Research Guide for Philosophy

• Finding Articles
• Finding Authoritative Web Sites
• Finding Books, Videos, DVDs, & CDs

FINDING ARTICLES

Philosophy Database

Philosopher’s Index

Philosopher's Index provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy. This database does not contain the full text of articles.

Databases with Philosophy Sources

JSTOR

JSTOR is a non-profit organization that archives scanned images of journal issues and pages. Alvernia College has access to the Arts & Sciences I, II and IV Collections. These collections include many of the core research and society published journals in key fields in the humanities and social sciences, and a limited number of journals in the sciences.

Religion

EBSCO's Religion searches two databases, ATLA Religion Database ™ and the multidisciplinary Academic Search ™ Premier. These databases provide information on topics such as world religions, church history, and religion in social issues. The full text of over 80 philosophy journals is included in this group of databases.

FINDING AUTHORITATIVE WEB SITES

Alvernia Library’s Internet Reference Library

The Internet Reference Library has a list of selected Philosophy Web sites. The Internet Reference Library can be accessed from the Electronic Resources page of the Library Web site

Alvernia Library Research Page

The Research Guides page, listed under Research Help on the Alvernia Library Research page, links to sources for finding and evaluating Web sites.

Brodart DartClix

The Brodart DartClix consists of 16,000 professionally selected Web sites.

FINDING BOOKS, VIDEOS, DVDS, & CDS

NetLibrary eBooks

A collection of over 12,000 eBooks is now accessible from NetLibrary. eBooks are full text electronic versions that can be borrowed and returned over the Internet. To access eBooks from off-campus, you must first Create A Free Account from a computer on the Alvernia College computer network.

Examples of philosophy ebooks include:

• History of Western Philosophy (2004)
• Indian Philosophy: An Introduction to Hindu and Budhist Thought (1999)
• A Materialist Theory of the Mind (2003)
• Onflow: Dynamics of Consciousness and Experience (2005)
• Philosophy and Theology in the Middle Ages (2003)
  

WorldCat 100 million records

This Online Union Catalog lists holdings from libraries across the world. Searches can be conducted across all libraries or limited to the Alvernia Library collection. Searches can also be limited to specific types of documents such as books, visual materials and Internet resources. (dates of coverage: 2100 B.C. – present)

Requesting a book from this collection only takes a minute. Click on the Borrow this item from another library link. Submit the form with your Alvernia ID number and allow two weeks for delivery of the requested book.

Alvernia's Catalog

Alvernia's Catalog is the best tool for finding items in Alvernia Library's collection. You can search for books, audiobooks, books in the Best Seller collection, audio-visual materials (videos, DVD's and CD's), course reserves, and journals in our print collection. Item records indicate if the item is available. Students, faculty and staff with an Alvernia ID card can place a hold on items that are currently in circulation.

The Dewey Decimal System is used to classify books in the Alvernia Library collection. Most works on philosophy are located in the 100 to 109 section.

Examples of books with background information on philosophy are listed below:

Great Books of the Western World R082 G786

World Philosophy: Essay-Reviews of 225 Major Works R100 W927

The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy R103 B628o

The Encyclopedia of Philosophy R103 E56

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy R103 R869

Masterpieces of World Philosophy R108.2 M194m

World Philosophers and Their Works R109 W927 2000

The Encyclopedia of Classical Philosophy R180.3 E56

Chinese Philosophy R181.11 E56 2003

Great Thinkers of the Western World R190 G786 1992

Updated: July 10, 2008

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