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

2. 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

3. 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 , or Refworks or an old-fashioned card index

4. 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

5. 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.

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

7. 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
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 , change export details

8. 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:

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

10. 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.

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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 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.

15. 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

16. Locating original sources on the internet
OxLIP and the subject menus
Portals
Intute: Arts and Humanities gateway
Google/Google Scholar
Internet Detective Tutorial
Google/Google Scholar which provide keyword searches – look at the advanced search options

17. Locating current research
Mailing lists
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))

18. And Finally
Questions
Hands-on
Evaluation forms