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PEA Soup and Ethics Announce Collaboration

The PEA soup , "a blog dedicated to philosophy, ethics, and academia" will host regular discussions of select articles from Ethics, beginning with its October 2009 issue (Volume 120, no. 1). For more information, see Ethics Discussions at PEA Soup, and the Ethics journal home page at the University of Chicago press web site.

Holiday and Intersession Hours

Washington University Libraries will be closed Friday, December 25th to Sunday, January 3rd.

Intersession Hours begin Friday, December 18th and end Tuesday, January 18th. For a detailed scheduled see WU Libraries: Hours.

There will not be any interruption in the availability of the Library's online resources and collections.

Hume Studies Now Online

Hume Studies is now available online through Project Muse, beginning with Volume 38, issue 1--dated 2008, but, in fact, the most recent issue. Volumes 1 through 27 are freely available online through the Hume Society Web site.

Hume Studies is an interdisciplinary scholarly journal dedicated to publishing important work bearing on the thought of David Hume. Hume Studies is receptive to a wide variety of topics, methods, and approaches, so long as the work contributes to the understanding of Hume's thought, meets the highest standards of scholarship, and demonstrates mastery of the relevant scholarly literature. Hume Studies is published by the Hume Society in April and November. For more information on joining the Hume Society, please visit www.humesociety.org.

Philosophy Bestsellers

From April 2009, as identified by YBP Library Services:

http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6710206.html

New Electronic Journals (Mostly Classics)

Links to a number of (free) collections of online journals have been added to the Full Text Electronic Journals List. These include the digitized back files of many important European journals in Classics and other subjects from Gallica, PERSEE(Portail de revues scientifiques en sciences humaines et sociales), and Retrodigitzied Journals (Switzerland.)
Highlights include

• Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique from 1877 to 2003
• Comptes-rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres from 1951 to 2005
• Mélanges de l'école française de Rome from 1881 to 2000
• Museum Helveticum from 1944 to 2008

Encyclopedia of Human Rights

The Encyclopedia of Humanities, edited by David P. Forsythe, and published by Oxford University Press, is now available to the Washington University community, as part of the Oxford Digital Reference Shelf. This comprehensive (the equivalent of five print volumes) reference work covers theoretical, legal, and practical aspects of human rights, with a focus on developments since 1945. It includes over three-hundred cross-referenced entries with bibliographies, many of them of philosophical interest.

New and Improved Catalogs

The Library has a new "next generation" catalog: http://libcat.wustl.edu/, powered by AquaBrowser. The new catalog has a more visual interface and more user-friendly search functionality. It makes it easy to start with a general search and refine it by subject headings, date, format, etc. or by using its "Word Cloud" feature.It's a good place to start if you don't know exactly what you're looking for. It also works very well with RefWorks and other citation management systems.

The old, or classic, catalog is still here: http://catalog.wustl.edu/, and is still probably the best bet for finding a specific title. In fact, it's just been enhanced with links in each record to the book in Google Book Search. This might be the complete full-text, a substantial preview, or a snippet view.

Try them both!

New Medieval & Early Modern Studies Research Guide

The Library now has an online research guide devoted specifically to Medieval and Early Modern Studies:
http://libguides.wustl.edu/medieval
Recommended for those researching the Nachleben of classical antiquity and the cultural background to medieval and early modern philosophy.

Two Useful Tools for the New Semester

LibX WUSTL Toolbar
The LibX WUSTL Toolbar allows you to access and search the library catalog and other electronic resources from within your browser. It's available for both Firefox (recommended) and Internet Explorer.

RefWorks.
RefWorks is an online citation management system. It collects, stores, and organizes citations from books, articles, web sites, and other sources. It automatically converts citations into properly formatted bibliographies, in many different citation styles. Export references directly from many of the databases accessible through the library web site into RefWorks, including L'Annee Philologique and the Philosopher's Index. See the RefWorks guide for more information.
(To export records from L'Annee into Refworks, once you've selected the records of interest, click export. In the window that pop-ups click on the "Means of retrieving export tab" and select "Export to Refworks," then click export.)

More Images of the Ancient World in ARTStor

ARTstor is an extensive digital library of images of historic and contemporary art, architecture, artifacts, and more. Coverage of the ancient world is exceptional and growing. Most recently added are photographs from Dura-Europos and Gerasa Archives at Yale University. This photographs document the archaeological excavations sponsored by Yale and the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres at Dura-Europos on the Euphrates from 1928 to 1937, and the excavations at Gerasa in Jordan, sponsored by Yale and the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem from 1928 to 1934.

Other classical collections in ARTstor include the Classical Antiquity Latin Slide Collection, Plans of Ancient Medieval Buildings and Archeological Sites, and the Mellink Archive from Bryn Mawr, Classical Sculpture from the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, and Quick Time Virtual Reality (QTVR) panoramas of ancient sites from Columbia University's Visual Media Center. Images of additional ancient artifacts, sites, and artworks are included in various survey and museum collections. ARTstor provides a number of ways to search and browse these collections, as well as digital tools for study and display.

See also: ARTstor guide for resources in Classical Studies (PDF), and the WUSTL Art & Architecture Library's guide to Finding Digital Images.

Other sources for high-quality digital images provided by the library include: CAMIO: OCLC's Catalog of Art Museum Images Online and the Art Museum Images from Cartography Associates (AMICA) library.