Online Research Resources

 

 

 

Research resources

• New York Times reference site. This site has dictionaries, encyclopedias, fact books, glossaries, search engines, style manuals, several large libraries, telephone directories, and every other kind of reference source available. It may become your primary reference site
• President's Council on Bioethics A great site with links for a wide variety of research
• A few bioethics topics of discussion
• A few basic bioethical principles
• Bioethics related websites
• More UW bioethics websites
• Center for Bioethics, Univ of Pennsylvania
• Partnership for Caring Provides information about advance directives and advocates for improved laws
• Compassion in Dying Information about end-of-life options, including intensive pain management, comfort or hospice care, and humane, effective aid-in-dying for those who are in the final stages of an illness
• Growth House Information on end-of-life issues
• Ethics updates, University of San Diego
• A collection of philosophical dictionaries
• The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Seattle Community College District Libraries
• Library of Congress

  Dictionaries

• Online Webster's dictionary
• Webster's online thesaurus
• Oxford English Dictionary (subscription required)
  

Books available in full-text on the web

• The Perseus Project, a digital collection of online classics
• The Harvard Classics
• The Christian Classics Ethereal Library makes available online a large and superb collection of some of the world's most influential books from the past two millennia
• The Great Books of the Western World (the original books available to read online)