"Ladder of Expertise": Specialized Dictionaries and Encyclopedias to Support Student Research

Biology and Pre-Med

Economics and Management

Literature

Note: these links are intended only as examples of results easily obtained by a Goucher Library online catalog "keyword" search for the name of the discipline and "dictionary."  Other results could be obtained using the keyword "encyclopedia," which would produce longer entries that allowed more complete discussion vs. the dictionary format's emphasis on the most concise definition of terms.