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Philosophy-specific Databases
- Religion and Philosophy Collection This link opens in a new windowDatabase for theology and philosophy research that includes hundreds of full-text journals and magazines covering many religious and philosophical topics, including world religions, religious history, political philosophy and philosophy of language.
- Religion and Philosophy This link opens in a new windowA comprehensive collection of periodical content covering topics across a wide range of philosophies and religions. Researchers will gain valuable insight about the impact religion has had on culture throughout history, including literature, arts, and language. This resource supports a broad range of topics from theological approaches to social issues.
- Philosopher's IndexProvides indexing and author-written abstracts for about 680 scholarly international philosophy journals. Also offers coverage of anthologies and book reviews. Includes journals from about 50 countries with content representing a variety of languages. Coverage is from 1940 to the present. Links to some full-text.
- Routledge Encyclopedia of PhilosophyGood for background information. Provides up-to-date articles on philosophical themes (such as metaphysics, ethics, law); world philosophies (such as African, Japanese, Tibetan); periods; world religions (such as Islam, Christianity, Buddhism).
- Religious Studies in Archives Unbound This link opens in a new windowThis is a direct topic search within Archives Unbound that includes five collections of archival documents focusing on religious studies. Archives Unbound collections include topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research and study needs of scholars, researchers, and students.
Online Resources
The following online resources contain more background information about philosophy.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
An excellent resource for undergraduate students. Entries have extensive bibliographies.
The Galileo Project
A resource from Rice University about the life and work of Galileo.
Project Gutenberg
This resource has free texts from philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle.
General Databases
This list of databases are general databases that include resources from across most disciplines and subjects. They may be a good starting point for your research.
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowFull text for about 8,500 periodicals including over 7,300 peer-reviewed journals across most areas of academic study as well as indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 magazines and journals. Coverage is from 1887 to the present.
- Academic OneFile This link opens in a new windowProvides over 54,000,000 articles, most full-text, from about 13,000 scholarly journals across most academic subject areas. Coverage is from 1980 to the present.
- Britannica Academic This link opens in a new windowProvides reference sources in almost all disciplines. Also includes historical timelines, multimedia, selected magazine articles, notable quotations, and a dictionary and thesaurus.
- Ebook Central Academic Complete This link opens in a new windowProvides approximately 150,000 multidisciplinary ebooks.
Can be used for course content: eBooks from academic publishers in all subject disciplines. - Ebook Collection (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowOver 100,000 full-text ebooks in categories including adult fiction and non-fiction, art, biography, business, economics, computer science, education, medicine, history, literature, philosophy, political science, psychology, and reference. Downloadable to portable devices.
Can be used for course content: eBooks from academic publishers in all subject disciplines. - JSTOR This link opens in a new windowFull-text access to over 1400 core scholarly journals and e-books across most subject areas.
Can be used for course content: Titles from many university presses and other academic publishers.
