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The Bloomsbury Acting and Practical Theatre Guides is a collection of over 100 applied theatre guides designed for and written by practitioners, including actors, directors, writers, and designers. It brings together works originally published under the renowned imprints of Applause, Limelight, and Scarecrow Press. Topics include acting techniques, voice, movement, directing, playwriting, costume, lighting, and stage management, emphasizing practical application rather than pure theory.

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The APA style is a set of guidelines developed by the American Psychological Association for formatting academic documents and citing sources within the behavioral and social sciences. It establishes standards for content organization, writing style, referencing, and manuscript preparation to ensure clear, concise, and bias-free communication.

  • Access limited to affiliates of Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
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Brainstorm is an online neuroanatomy atlas for teaching and self-study. Learners explore labelled brain structures across gross dissections, myelin-stained cross-sections, and MR images, supported by diagrams and brief function notes; a quiz mode helps students practice identifying structures. Brainstorm is used in neuroanatomy courses and is available via a BEST account. Available to M1 students and VTCSOM Phase 1 teaching faculty only.
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China Data Online is an online platform providing economic and demographic data for China, developed by the University of Michigan's China Data Center. The database features China Statistical Databases, including yearbooks, monthly and yearly macroeconomic data, city and county statistics, and industrial data, as well as China Census Databases with population, industrial, and economic census information. It offers tools for users to extract, compare, and visualize data across various levels of China's administration, from the national to the township level.

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Part of the Sage Video platform, the Disability Studies Collection features documentaries and original productions to provide authentic lived experiences. These resources form an interdisciplinary field that views disability as a social, cultural, and political construction rather than solely an individual medical condition. The field emerged from the disability rights movements, shifting from a focus on individual adjustment to analyzing how social systems and oppression contribute to disability, and explores themes like human rights, identity, and intersectionality.

Please see the Tutorial Video for Sage Video.

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Bloomsbury's History of Christianity provides a unique mix of primary texts and peer-reviewed secondary sources, including eBooks, journal articles, and encyclopedic entries (e.g., Historical Dictionary of Catholicism and Historical Dictionary of the Orthodox Church). It offers a broad, multinational perspective on Christianity's evolving history across various regions and denominations. Topics include doctrines, historical events, figures, and theological movements from early Christianity to the present day.

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IMAIOS is a database of medical imaging tools and interactive anatomy atlases for healthcare professionals and students. The database includes images, diagrams, and illustrations in human and veterinary anatomy.

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The Gale Latino Social and Political Culture database provides access to primary documents and scholarly resources detailing the history of Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian communities in the United States, with a strong focus on the Chicano Movement and various Latino social and political movements. It includes organizational and personal papers, historical photographs, and other archival materials related to leaders like César Chávez and Dolores Huerta, as well as topics such as farmworker rights, student activism, and cultural nationalism.

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Slice is a web platform of 22,000+ biomedical teaching images and virtual microscope slides spanning human anatomy and pathology, veterinary science, diagnostic imaging, microbiology, haematology, botany, and dentistry. It includes a deep viewer (up to ~40x–100x) for microscope-like exploration, plus tools to annotate, organize images into collections, and share for teaching. Available to M1 students and VTCSOM Phase 1 teaching faculty only.
  • Freely accessible database, available to anyone without restriction
  • Resource provides self archiving opportunities and open access documents.
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Zenodo is a free and open access research repository developed by CERN and supported by the European OpenAIRE program. It allows researchers from all disciplines to share publications, data, software, and other research outputs. Content on Zenodo is openly available to anyone to search and access. In addition to peer-reviewed works, Zenodo also serves as a preprint server, meaning some materials are preliminary and may not yet have undergone formal peer review.
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