PHI 270

Note on links to sources

Dr. Forbes is asking you to provide a link/permalink for each source that goes back to a WCU library database.  This is how he will know you used the library for the assignment.  Following a major update to the EBSCO databases system, you now can take the link from the browser window and use it as a link back to the article.  Just make sure you have clicked on the title of the source to open the record before grabbing the link.

Step 1:  Finding the peer-reviewed journal article, book review, and book

Use one (or both) of the databases below to find these 3 sources.

You can search both by entering on, then clicking on the database name at the top of the page and adding the other.

Tip: Use the 'Source type' pull-down menu under the search box to specify which type of source you are looking for-- journal article, book review, or book.

Step 2:  Finding an article that appears in the bibliography of your first scholarly article

Tip:  If your search in Step 1 found multiple scholarly journal articles on your topic, select one that has lots of notes and/or a substantial bibliography.

A.  Identify whether your article has notes, bibliography/works cited, or both.  

B.  Look for citations for scholarly journal articles within the notes and/or bibliography/works cited.

Here are some examples in different citation styles.  No matter the style, almost all journal article citations end with the name of the journal (in italics) followed by a bunch of numbers that includes the volume, issue, and page numbers, plus sometimes the publication year and a DOI.

Burrow, Simon.  "The Innocence of Jacques-Pierre Brissot."  The Historical Journal, 46.4 (2002) 843-71.

Siv Goril Brandtzaeg, "Aversion to Imitation: The Rise of Literary Hierarchies in Eighteenth-Century Novel Reviews," Forum for Modern Language Studies 51, no 2 (2015): 171-85.

Phillips, Anne.  2000.  Feminism and republicanism: Is this a plausible alliance?  Journal of Political Philosophy 8 (2): 279-93.

Mackenzie, C. (1993). Reason and sensibility: The ideal of women's self-governance in the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft.  Hypatia, 8(4), 35–55. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.1993.tb00274.x

C. Take the title of an article that looks good and paste it into the Library Search tool to see if we have it. Some we won't have.

Step 3:  Finding the article from a newspaper, magazine, or other periodical

Use one (or both) of the databases below to find an article from a newspaper, magazine, or other periodical.  

Tip: use the 'Source type' menu again, but this time limit to news and magazines.