LibGuides: Philosophy: Databases

Databases

A database is an index to journal articles. It contains information about the articles including the author, title, source, year published, and often an abstract, which helps you locate them within the database. The database does not hold articles, instead containing only the information needed to find the articles. Many databases have links to the full-text.

The ANU Library subscribes to approximately 540 scholarly databases, containing millions of searchable items, including journal and newspaper articles, images, streaming videos, music and other academic publications.

Explore our databases here: e-resources and databases.

Please note the databases listed are available to ANU students and staff on an off-campus. Login and password are required for remote access - remember to select the option 'ANU Library Home Page'.

Key Philosophy databases

The databases listed here can be used to find scholarly journal articles. If you are not sure where to begin your research, these are good places to start.

Project MUSE
Project Muse dates from 1995 to present and is an electronic journal collection of full text/full image scholarly journals in the humanities, the arts and the social sciences from Johns Hopkins University Press and other University presses.
Philosopher's Index
The Philosopher's Index with Full Text is international in scope and offers content from 139 countries. Subjects covered include Aesthetics, Axiology, Ethics, Logic, Philosophical Anthropology, Philosophy of Education, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Science and many more.
Philosophy Documentation Center
A small collection of journals published by the Philosophy Documentation Center.
JSTOR
JSTOR is a full-text archive of academic journals along with thousands of monographs and other materials relevant for study and research.
PhilPapers
PhilPapers is a comprehensive index and bibliography of philosophy maintained by the community of philosophers. We monitor all sources of research content in philosophy, including journals, books, open access archives, and personal pages maintained by academics. We also host the largest open access archive in philosophy.

Humanities Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
Offers full text, abstracts and bibliographic indexing of the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities, as well as specialized magazines. Among the disciplines included are: literature and language, history, philosophy, archaeology, classical studies, folklore, gender studies, performing arts, religion and theology. Content includes feature articles, interviews, bibliographies, obituaries, and original works of fiction, drama, poetry and reviews.
Web of Science
This database has bibliographic records with abstracts for about 70% of the science citations and 60% of the social sciences citations. Contains Science Citation Index Expanded 1900-; Social Sciences Citation Index 1956-, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index from 1975. It allows the identification of key articles in a discipline and to search by cited reference that is to trace references that refer to a particular work or author.