e-Resources specific to Philosophy

Philosopher's Index

This international resource provides indexing and author-written abstracts from books and journals of philosophy (over 480) in the 15 fields of philosophy and in related fields. Coverage includes the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language.

	JSTOR
		"Philosophy" journals (coverage)

Archive of 17 scholarly Philosophy journals . Older volumes have been digitized, starting from the first issues and running up to 3 to 5 years ago; no current issues are available in JSTOR.

Cambridge Collections Online : Philosophy and Religion Collection -

Scholarly essays are freely searchable, and available full-text in PDF format within the database.  The scope of the volumes ranges from, for instance, a Companion devoted to Feminism in Philosophy in general to one discussing only a particular philosopher, such as Immanuel Kant. 

Gale Virtual Reference Library - Religion/Social Science

Full-text encyclopedias.  

Religion
		Contemporary American Religion 2v, 1999 Encyclopedia of American Religions 7th ed., 2003 Encyclopedia of Buddhism 2v, 2004 Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World 2v, 2004 Encyclopedia of Philosophy 2nd ed., 10v, 2006 Encyclopedia of Religion 2nd ed., 15v, 2005 Encyclopedia of Science and Religion 2v, 2003 New Catholic Encyclopedia 2nd ed., 15v, 2003 New Catholic Encyclopedia Jubilee Volume 2nd ed., 2000 Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practices 3v, 2006
Social Science
		Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology 5th ed., 2v, 2001

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

A dynamic and growing encyclopedia containing peer-reviewed articles on topics in Philosophy. Developed and maintained at Stanford University.

Database of Latin Dictionaries (DLD)

A growing database of three kinds of Latin dictionaries: 

• dictionaries to assist translation from Latin into modern languages
• dictionaries providing semantic and etymological explanations in Latin of Latin words
• historical Latin dictionaries.  -  

Library of Latin Texts - CLCLT (Brepolis)

Comprised of more than 2800 works of Christian Latin literature from over 860 authors. 

Currently focused on the patristic and medieval periods, it will eventually encompass works from Antiquity and the early-modern and modern eras. -  

 

 

Multi-Subject e-Resources including articles on Philosophy

	ProQuest Research Library -
	Full-text and abstracts of millions of articles originally published in magazines, newspapers, and journals in all subject areas. The Humanities Module searches periodicals that include American Philosophical Quarterly, Asian Philosophy, Journal of the History of Philosophy , Philosophy Today.
	Academic Search Premier -

 

e-Resources for disciplines related to Philosophy

	ATLA Religion Database  -
	Catholic Periodical and Literature Index Online -
	L'Année Philologique - Classical Studies and History

Other Resources

	Credo Reference -
	A collection of 275 reference books including dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, books of quotations, as well as subject-specific titles in the Philosophy collection including:  A Dictionary of Philosophy, Macmillan  Bloomsbury Guide to Human Thought  The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy
	Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB) -
	Illustrated collection of more than 50,000 specially written biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of Britain's past, from the fourth century BC to the year 2001.

Marvin Weaver Associate Director for Library Systems and Technology Saint Joseph's University	Last revision / review:  June 30, 2008