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RECOMMENDED DATABASES by SUBJECT: Philosophy
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Academic Search Premier
Full text, indexing and abstracts. Peer-reviewed and multidisciplinary. Over 4650 journals, newspapers, primary source documents and reports. Coverage goes back to 1975 or earlier.
Article First
1990 to present. Index of articles from the contents pages of over 15,000 journals in all subject areas.Over 15 million records, many in full text. Updated regularly.
Contemporary Authors
Huge collection of essays, criticism, awards, bibliographies of over 110,000 influential authors, journalists, playwrights published in English worldwide..
Dissertation Abstracts
1861 to present; abstracts since 1980. US, Canadian, British and other European doctoral dissertations and many Master's theses. Searchable by author, subject, title, and year.
Humanities Full Text
Index and abstracts 1984 to present; full text since 1994. English and non-Englisn articles, books, book reviews, bibliographies, original works of fiction, plays, television and radio reviews, interviews, obituaries. Covers 465 sources and over 435,000 records.
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
Topic-based, encyclopedic coverage of literary criticism, mostly in long essays written by over 200 leading scholars. Searchable ; many cross-references, bibliographies. No journal articles.
JSTOR
Full-text complete back issues of hundreds of academic journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences, excluding the last 3 to 5 years. International criticism in several languages, keyword-searchable.
MLA
1963 to present. Citations to journal articles, books and dissertations. International coverage for literature, linguistics, philosophy, cultural studies, films. Links to full text.
Philosopher's Index
1940 to present. 480 journals from 38 countries. Provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy, and related fields (ethics, aesthetics, continental philosophy, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, metaphysic logic) as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education and language. Updated regularly.
Project Muse
Includes full text of thirty journals in Philosophy. Most coverage is of the last 2 to 3 years.
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Regularly updated, provides access to the latest scholarship and major developments in philosophical inquiry worldwide. Over 2000 articles from a team of over 1,300 of the world's most respected scholars and philosophers.
Web of Science
1975 to present for Arts and Humanities Citations Index and 1956 to present for Social Sciences Citation Index. Multi-disciplinary index to the journal literature worldwide. Citations and links to full-text. 5300 scholarly articles in all academic disciplines. Searches citations by authors and about authors.
Women's Resources International
1972 to present. Indexes anthology chapters, audiovisuals, books, journal articles, reports, unpublished papers. Links to full text.
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