Specialized Dictionaries & Glossaries

A comprehensive reference work that represents the methodological and theoretical diversity of the Cognitive Sciences. Includes articles written by a leading researcher in the field. Designed for both students and researchers.

Search by single terms or access terms and definitions within specific subject areas.

Reflects the many advances that have taken place in imaging and recording techniques. The contributions cover the relationship between the structural and physiological mechanisms of the nervous system and the psychological reality of the mind.

3rd ed., completely rev. “This new edition ... assesses 106 national poetries, with coverage of every significant poetry tradition in the world.”

"This online dictionary, newly updated, provides a glossary of over 1,800 terms related to library and information sciences, with an emphasis on online library science."

Offers access to Grove Art Online, Benezit Dictionary of Artists and other art databases. Contains 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts - painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography - from prehistory to the present day. (Only 5 users at a time.)

The Oxford Classical Dictionary. Edited by Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth. Third edition. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Guide to the art of the Western world from classical times to the present.

A standard research tool on 1,100 years of Byzantine history. Provides coverage from the 4th century to the 15th.

Focus on 19th and 20th centuries, information on the religious, political, and social spheres of the modern Islamic world.