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Submitting Materials to The Philosopher's Index
Attention Publishers
If you publish books in any field of philosophy, please send us ONE copy of each book
for indexing in The Philosopher’s Index.
If you publish a philosophy journal that is currently not regularly indexed, please
refer to the policies under “Submission of New Journals for
Regular Indexing”.
Submission of New Journals for Regular Indexing
In order to be included in The Philosopher’s Index for regular indexing,
all new journals have to be approved by the editor and/or the editorial board. We
need the following in order to have the journal considered for regular indexing (Note
to Electronic Journals: For indexing purposes we MUST receive a hard copy of each
electronic journal issue):
(1) One copy of at least two different recent issues.
(2) The following information about the journal:
Title:
Subtitle:
ISSN number:
Frequency of publication:
Approximate circulation:
Aim of the journal:
Are the articles refereed?:
Editorial board members and affiliations (departments/institutions):
Address to which interested subscribers would write:
E-mail and Website Addresses:
You can e-mail the above information to us or include it when you send copies of the
journal to be considered to the following address:
The Philosopher's Information Center
1616 East Wooster Street, Suite 34
Bowling Green, Ohio 43402
USA
Please note that the first criterion for inclusion is that an average of at least 50%
of the articles in each issue are philosophical.
Once a journal is accepted, we need a complimentary subscription (one copy only of each
issue please) for all future issues as well as permission to publish any short abstract
that is published in the journal with a given article. (Note: We do try to include as many
abstracts as possible so we encourage you to publish an abstract with each article or help
us obtain abstracts by providing authors’ mailing or e-mail addresses on a regular
basis.)
If the journal is accepted for regular indexing we can usually go back one or two years
in the indexing depending on if it is a new publication or not.
Submitting Abstracts and Citations for Published Works in Philosophy
If you have checked the latest issue of the CD-ROM/online versions of The
Philosopher's Index and have not seen your work cited, then please read the following
to see how you can get your work cited in the Index.
JOURNAL ARTICLES in JOURNALS THAT WE INDEX REGULARLY:
(Click here for a complete list of journals
currently being indexed): These entries are made automatically as we receive issues of
the journal from the publishers. If a short abstract appears with the article the editor
may choose to use it or an edited version of the abstract; otherwise, we send an abstract
request form to you provided we have your current address in our database or if it is
listed in the journal.
If your article appeared in an earlier issue of the journal before we began indexing it
regularly or perhaps in a missing issue that we did not receive, the citation can then
still be added since there already exists a "link" in the computer to the
journal name. Please send the following information:
Article title:
Article subtitle:
Author's name(s) as it/they appear(s): (Family name first for alphabetizing):
Page numbers: beginning and ending
Full journal title/subtitle (no abbreviations):
Language of the article:
Volume, Issue Number and Year of Publication (including month and/or quarter if used;
e.g., 25(4) Nov 2003 or 22(6) Summer 2003):
ISSN of the journal (if the journal has no ISSN, write "No ISSN")
Short Abstract in English (preferred), but it can also be in German, French, Italian or
Spanish (up to 100 words; please do not include logic symbols or Greek letters):
Please suggest 5-8 keywords (subject headings) in English including important named
persons (with complete first/last names):
JOURNAL ARTICLES in JOURNALS THAT WE DO NOT
INDEX REGULARLY: If your journal article appears in a philosophy journal that we do
not index regularly, we ask you first to try to have the journal submit documentation to
be considered for regular indexing by the editor and/or the editorial board (for details
look in this section of the website, under "Submission of New
Journals for Indexing".)
At the editor's discretion, we can add a lone article from a journal that we do not
regularly index (such as refereed interdisciplinary journals), but we must have the
following information:
Article title:
Article subtitle:
Author's name(s) as it/they appear(s): (Family name first for alphabetizing):
Page numbers: beginning and ending
Full journal title/subtitle (no abbreviations):
Language of the article:
Volume, Issue Number and Year of Publication (including month and/or quarter if used;
e.g., 25(4) Nov 2003 or 22(6) Summer 2003):
ISSN of the journal (if the journal has no ISSN, write "No ISSN")
Short Abstract in English (preferred), but it can also be in German, French, Italian or
Spanish (up to 100 words; please do not include logic symbols or Greek letters):
Please suggest 5-8 keywords (subject headings) in English including important named
persons (with complete first/last names):
BOOKS: Authors and major publishers usually send us one copy
of philosophy publications for indexing. This is preferred. However, if this is not
possible, then you must send us the full bibliographic citation: (For multi-authored books
with chapters by different authors we prefer to receive one copy of the book so that each
contribution can also be indexed; see "Contributions to an anthology" below)
Book title:
Subtitle (if applicable):
Author's name(s) as it/they appear: (Family name first for alphabetizing):
ISBN:
Publisher's name:
Publication city:
Year of publication:
Language of the book:
Short Abstract in English (preferred), but it can also be in German, French, Italian, or
Spanish (up to 100 words; please do not include logic symbols or Greek letters.
Please suggest 5-8 keywords (subject headings) in English including important named
persons:
CONTRIBUTIONS TO AN ANTHOLOGY: (i.e., books with
chapters by different authors): It is the editor's policy and preference, when possible,
that we receive one copy of the anthology itself so that ALL the articles can be indexed
properly. (A link has to be established between each article and the book itself in the
database.) Otherwise, the book as a whole can be indexed by submitting the information for
BOOKS above. If necessary, we can also carefully index an anthology and return it to you.
In this case, please mark it clearly that you wish to have the publication returned and
send "to the attention of Douglas Wayland". If you are unable to send the
anthology itself, then a contribution can be added provided you supply both the complete
information for the book itself (including citation information and suggested keywords
outlined under "Books" above) as well as for the contribution itself:
Contribution title:
Contribution subtitle:
Author's name(s) as it/they appear(s): (Family name first for alphabetizing):
Page numbers: beginning and ending
Language of the Contribution:
Short Abstract in English (preferred), but it can also be in German, French, Italian, or
Spanish (up to 100 words; please do not include logic symbols or Greek letters.
Please suggest 5-8 keywords (subject headings) in English including important named
persons (with complete first/last names):
In addition, we must have the following information for the book in which the
contribution appears in order to "link" the contribution with the book in the
electronic versions.
Book title (in which the contribution appears):
Subtitle (if applicable):
Author's name(s) as it/they appear(s): (Family name first for alphabetizing):
ISBN:
Publisher's name:
Publication city:
Year of publication:
Language of the book:
(Optional) Short Abstract in English (preferred), but it can also be in German, French,
Italian, or Spanish (up to 100 words; please do not include logic symbols or Greek
letters.
Please suggest 5-8 keywords (subject headings) in English including important named
persons (with complete first/last names):
ADDING AN ABSTRACT or SUBMITTING CORRECTIONS TO AN EXISTING
CITATION IN THE CD-ROM/ONLINE ARCHIVAL VERSIONS OF THE INDEX: If you just want
to add an abstract to an already existing record that does not already have an abstract or
wish to submit a correction to an existing record, please send the following information:
Accession Number from the CD-ROM/online for the citation:
Title of the Article:
Author of the Article:
Short Abstract in English (preferred), but it can also be in German, French, Italian, or
Spanish (up to 100 words; please do not include logic symbols or Greek letters) (OR)
Specify the corrections needed.
AUTHORS WISHING TO ADD OR UPDATE YOUR MAILING ADDRESS IN OUR
DATABASE: If we have your current address in our database it will greatly
facilitate sending you an abstract request when we are indexing your publication. Send us
an email to: info@philinfo.org.
Send the Information to:
The Philosopher's Index
c/o The Philosopher's Information Center
1616 East Wooster Street, Suite 34
Bowling Green, Ohio 43402
USA
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