Research Guides: Ethics: Home

General Research Links and Citation Help

Research Links

fUSIon
Simultaneously searches the entire Rice Library catalog, a good number of the library's subscription databases (scholarly articles, newspapers, etc.), the USI Archives' Digital Collections, and the library research guides.
Google Scholar
Allows you to search for more scholarly material on the Internet, especially articles in academic and trade journals. Make sure to set it to search Rice Library! Don't know how? Ask a librarian!
All Library Databases (A-Z List)
Follow this link to an exhaustive list of the Rice Library's databases.
Journal Finder
Search for both print and online journal titles at Rice Library or browse journals by subject.

Citation Help

Citing Sources
USI's collection of citation style resources.
The Purdue Online Writing Lab (Purdue OWL)
A comprehensive style guide and citation aid for a wide range of styles (APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.)
Zotero
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research
ZoteroBib
A free in-browser citation generator, able to format citations and build bibliographies in more than 9,000 different citation styles.

Research Tips and Tricks

If you'd like some help getting started with database research, take a look at the tutorial videos listed below (note: you will need to be logged in to your USI account to view them).

Tips for Effective Keyword Searching
Some suggestions and examples for getting the best results from your searches in our library databases
Saving Your Search Results
A tutorial for finding permalinks and saving results in fUSIon, EBSCO, ProQuest, and JSTOR
Making the Most of Google Scholar
A tour of the main features of Google Scholar, including guidance for setting it up to connect you to full text sources in our library

PhilPapers
PhilPapers is a comprehensive index and bibliography of philosophy maintained by the community of philosophers.
Philosophy Commons
Open access scholarly articles from university repositories via the Digital Commons Network
InPhO: The Internet Philosophy Ontology Project
InPhO is especially useful for finding terms and authors and then tracking them through reference works like the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (a smart early step in the research process).

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
ASC is a multi-disciplinary, full-text database designed specifically for academic institutions. This scholarly collection provides full-text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, etc. and nearly 4,000 full-text scholarly publications.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new window
Database contains 18th century books, pamphlets, essays, and broadsides.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR is a multi-disciplinary digital library containing scholarly articles, books, and primary sources.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Provides full text access to humanities and social sciences content.
ProQuest This link opens in a new window
Searches the following ProQuest databases: Health Research Premium Collection, ProQuest One Business, Literature Online, ProQuest Ebook Central, Periodicals Archive, Chicago Tribune Historical, New York Times Historical, Wall Street Journal (Recent)
ProQuest Periodicals Archive Online This link opens in a new window
Full text access to retrospective journals from the humanities and social sciences. Publication date coverage from 1802-2006.
Social Theory This link opens in a new window
Social Theory offers an extensive selection of documents that explore the complexities and interpret the nature of social behavior and organization. Includes content by such major theorists as Theodor Adorno, Jean Baudrillard, Simone de Beauvoir, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Émile Durkheim, Michel Foucault, Jürgen Habermas, Robert Merton, Dorothy E. Smith , and Talcott Parsons.

The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The purpose of the IEP is to provide detailed, scholarly, peer-reviewed information on key topics and philosophers in all areas of academic philosophy.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy organizes scholars from around the world in philosophy and related disciplines to create and maintain an up-to-date reference work.
InPhO (Indiana Philosophy Ontology project)
This site offers a taxonomy browser that allows the user to search for philosophical ideas.

"With it you can investigate related ideas, and conduct focused searches at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Noesis, and Google Scholar with a single click."-website

A Companion to Applied Ethics by R. G. Frey (Editor); Christopher Heath Wellman (Editor)
ISBN: 9781405171908
Publication Date: 2008
Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics by Deborah C. Poff (Editor); Alex C. Michalos (Editor)
Publication Date: 2019
Encyclopedia of Ethics (Credo Reference) by Lawrence C. Becker (Editor); Charlotte B. Becker (Editor)
Publication Date: 2008
Ethics, Science, Technology, and Engineering: A Global Resource by J. Britt Holbrook (Editor); Carl Mitcham (Editor)
Publication Date: 2015
The Routledge Companion to Ethics by John Skorupski (Editor)
Publication Date: 2010

Sites for Ethics Online

News, Blogs, and Podcasts
Organizations and Ethics Centers

Examining Ethics
An ethics podcast produced by the Prindle Institute for Ethics at Depauw University, offering listeners tools and ways of thinking about ethical dilemmas
Getting Ethics to Work
A podcast about workplace and professional ethics, produced by the Prindle Institute for Ethics at Depauw University
EthicsTalk (AMA Journal of Ethics)
Each month, the AMA Journal of Ethics’ podcast, Ethics Talk, features interviews with influential experts and leaders on a wide range of cultural, historical, legal, and social topics in health care ethics.
Hi-Phi Nation
A podcast by Barry Lam (Philosophy, Vassar) presenting philosophical concepts and arguments in narrative form
Daily Nous
News for and about the philosophy profession
The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
A long-running and expansive history of philosophy podcast by Peter Adamson (Philosophy, LMU-Munich and King's College-London)
Philosophy Talk
The website and blog for the Philosophy Talk radio show (Stanford University)

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