Philosophy

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Primary subject databases
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Philosopher's Index A primary major index for finding articles and books in philosophy. View Full Description
PhilPapers A directory of online philosophical articles and books by academic philosophers View Full Description

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Secondary subject databases
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Google Scholar Searches for articles and web resources from academic publishers and universities. View Full Description
Philosophy - Oxford Bibliographies A collection of core resources in philosophy. Selected by experts. View Full Description
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Collection of general and specific encyclopedic articles on topics in philosophy. View Full Description
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Refereed dynamic open-access online encyclopedia from Stanford University. Updated continuously. View Full Description

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Tertiary subject databases
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Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984 (H.W. Wilson) Interdisciplinary database with articles from more than 1200 English-language periodicals. View Full Description
JSTOR Current and back issues of journals in arts and sciences. View Full Description
Project Muse Full-text peer reviewed journals in the humanities and social sciences. Funding has been generously provided by Laurier's Student Life Levy. View Full Description
Web of Science Search all the databases on the Web of Science platform. View Full Description

Electronic Book Collections in Philosophy
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ACLS Humanities E-Book Collection of ebooks in humanities and social sciences. View Full Description
Atla Historical Monographs Collection Monographs from 13th century to early 1900s on religious language, development, and relationships with other issues. View Full Description
Bloomsbury Collections Bloomsbury Publishing's ebook platform. View Full Description
Cambridge Histories The complete collection of this series covering history of Britain, science, art, politics and religion among others. View Full Description
Duke University Press: Books Electronic books published by Duke University Press, primarily in the humanities and social sciences. View Full Description
EBSCOhost databases (all) Search all EBSCOhost databases at once. View Full Description
Internet Archive: eBooks and Texts A collection of more than 20 million freely available books and texts. View Full Description
Oxford Scholarship Online Ebook collection (>4k) strong in philosophy, religion, business & economics, and science. View Full Description
Past Masters Full-text authoritative works by seminal figures in the Humanities. View Full Description
Project Gutenberg Collection of tens of thousands of free, mostly US-public-domain books. View Full Description
University Press Scholarship Online Large ebook collection on a wide variety of topics from various university presses. View Full Description
University Press Scholarship Online: Philosophy Collection of ebooks on topics in philosophy. View Full Description
Very Short Introductions Collection of introductory books on a variety of topics including arts, humanities, law, health, science, and social sciences. View Full Description
Wiley Online Library Access to publications by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. including journals, books, databases, and lab protocols. View Full Description
doab: directory of open access books Search tool for tens of thousands of open access academic peer-reviewed books. View Full Description

Dictionaries and encyclopedias in Philosophy
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Concise Encyclopedia of Western Philosophy, The Major encyclopedia with entries written by leading philosophy scholars. View Full Description
Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy Major encyclopedia focusing on important aspects of Asian philosophy. View Full Description
Encyclopedia of Rhetoric Full-text articles on theory, history and practice. Published 2001. View Full Description
Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment Full-text articles on thought, society and culture. View Full Description
Oxford Companion to Philosophy Contains over 2,200 entries written by 291 authoritative philosophers with a wide breadth and depth of coverage. View Full Description
Oxford Companion to the Mind Scholarly one volume companion to the fields of mind, brain and consciousness View Full Description
Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy More than 3,000 entries covering covers all areas of philosophy. View Full Description
Philosophy of Science 2-Volume Set, The : An Encyclopedia Encyclopedia covering developments in the contemporary philosophy of science. View Full Description
Routledge Dictionary of Philosophy Authoritative and rigorous dictionary definitions on a range of philosophical concepts. View Full Description
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Collection of general and specific encyclopedic articles on topics in philosophy. View Full Description
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Refereed dynamic open-access online encyclopedia from Stanford University. Updated continuously. View Full Description