LibGuides: Philosophy Research: Finding Articles & More

Finding Articles

In order to find articles in a database, you must effectively communicate your information need to the database.

General Guidelines:

Keep your first search simple
Avoid using long phrases, sentences, or sentence fragments
Use quotes (" ") to distinguish between phrases and keywords
Use the search operators to form your search
Observe the subject headings used by the database to group together articles, etc. on a given topic

Philosopher's Index
Author written abstracts for books and over 680 journals of philosophy and related interdisciplinary fields from 50 different countries. 1940 - present.

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PhilPapers: Philosophical Research Online
Comprehensive index and bibliography of philosophy maintained by the community of philosophers. Includes all sources of research content in philosophy, including journals, books, open access archives, and personal pages maintained by academics, in the largest open access archive in philosophy.
JSTOR
A searchable collection of over 600 full text journals, some dating back to the 19th century. Recent issues of most journals are embargoed.
Project MUSE
A searchable collection of over 300 full text academic press journals covering literature, history, the arts, education, philosophy, political science and more.

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Feb 17 - April 30

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