PHIL 310: FRANCIS search strategies
FRANCIS is Williams College Library's online catalog which you
search to find resources that are owned or provided by the Library. Use
the Advanced Search
for greater precision; use keywords that are meaningful to your topic;
think of synonyms for your terms and use them as keywords.
If you are just beginning your exploration of topics for this course, browse these SUBJECT HEADING searches: Good and Evil ; Theodicy ; Holocaust (Jewish Theology) ; Free will and determinism ; Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716
For this class, you may benefit most from using KEYWORD searches. Use the Advanced Search for greater precision; use keywords that are meaningful to your topic; think of synonyms for your terms and use them as keywords. Some examples:
("free will" or determinism) and (God or religion)
If your keyword searches retrieve too many records, it may be useful to "date sort" your results by
reverse year. This option appears after a search is run. This strategy will get you a chronological perspective on
scholarship in a certain area.
If an item that you need is checked out, just click 
to request that book from one of our partner libraries.
You can look at the table of contents online for many of the newer titles in our collection; just click 
to view this content.