive (1962-2020)
3. Elsevier Business, Management and Accounting (1995-2004)
4. Elsevier Economics, Econometrics and Finance (1995-2004)
5. Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive, Collection 1: Music, Radio and The Stage
6. Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive, Collection 2: Cinema, Film and Television
7. Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive, Collection 4: Music – Rock, Folk and Hip-Hop
8. Financial Times (Global News – London), 2017-2021
9. International Journal of Sports Medicine Archive (1980-1999)
10. Journal de Physique Archive (1872-1997)
11. Journal of the Geological Society (1845-1986)
12. Mary Ann Liebert Archive (5 additional journals)
13. Mergent Million Dollar Directory Archive (1959-present)
14. Mergent NYSE and ASE Listing Statements and Applications
15. New England Journal of Medicine Archive (1812-1989)
16. Oral History Review online (1973-present)
17. Oxford Journals Archives (2020-2023)
18. Radiological Society of North America: Radiology Legacy Collection (1923-201)
19. SAE Technical Papers Archive (2010-2013)
20. SAGE Business Cases 2023
21. Scientific.net Construction Technologies and Architecture
22. Taylor & Francis Classic Archives Upgrade
23. Taylor & Francis Media, Cultural and Communication Studies Archive (through 2006)
24. Taylor & Francis Physics Archive (through 2006)

Memberships

1. Cogitatio – Institutional Publishing Membership
2. Oral History Association – Institutional Membership

Newspapers

1. Associated Press 3: Washington D.C. Bureau Collection, 1938-2009
2. Newspapers.com – World Collection
3. Richmond Times Dispatch Historical Archive (1990-2018)

Open Access

1. Cambridge University Press Read and Publish Agreement (VIVA)
2. Institute of Physics Read and Publish Agreement (VIVA)
3. International Water Association Read and Publish Agreement (VIVA)
4. Knowledge Unlatched: KU Focus Collection Global Health
5. Pacific Journal of Mathematics

Other

1. Celus & Celus Plus
2. Ithaka PORTICO eJournals Archive
3. JSTOR Expanded Access Program
4. Lyrasis Learning

University Libraries at Virginia Tech is pleased to announce three new transformative agreements to bring read and publish access to journals from Cambridge University Press, the International Water Association (IWA), and the Institute of Physics (IOP). These agreements are available through Virginia Tech’s membership in VIVA, the academic library consortium of Virginia. As a result of these agreements, starting January 1, 2023, corresponding authors at Virginia Tech are now able to publish open access articles in nearly 500 more journals at no cost to the authors. Additionally, the Virginia Tech community has expanded access to be able to read content from these publishers. Information on all of our available open access discounts may be found at https://guides.lib.vt.edu/oasf/discounts

VIVA, the academic library consortium for Virginia, regularly reviews and evaluates resources in order to best meet the needs of member institutions across the commonwealth and the faculty and students that they serve. For 2023, VIVA is adding several new databases that provide streaming media or which enhance coverage of important issues related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. These new databases include:

• Digital Theatre+

• PsychoTherapy.net

• Gale Archives of Sexuality & Gender Parts 1 + 2: LGBTQ History Since 1940

• ProQuest Disability in the Modern World

Descriptions and links for each database may be found on the A-Z list of databases.

Collection Management works to build unique and dynamic collections of national significance to support all areas of scholarship at Virginia Tech. We regularly assess usage and impact of our resources as we seek to maximize the value of our subscriptions and reflect emerging areas of research at the university.

 We were able to bring many of our existing resources fully up to date as well as add a wide range of new resources. In addition to specialized resources, we added several interdisciplinary ones such as the New York Times, Policy Commons, and Statista. We began to explore new models of acquiring ebooks by adding a large Evidence Based Acquisition package from JSTOR. We also prioritized resources that support online access, diversify our collections, and open access initiatives. Below is a list of the new resources acquired in FY22.

Journals

1. Agricultural Water Management
2. Atmospheric Environment
3. Critical Military Studies
4. Earth and Planetary Science Letters
5. Electronic News
6. Energy Policy
7. Environmental Pollution
8. Ergo (OA)
9. Faktur
10. Geopolitics
11. Global Discourse
12. Intelligence and National Security
13. Journal of Asian Studies
14. Journal of LGBT Youth
15. Journal of Library Metadata
16. Journal of Women and Gender in Higher Education
17. Land Use Policy
18. LGBT Health
19. Nature Reviews Materials
20. Nature Sustainability
21. Philosophy of Science

 Journal Collections

1. Cambridge Journals Digital Archive (2014-2022 Updates)
2. Economist Historical Archive (2015-2020 Updates)
3. Emerald Premier Collection (current access)
4. Emerald Premier Backfile (1898 – 2006)
5. IBM Journal of Research and Development Archive (1957-2020)
6. IET Journal Archive 3 (2007-2012)
7. INFORMS Journal Archive (1952-1997)
8. JSTOR Life Science Collection
9. Mary Ann Liebert Archives (5 titles)
10. Nokia Bell Labs Technical Journal Archive (1922-1996)
11. Optica OSA Digital Archive 3 (2016-2020)
12. Rolling Stone Archive
13. SAGE Deep Backfile Archive (2017-2022 Updates)
14. SMPTE Journal Archive (1916-2016)
15. Trans Tech Complete Package
16. Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine backfiles (1995-2004)

Databases

1. AccessNeurology
2. Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary and Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries
3. Bloomsbury Fashion Business Cases
4. Digital National Security Archive (latest updates)
5. Foundation Directory Online (reinstatement)
6. HEIN Online Air and Space Law
7. HEIN Online Session Laws with State Statutes
8. NAACP Papers (all 6 collections)
9. National Journal
10. Natural Medicines Database
11. Passport: Travel Module
12. RS Means Complete
13. SAGE Business Cases – 2022 Update
14. Statista

E-book Collections

1. African Books Collective (VIVA)
2. AIP Ebooks Collection 2
3. American Astronautical Society Astronomy Collection + 2022 Update
4. Elsevier Handbooks in Economics
5. Emerald Future of Work & Gender and Equality Collections
6. Foundations of Materials Science and Engineering (v.1-100)
7. Human Kinetics Health Care in Sports and Exercise
8. IEEE MIT 2022 Collection
9. IET 2022 Collection
10. IGI Global Ebook Package 2000-2021 + 2022 Update
11. Institute of Physics 2020, 2021 & 2022 Collections
12. JSTOR Evidence Based Acquisitions Program (with access to ~60,000 titles)
13. Knowledge Unlatched 2022 Focus on Climate Change Collection (OA)
14. Knowledge Unlatched 2022 HSS Collection (OA in humanities and social sciences)
15. Major Reference Works from Elsevier, Salem Press and Wiley – 29 titles
16. Morgan and Claypool Synthesis 12 Collection
17. Oxford Handbooks Online – Classical Studies, Criminology, History, Literature, Neuroscience, Physical Science, and Sociology
18. Oxford Research Encyclopedias – American History and International Studies
19. Oxford Scholarship Online Ebooks (special backfile collection, 615 titles)
20. SAE 2021 + 2022 Collections
21. Springer Education 2021 + 2022 Collections
22. Taylor and Francis E-Book Archive (pre-1980 and 1981-85)

 Streaming Media

1. Digitalia Film Library Central America Collection
2. Sage Research Methods Video: Data Science, Big Data Analytics, and Digital Methods

Newspapers

1. Access World News Upgrade including Black Life in America Series 3
2. African American Newspapers Series 2
3. New York Times
4. Times (London) Digital Archive (2015-2019 Updates)
5. Virginian Pilot Historical

Other

1. Sherpa Romeo Membership (OA support)

HathiTrust’s Copyright Review Program makes available published works no longer protected by copyright. The program reviews US, Canadian, Australian, and UK publications.  While the highest priority is published monographs, many serial and series publications are available.

As of June 1, 2022, HathiTrust’s collection included nearly 1.4 million U.S. federal documents. HathiTrust’s Federal Documents Advisory Committee, among other tasks, explores “methods and operations to characterize, improve, and enhance the quality of federal documents metadata and the HathiTrust digital corpus”

For more information about HathiTrust U.S. federal documents program please visit their information page at https://www.hathitrust.org/usgovdocs

For more about other aspects of the copyright review program see https://www.hathitrust.org/copyright-review