Databases

Philosophy

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Recommended Databases

  • The major indexing source for scholarly research in philosophy.

  • The most multi-disciplinary and general full-text periodicals database. Contains the full text of approx. 3,500 journals, with indexing going back to the mid 1970's on some titles. Updated daily.

  • Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.

    * The link goes to a page with instructions on setting up Library Links in Google Scholar to find and link to resources available through Hunter College Libraries.

  • Multidisciplinary index to research journals in the arts and humanities, including television and radio. 1975 to present.

  • JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. Explore a wide range of scholarly content through a powerful research and teaching platform. (Current journals are not entered into the database for two to five years.)

    As of August 1, 2024, all image content formerly on Artstor is available on JSTOR. Select the Images tab to limit a search to images only.

Related Databases

  • An online collection of over 3,300 fully searchable high quality ebooks in the humanities.

  • First published in 1902, Cambridge Histories has over 300 volumes spanning fifteen subject areas across the humanities and social sciences, with a concentration on political and cultural history, literature, philosophy, religious studies, music and the arts.

  • Resource to worldwide content on all aspects of the humanities in more than 1,450 full-text journals back to 1907.