LibGuides: Philosophy: Articles

Interlibrary Loan: Articles

Need to know if the library has a known article? Search here for the journal title.

If the library cannot make the article available immediately, request it through our Interlibrary Loan (ILL) service.

Core Philosophy Databases

The following Gitenstein Library databases index and/or provide full-text access to scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles and other secondary sources in philosophy. Advanced undergraduates would do best to search Philosopher's Index, PhilPapers, and at least one other database such as Humanities Full Text or JSTOR to ensure comprehensive coverage of the literature on their topics.

Best bets:

Philosopher's Index
Gitenstein Library database
indexes 480 journal titles in philosophy
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(1940 to the present.) Provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. Covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, metaphysics, logic, and philosophy of mind as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, language and education. Covers both books and 480 scholarly journals published in English, German, French, Italian and Spanish. The book reviews in the print version of Philosopher’s Index are excluded from the online version.
PhilPapers
open access database
"PhilPapers is a comprehensive index and bibliography of philosophy maintained by the community of philosophers." The accompanying PhilArchive provides access to 1,375 journals.
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"Using advanced trawling techniques and large scale crowdsourcing, 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."

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Humanities Full Text
Gitenstein Library database
indexes and provides full-text access to 76 philosophy titles
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(Indexing & Abstracting, 1982-; earliest Full Text from 1995.) Provides citations, abstracts, and selected full text for periodical articles and reviews from English language periodicals. Subjects include archaeology, classical studies, area studies, folklore, history, language, literature, performing arts, philosophy, religion and theology.
JSTOR
Gitenstein Library database
JSTOR is the premier scholarly journal archive. As of this writing, it provides full-text access to 137 key titles in philosophy. Because it is an archive, issues published in the most recent 3-to-5 years for most journals will not be available.
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Earliest Full Text from the Late 1800s.) A full text, full image archive of over 120 journals. Coverage of journals generally begins with their first volume and is updated to within three years of the current issue. Allows keyword searching of the full text of all articles, as well as browsing of particular journal issues. Subject strengths are African-American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, ecology, economics/finance, general science, history, literature, math/statistics, philosophy, political science, population/demography, and sociology.
Project Muse
Gitenstein Library database
indexes and provides full-text access to 35 philosophy titles from about 1995 to present
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(Dates vary from 1995-present) Access to the full text of more than 100 journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and mathematics from Johns Hopkins University Press and other publishers.

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Academic Search Premier
Gitenstein Library database
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(Indexing begins 1984-; earliest Full Text from 1990-) Provides citations and abstracts to over 4,000 journals covering most academic areas of study including biological sciences, economics, communications, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences, and women’s studies. Approximately two-thirds of the articles are available as full text. Also contains images which can be accessed by clicking on the “image collections” icon.
Internet Archive Scholar (alpha)
open access database
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"This fulltext search index includes over 25 million research articles and other scholarly documents preserved in the Internet Archive. The collection spans from digitized copies of eighteenth century journals though the latest Open Access conference proceedings and pre-prints crawled from the World Wide Web."
MLA International Bibliography
Gitenstein Library database
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(1963-) Indexes journal articles, book chapters, proceedings, working papers and bibliographies for literature, linguistics and folkore.

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