LibGuides: PHIL 5314: American Philosophy: Suggested Databases

Start Your Research & Google Scholar

Start Your Research
Start Your Research here to search all types of content including articles, books, ebooks, streaming media, dissertations, and more from many different publishers and vendors.

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Google Scholar
Multi-subject resources from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities & other scholarly organizations. More about Google Scholar at Google Scholar Guide

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Gathering Backgound Information

Searching encyclopedias other reference materials is a great way to gather background information. Some of these links were taken from the Dictionaries & Encyclopedias Databases by Type page.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy organizes scholars from around the world in philosophy and related disciplines to create and maintain an up-to-date reference work.

Credo Reference
Over 600 reference books, including encyclopedias, dictionaries (English and foreign language), thesauri, books of quotations, as well as a range of subject-specific reference books.

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Oxford Reference: Philosophy
Limited to Philosophy subject dictionaries and encyclopedias.

Philosophy & Humanities Databases

Databases come from the Philosophy Databases by Subject page.

Humanities Source Ultimate
Area studies, theology, religion, performing arts, literary & political criticism, language & literature, music, philosophy, history, and classical studies, area studies, art, communications, dance, film, folklore, gender studies, and journalism.

Indexing from 1907, full text from 1942 to present
Philosopher's Index
Covers the fifteen fields of philosophy: aesthetics, axiology, philosophy of education, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of history, philosophy of language, logic, metaphysics, philosophical anthropology, metaphilosophy, political philosophy, philosophy of science, social philosophy, and the philosophy of religion.

1940 to present
Religion & Philosophy Collection
World religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy & the history of philosophy.

1975 to present.

Finding Dissertations

Databases come from the Dissertations & Theses Databases by Type page.

Dissertations & Theses Global
Multi-subject. World's largest collection of full text theses and dissertations. Contains 1.7 million full-text graduate works and 3.8 million abstracted or indexed records along with the ability to cross-search with other ProQuest resources.

1861 to present
OpenDissertations
Multidisciplinary. The only comprehensive record of dissertations accepted by American universities originally printed by H.W. Wilson Co. as the index Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities. This reproduction provides full page images of the original print index, and may be searched by author, title, subject and university.

1933-1955

Primary Resource Databases

Databases come from the Primary Resources page found on the Databases by Type page.

Gale Primary Sources
This database combines content from Thomson Gale's 19th Century UK Periodicals; 19th Century US Newspapers; Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO); The Making of the Modern World :The Goldsmiths’-Kress Library of Economic Literature, 1450-1850; 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers; Archives Unbound; Times Digital Archive; Illustrated London News Historical Archive; Sunday Times Digital Archive; American Civil Liberties Union Papers, 1912-1990; Archives of Sexuality & Gender; Associated Press Collections; British Library Newspapers; Sabin Americana, 1500-1926.
HathiTrust Digital Library
HathiTrust makes over 8.8 million volumes of digitized book and journal collections available from some of the nation’s great research libraries.
Multi-disciplinary & Multi-lingual

1600-present
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 & Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819
Contains virtually every book, pamphlet, and broadside published in the American colonies or the United States between 1639 and 1819. Among the vast range of publications included are: advertisements, almanacs, bibles, catalogs, charters and by-laws, contracts, cookbooks, elegies, eulogies, laws, maps, narratives, novels, operas, plays, poems, primers, sermons, songs, speeches, textbooks, tracts, travelogues, and treaties. Based upon records for Charles Evans American Bibliography and Ralph Shaw and Richard Shoemaker's American Bibliography.

1639 to 1819
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
American News. This is a searchable and continually growing database of over 2000 local U.S. newspapers with descriptive information and select digitization of historic pages. Selected pages represent a state's regional history, geographic coverage, and events in a particular time period.
Coverage: Full text 1789-1922, indexing from 1690 to present
African American Experience
African American history & culture from its African origins to the present day. It encompasses the myriad contributions of individuals from the African American community who have achieved prominence in the arts, entertainment, the sciences, business, the military, and politics as well as nameless others who endured the travails of slavery and institutionalized discrimination. Contains over 8,000 primary documents, including slave narratives, speeches, court cases, quotations, advertisements, statistics, 1,500 photographs, maps, and other images.
Coverage: Late 1700s to present