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• American Jurisprudence 2d
  Covers state and federal law. Included in Westlaw Campus Research. To search this encyclopedia, click on the "Law" tab in Westlaw and, in step 2 on the main search page, select "American Jurisprudence 2d."
• Animal Rights: A Subject Guide, Bibliography, and Internet Companion. John M. Kistler. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2000.
  Reference R 016.179 K61a
• Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics. Ed. Ruth Chadwick. 4 vols. San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 1998.
  Reference R 170.3 E561
• Encyclopedia of Ethics. Ed. Lawrence C. Becker and Charlotte B. Becker. 2nd ed. 3 vols. New York: Routledge, 2001.
  Reference R 170.3 E56 2001
• Encyclopedia of Ethics. Ed. Susan Neiburg Terkel and Shannon Duval. New York: Facts on File, 1999.
  Reference R 170.3 E562
• Gale Virtual Reference Library
  A collection of over 300 electronic reference works. Includes:
  • Encyclopedia of Bioethics. Ed. Stephen G. Post. 3rd ed. 5 vols. New York: Macmillan, 2004.
  • Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Ed. Donald Borchert. 2nd ed. 10 vols. Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference, 2006.
  • Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics. Ed. Carl Mitcham. 4 vols. Detroit, MI: Macmillan, 2005.
  • Encyclopedia of Sociology. Ed. Edgar F. Borgetta. 2nd ed. 5 vols. New York: Academic Press, 2001.
    Reference R 301.03 E561 2000
  • Gale Encyclopedia of American Law. Ed. Donna Batten. 3rd ed. 14 vols. Detroit, MI: Gale, 2011.
  • International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. Ed. William Darity, Jr. 2nd ed. 9 vols. Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference, 2008.
  • ... and more!
• A History of Western Ethics. Ed. Lawrence C. Becker. New York: Garland, 1992.
  Reference R 170.9 H673
• Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Ed. Edward Craig. 10 vols. London: Routledge, 1998.
  Reference R 103 R869
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Ed. Edward N. Zalta. Stanford, CA: Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language and Information, 1995- .

General search tips:

• Use Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) to connect terms/concepts
• In most databases, the truncation symbol is a *
• Enclose phrases in double quotation marks " "

• Academic Search Premier
  (1975 to present) Lists popular and scholarly articles in a broad range of subject areas; also includes citations to book reviews and citations to articles in several national newspapers.
• OmniFile Full Text Mega
  (1982 to present) Lists articles from over 3,000 scholarly and popular periodicals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.

• Annual Reviews
  (1932 to present) Contains the full text of review and overview articles on important topics in the social science and biomedical, life, and physical sciences.
• Applied Science & Technology Abstracts
  (1984 to present) Lists articles in over 600 periodicals in a wide variety of applied science and technology fields.
• PubMed, from the National Library of Medicine
  (1950 to present) Includes citations and abstracts to the worldwide biomedical literature; also includes some full text articles. Indexes over 5,200 journals.
• Web of Knowledge
  (c. 1900 to present) A multidisciplinary resource that provides citations to articles in thousands of journals in the social sciences, humanities, and sciences.

Anthropology | Biology & Medicine | Chemistry
Law & Legislation | Psychology & the Behavioral Sciences | Sociology

• Anthropology Plus
  (Late 19th century to the present) Includes citations to journal articles, reports, edited works, and commentaries in the fields of biological, cultural, linguistic, physical, and social anthropology as well as archaeology, ethnology, folklore, and material culture. Combines Anthropological Literature and Anthropological Index from the Royal Anthropological Institute in London.
• AnthroSource
  (1880 to present) Provides current issues of 15 American Anthropological Association (AAA) journals, including American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, and Cultural Anthropology, as well as an archive of selected back issues, with links to JSTOR where appropriate.

• BIOSIS Previews
  (1969 to present) Includes citations and abstracts for articles in over 5,000 journals; also includes citations to books, book chapters, conference proceedings, and patents. International in scope. Covers the entire field of the life sciences, including biology, botany, zoology, microbiology, and interdisciplinary fields like biochemistry, bioengineering, biomedicine, biophysics, biotechnology, and environmental studies. Part of Web of Knowledge.
• CINAHL
  (1982 to present) Indexes articles from over 1,200 journals as well as selected books, conference proceedings, and essays in 17 allied health disciplines including nursing.
• PubMed, from the National Library of Medicine
  (1950 to present) Includes citations and abstracts to the worldwide biomedical literature; also includes some full text articles. Indexes over 5,200 journals.

• SciFinder Scholar
  SciFinder is the Davidson College Library's means of access to Chemical Abstracts (CAS), a comprehensive database of chemical journal literature and patents, and to the CAS Registry and other chemical files.
  Note: Only one person can search the database at any one time. To use SciFinder, you first need to register.

• Index to Legal Periodicals
  (1908 to present) Lists articles from over 1,000 legal periodicals, including law reviews as well as yearbooks, bar association publications, court decisions, government documents, books, and book reviews. Includes the full text of selected articles from 1994 to the present. International in scope.
• LexisNexis Academic
  (Approx. 1980 to present) Includes the full text of articles from law reviews as well as federal and state cases. Also includes articles from local, national, and international newspapers, magazines, and trade journals.
  Tip: truncation symbol: !
• LexisNexis Congressional
  1789 to present) Indexes congressional documents. Includes the full text of:
  • The Congressional Record (1789 to present)
  • Congressional Hearings (1824 to present), both published and unpublished
  • Committee reports (1990 to present)
  • Congressional Research Digital Collection (1830 to present), which contains over 26,000 committee prints and over 32,000 Congressional Research Service reports (1916 to present)
  • House & Senate documents (1995 to present)
  • Bill texts and tracking (1989 to present)
  • Public laws (1988 to present)
  • U.S. Code
  • Code of Federal Regulations (1981 to present)
  • Federal Register (1980 to present)
  • Biographical information & voting records (1988 to present)
• Westlaw Campus Research
  Includes the full text of news articles and federal and state court cases.
  Tip: truncation symbol: !

• PsycINFO
  (1806 to present) Liara journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports in the field of psychology and related disciplines.

• Sociological Abstracts
  (1963 to present) Liara journal articles in sociology and related fields, including anthropology, economics, education, philosophy, political science, and social psychology.

General search tips:

• Use Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) to connect terms/concepts
• In most databases, the truncation symbol is a *
• Enclose phrases in double quotation marks " "

• Library Catalog
  Lists books, videos, government documents, and journals, magazines, and newspapers available in our Library.
  Tips:
  • Truncation symbol: $
  • Useful subject headings include:
    • bioethics
    • Fraud in science
    • Informed consent (medical law)
    • Medical ethics
    • Professional ethics
    • Research moral and ethical aspects
    • Science moral and ethical aspects
• ebrary
  A collection of over 55,000 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: for full functionality, you need the ebrary Reader. This plugin is on all library and ITS computers, but if you are using your own computer, you can download it from the ebrary home page.
• WorldCat
  Lists books, videos, periodicals, and other materials held by libraries around the world. You can submit an interlibrary loan request to borrow books that aren't available at Davidson.
  • Identify relevant Library of Congress Subject Headings in the Library Catalog first; you can then do a subject search in WorldCat to find additional items with these subject headings.