2. You might want to …
Find books and articles on a bibliography
Carry out a literature search for your
dissertation
Manage the information you find
3. Your research sources: 1
Books: Newton (includes eBooks)
Journals*: Newton
ejournals@cambridge
but you have to know (and search by) the journal
title, not the journal article title
Library Search is also now available:
http://search.lib.cam.ac.uk
4. Bibliographies
A list of works relating to a given subject
http://oxfordbibliographiesonline.com
Oxford Bibliographies Online
Lists of key
readings with
annotations
6. OSO: ebooks
Searching by keyword
Advanced search
Sorting your search
results
www.oxfordscholarship.com
OSO books are not
currently searchable in the
Library catalogue
8. Your research sources: 2
• Journal articles
• Book chapters
• Conference papers
• Festschriften contributions
• Reports
• Reviews
Where can I find?
Not in the library catalogue!
9. Types of Database
Citation Databases —They contain only
bibliographic information, and sometimes an
abstract of articles, but without the actual text
of the article. The @cam – find full text may
link to the whole article. E.g. Philosopher’s
Index, Scopus etc.
Full-Text Databases – These databases
contain the journal articles e.g. JSTOR
10. You might start from
University Library webpage
www.lib.cam.ac.uk
Philosophy Library webpage
www.phil.ac.uk/library
Library Search
http://search.lib.cam.ac.uk
14. Citation Databases
Philosophers’ Index- Covers over 550 journals in
philosophy and related subjects, some monographs
and some anthologies. Coverage 1940 –
PhilPapers – Free, access to over 200,000 articles.
Monitors journal archives, personal pages.
Web of Knowledge- multidisciplinary coverage of
over 10,000 journals in the sciences, social
sciences, and arts and humanities. Coverage
1975-
Scopus- Largest abstract & citation database for
sciences/social sciences, indexing over 3000 arts
and humanities journals. Coverage 2002-
15. FullText Databases
Jstor (www.jstor.org)
– Archive of some dating back to 1600s. Does not
include journals from last 3-5 years.
Project Muse (http://muse.jhu.edu)
– 355 titles from over 70 publishers in arts,
humanities and social sciences.
16. Search strategies
Good search strategies will save you time
Decide what you are searching for before you start. Know
what your source covers
Be critical of the information you find
17. Thinking about your topic
Bioethics
= ethics OR morality OR behaviour
= euthanasia OR cloning OR medical ethics
OR eugenics …
18. Keywords Exercise
Know what you want: Keyword searching
1. Choose one of these:
Can the death penalty be morally justified?
McDowell’s moral realism
A study of Pogge’s views on the morality of
globalisation
2. Underline the key concepts.
3. Write down alternative term(s) for the key concepts.
4. Discuss what you have written with your neighbour
19. Keywords Exercise: Anwers
Can the death penalty be morally justified?
death penalty, capital punishment, execution, lethal
injection, ethic*, moral*, rights
McDowell’s s moral realism
M?cdowell, moral*, antirealism, action, belief, value,
ethic*, rights,
A study of Pogge’s views on the morality of
globalisation
Pogge, globali?ation, global justice, equality ethic*
moral*
20. More effective searching
Filters e.g. date, source type, language etc.
Individual source: Specific journals or publications
Boolean operators: Using operators like AND to
narrow, OR to widen, and NOT to include or exclude
terms in your search. (see diagram above)
Quotation marks: Enclosing terms in quotation
marks will find a phrase.
Wildcard/truncation: Finds the root of a word and
various possible endings e.g. politi*, s?epticism.
AND OR NOT
21. Searching the Philosopher’s Index
Navigating
Search options
• Quick search
• Search Limits
• Advanced search
• Saving search histories
Exporting records
An interactive tutorial
is available here:
Remember to select the
Philosopher’s Index from
the database list.
22. Get the most out of Google
Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.co.uk)
Finds articles, theses, some books, abstracts etc.
23.
24. Intute: Philosophy
www.intute.ac.uk/philosophy
All websites in Intute have
been selected by a team of
academics and subject
specialists.
A tutorial for searching the
internet for philosophy
specific sites is available
from
www.vts.intute.ac.uk/tutorial/philosophy
25. 4. Managing your information
EndNote Available on PWF PCs. EndNote Web is
also freely available via Web of Knowledge.
Zotero (www.zotero.com). Freely available if you
use Firefox as your browser.
Mendeley (www.mendeley.com). Free download.
Delicious (www.delicious.com) Save and tag URLs
More information on reference management tools is available from
www.lib.cam.ac.uk/toolbox/rmt.html
26. Plagiarism
Express ideas and arguments in your own words
See the University’s good academic practice and
plagiarism website. For information on plagiarism:
www.admin.cam.ac.uk/univ/plagiarism
See the Philosophy Faculty's guide to 'Presentation
of extended essays and dissertations' for guidance
referencing conventions used here.
28. Help and Guides
Online help (within databases)
Database guides
www.phil.cam.ac.uk/library/guides.html
jel52@cam.ac.uk
Editor's Notes
Newton contains records for print books and journals as well as most of our e-books. Newton is divided into sections alphabetically by library.
LibrarySearch is a search engine for University of Cambridge library collections. It allows you to look for printed books and journals held in any Cambridge University library as well as electronic material, including journal articles.
OBO are online guides to the key literature for a variety of subjects including Philosophy. Entries have scholarly annotations to aid research, and selected citations. Entries can be browsed or searched.
Ejournals – takes you to a searchable database of journal titles and a list of various ways to access the full text of articles you might need. This is a better link to use than just going straight to JSTOR which a lot of students do. Did you know that JSTOR only has journal articles that are 3 or more years old?)
You can browse databases for philosophy from the eresources@cambridge page and the eresources page on the philosophy library page are also a good place to start. Please note that most of these eresources are only available to you because you are a member of the University.
It can be a good idea to look at a dictionary, or encyclopaedia such as the REP or Stanford, to clarify in your own mind the precise meaning of the topic and/or individual words. Not all articles on a subject will be indexed with the same terms. Think about synonyms – how might other authors refer to your key concepts? - and terms you want to exclude.
To focus your searching you may need to use filters, Boolean operators or limits and sorting.
Try @cam link to get hold of the full article
The University Library has now registered its holdings with Google, so you can search Google Scholar and link directly to the full text of journal articles where they are available at Cambridge by clicking on ejournals@cambridge link.
Google Scholar is free, many articles are available full-text and you can connect to library resources by setting your preferences. The sources are more academic than those you would find through a standard search engine. Coverage tends to be stronger in science and technology than in the humanities.
Referencing software allows you to store and manage huge numbers of references and automatically create citations and produce bibliographies and footnotes in your work.
Remember that: Direct quotations should be in quotation marks, with reference to the source, including page numbers.
Indirect/paraphrased quotations and borrowed ideas should be acknowledged by means of a reference. A full bibliography of work consulted and used should be appended to the essay or dissertation