Databases for Philosophy
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For the most up-to-date list of databases, please go to the Find Database function of Brandeis Scholar.
To search across multiple databases at one time, use the QuickSearch function of Brandeis Scholar.
Key Databases
- Philosophers Index
- Indexes journals and some books in English, French, Spanish, German and Italian covering scholarly research in fifteen fields of philosophy, 1940 to present
Additional Databases
- American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies Online
- Indexes articles, books, book reviews, dissertations, and selected government publications on East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union published in the United States and Canada, 1990-present
- ARTFL Project (University of Chicago)

- Database of full text, reference material and Web links to French and Italian literature, including French texts, Italian texts prior to 1375, pamphlets and periodicals of the 1848 French Revolution, French and French-English dictionaries, the French Bible, and parallel Latin, English and German Bibles
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index (Web of Science)
- Indexes over 1,000 scholarly journals from the arts and humanities. Unique feature allows access to the indexed articles' cited references (i.e. the bibliographies or reference list). Enables the researcher to see the relationships between the older cited references and the current work, 1975 to present
- ATLA Religion Database
- Indexes journal articles, books and dissertations on all aspects of world religions, 1949 to present
- L'Année Philologique
- Indexes publications covering all aspects of Greco-Roman antiquity. Based on L'Année Philologique print volumes 40-70. Supercedes the CD Database of Classical Bibliography and is used in conjunction with earlier printed volumes. Includes Greek and Latin language and linguistics, Greek and Roman history, literature, philosophy, religion, arts, mythology, music, science, archaeology, early Christian texts, papyrology, and epigraphy, 1969-1999
- Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
- Indexes articles and reviews on the Middle Ages and Renaissance from over 1,114 journals, and provides other scholarly resources, 1843 to present
- Past Masters

- Full-text standard editions of major works in the humanities, in both original language and in English translation
- Victorian Database Online
- Indexes books, articles and dissertations on the British Victorian period (1830 - 1914), published from 1945 to present
Multidisciplinary Databases
- ArticleFirst
- Indexes table of contents pages of more than 12,000 journals in all fields, 1990 to present
- Dissertation Abstracts
- Indexes and abstracts dissertations accepted at accredited U.S. institutions (selectively covers Canadian, British and European dissertations, and masters theses), 1861 to present
See also Current Research @ Brandeis University for current Brandeis theses, 1960-present, with downloadable full text for 1996-present
- Electronic Collections Online (ECO)
- Indexes over 1300 scholarly journals in a variety of subject areas and disciplines. Contains a limited number of full-text titles, 1995 to present
- Expanded Academic ASAP

- Indexes and provides full text to thousands of journals and magazines in all fields, including academic disciplines, business, and health, 1980 to present
- JSTOR

- Indexes and provides full-text to the older issues of over 100 scholarly journal titles from most disciplines, 1800s to the recent 2-5 years
- PapersFirst
- Indexes papers received at The British Library presented at conferences, congresses, expositions, workshops, symposia and meetings, 1993 to present
- ProceedingsFirst
- Indexes publications from every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received at The British Library, 1993 to present
- Project Muse

- Full text access to over 160 journal titles, the bulk of which are produced by university presses
- Academic Search Premier

- Provides full text and indexing of thousands of journals in all academic fields. Dates vary according to publication
- WorldCat
- Books and other materials held in most academic, research and large public libraries worldwide
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