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Article databases

NameDescription
Academic Search CompleteMulti-disciplinary coverage. Over 5,500 full text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals. PDF content going back to 1887. Searchable cited references for nearly 1,000 journals. EBSCOhost
ATLA Religion Database with ATLA SerialsOver one million citations for articles and book reviews, and a growing number of multimedia citations. Serials access includes more than 185,000 articles and book reviews. Full text coverage from 1949, with indexing coverage from the nineteenth century. Produced by the American Theological Library Association. EBSCOhost
Cambridge Journals OnlineOnline content delivery service for Cambridge University Press' collection of nearly 200 leading journals across the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Full text coverage. Cambridge University Press
Essay and General Literature IndexCitations for essays and chapters contained in books. Click "Library Owns?" icon to search for call numbers and availability of books. Coverage in the humanities and social sciences. H. W. Wilson
Humanities Full TextCitations, abstracts, and full text for articles, interviews; original works of fiction, drama, and poetry; reviews of books, ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays, radio and television programs; biographies, and more. H. W. Wilson
Humanities International CompleteMore than 2,000 journals and 2 million records, plus unique full text content, much of which is not found in other databases. Full text for more than 730 journals. EBSCOhost
JSTOR Access to Arts & Sciences I, II, III, IV, and VII, as well as the Ecology & Botany collection. Full text.
NetLibraryAccess to more than 50,000 digitized books. Search by title, author, keyword, Library of Congress subject heading, publisher, or ISBN. Full-text searching is also available. OCLC
OmniFile Full Text MegaCitations, abstracts, and full text for thousands of popular and scholarly sources, including articles, reviews, books, and more. Multi-disciplinary coverage. H. W. Wilson
Project MuseBasic Undergraduate Collection. Full text access to 125 peer-reviewed journals in the humanities and social sciences. PLEASE NOTE: not all titles are available in full text. Check "Only content I have full access to" for full text access only.
Religion and Philosophy CollectionNearly 300 full text journals, including more than 250 peer-reviewed titles. EBSCOhost
Wiley-Blackwell Formerly Blackwell Synergy. Full text for over 850 journals, the majority of which are published by Blackwell on behalf of international scholarly and professional societies. Subjects range across Medicine, Science, Social Science, and the Humanities. PLEASE NOTE: not all titles or issues of titles are available in full text. Wiley InterScience
WorldCatSearch for materials in hundreds of libraries. Books, websites, computer programs, films, slides, journals, magazines, papers, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, newspapers, sound recordings, videotapes. Coverage from before 1000 BC to the present. OCLC

LC classification system

B - Philosophy BJ - Ethics. Etiquette. Social Usages

Reference books

BookCall number
A Dictionary of Buddhism (online book)A Dictionary of Buddhism
Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (4 volumes)REF BH56 .E53
Encyclopedia of EthicsREF BJ63 .E45 2001
Encyclopedia of Philosophy (8 volumes)REF B41 .E53
Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment (4 volumes)REF B 802 .E53 2003
Great Thinkers of the Eastern World: The Major Thinkers and the Philosophical and Religious Classics of China, India, Japan, Korea, and the World of Islam REF B5005 .G74 1995
The Cambridge Dictionary of PhilosophyREF B41 .C35

Web resources

Philosophy Research Base
Philosophy Resources on the Internet
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
VWC Department of Philosophy