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Oxford Companion to Consciousness

The Oxford Companion to Consciousness, edited by Tim Bayne, Axel Cleermans, and Patrick Wilken, and published in print in 2009. is now available as part of Oxford Reference Online. According to the publisher:

The Oxford Companion to Consciousness is the most complete authoritative survey of contemporary research on consciousness. Five years in the making and including over 250 concise entries written by leaders in the field, the volume covers both fundamental knowledge as well as more recent advances in this rapidly changing area. Structured as an easy-to-use dictionary and extensively cross-referenced, the Companion offers contributions from philosophy of mind to neuroscience, from experimental psychology to clinical findings, so reflecting the profoundly interdisciplinary nature of the subject. Particular care has been taken to ensure that each of the entires is accessible to the general reader and that the overall volume represents a comprehensive snapshot of the contemporary study of consciousness.The result is a unique compendium that will prove indispensable to anyone interested in consciousness, from beginning students wishing to understand a concept to professional consciousness researchers looking for the best characterization of a particular phenomenon.

Oxford Reference Online includes a number of useful reference works for philosophy and cognitive science, including the Oxford Companion to Philosophy , the Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy , and the Oxford Companion to the Mind.

 

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Mobile Library Web Site & Text Reference Debut!

Washington University Libraries now has a mobile web site: http://library.wustl.edu/m. You can now use a smart phone or other mobile device to access information about the library.  From the mobile website users can access the library’s hours, the  catalog, check for computer availability, get reference assistance, and much more.

Now you can send questions to Library staff through text messages, rather than using a web browser for the regular chat service: just text your message to 314-884-8010! Get prompt replies from the Olin Library Help Desk (when it's open!).  More info.

Greece and Rome New Surveys in the Classics Online

Recent volumes in the series Greece and Rome. New Surveys in the Classics are now available online as part of the Libraries' subscription to the journal Greece and Rome. To access them you'll need to go the page for Greece and Rome on the Cambridge University Press web site and browse through the  journal's back issues, they are not yet in the library catalog. The most recent title is volume 39, Roman Landscape: Cultural and Identity by Diane Spencer. New Surveys provide concise overviews of key topics in the study of the Greco-Roman world, usually with explicit bibliographic guidance.