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The following links are tested for reliability and content on a regular basis. However, if you discover a broken link or information not appropriate for this website, please email the instructor.

 

 

 
Applied Ethics Resources on the Web

http://www.ethicsweb.ca/resources/

The Canadian resource for ethics on the Internet. This site is maintained by Dr. Chris McDonald at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax.

 
Business Ethics Magazine

http://www.business-ethics.com/

The only U.S.-based business magazine focusing on ethics and corporate social responsibility in a media landscape otherwise dominated by traditional business publications.
 
Business and Human Rights Centre

http://www.business-humanrights.org/Home

The purpose of this website is to promote greater awareness and informed discussion of important issues relating to business and human rights.The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre is a Registered Charity in England & Wales..  In the USA the Resource Centre is a tax-exempt non-profit organisation under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

 
Business for Social Responsibility

http://www.bsr.org/index.cfm

Provides a global point of access and insightful point of view on corporate social responsibility.

 

Center for Ethics

http://ethics.emory.edu/

Posted by Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, igniting the moral imagination of 21st century leaders. This site contains well developed newsletters and videos on a variety of ethical issues.

 

Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions

http://www.iit.edu/departments/csep/

Posted by the Illinois Institute of Technology, this site offers over 850 different codes of ethics indexed by professional category.

 

Character Counts
http://www.charactercounts.org/

CHARACTER COUNTS! is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, nonsectarian character education framework that teaches the Six Pillars of Character: trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring and citizenship. The CHARACTER COUNTS! Coalition includes thousands of schools, communities and nonprofit organizations.

 

Corporate Social Responsibility – News & Resources
http://www.mallenbaker.net/csr/index.html
Posted by Mallen Baker editor of Business Respect.  Very comprehensive offering of the latest news in corporate social responsibility. [See the Ethical Corporation Online below.]

 

Ethical Corporation Online

http://www.ethicalcorp.com/author.asp?AuthorID=1006

Good listing of news stories related to corporate ethics. Mallen Baker is the editor of the Business Respect email newsletter and the Development Director for Business in the Community in the UK. The views expressed in his articles are his own. (See Corporate Social Responsibility – News & Resources above.)

 

Ethics Newsline
http://www.globalethics.org/newsline/
Ethics Newsline®, published weekly by the Institute for Global Ethics, is the premier online source for news and information on ethics and current events. A new edition is available every Monday night. (Free subscription available)
 
Ethics Resource Center
http://ethics.org/
Sponsored as a non-profit, non-partisan educational organization whose vision is an ethical world.

 

Ethics Update

http://ethics.sandiego.edu/

Dr. Lawrence M. Hinman’s website, Director of the Values Institute and Professor at San Diego State University. For studying the subject of ethics, this site provides a wealth of information.

 
Ethics World

http://www.ethicsworld.com/index.php

An independent, not-for-profit forum designed to contribute to the strengthening of global ethics and governance. EthicsWorld is for professionals in business, government, civil society, and academia as well as students and the media. The  goal of this website is to provide knowledge through news, research, best practices, and encourage an active exchange of views.
 
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

http://www.iep.utm.edu/

The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a non-profit organization run by select editors and professional peer review. The Encyclopedia receives no funding, and operates through the volunteer work of the editors, authors, and technical advisors.
 
Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility
http://www.iccr.org/

For thirty years the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) has been a leader of the corporate social responsibility movement. ICCR's membership is an association of 275 faith-based institutional investors.

 

Institute for Global Ethics

http://www.globalethics.org/

Located in Camden, Maine the Institute exists to promote ethical behavior in individuals, institutions, and nations through research, public discourse, and practical action.

 
Josephson Institute of Ethics
http://www.josephsoninstitute.org/

The Joseph & Edna Josephson Institute of Ethics is a public-benefit, nonpartisan, nonprofit membership organization founded by Michael Josephson in honor of his parents to improve the ethical quality of society by advocating principled reasoning and ethical decision making.

 

Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
http://www.scu.edu/Ethics/practicing/focusareas/business/homepage.html
Posted by Santa Clara University, this site is a nationally recognized resource for virtually any issue dealing with ethics.

 

Professional Codes of Ethics

http://www.advocateweb.org/hope/codesofethics.asp

Provides a portal to a lengthy list of professional association’s codes of ethics.

 

Public Agenda Online

http://www.publicagenda.org/

Public Agenda is a nonpartisan, nonprofit public opinion research and citizen education organization based in New York City. It was founded in 1975 by social scientist and author Daniel Yankelovich and former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. The two-fold mission of Public Agenda is to (1) Help leaders better understand the public's point of view on major policy issues and, (2) Help citizens better understand critical policy issues so they can make their own more informed and thoughtful decisions.

 

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/search.html

Perhaps the best ethics search tool available. This link takes you directly to WebGlimpse Search. Simply enter the ethics term you would like to research and enjoy the results.

 

Virtual Religion Index

http://virtualreligion.net/vri/ethics.html

An exhaustible list of sites related to religion and ethics maintained in part by Rutgers University.