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Subject: Philosophy & Ethics

Key Databases

Past masters

Contains the full-text of more than 40 philosophy classics including: Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Kant.

Philosopher’s Index

Indexing to journal articles, books, book chapters, and book reviews relating to philosophy.  Coverage goes back to 1940.

Related Databases

Academic Search Premier

This large multidisciplinary database includes full-text for approximately 4,500 journals, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications.  Searchable cited references are also included for 1,000 titles.

Expanded Academic ASAP

Indexes approximately 3,500 journals including 2,100 peer-reviewed titles.  Many citations lead directly to full-text links.  Coverage goes back to 1980.

Humanities Full Text

Indexes articles pertaining to a wide variety of humanities-related subjects including classical studies, linguistics, and literary criticism.  Searches may be limited to peer reviewed journals.  Coverage is from 1984 to the present.

Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective

Provides access to the older volumes of the Humanities Index.  Coverage is from 1907-1984.

Wilson Omnifile Full Text Mega Edition

A large multi-disciplinary resource indexing research on a wide variety of subjects.  Many citations link to the full-text of the article.  Searches are easily limited to peer-reviewed journals. Coverage goes back to 1982.

Web of Science

Includes Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.  One of the most comprehensive databases with indexing to more than 5900 journals.   This resource may be best known for its extensive forward and backward links to cited references.  Also links to full-text articles when available through USF subscriptions. 1900-date

E-journal collections

Cambridge Journals Online

Searchable access to the journals from Cambridge University Press.

Directory of Open Access Journals

Provides full-text access to free scientific and scholarly journals.  More than 2500 journal titles are included in this resource with approximately 750 of them searchable at the article level.

JSTOR

This unique resource was created to provide searchable, full-text access to the older editions of a vast number of scholarly journals.  Coverage goes back to volume one of the journal but does not include the most recent few years of the title. A wide selection of disciplines are included.

OCLC ECO: Electronic Collections Online

A large, searchable database with full-text articles from a wide variety of journals and publishers.

Project Muse

Provides the full-text of more than 300 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities


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