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Research Resources for Ethics
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Journal Articles

EBSCO Academic Search Premier

A multidisciplinary database with full-text articles. You can find scholarly articles by checking the box to the left of the option, "Scholarly (Peer-Reviewed) Journals". Academic Search Premier contains many major peer-reviewed journals in Art, including: Art Bulletin, Art History, Art in America, Art Journal, Art Monthly, and many others.

Identifying Books in the library catalog

To find items on a specific aspect of ethics, do a Word search for keywords related to your topic.

For example:

  • Ethics and abortion

  • Ethics and “stem cell research”

  • Ethics and “genetic engineering”

  • Ethics and Aristotle

Reference Books

(Available online through the Gale Virtual Reference Library)

Borchert, Donald, Ed. Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2nd ed. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2006. 7799 pp. 10 vols. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Thomson Gale.

English-language reference source for philosophy," has been the cornerstone of the philosophy reference shelf. Lauded for its clear and accessible presentation of wide-ranging philosophical subjects, the Encyclopedia has earned its place as a first-stop resource for general readers, students and educators.

Web Sites

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Good resource for starting research in ethics. This resource is designed so that each entry is maintained and kept up to date by an expert or group of experts in the field. All entries and updates are refereed by the members of a distinguished Editorial Board before they are made public. Edited by Edward Zalta, a senior research scholar at the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University.