Databases & E-Reference Materials

Reference work that contains over 1,200 extensive entries, covering both Greek and Roman characters, providing detailed biographical information, together with historical and geographical background. Also includes comprehensive genealogical trees of important mythological families and a detailed list of all Greek and Latin writers referred to in the text.

The definitive biographical guide to poetry throughout the world in the twentieth century.

Taking in novelists from all over the globe, this is the most comprehensive survey of the leading novelists of twentieth century fiction.

Wiley Encyclopedia of Chemical Biology is an authoritative work illuminating the crucial role of chemistry and chemical techniques in the life sciences. Major topics covered include chemical views of biology, chemistry of biological processes and systems, drug discovery, and sensor technology.

Wiley Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Engineering includes over 450 A to Z articles addressing the advances and findings in computer science and engineering. Topics covered include standards, electronic commerce, financial engineering, and computer education.

Provides access to journal and book content in the sciences, humanities, and social sciences. Full text is available.

Provides overview of all the major areas of importance in the field. Topics covered span aspects of cognitive development from infancy to the onset of adolescence and include symbolic reasoning, pretend play, spatial development, abnormal cognitive development, current theoretical perspectives, and more.

This database provides access to historical analysis and documents related to women and social movements in the United States. It also includes a dictionary of social movements and organizations and a chronology of U.S. Women's history. Resources include book, film, and website reviews, archival documents, and teaching tools.

Covers women of historical interest worldwide, from around 3100 BCE to the modern age, and from every walk of life, including artists, pirates, scientists, athletes, philanthropists, adventurers, politicians, pacifists, courtesans, and saints.

Women's Magazine Archive is a collection of 12 primary source leading women's interest magazines covering multiple aspects of 150 years of 19th and 20th-century American history and culture. Topics covered include social history, careers, the arts, family life, fashion, marketing, education, psychology and health, politics, media history, gender studies, and more. The titles included in this collection are: Better Homes & Gardens (1922 to 2005), Chatelaine (1928 to 2005), Good Housekeeping (1885 to 2005), Ladies’ Home Journal (1883 to 2005), Parents (1926 to 2005), Redbook (1903 to 2005), Cosmopolitan (1886 to 2005), Essence (1970 to 2005), Seventeen (1944 to 2005), Town and Country (1846 to 2005), Woman’s Day (1937 to 2005), and Women’s International Network News (1975 to 2003).

Note: Due to publisher restrictions, full text downloads is restricted to a single page or two page spread in some of these publications. If an article is longer than a two page spread, you will have to download separate page range PDFs and then combine them.