Philosophy

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Primary subject databases

Database	Description
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

Main databases

Secondary subject databases

Database	Description
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

Database	Description
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 books and peer reviewed journals in the humanities and social sciences. View Full Description
Web of Science	Search all the databases on the Web of Science platform. View Full Description

Electronic Book Collections in Philosophy

Database	Description
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
Brill	Platform for all books, journals and other publications published by Brill. View Full Description
Cambridge Core	Platform for all books, journal and other publications published by Cambridge University Press. View Full Description
Cambridge Histories	Historical summaries providing larger perspectives on a variety of subjects. 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

Database	Description
Cambridge Histories	Historical summaries providing larger perspectives on a variety of subjects. View Full Description
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