Contact: Michael Miyazaki
(301) 961-6761 or E-mail: mmiyazaki@csa.com

For Immediate Release

The Philosopher’s Index Now Available Through IDS

BETHESDA, Maryland, USA (3 September 2004) -- CSA has just announced that the The Philosopher’s Index, published by The Philosopher’s Information Center, will be available through CSA’s Internet Database Service (IDS) platform.

The Philosopher’s Index provides bibliographic access to abstracts from more than 550 journals; it contains backfiles to 1940 and is updated quarterly. International in scope, the database contains references from journals originally published in more than 40 countries in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Czech, Hungarian, Polish and many other languages. Subjects covered include: aesthetics, axiology, philosophy of education, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of history, philosophy of language, logic, metaphysics, philosophical anthropology, metaphilosophy, political philosophy, philosophy of science, social philosophy, and the philosophy of religion.

“The Philosopher’s Index is a significant addition to the databases available on IDS,” said Matt Dunie, president of CSA. “It is the premier resource in its field, and it complements the humanities and social sciences resources on our platform.”

Some of the other social science and humanities databases available on IDS include:

• ARTbibliographies Modern
• ASSIA : Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts
• ATLA Religion Database
• BHI: British Humanities Index
• Criminal Justice Abstracts
• CSA Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
• CSA Sociological Abstracts
• CSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
• Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI)
• Index Islamicus
• International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
• NCJRS Abstracts Database
• PAIS International
• RILM Abstracts of Music Literature

The Philosopher’s Index is published by The Philosopher’s Information Center, a nonprofit organization dedicated to serving philosophers. Founded in 1967, the Center is based in Bowling Green, Ohio. Since the Center's founding in 1967, its most important service to the philosophical community has been the production of The Philosopher's Index, for which it maintains both an extensive editorial staff and editorial advisory board of noted philosophers.

CSA, a Cambridge Information Group company, is a leading publisher of bibliographic databases and print journals used by more than 4,000 research institutions worldwide. CSA annually publishes more than 700,000 abstracts culled from more than 14,000 sources. Its award-winning Internet Database Service provides Web access to more than 100 bibliographic databases covering major areas of research including materials science, environmental sciences and pollution management, biological sciences, aquatic sciences and fisheries, biotechnology, engineering, computer science, sociology, information technology, art history, political science, and linguistics.

For further information, contact Michael Miyazaki, Marketing Manager, CSA (Tel. +1 301 961 6761 / E-mail: mmiyazaki@csa.com).

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