Ethics and Public Policy: Selected Resources

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The Basics

Restricted Access

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Finding Articles plus

Social Sciences Full Text
The basic index for finding articles in the social sciences. Indexes over 550 of the core, English language journals in social science disciplines including political science, public welfare, urban studies, sociology and social work, and women's studies. Indexes many journals back to 1982 and, beginning with 1995, includes many full-text articles.
Off-Campus Link Restricted Access.

Need More?

While Social Sciences Full Text will usually give you what you need for a basic research paper in the social sciences, indexes that focus on specific disciplines may considerably expand your research base. You'll find links to some of these in the Finding Articles section below.

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Reference Works

Scholarly encyclopedias can give you an overview of a topic as well as some basic bibliography

Encyclopedia of Bioethics. Stephen G. Post, editor in chief. 3rd ed. New York, Macmillan Reference, 2004. 5 vols.
Dana Call Number: Ref. QH332 .E52 2004

The Concise Encyclopedia of the Ethics of New Technologies. Edited by Ruth Chadwick. San Diego, Academic Press, 2000.
Dana Call Number: Ref. QH332 .C66 2001

Encyclopedia of Religion and War. Edited by Gabriel Palmer-Fernandez. New York, Routledge, 2004.
Dana Call Number: Ref. BL80.3 .E53 2004

Bibliographies are great for finding out what has been written/is available on a specific topic.

Bergerson, Peter J. Ethics and Public Policy: An Annotated Bibliography, New York, Garland, 1988.
Dana Call Number: JA79 .B47 1988

Finding Books: Library Catalogs

IRIS
The online catalog for the Rutgers University Libraries. IRIS is not a restricted database, anyone can access it from anywhere. However if you're coming in from off-campus and trying to connect to electronic journals or e-reserves from within IRIS you will need to be logged in. So you might find it less frustrating to use the off-campus version.

Some relevant Subject Headings that you can use in IRIS include:

political ethics
united states congress ethics
legislative bodies united states states ethics
political corruption united states
conflict of interests united states
pressure groups united states

public health moral and ethical aspects
medical policy moral and ethical aspects
environmental ethics
economic development moral and ethical aspects
public administration moral and ethical aspects
intervention international law moral and ethical aspects

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Newark Law
Camden Law
Rutgers Law library materials are not listed in IRIS. So if your project is in some way law-related, be sure and use the Law library catalogs.

Finding Articles plus: Indexes

This is a selected list of databases that you may find useful. There are many other indexes that may focus more specifically on the particular topic that you are researching. Check out the complete list of Rutgers online indexes and databases.

Humanities Full Text
Humanities Full Text is the basic index for finding articles in the humanities disciplines. It indexes over 550 of the core, English language journals in history, literature, art and music, philosophy and religion. It indexes many journals back to 1984 and, beginning with 1995, includes many full-text articles.
Off-Campus Access Restricted Access.

Google Scholar
Use the Google search engine to search specifically for scholarly literature including books, peer-reviewed articles, theses, preprints, and technical reports. Links to the full-text of articles from open access (available without a subscription) journals and preprint repositories.

Religion and Philosophy

ATLA Religion Database
1949- . Index to 650 journals representing all the major religious faiths, as well as some 14,000 multi-authored works, relating to Biblical studies, world religions, Church history and religious perspectives on social issues.
Off-Campus Link Restricted Access

Philosopher's Index
1940- Index to over 480 journals worldwide, as well as books, relating to social and political philosophy and concepts, the philosophy of law, the philosophy of religion, etc.
Off-Campus Link Restricted Access

Political Science and Public Policy

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
1975- Index to over 1,300 journals in political science, international relations, public policy and related fields.
Off-Campus Link Restricted Access

Public Affairs Information Service
1915- Index to books, reports, government documents, and journals dealing with political, social, and public policy issues.
Off-Campus Link Restricted Access

CQ Researcher: Issue Overviews

CQ Researcher
Extensive collection of weekly reports from Congressional Quarterly. Each report offers data, a variety of opinion, and a bibliography on a specific 'hot' issue.
Off-Campus Access Restricted Access

The Press

Contemporary Accounts

Access World News
Access to the full text of over 600 U.S. and over 700 international newspapers.
Off-Campus Access Restricted Access

Factiva
A vast archive which includes the full-text of 8,000 leading newspapers, magazines, trade journals, newsletters, and television and radio transcripts. Ten to twenty year+ backfile for many titles.
Off-Campus Access Restricted Access.

Professional Ethics

To find books in IRIS and other library catalogs on ethics relating to specific professions, do a "Subject Begins with" search on the profession followed by the subheading "professional ethics." For example:

accountants professional ethics
lawyers professional ethics
medical personnel professional ethics
fund raisers (persons) professional ethics
government executives professional ethics

Bowman, James S. Professional Dissent: An Annotated Bibliography and Resource Guide. New York, Garland Pub., 1984.
Dana Call Number: Ref. HD60 .B763 1984

Ferre, John P. Public Relations & Ethics: A Bibliography. Boston, Mass., G.K. Hall, 1991.
Dana Call Number: Ref. HM263 .F47 1991

Codes of Ethics: Bibliography
From the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions at the Illinois Institute of Technology.

American Legal Ethics Library
"The codes or rules setting standards for the professional conduct of lawyers and commentary on the law governing lawyers, organized on a state by state basis.

Elliston, Frederick. Legal Ethics: An Annotated Bibliography and Resource Guide. Littleton, Colo., F.B. Rothman, 1984.
Rutgers Newark Law Library Call Number: KF305 .A1E43 1984

ABA/BNA Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct
Rutgers Newark Law Library Call Number: KF305 .A8A22 1996-2000 [On Reserve]

Issues in Applied Ethics

General Resources

Applied Ethics Resources on the World Wide Web
Links to applied ethics resources, including resources for business ethics, health care ethics, environmental ethics, professional ethics, media ethics, publc sector & government ethics, and international ethics. For most categories includes sections on "Ethics Institutes & Organizations," "Topics & Issues," and "Publications." A project of the W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics at the University of British Columbia.

The Report
E-journal from the Institute for Philosophy & Public Policy at the University of Maryland School of Public Affairs Articles classed by "Politics, Civic Life, and Moral Education," "Diversity, Identity, and Equal Opportunity," "Human Rights, Developmental Ethics, and International Justice," "Biotechnology, Genetic Research, and Health Policy," and "Natural Environments, Human Communities."

Bioethics and New Technologies

Encyclopedia of Bioethics. Edited by Warren T. Reich. Rev. ed. New York, Macmillan Library Reference, 1995. 5 vols.
Dana Call Number: QH332 .E52

The Concise Encyclopedia of the Ethics of New Technologies. Edited by Ruth Chadwick. San Diego, Academic Press, 2000.
Dana Call Number: QH332 .C66 2001

Ethics Updates: Bioethics, Cloning, & Reproductive Technologies
Extensive list of resources from Lawrence Hinman at the University of San Diego.

Ethics of Human Cloning and Stem Cell Research
"Summary Notes for Members of the California State Legislature."

Wachbroit, Robert. Genetic Encores: The Ethics of Human Cloning
A report from the Institute for Philosophy & Public Policy.

Bostrom, Nick. Ethical Issues in Advanced Artificial Intelligence
"This paper surveys some of the unique ethical issues in creating superintelligence..."

Artificial Intelligence: Ethical & Social Implications
Annotated list with links to articles, reports, broadcasts, and news items. From the American Association for Artificial Intelligence.

Business Ethics

The CRT Principles for Business
Guidelines from the Caux Round Table (CRT) for "principled capitalism."

McNamara, Carter. Complete Buide to Ethics Management: An Ethics Toolkit for Managers
A practical guide for managers.

Enron and Ethics
Collection of links from BusinessEthics.ca.

De Maria, William. Whistleblowing: International Bibliography. 1995
Extensive unannotated bibliography.

Government Ethics

U.S. Office of Government Ethics
Includes sections on Law and Regulations, Federal Ethics Documents and Publications, and summaries of Common Ethics Issues.

Historical Summary of Conduct Cases in the House of Representatives
Summary table of cases from Rep. Matthew Lyon in 1798 ("disorderly behavior," spat on Rep. Roger Griswold) to Tom Delay in 2004.

Government Ethics
Online resources (overview, issues, articles on government ethics and on social policy, cases, decision making resources, and ethics sites) from the Makkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University.

CRT Principles for Government

Social Policy

Andre, Claire, Velasquez, Manuel, and Mazur, Tim. "Affirmative Action: Twenty-Five Years of Controversy," Issues in Ethics 5(2), Summer 1992.

Law, Ethics and Affirmative Action in America
Webcast of a symposium held at the University of Cincinnati College of Law on October 7, 2003.

Stoll, David. "In Focus: The Immigration Debate," U.S. Foreign Policy in Focus 2(31), 1997.

Velasquez, Manuel. "Immigration: Is Exclusion Just?," Issues in Ethics 7(2), Spring 1996.

Cook, Martin. "Immigration and Ethics," Issues in Ethics 7(2), Spring 1996.

Ethics Updates: Punishment and the Dealth Penalty
Collection of resources including a Bibliographic Survey on Punishment and the Death Penalty from Lawrence M. Hinman at the University of San Diego.

Capital Punishment: The Death Penalty: Right or Wrong?
Collection of links from the P.L. Duffy Resource Centre at Trinity College in Australia.

Global Policies

Ethics of War, Peace, & Terrorism
Resources from Lawrence M. Hinman at the University of San Diego.

Coady, C.A.J. "Ethics of Armed Humanitarian Intervention," Peaceworks 45 (July 2002).

Fixdal, Mona and Dan Smith. "Humanitarian Intervention and Just War," Mershon International Studies Review (1998) 42, 283-312.

Pfaff, Tony. Peacekeeping and the Just War Tradition U.S. Army War College, Strategic Studies Institute, September 2000.

Walzer, Michael. Just War and Humanitarian Intervention
Webcast of a presentation delivered at the University of San Diego on January 28, 2000. Video.

Other Dana Library Guides

Public Policy

| Contemporary Social Welfare Policies & Programs | | History of Social Welfare Policies & Programs |

American History

| American Immigration History | | American Labor History |

War, Terrorism, and Genocide

All Dana Library Guides

Corrections?
Natalie Borisovets (natalieb@andromeda.rutgers.edu)
John Cotton Dana Library
February 11, 2007
Revised September 27, 2009