Search across hundreds of subject encyclopedias and other reference works. A great place to find background information on almost any research topic. Includes subject trees, pro/con resources, links to scholarly articles and more.

Provides access to ebook versions of encyclopedias and handbooks in the social and behavioral sciences.

Searchable full text of reference books in many subjects. Books can be searched together or individually.

Contains full-text biographies of historical and contemporary figures from around the world. Sources include Biography Today, Britannica, US presidential and congressional sources, Cambridge, and more. Formerly named Biography Reference Center.

(Formerly ReferenceUSA) Provides addresses and sales information for over 14 million U.S. business establishments and organizations. It is searchable by state, city, zip code, area code or yellow page keywords. Search by SIC or NAICS code if you need to get a list of companies within an industry. Limited credit-rating information also available.

Brings together a variety of essential reference materials, spanning the entire history of Western classical music, in a unified online database. Included are the authoritative reference titles Baker’s Dictionary of Music, Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, and Baker’s Student Encyclopedia of Music.

Chronicle the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music. Contains full text from major reference works, biographies, and personal narratives from oral histories. Manuscripts, song-sheets, lyrics, discography data, and other text sources cover jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrels, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.

Search across hundreds of subject encyclopedias and other reference works. A great place to find background information on almost any research topic. Includes a topic finder for help with narrowing or broadening your research topic.

Includes structure, reaction, text, and field searching capablilities and the Houben-Weyl Archive, Science of Synthesis Original Series, Science of Synthesis Knowledge Updates, and Science of Synthesis Reference library.

An authoritative reference source containing physical formulas & mathematical tables used in labs every day. Includes all figures, data, and tables found in the print version.

An authoritative guide to works in African studies published annually since 1984. This online consolidated version brings together every record collected since the bibliography’s foundation.

Chemical database containing substances which are formerly available from the following Dictionaries: Analytical Reagents, Carbohydrates, Inorganic & Organometallic Compounds, Natural Products, Organic Compounds, and Drugs (formerly PharmaSource).

Provides publishing information to assist in preparing manuscripts for publication. Includes information on journals’ preferred topic areas, style & format, review processes, number of copies required, acceptance rates, etc.

Includes clinical information: medical books, journal articles, drug information, patient education materials, etc.

DynaMedex combines the clinical expertise and extensive, curated disease content of DynaMed with the comprehensive view into treatment options, depth and breadth of drug information and advanced search capabilities of Micromedex. Provide users with evidence-based insights for optimal clinical decision-making and improved patient outcomes. This resource replaced UpToDate.

Includes articles ranging from concise explanations to comprehensive expositions and from historical treatments of subjects to current-events coverage. Includes Britannica’s Book of the Year and Nations of the World.

Systematic and exhaustive coverage of reagents used in organic synthesis. The database lists reactions and the most frequently consulted reagents and catalysts. Searchable by structure and substructure, reagent, reaction type and experimental conditions, etc.

A collection of historical maps showing the reach of Islam throughout history.

Database of published structures with atomic coordinates.

A collection of fragments and testimonia of Greek historians and other authors from antiquity. Consists of an English translation of Die Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker I-III (1923-1959), Brill’s New Jacoby (2006-2021) and Brill’s New Jacoby, Second Edition (2016-).

Contains citation information for science and social science journals. Users can determine which journals are the highest impact and which are most frequently used.

Provides a comprehensive guide to contemporary testing instruments. The series contains information for evaluating test products in psychology, education, business and leadership.

The full-text of the ten-volume print encyclopedia (more than 9000 pages) that allows for in-text searching. Contains 300+ associated audio examples, musical illustrations, photographs, and drawings.

Provides access to monographs on natural ingredients – vitamins, herbs, minerals, non-herbal supplements, naturally sourced chemical compounds, and foods – health & wellness, sports medicine, commercial products, and tools like charts, advisories, and checkers including those for interactions, nutrient depletions, and effectiveness ratings.

An encyclopedia covering Greek and Roman history from the second millennium B.C.E. to early medieval Europe.

Oxford Bibliographies are authoritative, scholar-developed research guides covering a variety of subject areas. They combine features of an annotated bibliography and a subject encyclopedia, guiding researchers to the best available scholarship on the topic.

Offers authoritative, scholar-developed research guides that combine features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia. Subjects from all four subfields of anthropology (i.e., social and cultural anthropology, archaeology, linguistic anthropology, and biological anthropology) are covered in this online resource.

Authoritative, scholar-developed research guide covering the discipline of Art History. It combines the features of an annotated bibliography and a subject encyclopedia, guiding researchers to the best available scholarship in the history of art.

Oxford Bibliographies Online are authoritative, scholar-developed research guides covering a variety of subject areas. They combine features of an annotated bibliography and a subject encyclopedia, guiding researchers to the best available scholarship on the topic.

Offers authoritative research guides that combine features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia. Subjects covered include British and Irish authors, works, themes, genres, and history.

Authoritative, scholar-developed research guide covering Buddhism. It combines the features of an annotated bibliography and a subject encyclopedia, guiding researchers to the best available scholarship in Buddhist Studies.

Offers authoritative research guides that combine features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia. Subjects covered include media and children, childhood across the globe, children’s mental health, public policies around children, and more.

Oxford Bibliographies Online: Chinese Studies provides an authoritative guide to the key works across the whole field, pointing researchers and practitioners at all levels to the most important scholarship in European languages as well as in Chinese and Japanese.Subjects covered include economics, religions, calligraphy, history, poetry and drama works, politics and political movements.

Offers authoritative, scholar-developed research guides that combine features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia. Includes film history, television studies, media studies, critical theory, visual arts, cultural studies, digital culture, game studies, popular culture, and the study of the moving image.

A combination encyclopedia and annotated bibliography covering Greek and Roman antiquity.

Offers authoritative research guides that combine features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia. Subjects covered include Communication Theory, key researchers in Communication Studies, and numerous epistemologies and methodologies.

Offers authoritative research guides that combine features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia with concise treatment of topics in Criminology.

Offers authoritative research guides that combine features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia. Subjects covered include ecology and other areas of the life sciences.

Offers authoritative research guides that combine features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia. Subjects covered include sustainability and environmental studies, including the physical sciences, the planning and social sciences, the health sciences, engineering, governance, and policy.

Authoritative, scholar-developed research guide covering Hinduism. It combines the features of an annotated bibliography and a subject encyclopedia, guiding researchers to the best available scholarship in Hindu Studies.

Oxford Bibliographies Online are authoritative, scholar-developed research guides covering a variety of subject areas. They combine features of an annotated bibliography and a subject encyclopedia, guiding researchers to the best available scholarship on the topic.

Authoritative, scholar-developed research guide covering Jewish Studies. It combines the features of an annotated bibliography and a subject encyclopedia, guiding researchers to the best available scholarship in Jewish Studies.

Oxford Bibliographies Online are authoritative, scholar-developed research guides covering a variety of subject areas. They combine features of an annotated bibliography and a subject encyclopedia, guiding researchers to the best available scholarship on the topic.

Oxford Bibliographies are authoritative, scholar-developed research guides covering a variety of subject areas. They combine features of an annotated bibliography and a subject encyclopedia, guiding researchers to the best available scholarship on the topic.

Offers authoritative research guides that combine features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia. Subjects covered include sociolinguistics, pragmatics, language families, neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics, phonetics, morphology, etc.

Offers authoritative research guides that combine features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia. Subjects covered include literary theory, literary theorists, social and intellectual movements that influenced literature and literary criticism.

Offers authoritative research guides that combine features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia. Subjects covered include European and Mediterranean civilization from the 4th to the 15th centuries, encompassing history, literature, art, archaeology, religion, gender studies, etc.

Offers authoritative research guides that combine features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia. Subjects covered include composers, performers, critics and scholars; genres and styles; music history and theory; instruments and instrument makers; ethnomusicology and world music studies.

Authoritative, scholar-developed research guides covering a variety of subject areas. They combine features of an annotated bibliography and a subject encyclopedia, guiding researchers to the best available scholarship on the topic.

Oxford Bibliographies in Renaissance and Reformation offers exclusive, authoritative research guides that combine the best features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia.

Offers authoritative research guides that combine features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia. Subjects covered include sociological theories, sociology of gender and sexuality, race, ethnicity, contemporary societal issues, key researchers in the field, and more.

Offers authoritative research guides that combine features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia. Subjects covered include social sciences as well as architecture, planning, engineering, environmental science, and legal studies.

Offers authoritative, scholar-developed research guides that combine features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia. Subjects covered include Victorian authors, works, themes, genres, and history.

A comprehensive encyclopedia covering Greek and Roman history, literature, etc.

The definitive dictionary of the English Language. Provides timelines of when words entered the language, sources for words, and audio pronunciation guides.

Includes a collection of scholarly handbooks in History, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion. Great starting point for background research.

Online access to the Oxford Handbooks series in Archaeology. Each handbook takes an aspect of its discipline, explains the key issues, the classic and contemporary debates on those issues, and describes how those debates might evolve. The handbooks offer authoritative and trustworthy guides to the scholarship that defines the field.

Online access to the Oxford Handbooks series in History. Each handbook takes an aspect of its discipline, explains the key issues, the classic and contemporary debates on those issues, and describes how those debates might evolve. The handbooks offer authoritative and trustworthy guides to the scholarship that defines the field.

Online access to the Oxford Handbooks series in Literature. Each handbook takes an aspect of its discipline, explains the key issues, the classic and contemporary debates on those issues, and describes how those debates might evolve. The handbooks offer authoritative and trustworthy guides to the scholarship that defines the field.

Online access to the Oxford Handbooks series in Philosophy. Each handbook takes an aspect of its discipline, explains the key issues, the classic and contemporary debates on those issues, and describes how those debates might evolve. The handbooks offer authoritative and trustworthy guides to the scholarship that defines the field.

Each handbook takes an aspect of its discipline, explains the key issues, the classic and contemporary debates on those issues, and describes how those debates might evolve. The handbooks offer authoritative and trustworthy guides to the scholarship that defines the field.

Online access to the Oxford Handbooks series in Religion. Each handbook takes an aspect of its discipline, explains the key issues, the classic and contemporary debates on those issues, and describes how those debates might evolve. The handbooks offer authoritative and trustworthy guides to the scholarship that defines the field.

Covers all aspects of music worldwide, including composers, performers, other persons involved with music, terminology, musical genres and forms, orchestras, institutions, and cities and towns with significant musical traditions.

Works of the Christian Latin Fathers from Tertullian around 200 C.E. to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216. In Latin.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature is a comprehensive bibliography on writings about music featuring citations, abstracts, and indexes. It covers over one million publications from around the world on traditional music, popular music, classical music, and related subjects. Coverage begins in the early 19th century and extends to the present.

Overviews of research and trends and background information in the Social Sciences and Humanities. WFU access includes the following subject collections: Asian Studies; Communication, Journalism, Media & Culture; Environment & Sustainability; Law; Philosophy; Politics; Religion; Security Studies; and Sociology.

Annotated bibliography of historical work covering the entire span of U.S. foreign relations.

Biographies of deceased people who were British or who impacted the British Isles, including Ireland and colonial America.

“Population Index, published since 1935, is the primary reference tool to the world’s population literature. It presents an annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other material on population topics. It is a searchable and browsable database containing more than 40,000 abstracts of demographic literature published in Population Index.”

Contains Japanese-language dictionaries, encyclopedias of Japanese history and culture, and primary source texts from Japanese religious traditions and cultural life. The database can be viewed in either English or Japanese, and the search engine/main search function searches all available reference materials at once

Provides access to primary and secondary sources including treaties, captivity narratives, traditional stories, speeches, maps and images that engage students with the historical experiences and contemporary practices of more than 150 Native American tribes across North America. Includes the WPA Narrative Collection on Removal to Oklahoma.

Topically focused collections of essays that seek to provide comprehensive analysis of major events, peoples, and ideas in world history.

Information about congress, members of congress and more back to 1945. Vote records, voting scores, congressional profiles, biographical information and more.

Online edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5®), used by clinicians and researchers to diagnose and classify mental disorders. WFU access includes DSM-5, the DSM-5 Handbook of Differential Diagnosis, and DSM-5 Clinical Cases.

Bibliography of works produced in Europe that make some mention of the discovery and emerging awareness of the Americas. Derived from “European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed in Europe Relating to the Americas, 1493-1750,” commonly known as the Alden-Landis bibliography.

Search across literary biography, literary criticism, genre studies, reviews, and primary sources across thousands of Gale publications. Good starting point for doing any kind of research in English literature.

Study aid for aria and art song texts. Provides a literal translation and a transcription into the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) as a diction guide. Includes texts in French, Italian, German, Spanish, English and Latin.

Covers art and culture from prehistory to the 1990s. Its multicultural approach offers detailed analyses of civilizations from Asia, Africa, the Americas, Europe, and the Pacific. Provides a guide to the visual arts: painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, drawing, and printmaking, as well as the decorative arts.

Authoritative, scholar-developed lists of resources on Atlantic History, which focuses on the movement of peoples, ideas and things in the Atlantic world. Atlantic History encompasses four continents and many islands in the period between Columbus’ voyages to the New World in the late fifteenth century and the end of slavery in the Americas in the late nineteenth century.

Contains in-depth data about U.S. Presidential, Congressional, and Gubernatorial campaigns and elections, historical and modern. Data export tools allow for customized data downloads for statistical analysis. Also includes information about voter demographics and political parties.

Brings journal, reference, book, news, and web content about popular culture from Gale together in one search interface.

Brings journal, reference, book, news, and web content about military and security issues from Gale together in one search interface.

Contains reports and analysis on issues in the news including health, social trends and issues, criminal justice, education, the environment, technology, and the economy. Great resource for background information on current news, hot topics, and social issues. Coverage back to 1923.

Provides background and current analysis necessary for research and understanding of hundreds of current issues. Analysis and opinions cover the pros, cons, and everything in between on the most researched and debated social issues.

Writing and editing reference for newsrooms, classrooms, and corporate offices.

Provides content and tools to support the study of literature from a variety of sources including primary texts, criticism, full-text journals, book reviews, dissertations, eBooks, reference material, audio, and video.

Combines overviews, viewpoints, reference, news, and scholarly material into one search platform for researching a wide variety of global issues.

Provides access to book, reference, and journal content, as well as multimedia resources, to support researchers at all stages of a research project. Includes information on the full range of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods for the social and behavioral sciences, as well as many methods commonly used in the hard sciences.

Comprehensive fashion database, includes the Berg Enyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, scholarly ebooks, and images from museums such as the Victoria & Albert, The Museum at FIT, and the Bata Shoe Museum.

Covers political, economic and statistical information about more than 250 countries and territories, as well as international and regional organizations. A starting point for any kind of country research.

Provides access to books, periodicals, and other materials in the areas of war and terrorism intended to be of use for analysts, risk management professionals, and students of military science, history, and social science

Addresses and investigates environmental issues with diverse perspectives from the scientific community, policymakers, and corporate interests. Robust coverage from scholarly journals, magazines, and reference content.

Archive of almost every play submitted for licence in England between 1737 and 1824. Also includes The London Stage 1660-1800 which is a searchable database of every performance in London during those years and the Biographical Dictionary of Actors etc. 1660-1800.

Career database that enables users to explore industries and careers, plan their education, and research best practices for resumes, cover letters, interviewing, networking, and salaries/benefits. Includes articles, career advice blogs, and streaming video.

A readers’ advisory tool to find books of fiction based on books already read or on topics of interest. Searchable by reading level (adult, young adult, child, and easy), author, title, subject, and plot.

This comprehensive multidisciplinary database delivers credible facts and current insight into today’s most debated political and social issues. Contains periodical content that covers current events, news and commentary, pro/con viewpoints, reference articles, interactive maps, infographics, and more.

A comprehensive online medical education resource. Includes reference tools, images, a diagnostic tool, drug & patient information, textbooks, cases, videos, and self-assessment for medical students.

Search across CQ Press content including: Congress Collection, CQ Almanac, CQ Magazine, Encyclopedia of American Government, Politics in America, Public Affairs Collection, Supreme Court Collection, Voting and Elections Collection, Political Handbook of the World, and Supreme Court Compendium.

Contains study guides and practice tests for grad school exams including GRE, MCAT, LSAT and GMAT. Also contains college and career skill building guides, and core english and math skill help.

Knovel is an extensive, searchable online library of full-text content from many different publishers, including reference handbooks, conference proceedings and databases, delivering trusted, accessible and relevant answers and insights to accelerate foundational engineering knowledge, build expertise in various subjects, and prepare for career in Engineering. As Engineering is interdisciplinary, Knovel includes resources for chemistry, biology, medical devices, and other areas/concentrations. Knovel also includes interactive graphs and equations. Creating an account with your WFU.edu email address is recommended for the best user experience, although the content can be viewed without doing so.