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Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains the fully-searchable text of the second edition of the Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, edited by Robert Audi (New York: Cambridge, 1999). Note: The Library also has a print version in Reference at call number R 103 C178 1999.
Credo Reference: Philosophy Resources Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains the full text of The Bloomsbury Guide to Human Thought, The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, and more. You can also search the entire Credo Reference collection, which covers many disciplines and subject areas.
Encyclopedia of Bioethics Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains the fully-searchable text of the Encyclopedia of Bioethics, edited by Stephen G. Post (3rd. ed.; 5 vols.; New York: Macmillan Reference, 2004). Includes entries on a wide variety of topics related to bioethics, including animal research, cell-stem research, cloning, and more. Note: The Library has a print version of this encyclopedia in Reference at call number R 174.2 E56 2004.
Encyclopedia of Philosophy Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains the full-searchable text of the second edition of the Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Donald Borchert (2nd ed.; 10 vols.; Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference, 2006). International in scope, the Encyclopedia covers all aspects of philosophy from ancient times to the present, including aesthetics, bioethics, cultural philosophy, epistemology, metaphysics, and political philosophy.
Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains the fully-searchable text of the Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics, edited by Carl Mitcham (4 vols.; Detroit, MI: Macmillan, 2005). Covers professional ethics as well as social, ethical, and political issues related to science and technology.
New Dictionary of the History of Ideas Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains the fully-searchable text of the New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, edited by Maryanne Horowitz (6 vols; Detroit, MI: Scribner's, 2005), which covers major concepts and ideas over time and across cultures. Note: The Library has print versions of the new edition and the first edition in Reference at call number R 901.9 D554. The 1973-1974 edition, edited by Philip P. Wiener, is also available online from the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia.
Reference Universe Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Try this first! Search Reference Universe to find out which reference works contain information on your topic. Reference Universe indexes many of the library's reference books and e-books.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Off-Campus access available; no password required.	(1995 to present) An online-only, dynamic encyclopedia covering 35 subject areas, including aesthetics, ethics, feminism, history of ideas, logic, philosophy of science, political philosophy, and social philosophy. The Davidson College Library is a member of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy International Association (SEPIA) and the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) and has helped to fund the encyclopedia.

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Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) Online Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1971 to present) Indexes articles, essays in edited collections, conference proceedings, and other materials on all subjects related to East, Southeast, and South Asia. Also lists books published between 1971 and 1992. International in scope; most citations are to works written in Western languages.
Cambridge Companions Online Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains the fully-searchable text of over 220 titles in the Cambridge Companions Literature and Classics series and Philosophy, Religion, and Culture series.
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans (1639-1800) Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains digital images of over 37,000 books, pamphlets, and broadsides published in the British American colonies, and later the United States, from 1639 through 1800. Based on Charles Evans's American Bibliography and Roger Bristol's Supplement to Charles Evans' American Bibliography. This collection is part of the Archive of Americana. Note: the Library also has Evans on microfiche; the online version contains more titles, however.
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819) Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains digital images of over 36,000 American books, pamphlets, and broadsides published from 1801 through 1819. Based on Ralph Shaw and Richard Shoemaker's American Bibliography and supplemented by thousands of additional titles. This collection is part of the Archive of Americana. Note: the Library also has Shaw-Shoemaker on microfiche; the online version contains more titles, however.
Early English Books Online (EEBO) Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1475-1700) Includes complete, digitized images of over 125,000 books, pamphlets, broadsides, and other materials published in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British North American from the fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries.
ebrary Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains over 38,000 e-books published by over 220 academic, trade, and professional publishers; covers all subject areas. Also includes tools that allow you to create your own virtual bookshelf, bookmark pages, and add and save notes and highlights. Note: To read ebrary books, you need the ebrary Reader. This plugin is loaded on all library computers, but if you are using your own computer, you can download it by clicking on the "ebrary Reader" button within ebrary. See also the system requirements for ebrary.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	New interface and more content! (1701-1800) Contains the full text of 180,000 books, pamphlets, almanacs, advertisements, songs, and other materials published in Great Britain and British North America during the eighteenth century; also includes digital facsimiles of each of the works.
Essay and General Literature Index Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1900 to present) Indexes essays published in books and edited collections. Covers the fields of art, economics, education, history, law, linguistics, literature, music, philosophy, political science, and religion, among others. Particularly strong in the humanities and social sciences.
Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS) Off-Campus access available; no password required.	(1935 to present) Indexes journal articles, books, book chapters, and conference papers on topics related to Latin America. Fields covered include anthropology, archaeology, art, economics, geography, history, international relations, language and literature, music, philosophy, political science, and sociology. Produced by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. Note that printed volumes of HLAS are available in Little Library’s Reference collection, and volumes 1–53 (1953-1994) are also available on CD-ROM.
Humanities Abstracts Full Text & Humanities Index Retrospective Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1907 to present) Indexes articles in over 500 English-language periodicals in the fields of archaeology, art, classics, communication, film, folklore, history, languages and literatures, music, philosophy, religion, and theatre. Also includes citations for book, theatre, and film reviews as well as interviews, obituaries, and some original creative works. Includes the full text of selected articles from 1995 to the present.
Index Islamicus Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1906 to present) Indexes articles from over 3,000 journals as well as books, conference proceedings, and book reviews. Covers a wide variety of subjects and topics related to Islam, the Middle East, and the Muslim world including art, economics, history, law, literature, philosophy, political science, and religion.
JSTOR Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	A searchable archive of the back issues of major scholarly journals.
L'Année Philologique Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1959 to present) Indexes articles, books, conference proceedings, and essays on all aspects of the Greco-Latin world, including literature, history, art, philosophy, religion, and archaeology. Covers the period from 500 BCE to 800 CE. International in scope. Also includes book reviews. To locate articles and books from earlier years, consult the print volumes of L'Année Philologique in the Little Library Reference collection. Search Tips
Periodicals Index Online (formerly PCI: Periodicals Contents Index) Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1665 to 1995) Indexes articles from humanities and social sciences periodicals from their first issues to 1995. Particularly useful for locating references to articles from the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. International in scope.
Project Muse Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(c. mid-1990s to present) A searchable collection of full-text articles from journals published by university and scholarly presses.
WorldCat Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	A union catalogue of books, videos, musical scores, archival resources, maps, periodicals, and other materials held by U.S. and international libraries.