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This web site provides links and or references to key philosophy (and in particular, ethical) resources available at Carnegie Mellon. Additional useful materials can be found via CAMEO, the libraries' online catalog, the libraries' home page, or the Internet. Please note accompanying annotations.

1. Databases
2. Philosophy Reference Resources
3. Online Full text Journals
4. Web Resources
5. Key Journals in Library
6. General Resources
 

1. Databases (Carnegie Mellon users only)

Philosopher's Index
The Philosopher's Index provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language.

InfoTrac Web
Most useful: select the Expanded Academic ASAP offers full text articles and abstracts in the humanities.

Proquest Direct
For full text scholarly and popular journal articles in the humanities, go to the Humanities Module.

Lexis/Nexis Academic
Business, medical, general and legal information.

ArticleFirst
An index of articles from nearly 12,500 journals, including business, medicine, and humanities.

ProceedingsFirst
An index of worldwide conference proceedings.
 

2. Philosophy Reference Resources
These items are available on the first floor of the Hunt library (REF-1).

The Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Business Ethics(1997)
(REF-1): 174.4 B632

The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy (1999)
(REF-1): 103 C178A2

Codes of Professional Responsibility (1990)
(REF-1): 174 C669A2 1

Company Policy Statements (1993)
(REF-1): 346.73066 C737 VOL. 1-2

Dictionary of ethics, theology, and society (1996)
(REF-1): 170.3 D554

Eighty Exemplary Ethics Statements (1998)
(REF-1): 174.4 E34

Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics (1928)
(REF 1): 203 E56 VOL. 1-13

Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare (1998)
(REF-1): 179.3 E56

Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics (1998)
(REF-1): 170.3 E562 VOL. 1-4

Encyclopedia of Bioethics (1995)
(REF-1): 174.2 E56A VOL. 1-5

Encyclopedia of Ethics (1992)
(REF-1): 170.3 E56 1 VOL. 1-2

The Encyclopedia of Philosophy (1967)
(REF-1): 103 E56 VOL. 1-8

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (1998)
(REF-1): 100 R869 VOL. 1-10
Also available on CD ROM: 100 R869 (Ask at the Reference Desk).
 

3. Online Full Text Journals

JSTOR
A list of full text scholarly journals, for Carnegie Mellon users only.

Full-text Journals
 

4. Web Resources

Applied Ethics Resources on WWW
A very thorough site from the University of British Columbia.

Ethics on the World Wide Web
An extensive site from California State University, Fullerton.

Ethics Updates
An excellent source for the latest on ethical issues.

Institute for Business and Professional Ethics
From DePaul University, and home of the Online Journal of Ethics.

Institute for Global Ethics
A non-profit and non-partisan international think tank on ethics.

The WWW Virtual Library: Philosophy
Access to thousands of quality Internet resources.
 

5. Key Journals in Library
Available at the Hunt Library unless otherwise indicated.

Environmental Ethics
Indexed in Proquest

The Hastings Center Report
Full text in Proquest

Journal of Business Ethics
Full Text in Proquest

Journal of Medicine and Philosophy
Indexed in Proquest

Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Available at the Engineering and Science Library (ENGR&SCI)
 

6. General Resources

Library Home Page
Cameo online library catalog, Other Library Catalogs, Interlibrary loan, etc.

Virtual Reference Shelf

Ask A Librarian
Reference questions answered via email, phone, or online "live chat."

Oxford English Dictionary (OED)

Google.com
A very good search engine.

Remote User Access Using the Proxy Server
Useful information for off campus users who do not use Carnegie Mellon as their ISP.