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Among the best starting points for any sort of research, databases are large collections of information which may include citations, abstracts, ebooks, fulltext articles from scholarly journals or magazines, market research reports, multi-media files and more.

Your focus (business, legal, medical, professional) will determine which database you will use; there will be material on ethics in all disciplines.

Find Journals on Ethics.

Journals found here are available in print at Plough Library and/or online through CBU databases. Look for the name of the journal you are interested in, for example:

• business ethics quarterly
• ethics in science and environmental politics
• journal of ethics and social philosophy

• Business Ethics Blog.
• Ethics ETC.
• Ethics Newsline.
• Ethics World: Gateway for Ethics News and Analysis.
• Legalethics.com.
• Legal Ethics Forum.
• Pratical Ethics: Ethical Perspective on the News.

• Contemporary Issues in Business Ethics (2007), EBSCO ebook.
• Ethics and organizational practice: questioning the moral foundations of management (2010), EBSCO ebook. 
• Ethics of Interrogation (2010), EBSCO ebook.
• Ethics of Technological Risk (2009), EBSCO ebook.
• Legal, Ethical, and Political Issues in Nursing (2004), EBSCO ebook.
• Responsible Conduct of Research (2009), EBSCO ebook.

Arthur Andersen Case Studies in Business Ethics: 90 cases in business ethics from a project between Arthur Andersen and 525 Universities during 1987 to 1994.

Bioethics at Iowa State - Constructing Case Studies for Ethics Teaching: Questions to ask when constructing a case study.

Bioethics Research Library: Includes ETHXWeb - bibliographic resources on bioethical issues; GenETHX - on ethics and public policy related to genetics; and a guide to Bioethics organizations, provided by Georgetown University.

Bioethics Resources on the Web: Collection of online bioethics resources selected by the National Institutes of Health.

Business Ethics: The Magazine of Corporate Responsibility: Internet magazine on business ethics and society.

Business Ethics Cases: cases from the University of Santa Clara.

Business and Human Rights Centre: Dedicated to human rights issues, this international organization's website provides information about positive and negative outcomes of business practices.

Business of Social Responsibility Reports: BSR is an organization that works with member organizations to promote corporate responsibility.

CasePlace.org: online library of reading materials, multimedia content, and teaching modules that focuses on social, environmental and ethical issues in business, from the Aspen Institute Center for Business Education. (Some material is freely available).

Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions: indexes and databases devoted to ethics from the Illinois Institute of Technology, includes teaching materials, bibliographies on many topics, and codes of ethics from the various professions.

Corporate Responsibility Magazine's 100 Best Corporate Citizens: rankings determined by publicly available information.

Ethics Resources Online from the Center for Ethics (Vanderbilt): collection of links to online codes of ethics, sources of case studies, and ethics related to business, education, engineering, the environment, law, medicine, nursing, and science.

Ethics Resource Center - National Business Ethics Survey: Conducted by the Ethics Resource Center every two years, this is a national study of the American workplace and ethics.

Masters Seminars in Business Ethics: From the Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics, freely available videos on a variety of topics, including teaching business ethics.

United Nations Global Compact: Case studies from the United Nations' voluntary policy initiative for businesses, plus links to other reports and resources