Philosophy Databases
Humanities International Complete
This is a comprehensive database of humanities content which provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. Produced by Whitston Publishing, it provides indexing and abstracting for over 1,700 journals and contains more than 1.5 million records.
·Type: citations and full text
Academic Search Premier
This multi-disciplinary database contains indexing for over 8,000 publications covering virtually every area of academic study. More than 3,600 of these are peer-reviewed, full text journals.
· Coverage: 1975 - (for more than 100 of the journals)
· Type: citations, abstracts and full-text
ArticleFirst - OCLC
Contains bibliographic citations that describe items listed on the table of contents pages of journals in science, technology, medicine, social sciences, business, the humanities, and popular culture. Allows you to limit your search results to a specific library's holdings (e.g. Redeemer's or McMaster's).
· Coverage and update frequency: Jan. 1990-; daily
· Citations
WorldCat Database (the OCLC Union Catalog)
The world's most comprehensive bibliography, with more than 48 million bibliographic records representing books and other materials (but not journal articles) in 400 languages. Covers information back to 2100 B.C. Includes holdings information from libraries across the world as well as records describing selected internet resources. Includes the
Library of Congress Subject Headings as its thesaurus. Allows you to limit your search results to a specific library's holdings (e.g. Redeemer's or McMaster's).
· Coverage and update frequency: back to approx. 2100 B.C.; daily
Anthropological Index Online
· "Based on the journal holdings of The Anthropology Library at the The British Museum (Museum of Mankind) which receives periodicals in all branches of anthropology, from academic institutions and publishers around the world."
· Coverage: 1957-
Internet Library of Early Journals
Makes available considerable amounts of early journals - 18th C journals:
Gentleman's Magazine,
The Annual Register,
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society; 19th C journals:
Notes and Queries,
The Builder,
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. This database is a joint project of the Universities of Birmingham Leeds, Manchester, and Oxford.
· Coverage: 1731-1869
· Type: full text
TOCS-IN [Tables of Contents of Journals of Interest to Classicists]
Table of contents for approximately 160 journals and over 23,000 articles in Classics, Near Eastern Studies, and Religion. Citations with some (about 6%) links to full text.
·000 Coverage: 1992-
·111 Type: citations with some links to full text
ATLA Religion Database - American Theological Library Association
A database designed to support religious and theological scholarship. Contains citations from international monographs, journal articles, essays in multi-author works, and book reviews.
·222 Coverage and update frequency: 1949-; semi-annually
·333 Citations, abstracts and some links to full text
Project Gutenberg
A collection of public domain books in electronic format. Mainly comprised of classic literature.
·444 Coverage: 1400-
·555 Type: full text