Electronic Databases
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- Academic Search Elite Abstracts and full text journal articles in all subject categories.
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index A citation index can be searched by author, topic and citation.
- Humanities Full Text Covers the fields of art, history, communications, language and literature, literary and political criticism, philosophy and religion. Full text.
- Humanities International Index A comprehensive database covering journals, books and other important reference sources in the humanities. Provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracting for over 1,700 journals and contains more than 1.5 million records.
- Readers' Guide Full Text
Indexes and abstracts from more than 400 popular journals, from as far back as 1983. Also available in print, Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, 1900 - 1982 (Reference Area)
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy "An online encyclopedia covering a variety of philosophical topics. This resource is continuously updated by discipline experts with each entry reviewed by an editorial board prior to publication. Coverage: entries written from 1995 - present."
- General Electronic Databases
Print Resources
- Philosopher's Index (Reference Area)
Comprehensive Sites on Philosophy
- ALEX Catalog of Electronic Texts Collection of digital documents collected in the subject areas of English literature, American literature, and Western philosophy.
- American Philosophical AssociationIncludes APA membership information, job opportunities, and other useful information about the discipline as well as the association.
- English Server Philosophy pageExtensive set of electronic texts which are divided by philosopher.
- Guide to Philosophy on the Internet May be the most comprehensive collection of philosophy resources on the Internet.
- Noesis: Philosophical Research On-Line This site, maintained by the University of Evansville (Indiana), provides an encyclopedic collection of web resources in philosophy. Browse by author or collection indexes or search by keyword, limited by essays, lectures, images, reviews, texts, or tools.
- Philosophy JumpStationLinks to hundreds of philosophy web sites from University of Hong Kong.
- Philosophy Research Base A meta-index of Internet philosophy resources.
- Other Philosophy Sites and Projects Maintained by Alan Liu from the University of California at Santa Barbara.
- University of Chicago Philosophy ProjectThis site provides a forum for electronically mediated scholarly discussion of philosophical works.
- Yahoo! Site for Philosophy
Related Sites at UW-Platteville/Karrmann Library
Philosophy at UW-Platteville
- The Philosophy Office is located in 349 Gardner and the contact person is Patrick Hagen. For a listing of courses or for more information on this program, call (608) 342-1826.
- John Berg is the Karrmann Library's liaison to the Philosophy program. Contact John at (608) 342-1355 for individualized consultations and/or library instruction sessions in Philosophy. His email address is bergjo@uwplatt.edu