publisher service provider industry publishing internet services genre applied ethics classics philosophy religious studies founded bowling green state university 1966 headquarters charlottesville virginia united states key people george leaman director pamela swope associate director susanne mueller grote electronic publishing products academic journals conference proceedings anthologies reference work academic databases digital media services membership management content digitization & hosting website www.pdcnet.org the philosophy documentation center is a non profit publisher and resource center that provides access to scholarly materials in applied ethics classics philosophy religious studies and related disciplines . it publishes academic journals conference proceedings anthologies and online research databases often in cooperation with scholarly and professional associations . it also provides membership management and electronic publishing services and hosts electronic journals series and other publications from several countries . contents 1 history 2 electronic resources 3 see also 4 university of lagos nigeriareferences 5 external links history edit the philosophy documentation center was established in 1966 at bowling green state university in ohio to manage the publication of specialized reference works in philosophy . it was founded by two members of the university philosophy department ramona cormier and richard lineback who recognized a need to improve access to the growing body of philosophical literature in english and other languages . its first publication was the philosopher s index which provided bibliographic listings indexed by subject and author of recently published journal articles in philosophy . in 1970 pdc assumed responsibility for the publication of the directory of american philosophers and the international directory of philosophy and philosophers . in 1974 pdc began publishing a series of research bibliographies to provide systematic overviews of the primary and secondary work of major philosophers . that same year pdc published its first journal philosophy research archives in cooperation with the american philosophical association and the canadian philosophical association . 1 this bilingual project was established in microfiche format in an effort to overcome the space limitations of traditional print journals . 2 this concept was developed by representatives of the american council of learned societies the humanities research council of canada the american and canadian philosophical associations and pdc . 3 it was one of the earliest experiments with non traditional formats in journal publishing . in 1977 pdc published a collection of papers from the first national workshop conference on teaching philosophy its first publishing work in support of a new professional organization . 4 pdc also provided publishing services to independent philosophy publications for the first time . 5 pdc s production support for serial publications in print and electronic format has expanded significantly since that time . pdc currently produces over a hundred print and electronic publications in philosophy and neighboring disciplines and provides online access to complete sets of journals and series in several languages . 6 in 1995 the editor and original owner of the philosopher s index retired from bowling green state university and ended his long association with pdc . 7 since 1995 he has continued to publish philosopher s index separate from pdc with his own organization philosopher s information center . 8 pdc continued to develop other publications and services with a focus on the publishing and membership management needs of professional associations and scholarly societies . the scope of this work increased over time with notable projects such as the proceedings of the twentieth world congress of philosophy 1999 2001 and the production of the major publications of the american philosophical association 1999 2000 . fields covered by pdc now include applied ethics classics philosophy religious studies and semiotics . it manages memberships for twenty organizations 9 and this work includes secure hosting digital work flow management authenticated access to electronic resources and online conference registration . 6 in 2001 pdc relocated its operations and most of its staff to charlottesville virginia as a consequence of increasing technical demands of this expanding range of services . 10 electronic resources edit in 1979 pdc launched dial up access to the philosopher s index database in cooperation with dialog ; philosopher s index was made available on cd rom in 1990 . in 1992 pdc published the logic works an instructional software program for introductory logic courses in cooperation with rob brady . a number of versions of this dos based program were published by pdc for 10 years . pdc also published ethicsworks a software package for introductory ethics courses in cooperation with robert pielke . in 1996 pdc partnered with intelex corporation to develop poiesis philosophy online serials . this project made the content of dozens of print journals accessible online in conjunction with print subscriptions . it also allowed for the creation of complete back issue collections of several journals on cd rom including business ethics quarterly philosophy & theology the review of metaphysics and teaching philosophy . in 2009 pdc launched its ecollection of journals and series from several countries with onlince access for institutions single individuals and membership organizations . 11 pdc partnered with portico to ensure long term preservation of this collection and also participates in the clockss digital archive . 12 13 in 2010 pdc launched the international directory of philosophy an online database consolidating the content of the directory of american philosophers and the international directory of philosophy and philosophers . this database contains information on university philosophy departments and programs professional societies research centers journals and publishers in approximately 130 countries . in 2011 pdc launched the philosophy research index a new indexing database not associated with the philosopher s index the international philosophical bibliography or other resource . the goal of the project was to build complete bibliographic coverage of philosophical literature in several languages and by july 2014 it contained over 1.3 million listings . at that time pdc partnered with the philpapers foundation and philosophy research index was incorporated into the philpapers database . 14 pdc provides single document access options for non subscribers for all journals and series on its site including a free preview of the first page of each document . the implementation allows each publication to choose its own access terms . 6 pre publication access to forthcoming articles is provided for select titles . 15 pdc is a member of crossref and integrates digital object identifiers into all journals it publishes . 16 pdc also participates in crossref s cited by linking and crossmark version control services . 17 18 see also edit academic journals published by pdc university of lagos nigeriareferences edit jim unah references philosophy research archives microfiche 1 1975 meeting of the board of officers of the american philosophical association in proceedings and addresses of the american philosophical association vol . 48 1974 1975 p. 80 . philosophy research archives final statement of purpose august 22 1974 quoted in the journal of philosophical research special supplement 2016 http dx.doi.org 10.5840 jpr201641supplement66 teaching philosophy today . edited by terrell ward bynum and sidney reisberg in cooperation with the national information and resource center for the teaching of philosophy 1977 . worldcat record oclc accession no. 3286509 . this and subsequent workshop conferences on teaching philosophy led to the establishment of the american association of philosophy teachers . see the editor s introduction to the 2nd edition 2012 pp.v vi . pdc invoices for 1977 retrieved 21 september 2012 . this work began with typesetting for idealistic studies and the journal of critical analysis . a b c philosophy documentation center web site . retrieved 30 july 2016 . hail & farewell in phil facts no. 20 summer 1995 p. 1 the philosopher s index volume 29 no. 3 fall 1995 p.ii membership services philosophy documentation center web site . retrieved 4 september 2012 . atkins ace . deep thoughts in c ville weekly july 24 30 2001 p. 5 philosophy documentation center about ecollection . retrieved 2 september 2012 . portico announces agreement with philosophy documentation center . retrieved 15 march 2012 . clockss archive announces participation of philosophy documentation center . retrieved 15 july 2013 . philpapers to incorporate philosophy research index philpapers web site . retrieved 2 august 2014 . online first pre publication philosophy documentation center web site . retrieved 4 august 2014 . crossref blog . retrieved 15 september 2012 . crossref cited by linking . retrieved 8 march 2013 . crossmark participants . retrieved 9 april 2013 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title philosophy documentation center & oldid 740778244 categories non profit academic publishersbook publishing companies based in virginiaeducational publishing companiesphilosophical literaturephilosophy organizationsphilosophy documentation center academic journalspublishing companies established in 1966bibliographic database providers1966 establishments in ohio navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store 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