Library Collections

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. We also 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 supplementing and replacing print resources with online.

Databases

1. 1980’s Culture and Society
2. Bible and Western Christian Literature
3. Boards & Beyond Step 2 Clinical
4. CABI Applied Life Science Cases Archive
5. CABI Tourism Cases Archive
6. Central Asia, Persia and Afghanistan, 1834-1922
7. CINAHL Complete (through VIVA)
8. Colonial Caribbean I, Settlement, Slavery and Empire
9. Decolonization: Politics and Independence in Former Colonial and Commonwealth Territories
10. Digital National Security Archive Modules 62 & 63
11. Early American Imprints – Four Supplement Collections
12. Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) – Part III
13. First Aid Forward Step 1 & 2
14. Food Sustainability and Security
15. French Library Bibliopolis / Bibliotheque des Lettres
16. Gilded Age and Progressive Era
17. Global Food Cultures
18. HeinOnline Animal Studies
19. HeinOnline Environmental Law and Policy
20. HeinOnline Foreign Relations of the United States
21. HeinOnline History of International Law
22. HeinOnline Indigenous Peoples of the Americas
23. HeinOnline International Trade Law Collection
24. HeinOnline Religion and the Law
25. HeinOnline World Treaty Library
26. History of Christianity & History of Judaism
27. North American State, Provincial, and Territorial Governments
28. North American Urban Documents
29. Pan-African Magazines
30. Post-War Europe
31. ProQuest U.S. Serials Set (2021-2025)
32. Refugees, Relief and Resettlement, Parts I + II
33. Religions of America
34. Vet-Anatomy
35. Women, War, and Society – 1914-1918
36. Workspace Aftermarket Research Add-On for Investext

eBook Collections

1. Directory of Geoscience Departments
2. Drama Online – Acting and Practical Theatre Guides
3. Major Reference Works from Cambridge, Elsevier, Salem Press and others (29 titles)
4. SAGE Reference and Academic Books Complete Collection
5. SIAM Proceedings (2001-2026)
6. Taylor and Francis Ebook Archive (2001-2005, 2006-2010)
7. University of Chicago Ebooks (2026 update plus 2019 & 2020 backfiles)
8. World Scientific Ebook Package (EBA)

Journals

1. Australian Zoologist
2. JAMA Cardiology
3. JAMA Oncology
4. Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship
5. Journal of Gender Studies
6. Matter
7. Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology

Journal Collections

1. AAA: Art and Photography Archive
2. Academic Medicine Archive (1926-2025)
3. African American Periodicals
4. EBSCOhost Veterinary Source
5. Electrochemical Society Digital Library Archive
6. Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive 5 – Video Gaming
7. Karger Journal Archive (1998-2023)
8. Microbiology Archives (1968-1999)
9. National Geographic Magazine Archive (1995-2020)
10. Newsbank Military History Archive
11. Optica Digital Archive 4 (2021-2025)
12. PLOS Read and Publish Agreement (replacing earlier VIVA one)

Newspapers

1. Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Newspaper Collection, Part II
2. Times Digital Archive Supplement (2020-2024)
3. Washington Post Archive (1942-1985)

Open Access

1. Knowledge Unlatched KU Focus Collection – Digital Lives: Technology’s Influence
2. Knowledge Unlatched: KU Select Books 2026
3. Microbiology Society Read and Publish Agreement
4. PLOS – Public Library of Science Read and Publish Agreement
5. Reveal Digital – Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movements

Streaming Media

1. Human Kinetics (2026 Updates to Core, Health Care in Sports and Exercise, Physical & Health Education, and Strength & Conditioning_

Other

1. Katina (formerly the Charleston Advisor)

In addition to participating in several open access agreements to help reduce or eliminate article publishing charges for Virginia Tech authors, the University Libraries supports a number of open access initiatives that serve the broader academic community. Two of the latest examples of this are detailed below.

Knowledge Unlatched – Knowledge Unlatched has been an important provider of open access books for over a decade. Our library has just made a pledge to support the KU Select 2026 (full collection of 200 OA books). We are also supporting the KU Focus Collection 2026: Digital Lives-Technology’s Influence on Contemporary Life. (20 additional OA books).

Reveal Digital – Featuring collaboratively funded primary sources, Reveal Digital develops and makes collections openly accessible to the world through the JSTOR platform. Having previously support their Independent Voices collection, our library has just made a pledge to support their newest collection, Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movements, which documents the history of civil rights movements across different communities.

New Resources Acquired in FY25

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. Adam Matthew Digital (17 Primary Source Databases)
2. American Civil War: The International Context
3. Business and Legal Aspects of Sports and Entertainment
4. CINAHL – upgrade to CINAHL Complete (through VIVA)
5. Complete Periodical Literature of Law Librarianship
6. Deckermed – Family Medicine, OBGYN, and Surgery
7. Democracy in America
8. Grand Corpus des littératures française et francophone, du Moyen Âge au 20e siècle
9. Immigration Law and Policy
10. Indigenous Life in America, Series 1, 2 & 3
11. Intellectual Property Law Collection
12. International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, 1919-1994
13. Latino Book Review
14. Prestatehood Legal Materials: A Fifty State Guide
15. Public Health and Social Care
16. SAGE Business Cases 2025
17. Statista – Consumer Insights Module
18. Taxation and Economic Reform
19. vLex
20. World Cites and Local Governments
21. World Governments

eBook Collections

1. ACI Standards on MADCAD
2. Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries – 2024 Update
3. ASHRAE Handbook on MADCAD
4. CSIRO Publishing Bioselect Collection
5. ICE Complete Ebook Collection 1838-2025
6. IEEE MIT Press Ebooks Library 2024 and 2025 Updates
7. Major References Works from Elsevier, Salem Press, Wiley, World Scientific and others (26 titles)
8. Now Foundation and Trends Ebook Library – 2025 Update
9. Oxford Clinical Psychology (full collection)
10. Springer Artificial Intelligence Collection
11. Springer Mechanical Engineering Collection
12. Taylor and Francis Ebook Archive, 1991-2000
13. Uniform Mechanical Code on MADCAD
14. Uniform Plumbing Code on MADCAD
15. University of Chicago Press Ebook Collections, 2021, 2022 & 2025
16. Wiley e-textbook collections (3 subjects – Humanities, Psychology, and Social Sciences)
17. World Scientific Quantum Technologies Ebook Collection

Journals

1. Annals of the American Association of Geographers
2. Autism in Adulthood
3. Energy Storage Materials
4. International Journal of Wildland Fire (1991-1996 backfile)
5. Journal of American College Health
6. Journal of Banking and Finance
7. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
8. NEJM AI

Journal Collections

1. Annales de Physique Journal Archive
2. ASM Digital Library All-Access Package
3. Cambridge Journals Digital Archives – 2025 Update
4. Mary Ann Liebert Archives (5 additional titles)
5. Taylor and Francis Classis Archives (7 collections, Vol. 1 to 1996)
6. Taylor and Francis Modern Archives (8 collections, 1997 to 2006)

Memberships

1. Library Publishing Coalition (through VIVA)

Newspapers

1. Access World News – 2025 Upgrade
2. Le Monde
3. Sunday Times, 2017-2021 (Supplement)
4. Times Educational Supplement, 1910–2000
5. Virginia Pilot 2004-2018

Open Access

1. Knowledge Unlatched KU Focus Collection 2025 – Economics: Sustainability and Circularity
2. Knowledge Unlatched KU Focus Collection 2025 -Regional Studies: Conflict, War and Peace
3. Knowledge Unlatched: KU Select 2025 Sustainable Development Goals
4. SCOAP3 Ebooks

Streaming Media

1. Human Kinetics Core Collection – 2024 and 2025 Updates
2. Human Kinetics Dance Techniques
3. Human Kinetics Sports Skills

Other

1. Classiques Garnier – 3 French Language Encyclopedias including Diderot

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