Introduction
What is a database? A database is an organized collection of records presented in a standardized format that can be searched on a computer. The Orbis catalog is a database, as is the ATLA Religion Database.
When you search in a database what you are doing is searching through records that represent and describe some other object, such as a book, an article, a collection of facts. When you search in the Orbis catalog, for example, you are not searching within the books themselves, but instead you are searching through records that have been created to describe the books (and other items) within the collections of the Yale libraries. The record provides you with information about an item, such as its author, what it is about, and where it can be found.
There are various electronic databases that can help you locate articles, statistics, primary texts, and other kinds of information. You can search in a single database, or you can search within multiple databases at the same time (for instructions on searching across multiple databases, see Multi-Database Search). While there are literally hundreds of databases available at Yale, only a certain number of them are specifically geared toward ethics. However, there are also a number of databases that cover related subject areas, as well as databases that cover more than one subject area.
All the databases available at Yale are accessible through the Databases & Article Searching page on the library's web site.
For databases to find journal articles in ethics, see Article Databases for Ethics under Finding Journal Articles.
Databases for Ethics
For databases that will help you find articles on ethics, please go to Article Databases for Ethics.
- Bibliography of Theology & Peace Provided by the Institute for Theology and Peace, a research institution of the Catholic Church. The emphasis of research and documentation is on the political and social debate on questions of peace from a theological-ethical point of view.
- Blackwell Reference Online Online reference resources. Includes numerous titles in philosophy and ethics, including: A Companion to Applied Ethics; A Companion to Bioethics; The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics; and The Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory.
- Contemporary Women's Issues Provides full-text access to global information on women.
- GenderWatch GenderWatch is a full text database of publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas. Publications include academic and scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, and newsletters.
- Globethics.net
Global digital library on ethics providing users free access to full text versions of about 200 journals and more than a million documents in the field of applied ethics. - Kennedy Institute of Ethics Bioethics Databases This freely accessible website from Georgetown University's Kennedy Institute of Ethics provides access to four databases: ETHXWeb; GenETHX; International Bioethics Organizations; Syllabus Exchange Database.
- Past Masters Full-text, searchable versions of many important philosophical writings.
- Philosophy Compass Philosophy compass publishes peer-reviewed surveys of research including surveys of current research discussing the major topics, issues, viewpoints, and controversies within each area of the discipline.
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