Politics Junior Paper Workshops

Resources for JP #3: Theories of Liberalism

• International Encyclopedia of Social & Behavioral Science (PU only)
  Aims to capture the "state of the art" of the social and behavioral sciences, expanding its focus to include related biological fields, such as evolutionary science, genetics, cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry, and health. Topics include anthropology, archaeology, demography, economics, education, geography, history, law, linguistics, philosophy, political science, psychiatry, psychology, and sociology.
   
• Oxford Reference Online (PU only)
  This convenient web resource brings together online versions of 100 well-known and trusted dictionaries and reference books such as the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics, Dictionary of Political Biography, Dictionary of the Social Sciences, and Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy.
   
• Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (PU only)
  Provides full-text articles with current bibliographies on virtually every aspect of philosophy, including Anglo-American, ethical and political, cross-cultural, interdisciplinary, continental, and contemporary philosophy. Updated quarterly.
   

To find books using the Main Catalog on Locke, Mill or Rawls, use the theorist's name as a subject heading- last name first. The resulting list of subject headings will help to outline the kinds of material held in Princeton's collection.

• Locke, John, 1632-1704
• Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873
• Rawls, John, 1921- 

Below are some additional resources to help you identify readings on your topics:

• Past Masters (PU only)
  Provides searchable full-text works from most major historical philosophers, including Locke and Mill.
   
• John Rawls and His Critics: An Annotated Bibliography.
  Publisher: New York: Garland Publishers, 1982.
  Location: Firestone (F)
  Call Number: Z8735.24 .W44 1982
   
• The Improvement of Mankind: The Social and Political Thought of John Stuart Mill.
  Publisher: Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1968.
  Location: Firestone (F)
  Call Number: 6110.881
   
• John Stuart Mill: A Bibliography.
  Publisher: Monticello, IL: Vance Bibliographies, 1982.
  Location: Firestone (F)
  Call Number: Z8574.8 .G63 1982.
   
• 80 Years of Locke Scholarship: A Bibliographical Guide.
  Publisher: Edinburgh: University Press, 1983.
  Location: Firestone (F)
  Call Number: Z8513.45 .H34 1983
   
• John Locke, A Reference Guide.
  Publisher: Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1985.
  Location: Firestone (F)
  Call Number: Z8513.45 .Y64 1985
   

In addition to the main Politics databases we've already discussed, there are several other databases that are useful for locating journal articles, book chapters, working papers, etc.

• Philosopher's Index (PU only)
  Provides citations to articles and books in all areas of philosophy. The most comprehensive philosophy database. Covers articles published back to 1940.
   
• POIESIS (PU only)
  Provides searchable full-text articles from over 50 philosophy journals from 1998-present.
   
• Wilson OmniFile (PU only)
  Multi-disciplinary database providing select full text articles, abstracts, and indexing. Consists of databases for scholarly sources in agriculture, applied science and technology, art, biology, business, education, general science, humanities, law, library and information science, social sciences, as well as popular appeal titles.
   
• JSTOR (PU only)
  Full text archive of core journals in select disciplines, including political philosophy. Journal issues from the most recent 3-5 years are usually not available electronically through JSTOR.
   
• ISI Web of Knowledge (PU only)
  Provides two very useful databases for locating articles that cite a known author or work. The Arts & Humanities Citation Index indexes over 1,100 arts and humanities journals published from 1975-present, and the Social Sciences Citation Index indexes more than 1,725 journals across 50 social science disciplines.
   

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