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Article Databases and Indexes
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Philosopher's Index   Provides indexing and abstracts from books and over 270 journals on philosophy and related interdisciplinary fields published in the U.S. and the Western World. Database Fact Sheet available at http://www.csa.com/factsheets/philosopher-set-c.php
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Academic or Scholarly Articles Subject Indexes
| Arts & Humanities Citation Index The Libraries' subscription to this resource allows for 20 users at any one time. If you get a busy signal, please wait a few minutes and try accessing the site again.
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| International Philosophical Bibliography This online bibliography lists books and articles about philosophy and history of philosophy including: Antiquity, Middle Ages, Renaissance to Enlightenment, 19th and 20th Centuries, and Non-Western Traditions. Language scope: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Spanish and Catalan.
The International Philosophical Bibliography covers all issues 1997 to present. The Retrospective file covers selected pre-1996 listings. The starting point of the bibliography changes daily.
Check MNCAT for corresponding print version.
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| JSTOR Full text of academic journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. JSTOR provides complete journal backruns from the date of initial publication. Note: It does NOT include the most recent 2 to 5 years.
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General Indexes to Magazine, Journal & Newspaper Articles
Academic Search Premier  This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education. The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for over 4,600 scholarly (peer-reviewed) publications back to 1975. [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
General Reference Sources
Biographical Sources
| Directory of American Philosophers Quarto B935 .D5 Wilson Reference; latest edition in Wilson Reference
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| International Directory of Philosophy and Philosophers |
| Women Philosophers: a Bio-Critical Source Book This book "covers more than 170 women born before 1920 who wrote about or pondered questions of Western intellectual life. The volume includes extensive bibliographies of both primary and secondary works about each philosopher." –The Philosophers Index
B105 .W6 K47 1989 Wilson Reference
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Dictionaries
| Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy |
| HarperCollins Dictionary of Philosophy 2d ed |
| New Dictionary of the History of Ideas Expanding on the original Dictionary of the History of Ideas (1974), edited by Philip Wiener, the New Dictionary has a broader scope introducing global- and gender-neutral perspectives not present in the earlier print edition. In 700 accessible articles, alphabetically arranged, a distinguished team of international scholars explore new thinking in areas previously covered (communism, linguistics, physics) and present cross-cultural perspectives on more recent topics such as postmodernism, deconstruction and post-colonialism.
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Encyclopedias
| Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online Described by Booklist as "the best and most comprehensive English-language reference source for philosophy.
Macmillan Reference USA, c2006. Gale/Cengage.
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| Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Offers articles, many written by specialized philosophers, that are browsable by era or searchable by keyword.
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| Islamic philosophy from its origin to the present [electronic resource] |
| Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online The first multi-volume Encyclopedia to be published in the discipline in over thirty years, REP is now regarded as the definitive resource in the field. Features 2,000 original entries from a team of over 1,300 of the world's most respected scholars and philosophers.
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| Shorter Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy [electronic resource] view MNCAT record to access electronic book.
SEE ALSO CD version in Wilson: Title: Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy AND
Print edition: Quarto B41 .R68 Vol. 1-10
WILSON Reference; MAGRATH Ref
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| Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy A "dynamic" reference work, with each entry maintained and kept up to date by an expert or group of experts in the field. Includes articles on individual philosophers, schools, and concepts. The SEP is an open-access resource supported by the University of Minnesota Libraries and Department of Philosophy.
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General Reference Works
| Electronic Enlightenment Major correspondence centred on the "long 18th century," supporting critical apparatus, and additional research carried out by EE.
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Handbooks and Manuals
| Handbook of Metaphysics and Ontology |
| Key Ideas in Human Thought |
Internet Resources
Electronic Texts
| Past Masters This cluster of full-text databases includes works by Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, the Continental Rationalists (Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz), and British philosophers from 1600-1900 (Bacon, Hobbes, Locke, and others).
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Web Sites
| EthicShare EthicShare is a research and collaboration website designed to help with research, collaboration, and participation in the field of ethics. It is a comprehensive collection of ethics materials including research materials, group discussions, current news articles, and upcoming events harvested from sources such as PubMed, US Government Documents, and institutional repositories.
See also their Summary of Topics at Summaries
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Periodical and Newspaper subscriptions
Electronic Journal Titles
| Philosophy Compass User friendly site at Philosophy Compass home page home page ) is an online-only journal publishing peer-reviewed survey articles of the most important research from and current thinking from across the entire discipline In an age of hyper-specialization, Philosophy Compass provides an ideal starting point for the non-specialist, offering pointers for researchers, teachers and students alike, to help them find and interpret the best research in the field. [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Philosophy Compass home page a user-friendly, browsable home page to Philosophy Compass, with special features introducing readers to topics in the field of philosophy.
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Primary Source Materials
Archival Materials
| Eighteenth Century Collections Online Eighteenth Century Collections Online captures the essence of the
Enlightenment in Great Britain between 1701 and 1800. ECCO is a
comprehensive digital edition of /The Eighteenth Century/, the
world's largest library of the printed book on microfilm. ECCO
allows full-text searching of over 180,000 titles English-language
titles and editions -- in essence, every significant
English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United
Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.
It includes books, pamphlets, essays, broadsides and more.
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Societies, Agencies, and Organizations
Official Agency & Organization Websites
| APA (American Philosophical Association) Online Contains a wide range of information on publications, conferences, web resources, etc.
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Style Manuals and Writing Guides
Bibliography Software
| RefWorks: Personal Citation Manager RefWorks is a web-based citation manager that allows you to create your own databases of citations by importing references from MNCAT and other databases, and then in seconds automatically generate bibliographies in all major styles (MLA, APA, Turabian, Chicago, etc.).
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Style Manuals
| Style Manuals A selected list of sources available in Wilson
Reference Services.
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