Library Guides: Philosophy Research Guide: Journal Articles

Article Abstracts

The best index/abstract for philosophy is Philopher's Index, but there are others that are useful:

Philosopher's Index This link opens in a new window
Provides abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. Covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic as well as the philosophy of law, religion,and other areas.
Many of the articles included in this database are available in full-text format. Coverage dates back as far as 1940, with select articles going back as far as 1902.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Google Scholar is a search engine for scholarly articles and books. Some are full-text. Others you can access through the GetIt@ link to ISU resources.
PhilPapers This link opens in a new window
A wonderful index of papers, books, and other documents. The library may subscribe to many of these journals online, but it is not possible to link to them from this database; you must do a journal search from the e-Library for the journal title name. There are many open access journals that are accessible through this index.

Other Useful Dataases

Following is a list of links to other indexes/abstracts that may have research on philosophy in various areas:

Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window
This database covers almost all subject areas and is especially good at interdisciplinary areas. Good place to start for class assignments. It contains full text articles for more than 6,500 journals.
America: History and Life This link opens in a new window
This index finds scholarly articles on American history, including those dealing with philosophical topics.
ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials This link opens in a new window
Oftentimes, philosophical topics overlap religion topics, and vice versa. Coverage from 1949 to present.
Gender Studies Database This link opens in a new window
Indexes articles on feminist and gender theories and philosophy.
Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Covers materials from 1955 to present. A complementary database to America: History and Life. this index covers the whole range of worldwide history excluding North America. Many crossover history/philosophy journal articles can be find here.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR spans many disciplines, primarily in the humanities, social sciences, and life sciences. It includes digitized current and back issues of academic journals, books and primary source materials.
Periodicals Archive Online This link opens in a new window
Backfiles of hundreds of journals in the humanities and social sciences, available online.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Full-text provider of humanities and social sciences books and journals.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
This database can be used to search through all manner of journals for articles on philosophical topics.

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