Phil 380

Professor Press

Tony Doyle

tdoyle@hunter.cuny.edu

http://library.hunter.cuny.edu/tdoyle

1. Boolean searching. (See http://library.hunter.cuny.edu/tdoyle/Boolean_files/v3_document.htm for online version.)

2. Off campus access to databases. To be able to get into all the databases that Hunter subscribes to and to have access to all the full text that Hunter subscribes to you have to be on the proxy server. For more information about the proxy server see http://library.hunter.cuny.edu/webres.htm.

3. Philosopher’s Index (http://library.hunter.cuny.edu/webres.htm). The Philosopher’s Index is the major index for academic philosophy in English. It includes abstracts (from books and journals) but no full text.

4. Getting in. From http://library.hunter.cuny.edu choose

5. By default the Index will retrieve both books and journals. It’s possible to restrict your search to journal articles with the expression dt=journal-article. (Don’t forget the hyphen!)

6. Sample search. Suppose you’re looking for articles on the discussion of virtue in Meno. In the Find box type meno and (virtue or excellence or arete) and dt=journal-article. This search should yield you 34 results.

7. Other relevant searches with number of results:

socratic definition: 5

socratic method: 109 (meno and socratic method: 4)

meno and (knowledge or belief or opinion or doxa or episteme*): 63

meno and (recollection or slave or education or teach* or taught): 63

meno and hypothesis: 8

charmides and (sophrosyne or tempera* or moderat*): 22

craft analogy: 9

8. Finding the full text of articles online. From the Hunter Library homepage, http://library.hunter.cuny.edu, choose Electronic Journals (under ONLINE RESOURCES on the left side of the screen.)

9. Suppose you’re looking for the journal Nous. Type the title in the box.

10. Electronic Journals will tell you whether this journal is available in full text, where to find it, and what dates we’ve got.

11. Finding the print versions of journals. If Hunter doesn’t offer online access to a journal, you have to go into CUNY+ (See -- below.). From http://library.hunter.cuny.edu choose CUNY+ from the menu to the left.

12. Then click on on the left side of your screen.

13. Then select .

14. Type the journal title in the lower search box.

15. Then select

16. To determine the dates that Hunter owns click on Hunter-Main under Holdings.

17. Finding books in CUNY+. Much of the secondary literature on Plato is shelved around B395. Not all of it though, so if you want to browse you might want to try to get a few additional call numbers.

18. Once in type plato and (ethics or meno or charmides) in the top (keyword(s)) box. This should get you 46 titles. To get the call number click on Hunter-Main under Holdings.

19. The catalog defaults to Hunter, but you can search all CUNY libraries by clicking on towards the top of your screen.

20. JSTOR (http://library.hunter.cuny.edu/webres.htm; for more information on JSTOR see http://library.hunter.cuny.edu/tdoyle/Research3_4_03_files.html). JSTOR has nearly the full run of seventeen of the most prestigious English-language philosophy journals. (Almost all journals offered in JSTOR place an embargo on access to the most recent years.) JSTOR’s search engine is unremarkable; the database is best thought of as an archive. However, you might use its search engine if, for instance, you’re looking for references to certain terms in the literature.

21. From the opening screen select Search.

22. Below the search boxes select Philosophy.

23. In the top search box type elenchus.

24. This search should return 45 articles.

25. Academic Search Premier. Academic Search Premier is a very extensive, multi-discipline database for scholarly journals and popular magazines, going back to 1980. It’s not particularly strong on academic philosophy, but there are a handful of good journals indexed here, e.g. Ethics, some with full text. You can access ASP from http://library.hunter.cuny.edu/webres.htm. (For a tutorial on ASP see http://library.hunter.cuny.edu/tdoyle.)

26. Getting in. Go to http://library.hunter.cuny.edu/webres.htm. Click on the title.

27. Since Academic Search Premier isn’t a specialized database you might want to start with broad searches just to see what’s out there, for example, plato and meno. (By default ASP searches the following fields: author, title, journal, subjects, and abstract. From the drop-down select TX to search the full text.)

28.. Notice that you can limit your results in different ways. You probably will want to limit your search to Peer Reviewed. I recommend that you not limit to full text, since this could prevent you from finding useful articles.

29. Results. Results are listed chronologically, with the most recent articles given first. Some articles offer HTML full text (generally just the text), PDF full text (the text as it actually appeared in the magazine or journal), or both. Note: if you need to cite the page number(s) of articles, then you need PDF.