Library: Philosophy: General

Philosophy Research Databases

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JSTOR This link opens in a new window Updated regularly. Offers a high-quality, interdisciplinary archive to support scholarship and teaching. Includes archives of over 1,000 leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. The entire corpus is full-text searchable, offers search term highlighting, includes high-quality images, and is interlinked by millions of citations and references.
Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window The world's largest academic, multi-disciplinary database with full text journals, newspapers, magazines, reports, eBooks and videos. Meets the needs of scholars in virtually every discipline.
SAGE Journals Online This link opens in a new window An interdisciplinary database that contains over 1,000 full text, online journals in the fields of business, education, health, the humanities, law enforcement, criminology, and other social sciences. Several of these journals are the most authoritative and influential in their fields. Access from 1999-present.
ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window Search ALL ProQuest databases at once. Covering more than 160 subject areas, ProQuest Central is the largest aggregated database and contains a diversified mix of content including scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, books, newspapers, reports and videos. Encompasses business, science & technology, health, social sciences, arts & humanities, and news.

Multidisciplinary eBook databases:

eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window Multidisciplinary eBooks representing a broad range of subjects.
Ebook Central (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window eBooks on a range of subjects such as business, information technology, education, engineering, health, history, humanities, life & physical sciences, and social and behavioral sciences.

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Films On Demand: Master Academic Package This link opens in a new window Full-length streaming videos in the humanities, social sciences, business, health, medicine, sciences, and mathematics fields.
Alexander Street: Academic Video Online‎ This link opens in a new window A large multidisciplinary collection of streaming videos. Includes documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, field recordings, commercials, raw footage, award-winning films, including Academy® and Emmy® winners, newly released films, and archival material previously unavailable.
ImageQuest (Britannica) This link opens in a new window Nearly 3 million rights-cleared images from more than 50 collections including Getty Images, the National Portrait Gallery of London, and the National Geographic Society.
Credo Reference This link opens in a new window Specialized reference eBooks for background information on all subjects, including audio, video, and image results.

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Credo Reference This link opens in a new window Specialized reference eBooks for background information on all subjects, including audio, video, and image results.
Britannica Academic This link opens in a new window The largest, most authoritative encyclopedia in the world, this database contains articles, maps, images, videos, and yearbooks from 1993 to present. Use it instead of Wikipedia for your research!
Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window More than 50 reference eBooks in business, communications, history, law, literature, medicine, nation & world, science, and technology.

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Selected Resources

Philosophy and Friendship "This book explains the persistence of friendship today in the light of the history of philosophical approaches to the subject."
Encyclopedia of Philosophy
What is Philosophy? An Introduction
Philosophy and Philosophers

Diogenes Diogenes publishes work from all fields of philosophical, humanistic and social studies, from archaeology to education and from economics to sociology. [from database]
Philosophy & Social Criticism It presents original theoretical contributions to the latest developments in social and political thought, emphasizing the contributions of continental scholarship as it affects international theoretical developments. [from database]
Journal of Human Values It addresses the impact of human values along a variety of dimensions: the relevance of human values in today's world; human values at the organizational level; and the culture-specificity of human values. [from database]
Philosophy Now A newsstand magazine published every 2 months. It aims to corrupt innocent citizens by convincing them that philosophy can be exciting, worthwhile and comprehensible, and also to provide some light and enjoyable reading matter for those already ensnared by the muse, such as philosophy students and academics.
Philosophers' Magazine We publish philosophy that’s clear, thought-provoking, and relevant. Our contributors are mainly professional philosophers who care about good writing and about being understood.

American Philosophical Association Scholarly and professional organization; students may join. Organization site includes job information, Web resources, information on meetings and calls for papers, member services, professional issues, grants and fellowship information.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Information on topics and individuals; each written and updated by a recognized scholar. Each article includes a bibliography for further reading.
Value of Knowledge: A Miniature Library of Philosophy A full-text archive "tracing the development of ideas on the relation between consciousness and matter through the words of 120 philosophers over 400 years."
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP) (ISSN 2161-0002) was founded in 1995 to provide open access to detailed, scholarly information on key topics and philosophers in all areas of philosophy.
PhilPapers A comprehensive index and bibliography of philosophy maintained by the community of philosophers. We monitor all sources of research content in philosophy, including journals, books, open access archives, and personal pages maintained by academics. We also host the largest open access archive in philosophy. Our index currently contains 2,341,749 entries categorized in 5,395 categories. PhilPapers has over 190,000 registered users.
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How to use this guide

This guide is designed to help you with your research, introducing a range of Philosophy resources available to you. The Philosophy Research Databases box lists databases recommended in your subject area that you can search to find articles, eBooks, etc.

Background Information

Plato
Terry, S. (n.d.). Plato [Illustration].

Philosophy Topic pages contain background information in many formats. It also pulls in resources from other Excelsior Library databases, making it a one-stop place to brush up on your topic!

Open Courseware

MIT Linguistics and Philosophy Open Courseware Open Courseware makes the materials used in the teaching of MIT's subjects available on the Web.
Philosophy MOOCs on edX Increasing global access to quality education.