WISER Humanities: E-Resources for Research in Philosophy Thursday, 21 February Hilla Wait & Colin Cook

Structure of today’s session Effective searching Overview of e-resources in philosophy  Bibliographic databases  Electronic texts  Other resources Time to explore with assistance available

Where to start? Decide what you are searching for before you start Know your resources Think about the topic in more depth – try a mind-map or spider diagram Identify some keywords Work out search strategies Make sure you have a system for storing the references you identify – , or Refworks

Search Strategies Searching by simple search Searching by keyword Searching by subject headings Proximity search Cross database searching Citation searches (Oxford e-journals)

Combining search terms Boolean logic Boolean connectors : AND, OR, NOT, NEAR AND to narrow the search OR to broaden the search (synonyms) NEAR for a proximity search Symbols for wildcards and truncation  ? for a single character wom?n will find woman or women s?epticism will find British and American spelling  * for truncation or variant spellings politi* for politic, politics, political, politically etc.

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 conventions (e.g. do they use &, +, or “and”) Use any subject indexes provided

Critical appraisal Evaluating search results and sources  Academic credentials  Peer review  Use of source material  Accuracy of references  Currency  Bias  Relevancy  Citation count

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)

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

Subject-specific Bibliographic Databases Why use the subject database?  Extensive date range  Focus for the search  Philosophical terms  Few irrelevant results Drawbacks (if any)  Relevant articles published in non-philosophy journals  Impact factors/citation counts

Bibliographic Databases : Philosopher’s Index Navigating Search options Basic search Search Limits Advanced search Index Search Journal list Exporting records

Bibliographic databases: IPB

PI vs IPB: search for “truth condition” IPB 30 results Two-Dimensional Semantics: Garcia- Carpintero,-Manuel (ed); Macia,-Josep (ed) : Clarendon-Press : Oxford, 2006Garcia- Carpintero,-Manueled)Macia,-Joseped) A Simple Theory of Conditionals: Rieger,-Adam Rieger,-Adam Analysis-Analysis-. Jl 2006; 66:3(291): Semantic Content, Truth Conditions and Context: Montminy,-MartinMontminy,-Martin Linguistics-and-PhilosophyLinguistics-and-Philosophy. F 2006; 29(1): 1-26 Three Demonstrations and a Funeral: Korta,-Kepa; Perry,-John Korta,-KepaPerry,-John Mind-and-LanguageMind-and-Language. Ap 2006; 21(2): *Armstrong, David Malet. Truth and truthmakers Amesbury, Richard. Methodological verificationism and truth-conditions Barber, Alex. Truth conditions and their recognition Beebe, James R. Attributive uses of prosentences Blackburn, Simon. Attitudes and contents Blackburn, Simon. Realism and variations Borg, Emma. Formal semantics and intentional states Brunschwig, Jacques. Democritus and Xeniades Daukas, Nancy. Skepticism, contextualism, and the epistemic "ordinary" Dreier, James. Lockean and logical truth conditions Dyke, Heather. Tensed meaning Dyke, Heather. Tokens, dates and tenseless truth conditions Gregory, Dominic. Smith on truthmakers Jackson, Frank. - Pettit, Philip. A problem for expressivism Jackson, Frank. What is expressivism? Philosophers Index 4 results

Other Bibliographic databases Web of Knowledge, OCLC Article First ZETOC OCLC World Cat Copac

Electronic Texts Electronic Journals Electronic Primary Texts Electronic Secondary Texts Electronic Reference Sources

On-Line philosophy texts Primary sources  Past Masters  Perseus  EEBO and ECO  Wittgenstein Nachlaß Secondary sources  Oxford Scholarship On-Line  Taylor & Francis (Routledge) E-books  Cambridge Companions On-Line  Blackwell Reference On-Line

How do we find them? OxLIP (links to packages) OLIS links to individual books Reading Lists

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

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

Taylor & Francis/Routledge Getting started Navigating Copying and printing Marking up text Searching Using the Research Notebook

Reference Sources Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy oSignpost articles oNavigating oSearching oSimple Searches oAdvanced search Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Locating original sources on the internet OxLIP and the subject menus Portals  Intute: Arts and Humanities gateway Google/Google Scholar Internet Detective Tutorial / /

Locating current research Mailing lists  Conference proceedings  OCLC Proceedings  Theses and Dissertations Current awareness services  Zetoc, My TD-Net Google scholar ORA (Oxford Research Archive)

And Finally Questions Hands-on Evaluation forms