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PhilPapers: Philosophical Research Online
(c. 1930s to present; coverage varies by journal) A comprehensive index of philosophy journal articles, books, book chapters, and reviews. Includes real-time indexing of pre-prints, links to Open Access archives and philosopher's personal Web pages, fine-grained classification by topic, email alerts, reading lists, discussion forums, and more.

PhilPapers is sponsored by the Centre for Digital Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario, the American Philosophical Association, the Institute of Philosophy, and academic libraries, including the Davidson College Library.

Multidisciplinary databases cover many subjects, including philosophy. These can be especially if you are researching a topic that touches both on philosophy and other subjects.

JSTOR
JSTOR access includes over 50,000 eBooks; full-text archive of the back issues of major scholarly journals; 19th Century British Pamphlets, a collection of journals, monographs, and manuscripts related to Ireland, and some current journal issues. The eBooks work just like journals, offering unlimited use and DRM-free chapter downloads in PDF format.
ProQuest Research Tools
Now our largest collection of full-text article databases!
(c. 1800 to present) Multidisciplinary collection of full-text journal, magazine, and newspaper articles, e-books, dissertations, and more. Also contains citations to additional materials. Includes all of our ProQuest databases.
Project MUSE
(c. mid-1990s to present) A collection of over 700 full-text journals and more than 65,000 eBooks published by university and scholarly presses. Covers the humanities and social sciences. Titles are DRM-free allowing for unlimited access, downloading and printing, and simultaneous usage.

The MUSE platform offers 100% complete, full-text, journal, book, and related content from over 200 not-for-profit publishers including many of the world's most distinguished university presses, scholarly societies, independent publishers, and academic departments.

Index Islamicus
(1906 to present) Citations to articles from over 3,000 journals as well as books, conference proceedings, and book reviews. Covers a wide variety of subjects and topics related to Islam, the Middle East, and the Muslim world including art, economics, history, law, literature, philosophy, political science, and religion.

Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) Online
(1971 to present) Citations to articles, essays in edited collections, conference proceedings, and other materials on all subjects, with a focus on humanities and social sciences, related to East, Southeast, and South Asia. Also lists books published between 1971 and 1992. International in scope; most citations are to works written in Western languages.

Art Abstracts & Art Index Retrospective
(1929 to present) Art Abstracts is an art research database providing indexing and abstracts for national and international art journals and art dissertations. Art Index Retrospective is an archive of art literature with indexed publications including journals, book reviews, interviews, anthologies and more.
Subjects covered include art history, archaeology, architecture, decorative art, film, folk art, graphic art, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, museology, photography, and sculpture.

Dissertations are documents produced as part of a degree, typically a PhD, but sometimes a Masters or Undergraduate Degree. These sources are often very topic focused and have rich references.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global
(1743 to present) Over 3.8 million citations to doctoral dissertations and masters theses from North America; over 2.1 million of these (most dating from 1997 to present) are available full text. Also includes a growing number of dissertations from international universities, including University College London, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and the Universities of Aberdeen, Bath, Cardiff, Leicester, and Valencia.

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