Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online

The new update to Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy has gone live. 

New for users

• All articles begin with an accessible summary in bold, free to view for all users and significantly improving discoverability
• Articles can be saved into labelled shortlists for easy reference
• Articles can be easily shared
• Search has been improved to enable results  to be filtered on a greater number of facets

Access through the above link or search on Starplus. You may be required to sign in

Welcome New Students

Hello,

Are you from School of English, Music or School of Languages and Cultures? I am your subject specialist and you can find my contact details here: Clare Scott

http://www.shef.ac.uk/library/liaison/arts

Are you from Biblical Studies, History, Archaeology or Philosophy? Amy Collins is your subject specialist and you can find her contact details here too: Amy Collins

http://www.shef.ac.uk/library/liaison/arts

You may want to take a look at our Introduction to the Library and Computing Services web page so you can get to know how to use our Library:

http://www.shef.ac.uk/library/services/new

Amy and I look forward to meeting you in some special Information Literacy sessions as part of your core curriculum this coming semester.

See you all soon, Clare and Amy

Oxford Scholarship Online - Philosophy Collection

Hello,

Did you know that for the 2010-2011 Academic Year I have subscribed to the Oxford Scholarship Online PHILOSOPHY collection of Ebooks? It includes over 700 titles published by Oxford University Press in the following collections:

Aesthetics, Ancient Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy, General, History of Philosophy, Logic/Philosophy of Mathematics, Metaphysics/Epistemology, Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Science, Political Philosophy

Please have a look - as well as going straight to the Philosophy collection as a database you should find individual titles as ebooks on Star. Here is the link:

http://www.shef.ac.uk/library/cdfiles/oxfscholar.html

Click the CONNECT button and login to MUSE.

If you find it useful (or indeed if you don't) please send in your feedback. You can email me c.scott@sheffield.ac.uk (Faculty Librarian) with  your views or Yonatan Shemmer y.shemmer@sheffield.ac.uk (Departmental Library Coordinator). We would be pleased to know what you think so we can decide whether or not to continue with this service next year.

We look forward to hearing from you, Clare

Electronic access to full text Philosophy titles

The University Library now has full text electronic access to the following titles from the Intelex Past Masters collection. You may be prompted to log into MUSE:

• Aristotle: Complete Works


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  British Philosophy: 1600-1900


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  The Continental Rationalists


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  Dewey: Collected Works (1st Release)


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  Hegel: The Oxford University Press Translations


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  Kant: Hauptwerke


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  Kierkegaard: Journals and Papers


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  Nietzsches Werke


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  Peirce: Collected Papers


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  Political Philosophy: Machiavelli to Mill


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  Wittgenstein: Collected Works

The collection can also be accessed from the Library tab in MUSE under subject databases. Use the alphabetical table to locate the link to Past Masters. 

Some new books for the Arts Faculty

Hi Everyone,

Here are some new books for your subjects in the following areas:

Biblical Studies

http://library.shef.ac.uk/local/BIBSTU-funditems.html

English Literature

http://library.shef.ac.uk/local/ENGLIT-funditems.html

French

http://library.shef.ac.uk/local/FRENCH-funditems.html

German

http://library.shef.ac.uk/local/GERMAN-funditems.html

Hispanic Studies

http://library.shef.ac.uk/local/HISP-funditems.html

History

http://library.shef.ac.uk/local/MODHIS-funditems.html

Philosophy

http://library.shef.ac.uk/local/PHILOS-funditems.html

You may need to be logged into MUSE to get these links to work

All the best, Clare