A new database is available through the Butler Libraries, called Cambridge Companions to Philosophy, Religion, and Culture.
Cambridge University Press publishes many books in their “Companions” series, each on a specific topic. The Cambridge Companions series offers specially-commissioned
collections of essays which are intended to serve as reference works for an inter-disciplinary
audience of students and non-specialists.
Addressing topics and figures ranging from Plato through
Kant to Habermas, and philosophical movements such as the Scottish Enlightenment and German Idealism,
this online collection ehealth pharmacy contains over 900 downloadable essays taken from the Cambridge
Companions to Philosophy, Religion and Culture (more than 90 volumes).
Each volume also includes a substantial bibliography and other elements such as glossaries and timelines. You can browse the collection by Volume, by Chapter Title, and by Author.
Introducing the Cambridge Companions to Philosophy, Religion, & Culture!
The
Cambridge Companions series offers specially-commissioned collections
of essays which are intended to serve as reference works for an
inter-disciplinary audience of students and non-specialists. Addressing
topics and figures ranging from Plato through Kant to Habermas, and
philosophical movements such as the Scottish Enlightenment and German
Idealism, this online collection contains over 900 downloadable essays
taken from the Cambridge Companions to Philosophy, Religion and Culture
(more than 90 volumes). Each volume also includes a substantial bibliography and other elements such as glossaries and timelines.
Links to this database are available on our general Alphabetical List and also in the Subject List under Philosophy and Religious Studies.
Here is a direct link.
We have a new Psychology-related database available.
PsycCRITIQUES, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is an
electronic serial of book reviews featuring full text reviews of
current scholarly and professional books in psychology. The database
also contains critiques of popular films and trade books from a
psychological perspective.
More than 36,000 reviews are included,
dating back to 1956.
A new database that is available on the Library Website is the Directory of Open Access Journals. This database covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and
scholarly journals with the aim to cover all subjects and languages.
- There
are now 2,433 journals in the directory.
- Currently 714 journals are searchable at article level.
- As of today 119,344 articles are included in the DOAJ service.
Open Access Journals are peer-reviewed or editorial-quality journals that are freely available online. They define open access journals as journals that use a funding model
that does not charge readers or their institutions for access. From the
BOAI definition of “open access”, they won’t include a journal in the directory unless the users have the right to “read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts” of the articles.
Journals can be browsed by subject or searched by keyword. Once you get to the journal, you can browse by issue/year or even search some of the journals for a keyword in a particular article. These are online journals being made open-access by their publishers via their own websites, so the features and functions will vary.
The libraries at Butler University have just gotten a new online resource. It’s the Encyclopedia Britannica Online. Britannica plus a whole lot more. One of the new features is the World Data Analyst, which gives you current and past statistics about countries around the world. The “Workspace” is also new, and allows you to save your research (articles you find, etc.) and come back to it later. Visit Britannica Online via the Databases page on the library website.
Completely updated for 2006, this award-winning reference site is
now faster, easier to use, and full of new content specifically
designed to meet the needs of university libraries. The foundation of
Britannica Online (BOL) is the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the largest,
most authoritative encyclopedia in the world. In addition to the
encyclopedia, BOL includes:
- World Data Analyst – Britannica’s exclusive database of current and past statistics on the countries of the world
- Gateway to the Classics – An extensive collection of significant works in literature, philosophy, history, and science
- Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary & Thesaurus – Completely integrated into the site and easily accessible
- Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Quotations – A lively collection of more than 4,000 quotations, both contemporary and classic
- Full-text
journal and magazine articles from EBSCO and Proquest journals – more
than 700 titles, hand-selected for college needs
- BBC & New York Times daily headlines – top stories from two trusted sources
The Web’s Best – a collection of Web sites carefully selected by Britannica’s editorial department
- World Atlas – Access Britannica maps through this interactive resource
- Advanced search capabilities and Britannica’s exclusive “Workspace,” a research organizer.
Comments Off on Philosophy, Religion, & Culture from Cambridge University Press 
Themocracy