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Resources in PHILOSOPHY

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University of Connecticut Library Collections and Services

• Online Indexing and Current Awareness Services
• HOMER (Library Catalog)
  Use the Homer catalog to check holdings for all University of Connecticut Libraries and to recall books that are charged to another patron.
• Document Delivery and Interlibrary Loan Service
  Use this form to request books and journal articles not owned by the Libraries.
• Request for Purchase Form
  Use this form to suggest titles to be added to the Libraries' collections.
• Library Liaison Program

Links to Other Resources

• Links to Internet Resources
• Electronic Journals and Preprint Archives
• Online Bibliographies and Scholarly Projects
• Societies, Associations and University Departments
• Professional Resources

Online Indexing and Current Awareness Services

• Philosopher's Index
• Arts & Humanities Search: See Web of Science below.
• Dissertation Abstracts (UMI)
  The complete range of academic subjects appearing in dissertations accepted at accredited institutions since 1861. Updated monthly.
• LLBA (Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts)
  Provides indexing and abstracts for ca. 2,000 journals, 1973-present, with selective coverage of books, occasional papers, and dissertations. Covers theoretical linguistics, language acquisition, computational and mathematical linguistics, language therapy, and other language-related fields.
• PsycINFO
  Contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, all in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. Journal coverage, spanning 1887 to the present, includes international material selected from more than 1,300 periodicals written in over 25 languages. Current chapter and book coverage includes worldwide English-language material published from 1987-present. Over 55,000 references are added annually through monthly updates.
• ISI Web of Knowledge
  ISI Web of Science is a multidisciplinary database of cited references (footnotes). It offers citation searching on authors and co-authors as well as keyword searching of abstracts and titles and other enhanced access to the following three databases:
  • Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)--1994-present
    The Science Citation Index indexes 5,300 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines, covering approximately 2,000 more journals than its SCI print and CD-ROM counterparts, with all cited references captured.
  • Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)--1994-present
    The Social Sciences Citation Index indexes 1,700 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals.
  • Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)--1994-present
    Arts & Humanities Citation Index indexes 1,100 of the world's eading arts and humanities journals, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social journals.

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Links to Internet Resources

• Episteme Links
• Guide to Philosophy on the Internet (Peter Suber, Earlham College)
• Hippias: Limited Area Search of Philosophy on the Internet

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Electronic Journals and Preprint Archives

• Behavioral & Brain Sciences
  Target article preprints.
• CogNet Library
  CogNet is a growing collection of searchable electronic texts in the field of cognitive and brain sciences. The CogNet library contains work from both from the MIT Press, as well as links to resources from other publishers, professional associations, institutions, and individuals, offering public access to online work."
• CogPrints Electronic Archive
  "This is an electronic archive for papers in any area of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Linguistics, and many areas of Computer Science (e.g., artificial intelligence, robotics, vison, learning, speech, neural networks), Philosophy (e.g., mind, language, knowledge, science, logic), Biology (e.g., ethology, behavioral ecology, sociobiology, behaviour genetics, evolutionary theory), Medicine (e.g., Psychiatry, Neurology, human genetics, Imaging), Anthropology (e.g., primatology, cognitive ethnology, archeology, paleontology), as well as any other portions of the physical, social and mathematical sciences that are pertinent to the study of cognition."
• Electronic Journal of Analytic Philosophy
• Online Papers in Philosophy
  List maintained by David Chalmers.
• Psyche: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Consciousness
  A refereed electronic journal dedicated to supporting the interdisciplinary exploration of the nature of consciousness and its relation to the brain.Psyche publishes material relevant to that exploration from the perspectives afforded by the disciplines of cognitive science, philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and anthropology. Edited by Patrick Wilken.
• Techné: Journal of the Society for Philosophy and Technology
  A quarterly electronic journal affiliated with the Scholarly Communications Project at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
• Other Journals in Philosophy

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Online Bibliographies, Reference Tools, and Scholarly Projects

• BEARS: Brown Electronic Article Review Service in Moral and Political Philosophy
  "Short but substantial"; reviews of articles that have appeared in the last six months in such journals as Ethics, Journal of Social Philosophy, and Journal of Political Philosophy.
• Contemporary Philosophy of Mind: An Annotated Bibliography (David Chalmers)>.
• NOEMA: The Collaborative Bibliography of Women in Philosophy
  "This bibliography is a project in collaborative scholarship with a database now containing over 11,000 records representing the work of over 3,700 women." >.
• Research in Cognitive Science (Valerie Hardcastle)
• The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  "The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a dynamic encyclopedia maintained by the Center for the Study of Language and Information (John Perry, Director) at Stanford University, and published as a project of the Metaphysics Research Lab at CSLI."

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Societies, Associations, and University Departments

• American Association of Philosophy Teachers
• American Philosophical Association
• Philosophy Documentation Center (Bowling Green)
• The University of Connecticut Philosophy Department

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Professional Resources

• Jobs for Philosophers
  International listing of job advertisements in philosophy.
• The Philosophical Gourmet Report: A Ranking of U.S. Graduate Programs in Analytic Philosophy (Compiled by Brian Leiter)

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