WISER Humanities: E-Resources for Research in Philosophy Friday, 9 February Hilla Wait

Structure of today’s session Overview of e-resources in philosophy Bibliographic databases Electronic texts Other resources Time to explore with assistance available Assume already comfortable with OLIS, and access to e-journals

Where to start? Decide what you are searching for before you start. Check your library for introductory texts or overviews of subject. Look at the bibliographies. Look at introductory electronic sources such as encyclopedias. Then spend some time thinking about the topic in more depth – you may find a mind-map or spider diagram useful. Identify some keywords. Make sure you have a system for storing the references you identify – maybe e-mail, or Refworks or an old-fashioned card index

OxLIP Oxford Library Information Platform – our gateway to electronic resources Subject and title index Library catalogues including OLIS Bibliographic databases Full-text databases Internet sites (subject gateways) Passwords

Tackling an unfamiliar database Check the coverage of a database to see if it includes what you want You can use cross-searching for some collections of databases Use the help screens provided – check the specific conventions (e.g. do they use &, +, or “and”) Use any subject indexes provided General point before we go on. You will often be opening an unfamiliar database. Or one that has changed since you last looked at it. Don’t panic.

Electronic Resources in Philosophy Bibliographical databases: For articles For monographs E-books: Primary sources Secondary works Encyclopedias

Bibliographic Databases : Philosopher’s Index Navigating Search options Basic search Search Limits Advanced search Index Search Journal list Exporting records OLIS won’t help to find articles for you. Olis helps you with books and journals, not with their contents. Don’t try to use the search facility on TDNET Bibliographical databases for specific queries or fishing expeditions: some are subject specific such as Philosopher’s Index Goes back to 1940, covers about 500 major philosophy journals world wide, updated quarterly links into Olis and e-journals by Tour Useful options: basic search,Advanced search Index search Search History. Records all searches,, and gives you a chance to combine previous searches, and save searches Demonstrate Simple search with mind body problem as terms anywhere and limit by years 2000—2005. look at results, note that even in this search it went through the abstracts. To export Mark a few and show e-mail Then go into Advanced Search: talk through the Boolean ops and fields on offer. Search Nagel, (just use surname) and check author field, then Bat (either in title or anywhere), to solve specific query (you know there is an article, just not sure of details. Look at full record. We have a choice here in displaying the search panel and the full record in a split screen, or switching (red arrow on left to hide search panel: revert by clicking it again). Click on Tour (or full text option) to link to e-journals Repeat Advanced search [search with Nagel (as subject) combined with bat*(in terms anywhere). You get 17 hits ( 5 extra by using the wildcard.) Point out Aardvark, no 10 which would not have come up at all with bat in title. Index search: probably most useful for being very specific about author names, So go to McDowell in author index and select J and JH and John and click on Search marked Over 80 records, lets go to limits and limit to Book reviews We get 23. Look at a full record; unusually the book author goes in author field and reviewer has separate field. Exporting records, mark them, print save e-mail, change export details

Other Bibliographic databases Web of Knowledge, OCLC Article First ZETOC OCLC World Cat Copac Would use these where subject coverage beyond scope of Phil Index. Also, if you want book reviews, or indeed books! We could demonstrate:

Electronic Texts Electronic Journals Electronic Reference Sources Electronic Primary Texts Electronic Secondary Texts Customised Digitised Extracts

On-Line philosophy texts Primary sources Past Masters Perseus Early English Books Online Eighteenth Century Collections Online Wittgenstein Nachlaß Secondary sources Oxford Scholarship On-Line Taylor & Francis (Routledge) E-books Range of e-books, not going to show Perseus or Witt Remember that these are more than convenient substitutes for the printed version. Can do lots of things with them which you can’t do with the book.

How do we find them? OxLIP (links to packages) OLIS links to individual books Reading List links Reading list links so far for phil prelims

Past Masters Expand package → author→title Using the Table of Contents Changing the display Navigating the text Searching by simple search Power search Cross database searching Results Map Proximity search Note it knows that this is Oxford, so we are only seeing the Oxford subs. (click at bottom of page to go to PM home page rather than Oxford version if you want to see what else is available) Beware of Concealed authors in packages e.g. Continental rationalists for Leibniz and British Philosophy for Mill. Watch out for compilations where we may subsequently have bought a better version e.g. Locke Note difference between Descartes in original and Descartes in translation Select Locke, then go to Essay Describe basic screen layout: Toc on the left; text on the right. Show changing the screen split with the icons and changing by dragging the boundary Triangle at bottom of screen Get more text Show how to go up through the hierarchy of text (especially useful if you have the whole screen on text), and how to change database Simple search as “innate ideas”, show the hits and jump to text. Note you are getting the whole text here, if you want to skip to next hit, go back to your results on the left. Then open :Power search: 2 places to find this option. allows one to combine keywords and bring in Boolean operators You can search across databases, holding the CTRL down as you select authors. e.g. try Innate ideas as phrase across separate databases for Locke, Berkeley and Hume. Remember to click on show only paras with hits because it makes the results map easier to use Now have to look at the results map, For each title searched, a results map will display the number of paragraphs containing each word in the search term and then skip into interesting paragraphs. Use the + sign to get more text if you want it. My favourite search option: Proximity search, could use this again for also Innate and ideas, split by ? 4 words. But let’s do utility principle in British philosophy instead

Oxford Scholarship On-Line Complete list Search for a title or author Abstract and TOC Navigating Searching by keyword Quick Search Sorting your search results Advanced Search Package selected by OUP. 400 titles Show the list, divided into sub-disciplines, to see what books are available in your area of interest. If you want a complete listing of titles, you can work through titles index, A-Z, or similarly thorough Author index Fastest way to find a book: advanced search.. put Donald Davidson in as title and Lepore as author, and it comes up. Look at the abstract and chapter abstracts, then open a chapter. Navigate with the TOC on the left , Keyword search: Each book and chapter has a newly-written abstract and set of keywords. Use these to link to other OSO books e.g. in Lepore on Donald Davidson’s abstract, click on the keyword principle of charity This brings us 9 hits. Advantage of using the assigned keywords is that generally you only pick up relevant material. Quick search: identity, Refine with personal You can Sort search results by relevance, title, author or date. Re-sort by date. The skip in to show a hit. Could refine further to narrow search, but we wont

Taylor & Francis/Routledge Getting started Navigating Copying and printing Marking up text Searching Using the Research Notebook By contrast you have to work for this one. Library selected package of 50 books from choice of 300. 2 primary texts and otherwise heavily-used 2ndary works. Enter via book/olis or go in from Oxlip, in which case log-in at the outset. Athens Hilla : oxuphillib phi25wai When you enter you get the complete list of titles (40 some screens). Very slow way to find a book, so go through the OLIS link Alternatively, access t&F through OxLIP and use search for the title you want. Search example: Mill on Utilitarianism In each case you now have to click on More Then open DX reader (unless all copies are in use) Navigating: Toc on the left, text on the right. Scroll up and down Go through the options along the toolbar: Print and copy are intentionally fiddly: describe, don’t do. [E-print – have to go to print q, your quota 10% is docked instantly. E-copy To use e-copy, click on it, add the page you are looking at to the e–copy queue, not less than a page per time. Then Open Copy preview and press Ctrl-C to actually copy it, and do paste into your document] More effective is to use the book as it was designed Mark a section Select Highlight colour Annotations manager: to remove annotations, ask to add one in the same place and you get a delete option. Bookmark manager Research Book manager If you have a book open, it will search in that book. Use welfare as example. Just put the keyword in the box and click on Go, Can copy the results into Word Once the book is closed, we can search across the package. Stop search demo here Remember to logout whenever you have finished with a text. You can only be in 1 text at once. [[Have option of Keyword search: across package will only look at abstracts and tocs. Use welfare again as example.]] Results file lurks behind book, as links not live you need to skip to page number to find the hits. do a Full content search on welfare: to make this work, you needed to login at the beginning, so you would have had to arrive via OxLIP, not via a link from OLIS. This would probably work better with a narrower search term, but it does let you look at the paragraph where the hit occurs so you can decide whether to open the book.

Reference Sources Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Signpost articles Navigating Searching Simple Searches Advanced search Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Fantastic on-line encyclopedia. Subscribed database, so access through OxLIP. Articles authored by prominent philosophers. Articles often crop up on reading lists as well as people, including me, using it as a reference tool. Complete, but is regularly expanded and updated. Start at the Home page. Note flags to New articles and most popular articles. Signpost articles: excellent for beginners, look at Mind and Psychology . Could go directly via any blue term to a more detailed discussion,. If you know where you are going, easier to do a search. Try old friend concepts. Note that Refine Search options now appear on left. Results appear in order of relevance Open it up to show Navigating. Tocs on the left. Links to search results on right. Citation at bottom of page Do another simple search on Mill, choose JS Mill and switch to bibliography. This is the kind of thing I use for acquisitions and for queries, and students use for revision Then Click on Show Related articles Then try a Advanced Search, full text, on Gettier problem. Go into first article. Easy to copy, save and print. No need to demo Not going to demonstrate Stanford, be aware that it is dynamic and it’s not comprehensive

Locating original sources on the internet OxLIP and the subject menus Portals Intute: Arts and Humanities gateway http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/ Google/Google Scholar Internet Detective Tutorial http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/detective/ Google/Google Scholar which provide keyword searches – look at the advanced search options

Locating current research Mailing lists http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk Conference proceedings OCLC Proceedings Theses and Dissertations Current awareness services Zetoc, My TD-Net Google scholar Ideas may be first expressed in conferences Ne research often in theses (Theses: find listed in library catalogues, Dissertation abstracts (N.America) and Index to Theses (UK))

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