Subject Searching:
Major subject
headings listed in the Library Catalog that relate to philosophy are:
Analysis
(Philosophy)
Ethics
Philosophy
Philosophy and Religion
Philosophers
Psychology and Philosophy
Theory (Philosophy)
Sources about philosophy
in specific regions or countries are available in the Library Catalog under
the subjects like those shown below:
Philosophy,
African
Philosophy, American
Philosophy, German
Philosophical subjects
may also include the terms used to refer to followers of a particular philosophy
like those shown below:
Atomism
Gnosticism
Manichaeism
Neoplatonism
Peripatetics
Platonists
Pythagoras and Pythagorean school
Skeptics (Greek philosophy)
Sophists (Greek philosophy)
Stoics
Subjects about philosophy
sometimes begin with the name of the philosophy, followed by another subject
or phrase like the examples shown below:
Gnosticism --
History -- Sources
Gnosticism in literature
Keyword
Searching:
Sources about philosophy
may also be retrieved by words (called keywords) with the operators and, or,
not. A sample keyword search is shown below:
philosophy and Aristotle
Truncation allows users
to stem words or retrieve words with several endings. The truncation symbol
in the Library Catalog
is an asterisk (*). The search shown below will locate records in the Library
Catalog that include the words Pythagoras or Pythagorean:
pythagor*
Searches may include
nesting. Nested terms are enclosed in parentheses. The search shown includes
nesting:
(philosoph* and psycholog*) and biograph*
Qualifying a search
allows users to look for information in a specific field of a record. The
search shown below locates the form of the word philosophy in the su (subject)
field of records:
su philosoph*
Read tips
about searching in the Frequently
Asked Questions section of the Library Catalog.
Step
Three: Use
the bibliographies in sources you read to identify information about your
topic. Sources not available in Owens Library may be ordered through Interlibrary
Loan.
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Periodical Indexes
- A
list of History/Humanities/Philosophy
Indexes is available on the Owens Library Web pages.
- Always check the dates
covered by any index being used and the date an index was published because
terminology changes over time. Older indexes may place topics under general
subjects such as philosophy or belief, rather than specific aspects of the
subject.
- America: History and
Life covers many topics beyond American History.
- The MLA International
Bibliography may index criticism of a philosopher's written works.
- Newspaper indexes
and newspapers
often use terminology reflective of their readership. For example, a newspaper
from a rural region may express more conservative viewpoints than a large
city newspaper because the culture is less cosmopolitan.
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Other Library Catalogs
Use either the MOBIUS
Catalog (Missouri Libraries), WorldCat,
or Other Library
Catalogs to search for books unavailable at Owens Library.
You can order books in MOBIUS directly in the catalog. Books found in WorldCat
or other library catalogs may be ordered via Interlibrary
Loan.
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World Wide Web Resources
Use the History
World Wide Web Resources page to locate Internet resources recommended
by the Owens Library staff.
Evaluate each site
using the criteria suggested on the Evaluating
Web Resources web page.
Use the Search
the Internet Web page to learn how to enter searches and to hyperlink
to search engines recommended by the Owens Library staff.
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