Outline of this guide: Reference Works Books Articles

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• Reference Universe
  Don't know where to begin? Try Reference Universe, an index of the indexes in many of the library's reference books and e-books. Reference Universe will tell you which titles contain information on your topic.
• Notable Works
  Philosophy | Science & Related Disciplines
  • Philosophy
    • Credo Reference
      A collection of electronic reference books; useful for quick answers to questions. For more detailed information, be sure to consult the Gale Virtual Reference Library too.
    • A Dictionary of Philosophy. Thomas Mautner. Oxford: Blackwell Reference, 1996.
      Reference R 103 M459d
    • 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
    • Gale Virtual Reference Library
      A collection of over 120 full-text reference e-books. Includes:
      • The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy. Ed. Robert Audi. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1999.
        Reference R 103 C178 1999
      • Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Ed. Donald Borchert. 2nd ed. 10 vols. Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference, 2006.
      • Encyclopedia of Religion. Ed. Lindsay Jones. 2nd ed. 15 vols. Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference, 2005.
        Reference R 203 E562
      • New Dictionary of the History of Ideas. Ed. Maryanne Horowitz. 6 vols. Detroit, MI: Scribner's, 2005.
        Reference R 901.9 D554 2005
        See also the first edition, the Dictionary of the History of Ideas, edited by Philip P. Wiener (5 vols.; New York: Scribner, 1973-1974), shelved in Reference at call number R 901.9 D554.
    • The Oxford Companion to Philosophy. Ed. Ted Honderich. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005.
      Reference R 100 O98 2005
    • The Oxford Companion to the Mind. Ed. Richard L. Gregory. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2004.
      Reference R 128.2 O98 2004
    • The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy. Simon Blackburn. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1994.
      Reference R 103 B628o
    • 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- .

  • Science & Related Disciplines
    • Access Science. McGraw-Hill, 2005- .
      Contains the full text of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology as well as research updates, biographies, and technology news.
    • APA Dictionary of Psychology. Ed. Gary VandenBos. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2007.
      Reference R 150.3 A512
    • The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Science. Ed. W. Edward Craighead and Charles Nemeroff. 3rd ed. 4 vols. New York: Wiley, 2001. 
    • Credo Reference
      A collection of electronic reference books. Useful for fact-checking and quick answers to questions. For more detailed information, be sure to search the Gale Virtual Reference Library too.
    • A Dictionary of Psychology. Andrew Colman. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford, 2006.
      Reference R 150.3 C716d2 
    • Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology. Ed. David Levinson and Melvin Ember. 4 vols. New York: Henry Holt, 1996.
      Reference R 305.8 E56
    • Encyclopedia of Psychology. Ed. Alan E. Kazdin. 8 vols. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2000.
      Reference R 150.3 E561
    • Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology. Ed. Alan Bernard and Jonathan Spencer. New York: Routledge, 1996.
      Reference R 305.8 E562
    • Gale Virtual Reference Library
      A collection of electronic reference books, including:
      • Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Ed. H. James Birx. 5 vols. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2006.
      • Encyclopedia of Bioethics. Ed. Stephen G. Post. 3rd ed. 5 vols. New York: Macmillan, 2004.
        Reference R 174.2 E56 2004
      • Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, & Ethics. Ed. Carl Mitcham. 4 vols. Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference, 2005.
      • Encyclopedia of Social Psychology. Ed. Roy Baumeister and Kathleen Vohs. 2 vols. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2007.
      • Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine. 3rd ed. 5 vols. Detroit, MI: Gale, 2006.
      • New Dictionary of the History of Ideas. Ed. Maryanne Horowitz. 6 vols. Detroit, MI: Scribner's, 2005.
        Reference R 901.9 D554 2005
        The Library also has a copy of the first edition, the Dictionary of the History of Ideas, edited by Philip P. Wiener (5 vols.; New York: Scribner, 1973-1974), shelved in Reference at call number R 901.9 D554.
      • International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. Ed. William Darity, Jr. 2nd ed. 9 vols. Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference, 2008.
      • ... and more!
    • Handbook of Psychology. Ed. Irving B. Weiner. 12 vols. New York: Wiley, 2003.
      Reference R 150.3 H236
    • International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Ed. Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Bates. 26 vols. New York: Elsevier, 2001.
      Reference R 300.3 I611  
    • The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science. Ed. J.L. Heilbron. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2003.
      Reference R 509 O98
    • Van Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia. Ed. Glenn D. Considine. 2 vols. New York: Wiley, 2002.
      Reference R 503 V269

• Library Catalog
  Includes information about books, government documents, and journals, magazines, and newspapers in the Library.
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• ebrary
  A collection of 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 on all library and ITS computers, but if you are using your own computer, you can download it from the ebrary home page.
• WorldCat
  Indexes books, periodicals, and other materials held by libraries around the world. Search WorldCat to identify additional books on your topic and then order the books on interlibrary loan.
  Note: It can be helpful to 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.
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1. Starting Points
   • Academic Search Premier
     (1975 to present) Indexes 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.
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     • Truncation: use an asterisk *
     • Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " "
     • Wildcard: use a question mark ?
   • OmniFile Full Text Mega
     (1982 to present) Indexes articles from over 3,000 scholarly and popular periodicals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences; also includes the full text of selected articles from over 1,650 of these periodicals.
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     • Phrase searching: use double quotation marks ""
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2. Core Resources for Philosophy & the Sciences
   • Philosopher's Index
     (1940 to present) Indexes journal articles and books in philosophy and related fields.
     Search Syntax:
     • Truncation: use an asterisk *
     • Phrase searching: automatic
     • Wildcard: use a question mark ?
   • PsycINFO (Ebsco version)
     (1800s to present) Contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, all in the field of psychology and related disciplines.
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     • Wildcard: use a question mark ?
   • 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.
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     • Truncation: use an asterisk *
     • Phrase searching: use double quotations marks " "
     • Wildcard: use a question mark ?
3. Other Databases
   For additional options, see the library's indexes & databases pages.
   • 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.
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     • Wildcard: use a question mark ?
   • Essay & General Literature Index
     (1900 to present) Indexes chapters and essays in edited collections.
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     • Truncation: unnecessary when using "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use an asterisk *
     • Phrase searching: use double quotation marks ""
     • Wildcard: do not use with "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use a question mark ?
   • General Science Abstracts
     (1984 to present) Indexes articles in over 250 English-language periodicals in a variety of science disciplines, including physics, astronomy, biology, chemistry, environmental science, mathematics, and medicine.
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     • Truncation: unnecessary when using "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use an asterisk *
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   • Humanities Abstracts
     (1907 to present). Indexes articles in over 500 English-language journals 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.
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   • JSTOR
     Includes pdf copies of scholarly articles from a core collection of journals; also includes book reviews. Note:JSTOR does not contain articles from the most recent 3-5 years.
     Search Syntax:
     • Truncation: use a plus sign +
     • Phrase searching: automatic
   • Project Muse
     Contains full-text articles from journals published by university and scholarly presses.
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     • Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " "
   • Social Sciences Abstracts
     (1907 to present) Indexes journal articles and some book reviews on all social sciences subjects, including history, political science, international relations, law, economics, area studies, gender studies, anthropology, psychology, and sociology.
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     • Truncation: unnecessary when using "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use an asterisk *
     • Phrase searching: use double quotation marks ""
     • Wildcard: do not use with "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use a question mark ?