Philosophy 

Books are useful for in depth information, historical context, overview, synthesis and analysis. Often a chapter or two are all that is needed. The process of writing, editing and publishing means even the most recently published book may not contain the most current information on a topic.

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Identify words or phrases that represent the ideas within your topic

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MARQCAT, the Marquette Libraries catalog, lists books, DVDs, videos, and CDs the library owns in print or electronic format. Search for books on a topic using the 'Subject' search or the 'Keyword' search modes. You can also determine if MU Libraries' subscribe to a specific print or electronic journal by entering the title of the journal. However, you cannot use MARQCAT to search for articles within the journals. See "Tips for finding books" in the "Why Books?" box on the left side of the screen.

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Look for books and other items in libraries near and far. Most items you find may be requested through Interlibrary Loan.

Searches books in the Google Books project. Identifies and ranks books with relevant content. Click on book title/cover for more information including a 'Find in a Library' which will locate nearby libraries with the book and provide a link to search MARQCAT. If the book is out of copyright and in the public domain, the full text can be viewed.

Read a short article on Google Books in Wikipedia.

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research

Check out this short video on how to import Google Scholar into RefWorks.

The quality and relevance of information in books needs to be evaluated. Look for:

Authority of the authors, editors - Determine the expertise of the authors, does it match the subject content of their writing?

Scope of Content - Does the content cover your topic to the degree you need? Is it in-depth or does it simply provide an overview with little facts, details, analysis?

Timeliness - Is the content timely for your topic. This is determined by the time period of your topic.

For help finding book reviews see this research guide:
Book Reviews

Click on this link to see a list of the Philosophy titles added to our collection during the last month:

MARQCAT -- PHILOSOPHY

Check out the philosophy e-books available to Marquette students and staff.

Augustine of Hippo (354-430)

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Avicenna (Ibn Sina) (c. 980-1037)

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