Objective of Library Tutorial

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While waiting for the others,try answer these

• Why is Sengs cat so small?
• What sits at a corner, but gets to places?

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Philosophy Library Tutorial

• Conducted by
• Karen Yap Y. M.
• Central Library

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Objectives

• Help you do your research
• use the most relevant source/s to check for
  information
• check the source/s efficiently

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Outline

• Indexes of Current Information
• Doing research
• Using Philosophers Index (Demonstration)
• Using LINC/LION (Demonstration)
• Interpreting Citations
• How to cite
• Useful reference books

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Research Topic
What are the ethical aspects in abortion?
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Doing Research

• Get an overview of topic from encyclopaedia
• Do an outline for the different sections
• Search for materials on topic or section
• Read and understand materials
• Start writing

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Encyclopaedias example

• The Encyclopedia of Ethics. 1999.

Abortion Abortion can be defined as the
intentional termination of in utero fetal life
after conception and before birth... Views
Characterized Pro-life, Pro-choice,
Moderates Bibliography Sumner, Wayne. Abortion
and moral theory. Princeton Princeton
University Press, 1981.
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Search statement
Formulate your search statement (ethic OR moral)
AND (abortion OR birth control)
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Boolean Operators

• OR is used to indicate that either terms may be
  present E.g.
• AND is used to indicate that both terms must be
  present
• is used to truncate the terme.g. ethic will
  retrieve ethic, ethics, ethical

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Sources of Information

• Current
• Last week
• Last month
• Last year

• Newspapers
• Conference papers
• Journal articles

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Indexes for Philosophy(all Web-based)

• Philosophers Index
• Web of Science
• Social Science Citation Index
• Arts Humanities Citation Index
• Humanities Abstracts
• Proquest Digital Dissertations
• for theses
• No links to full text

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More on Philosophers Index

• indexes over 550 journals, book reviews, chapters
  in books, etc. from mainly U.S. and the Western
  world (43 countries).
• has coverage 1940 -
• has abstracts that give summary of items.
• Has links to selected (NOT all) full-text
  articles
• covers topics like aesthetics, ethics, logic,
  medical law, philosophy of science

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Databases Demonstration

• (1) Philosophers Index
• (2) LION
• (3) Abbreviations for Journals
• url nus.lib.edu.sg

DEMO
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Abbreviations for Journals

• E.g. Austl J Phil
• Move mouse to E-Resources
• Choose EJournals
• scroll down a bit to Useful Links
• Choose Journal Abbreviations
• http//www.lib.nus.edu.sg/ecoll/ej/ejabbrev.html
• click on the first link All that JAS Journal
  Abbreviation Sources
• click on Philosophy

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Two Citations from Phil. Index

• TI Could Your Life Have Been Different?AU
  Campbell,-ScottSO American-Philosophical-Quarter
  ly. Ja 00 37(1) 37-50
• TI The Nature of Illness ExperienceAU
  Martinez,-RichardSO Theoretical-Medicine-and-Bio
  ethics.2002 23(3) 259-269

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Meaning of Numbers in Citation

• American Philosophical Quarterly Ja 00 37(1)
  37-50

Ja 00 37(1) 37-50
Ja 00 means January 2000
37(1) means volume 37, number 1
37-50 means pages 37 to 50
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Odd Citations

• Op cit opus citatum which means in the work
  already cited
• Ibid ibidem which means in the same book,
  chapter, etc.
• More on citations in http//www.lib.nus.edu.sg/l
  ion/s/cite.html
• (Look for LION at left side, middle of screen,
  click Cite references, Understanding citations)

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Materials NOT in the library

• Via E-Forms after you have logged in
• For books, request the Library to buy
• For copy of journal article, use Document
  Delivery Service or DDS(limited to three a year)

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Materials NOT in the library More on DDS

• Document Delivery Service
• All requests must be forwarded to lecturer for
  approval and then onward to Library
• requesters will incur charges if they do not
  collect their requested articles
• For more information, please email
  ddslib_at_nus.edu.sg or call 6874-3472

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Citing Books
Book title
Author
McMahan, Jeff. The ethics of killing problems
at the margins of life. New York Oxford
University Press, 2002.
Publication details
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Citing journal articles
Author of article
Article title
Liu, Shu-hsien. On new frontiers of contemporary
neo-Confucian philosophy. Journal of Chinese
Philosophy, 23, no. 1 (1995) 39-58.
Journal title
Volume and issue
Page
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Citing conference papers
Author
Conference paper
Conference title
van Nieuwenhoven, Jeroen. Abortion a right to
life for unborn children? In Monitoring
children's rights. Edited by Eugeen Verhellen.
Boston Martinus Nijhoff , 1996. Paper
presented at the European Conference on
Monitoring Children's Rights, December 1994.
Publication details
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Citing References

• Chicago manual of style the essential guide for
  writers, editors and publishers. 15th ed.
  Chicago University of Chicago Press, 2003. Z253
  Chi 2003 CL Reference 8, CL Books
• Turabian, Kate L. A manual for writers of term
  papers, theses and dissertations. 6th ed.
  Chicago University of Chicago Press, 1996.
  LB2369 Tur CL Reference 8, CL RBR (Loans Desk 1)
  , etc.

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How to Find List of Useful Philosophy Reference
Books

• Place the mouse over E-Resources then Library
  Projects, click Our Publications, click
  Bibliographies, choose Arts and Social Sciences,
  then click HTML at Philosophy
• http//www.lib.nus.edu.sg/bib/bibphilo.html

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Loan Entitlement
4TH Year, Honours Graduate Students 15 items

• Materials
• RBR
• Main Shelves book
• Closed Stacks book
• Bound periodical
• Closed Stacks periodical

• Loan Period
• 2 Hours/Overnight
• 4 weeks (Graduate students)
• 1 day

Online renewals twice
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Student Advisory Service
Emailaskalib_at_nus.edu.sg clbyapym_at_nus.edu.sg  
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Answers to Riddles

• Why is Sengs cat so small?

Because it drinks condensed milk.
2) What sits at a corner, but gets to places?
A postage stamp
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Hope you have become wiser
Thank you All the bests