Applied Ethics
A
research guide to
books, articles, & web sites
·
How to Find Books in the ODU Library: Search in the ODU Library Catalog.
·
How to Find Books in Other OhioLINK Libraries:
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Reference books provide a good starting point for
your research. Reference items are located in the Library’s Reference
collection, behind the Reference Desk on the top floor of Spangler.
See also the
Bioethics research guide.
Locations:
·
R
= Reference Collection
·
RCT
= Reference - Current Topics section
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Dictionaries
· The Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Business Ethics. R 174.4 B5683e, 1998
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The
Encyclopedias and
Handbooks to Ethics
· Business Ethics. Opposing Viewpoints. RCT 174.4 B979, 1996
· The Concise Encyclopedia of Ethics in Politics and the Media. R 175 C748e
· The Concise Encyclopedia of the Ethics of New Technologies. R 174.25 C7445e
· Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics. R 170.3 E193a
· Encyclopedia of Ethics. R 170.3 B395e, 2001 3 vols.
· Ethics. Current Controversies. RCT 170 E373e
· Handbook of Public Relations. R 659.2 H1917p
· The Philosophy of Meaning, Knowledge, and Value in the Twentieth Century.
R 190.9 R7657h vol.10, 1997
· The Sources of Christian Ethics. R 241 P647s, 1995
Additional Resources
·
The CQ
Researcher. R 300.05 C882
·
Guide to
Congress. R 328.73 G9414c, 2000 2
vols.
Note: Books on individual
topics and concerns of applied ethics are located in the Current Topics section
in the Reference collection.
Reference Resources Online
Full-text dictionaries
and other reference books in one searchable database. Includes books on
philosophy.
To access: From the library
homepage, click on Books, and select Oxford Reference Online.
Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy
Full-text, online searchable
encyclopedia. Includes entries on applied ethics in multiple disciplines.
To access: Library homepage >
Quick Reference > Encyclopedias > Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
eBooks
Full-text ebook
database. Search among 15,000 ebooks from multiple disciplines, including
reference books, other nonfiction, and fiction—including books about children’s
literature Search by keyword, title, or author. To access: From the library homepage,
click on Books, and then select NetLibrary.
·
Use an online
research database to find articles in scholarly journals, general
magazines, and newspapers. ·
To access the
databases below, from the Library’s Articles in Databases page, select the Criminal Justice
category, or choose from the A-Z index near the top of the page. ·
To Help You Search
in the Databases:
Guides and
video tutorials are available
online from the library’s Research
Help page
or in print
by the library Reference Desk on the top
floor of
Spangler. If you need additional assistance,
ask a librarian.
Recommended Databases
A.
Multiple-discipline databases
Contains
peer-reviewed journal coverage from more than 3,400 scholarly
publications. Covers many academic areas of study,
including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences,
engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences,
and ethnic studies. Updated daily.
America’s
Newspapers (current, 1991- )
Encompasses
news articles covering social, economic, environmental, government, sports, the
arts, people, health and science issues and events from U.S. regional and
national newspapers.
Citations
only. Presents an index to articles from
over 12,000 journals. Journal subjects
include business, humanities, medicine, popular culture, sciences, social
sciences, and technology.
Updated
daily.
Electronic
Journal Center
Covering
many subject areas, EJC presents over 4300 research journals, including ethics
journals.
Inside
Information Plus
Citations only. A
current awareness database containing citations to articles from 47,000
journals, covering all topics from A to Z. Coverage: January 1996 to the
present. Updated weekly.
Offers
news, business, legal, medical, and reference information. Covers newspapers, magazines, wire services,
federal and state court opinions, federal and state statutes, federal regulations,
and
B.
Discipline-specific Databases
Citations only.
Features bibliographic information to articles, book reviews, and essays
in religion and theology, spanning 50 years.
Updated semiannually.
Catholic
Periodicals and Literature Index
Includes indexed citations to articles published in Roman
Catholic periodicals, papal documents, and books related to the Catholic faith
that are authored by Catholics and/or produced by Catholic publishers.
Computers
& Applied Sciences Complete (CASC)
Covers research and development in the areas of computing and the
applied sciences disciplines, including research concerning the social and
professional implications of new technology. Indexes scholarly journals, trade
publications, and other sources.
Includes scholarly research and information relating to all areas of
education, including curriculum instruction, administration, policy, funding,
and related social issues. Coverage includes journals, books, and conference
papers. Some publications indexed as far back as the beginning of the twentieth
century.
ERIC
ERIC
is the U.S. Department of Education's
MEDLINE
Provides
authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary
medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more from
current biomedical journals. Updated
daily.
A wealth of health information from
the National Library of Medicine. There are also lists of hospitals and
physicians, a medical encyclopedia and a medical dictionary, health information
in Spanish, extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs,
health information from the media, and links to thousands of clinical trials.
After clicking the link above,
select the database menu for Philosopher's Index and click on the 'Start
Searching' button. Please remember to click on the 'logout' link
once finished. Covers the areas of ethics,
aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and
metaphysic logic as well as the philosophy of law, religion, science, history,
education, and language.
Religion
and Philosophy Collection
Covers
such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies,
religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language,
moral philosophy and the history of philosophy from over 290 journals.
Social
Sciences Citation Index
Covers articles of
scholarly journals from 50 disciplines of the social sciences, with searchable
author abstracts and a unique feature that enables searching of articles that
cite a known author or work.
This database features Full Text records
with many sociology-based subject headings. It contains informative abstracts
from journals dating back to 1895 and provides many direct links to full-text articles.
Finding Periodicals in this Library
Listed below are some ethics periodicals
available in the ODU Library.
