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        Selected Philosophy Resources  

 

Contemporary Articles/Books - Historical Books - Dissertations - Reference Sources - Videos - Web Sites - Book Reviews

 

 

Indexes to Contemporary Journal Articles and Books  
 

Philosopher's Index (Columbus campus only; Index to published literature)
 

Index to Articles in Classical Studies Journals

International Medieval Bibliography
    (1967-present; Interdisciplinary search for articles and books)  You also have simultaneous access to the
Bibliographie de Civilisation Médiévale.

International Bibliography of Periodical Literature (IBZ)  1983
Indexes
social science and humanities literature in scholarly western language publications, particularly in English, German and French.  Library owns older paper indexes back to 1897 at SUL Library - AI9 .I6 (1965-present), AI9B5, AI9B52, AI9B58 (1897-1964).

Arts and Humanities Citation Index
    Keyword and cited reference searching in thousands of journals.  Excellent source of book reviews.

JSTOR   
 Online access and search of digitized journals in philosophy and other fields.  You may limit a search to book reviews.    Does not include the last 3-5 years of issues.

L'Annee PhilologiqueBibliographie Critique et Analytique de L'antiquite Greco‑Latine1949-  (Print index 1924- at Z7016M36 in Sullivant Library)          
Important index to literature on ancient history, culture and philosophy.  Suggestion:  for subject searches use "full text" search or browse using "subject and discipline" search.  You may limit to a language and then combine with your subject search.  For search help see the help link.

Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies
Index to social sciences and humanities books, manuscripts, dissertations, and articles
published in the Commonwealth of Independent States and Eastern Europe.

Francis
Index to
International, multilingual, multidisciplinary resources in the humanities and social sciences

 

Oxford Scholarship Online (Oxford University Press Books in Philosophy
 
Search and read selected OUP books in philosophy.  You search the collection, bookmark selections or pages for direct access, and use links for electronic reading lists.  See the list of philosophy books available (January 2007).

 

Ethics on the Web
    Articles, chapters, legal information, books, av, news on bioethics and prof. ethics

Genetics and Ethics
    Articles, chapters, legal information, books, av

PhilSci Archive
    Philosophy of science article preprint database

 

Historical Books  
 

Past Masters Online (Full text access to
Augustine, St. (354-430) Opera Omnia

Berkeley, George (1685-1753), Works of George Berkeley
Descartes
, Rene (1596-1650) Oeuvres completes de Rene Descartes
Hume, David (1711-1776) Complete Works and Correspondence of David Hume
Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804) Gesammelte Schriften
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (1646-1716) Philosophische Schriften
Locke, John (1632-1704) Philosophical works
Political Philosophy from Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Rousseau, Hamilton, Madison, Jay, Burke, Paine,
       Bentham, Mill

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm (1844-1900) Werke
Thomas Aquinas, St. (1224-1274), Collected Works (English translation)
Wittgenstein, Ludwig (1889-1951) Collected Works (English translation)
 

Early English Books Online (Full text images of selected books 1475-1700)

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (Searchable, full text images of books from the 18th century) 

 

Dissertations  
 

Dissertation Abstracts International   
Identify PhD dissertations in your research area. Download text since 1997 and selected titles prior to 1997. Order via Interlibrary Loan when full text is not available. 

Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
Digitized, searchable theses and dissertations from participating institutions

Index to Theses (Great Britain and Ireland)1970-
  British dissertations available via Interlibrary Loan.

Theses Canada Portal
  All theses in Library and Archives Canada's theses collection, which was established in 1965; includes some pdf electronic theses

Australasian Digital Theses
Digitized, searchable theses from Australian universities

 

Reference Sources  
 

Oxford Companion to Philosophy (2005 edition) 
Guidance to all areas of philosophy and to the ideas of all notable philosophers from antiquity to the present day

Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy (2003 edition)
Brief entries cover the entire span of philosophy

Encyclopedia of Philosophy, second edition (Gale/Macmillan, 2005) 
Print edition 10 volumes: B51E49 2005 in SUL

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy  

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy  (Routledge, 1998)
Check-out CD-ROM from depository; Paper edition in 10 volumes: B51 .R68 1998 in SUL

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy only on the internet

 

Philosophy Videos
 

Online videos produced by the British Broadcasting Co. from Ohiolink Digital Media Center
Select Religion & Philosophy or Philosophy & Ethics from the subject listReligion & Philosophy section includes videos for Descartes
; Locke & Berkeley; Frege & Russell and Modern Logic; Medieval Philosophy-Thomas Aquinas; Hegel & Marx; Nietzsche; Hume; Plato; Husserl; Heidegger & Modern Existentialism; Schopenhauer; Kant; Spinoza & Leibniz; Wittgenstein; American Pragmatists: S. Peirce & William James & John Dewey
 

Web Sites and Links
 

Erratic Impact: Philosophy Research Base

Guide to Philosophy on the Internet

The Philosopher's Magazine Online

 

Book Reviews
 

H-NET Reviews
Book reviews in Social Sci. and Humanities.  Full text and searchable

JSTOR
Full text of reviews.  (Search for book title, check one or more journal categories, check "reviews" instead of articles.  JSTOR is excellent for published books prior to the past 7 years.

Arts and Humanities Citation Index
   Excellent source of book reviews.  Do a "cited reference" search and limit to book reviews.

Book Review Digest  1905-2004 in paper in SUL Reference, Z1219B72.
Indexes popular and some scholarly reviews.  Some links to full text

Book Review Index   1965-  
Comprehensive index to scholarly reviews.  Also available in paper shelved with Indexes in Main Reference.

The Nation Digital Archive 1865- 
Search and read full text facsimile of the periodical

Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Humanities Journals, 1802-1974
Available as paper index. Find with Indexes in Main Reference.

Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Scholarly Journals, 1886-1974.
Available as paper index. Find with Indexes in Main Reference.

International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature on the Humanities and Social Sciences. 1985-present. 
Also available
as paper index. Find in SUL 1996- , Z5051 .I64 and in the Depository (1971-1995).   Indexes book reviews in scholarly, western language publications.

 

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Compiled by David Lincove, History, Political Science & Philosophy Librarian, Ohio State University Libraries, Columbus