The Bioethics Research Library of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics is pleased to offer this list of free custom research resources, most built in-house by our team. Scroll down to launch your research with these vetted, curated collections. Consider installing the Unpaywall extension for Chrome and Firefox to unlock full-text access to many scholarly articles as you browse.
Still need more? Consider booking a free one-on-one reference consult, searching across bioethics-related databases or browsing bioethics journals.
Aggregated Research Resources
Library staff have put together these lists of resources to provide a robust starting-point for research on any topic in bioethics and related fields:
- Quick Bioethics Research Links collected by our staff on selected questions
- Extensive list of Bibliographies by Bioethical Topic drawn from the Library’s decades of bibliographic work in the field (1974–2009)
- List of Online Bioethics Databases recommended by our staff
- Our (no longer supported) aggregated Bioethics News Digest, drawn from four major news outlets
Resources by Topic
Library staff have put together resource pages for an ever-evolving list of key topics in bioethics, containing links to major resources in the field, custom search strategies, and more:
- Advance Directives
- Animal Research Ethics
- Clinical Research Ethics
- Death and Dying
- Ebola Outbreak
- Environmental Ethics
- Feminist Bioethics
- Genetics and Ethics
- Health Challenges Faced by Children and Women
- Human Research Ethics
- Human Values in Bioethics
- Nanotechnology and Nanoethics
- Neuroethics
- Organ Procurement and Transplantation
- Personal Genomics
Institution-Related Resources
Researchers working from or focusing research on a particular institution might find the following resources useful:
- Bioethics Literacy Resources for Members of Ethics Committees, collated by the Bioethics Research Library
- Archived List of International Ethics Committees, published 2010
- Archived List of International Bioethics Commissions, published 2010
- Full list of U.S. Bioethics Commissions and their archived materials
- Archived List of International Bioethics Organizations, published 2014
Additional Bioethics Research Portals
Still need more? Explore alternative research portals from peer institutions:
- Bioethical Issues – Adelaide Centre for Bioethics and Culture
- Bioethics Topics – World Health Organization
- Bioethics Topics – Ethics in Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine
Or, consider booking a one-on-one research consult with a member of our reference team: