PHIL

Tools from the
UTEP Library
for your
Philosophy Needs

Open Ended

What do you hope your librarian tells you about research or the UTEP Library today?

Today's Agenda

1. RefWorks

2. Finding basic information

3. Finding secondary literature

Open Ended

How do you create your reference lists/ citations?

proquest refworks - Google Search

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Poll

Which of these do you prefer to use when you need to find secondary sources (peer-reviewed articles, books, book chapters, etc.)?

Select all that apply to you.

• Google Scholar

• Regular Google search

• philpapers.org

• A library database/ MinerQuest

• Something else???

"Databases"

• MinerQuest (peer-reviewed articles)

• Philosopher's Index

• Religion & Philosophy Collection

Secondary Literature

• MinerQuest (books, book chapters)

• Oxford Reference

• Oxford Bibliographies

Basic Understandings

"Databases"

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Just google it!

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Libkey Nomad 🔥

• Go here: www.libkeynomad.com

• Scroll down to the bottom of the page to select your browser

• Download + install

• Access it in your browser’s extensions; open/manage to allow the permissions it needs to successfully run

• When you open the extension, you will need to select “The University of Texas at El Paso” to complete the extension setup

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Google Scholar

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Like a Google search, but only for "scholarly" items.

​For anything the library doesn't own or have access to, request it for free using Interlibrary Loan!

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