Ge Presentation Feb 2011 General

Strengthening Ethics Globally

A contribution to global justice

www.globethics.net

Content

1 Globethics.net: vision, mission

2 Network: participants, forum, blogs, news

3 Research: online workgroups, projects

4 Global Digital Library on Ethics: demo

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1 Globethics.net

• Vision/mission: „We empower people from all regions

of the world, especially in developing and emerging

countries, for ethical dialogue, reflection and action

by:

- Providing access to knowledge resources on ethics

- Facilitating networking on ethics

- Stimulating global collaborative research”

• Values:

sharing, respect, participation, responsibility, transpar

ency

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1 Globethics.net

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1 Globethics.net

2 Network

•Participants: 16’500 registered participants and visits

from more than 200 countries, can be searched according

to country, interests, name etc. 273’000 visits in 2010

•Forum: Documents Forum, General Forum, Youth Forum,

Business Ethics Forum, Fun Forum, FAQ Forum, Global

Survey Forum

•Blogs: each participant has their own blog

•News: daily updated news, regular Newsletter, events,

jobs

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2 Network

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New participants

Recent posts

from

participants

2 Network

Participants Worlwide (last year)

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3 Research

• Online Workgroups, e.g.

- Climate Justice (run by G. Kerber, WCC)

- Politics vs Ethics

- Ethical Global Economy

• Research projects, e.g.

- Ethics and Responsibility : a Global Mapping

- Global Survey on Business Ethics as Field of

Teaching, Training and Research

- Publications

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3 Research

4 Global Digital Library on Ethics

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4 Library

Content of the library

• Commercial publishers

• Open repositories

• Globethics.net submissions

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4.1 Registration

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4.2 Library Search

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NB: free registration

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Scientific articles: two search options

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Advanced Search for Religion and Culture

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482 titles found

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Selecting a document

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Displaying selected document

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4.3 Journals: more than 200 commercial journals

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Islam and Science

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Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine

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4.4 Nine collections

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Submit documents

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4 Steps Submission Process

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Facts & Figures

• About 733’730 scientific articles/books, fulltext.

• Over 112‘000 newspaper articles

• More than 200 journals on ethics, incl. Backfiles over

years, searchable per article etc.

• Multilingual, multi-religious, multi-cultural

• 9 collections

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danke

thank you asante sana

merci gracias

terima kasi

grazie

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