Philosophy: a guide to print and electronic resources
Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, & other Reference Sources
Find Books, Journals, & Dissertations
- Start with CLIO to find books and journals in Columbia University library collections. (In the case of the Law Library collection, use the Pegasus catalog.)
- Then try: WorldCat, the largest online public access catalog in the world, with over 40 million book and journal records.
- To find dissertations produced at universities in the United States and Canada, use Proquest Digital Dissertations. Coverage is from 1861 to the present, with full-text available for dissertations submitted after 1997. For European dissertations, use WorldCat Dissertations.
Find Articles & Book Reviews
- Philosopher's Index
Covers research published after 1940 in all fields of philosophy.
- JSTOR
Provides full-text content from core scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences. Coverage is from the earliest issues of a journal to within approximately 5 years of current publication.
- Project Muse
Full-text content, with particularly strong coverage of articles and reviews published after 2000.
- Other databases worth consulting include:
Full-Text Book & Article Collections
- JSTOR
- Oxford Scholarship Online - Philosophy
Makes available selected classic as well as newly published Oxford University Press books in philosophy.
- Past Masters
Includes collections of works (some in the original language) by key philosophers such Aquinas, Aristotle, Descartes, Hegel, Hume, Kant, Leibniz, Locke, Mill, Nietzsche, Plato, Rousseau, Spinoza, and others.
- Poiesis
Contains full-text articles from nearly fifty participating philosophy journals.
- Periodicals Archive Online
Similar to JSTOR, but with more European content. Coverage is up to 1995.
