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)

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.

Collections and Technical Services is reorganizing and preparing for the ILL unit to move to the 6th floor.  As a result, many staff will be moving their desks or offices.  Here’s an update on the moves so far:

Staff in Metadata Services (formerly known as Fast Cataloging) are moving to the opposite end of the floor near the Dean’s Suite.
Debbie McAlexander, Linda McCormack and Christy Stanley have moved to vacant workspaces along the windows.
Clyde Kessler, Sara Bebout, and Daryl Robinson will be moving later in the month.
Jana Doyle is sharing an office with Philip Young (Paul Hover’s old space).

Tracy Gilmore is in Room 6086 (near the Dean’s Suite)

Delores McDowell has moved to the cubicle directly across from Leslie O’Brien’s office.

Not all phone lines have been moved yet, so please be patient if you don’t get an immediate response to your call.  We’re doing the moves in phases during June and July in order to minimize impact on the workflow.

If you have books or media to be withdrawn from the collection, you can continue to leave them on the shelving unit near the freight elevator in Christy’s former work space.  We’ll send out more updates as things change.  If you have any questions, please ask Leslie. x4945