Databases for Philosophy
Best Bets
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| Philosophers Index |
Provides citations with abstracts to scholarly research in philosophy. Over 620 journals are covered, with 80 percent of the records from journals and 20 percent from books. |
1940-present |
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| JSTOR |
JSTOR specializes in making available the back issues of academic journals (over 1,000) in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines. |
Coverage is the beginning of the journal until two to five years ago. |
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| Arts and Humanities Citation Index |
Provides indexing for 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, and it indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals. |
1975-present |
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Also Useful
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| Academic OneFile |
Contains more than 11,000 academic jounals, the majority in full text and peer-reviewed, and podcasts and transcripts from major news sources. |
1980-present |
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| Academic Search Complete |
Provides full text for over 8,500 magazines and journals, and indexing for 4,100 more titles. |
1980-present |
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| Credo Reference |
Credo Reference provides access to hundreds of reference books (encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, quotations) from over 70 academic publishers. |
2000-present |
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| Encyclopedia of Philosophy |
Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library. |
2006 |
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| Oxford Handbooks Online |
Each handbook from Oxford University Press takes an aspect of its discipline and unpacks it, explaining the key issues, the classic and contemporary debates on those issues, and setting the agenda |
2000-present |
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| Project Muse |
Project Muse provides full text access to over 335 journals, and indexing for 200 more in the humanities and social sciences. |
1996-present |
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| WorldCat |
Contains over 50 million records cataloged by OCLC member libraries throughout the world: Appalachian State University Library is a member (OCLC member code=NJB). |
1000 BC-present |
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