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PHI 220 Honors: Ethics and Society (Brennan-Loudoun)

This guide has been created to help you find books, articles, and other types of resources related to your assignment. Direct comments to Julie Combs, jcombs@nvcc.edu.

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Websites

Generally, sources in your paper should come from journal articles, essays in edited volumes, or monographs. Nevertheless, the following websites may provide a good starting point for bibliographic references.

  • PhilPapers is an index and bibliography of philosophical works. Papers that are open access are sometimes archived here, and some writers will post preprints of their published essays here.
  • The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a peer-reviewed collection of encyclopedia entries on a number of philosophical topics. Each entry includes a thorough bibliography, which can be useful in looking for additional sources.

Google

Search Google for your topic keywords. Look for government, education, and/or organization webpages as well as news/magazine publications. Limit to a domain by including site:.gov, .edu, or .org in the search box. Be cautious if using Wikipedia as the content cannot be verified.

Google Web Search

Before using information found on a webpage, consider the following criteria to evaluate its credibility.

  • Who is the author?
  • What are his/her qualifications?
  • Why was the website created?
  • When was it last updated?
  • How reliable is the information?

For further guidance, please refer to NOVA Libraries' How to...Evaluate Websites research guide.