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Philosophy & Religion Databases

Philosopher’s Index
Provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields.
Via Bard. Password required for all access. More access info.

General Databases

Academic Search Premier full text
Provides full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. More database info.
A (largely) full-text database. Off-campus access with I.D. number. More access info.

AHSearch
Arts and Humanities Citation Index. More database info.
Off-campus access with I.D. number. More access info.

Biography Resource Center full text
Biographies from Gale Group sources and full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Includes Contemporary Authors, The Complete Marquis Who's Who, and many other biographical resources. More database info.
A full-text database. Off-campus access with I.D. number. More access info.

Encyclopaedia Britannica Online full text
The full-text online version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
A full-text database. Off-campus access with I.D. number. More access info.

Essay and General Literature Index
A citation index to essays and articles contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. Focuses on the humanities and social sciences.
Via Bard. Password required for all access. More access info.

Expanded Academic ASAP full text
Meets research needs across all academic disciplines, from arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology.
A full-text database. Off-campus access with I.D. number. More access info.

Lexis-Nexis Universe full text
Provides full-text documents from over 5,900 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications with a variety of flexible search options. More database info.
A full-text database. Off-campus access with I.D. number. More access info.

Periodical Abstracts
Periodical abstracts from general and academic journals. More database info.
Off-campus access with I.D. number. More access info.

Proceedings First
An OCLC index of worldwide conference proceedings. More database info.
Off-campus access with I.D. number. More access info.

Project Gutenberg full text
An organization dedicated to publishing free books online. Most of the material is from before 1923 (due to copyright considerations). "So you won't find the latest bestsellers or modern computer books here. You will find the classic books from the start of this century [i.e., the Twentieth] and previous centuries." Over 17,000 books are available, all digitized by volunteers. More database info.
A full-text database. Open access from anywhere.

WorldCat
OCLC catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide. More database info.
Off-campus access with I.D. number. More access info.

Journal Collections

Academic OneFile full text
Academic OneFile is a collection of more than 8,000 journals with full manual indexing, a robust backfile and coverage of a variety of academic disciplines -- from science, technology and medicine to the humanities, and includes full-text of major newspapers. Content is provided in both HTML and PDF formats. More database info.
A full-text database. Off-campus access with I.D. number. More access info.

JSTOR full text
A collection of full-text scholarly journals. More database info.
A full-text database. Off-campus access with I.D. number. More access info.

Project Muse full text
Provides access to the full text of more than 200 scholarly journals in arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics.
A full-text database. Off-campus access with I.D. number. More access info.

How to Find a Specific Journal

Simon’s Rock Full Text Journals
A searchable database of all the journals, magazines, and newspapers available to the Simon's Rock Community, both in print and online.
Works best from on-campus. More access info.

Philosophy & Religion Websites

Adherents.com
A growing collection of over 41,000 adherent statistics and religious geography citations — references to published membership/adherent statistics and congregation statistics for over 4,200 religions, churches, denominations, religious bodies, faith groups, tribes, cultures, movements, ultimate concerns, etc.
Open access from anywhere.

King James Bible
A searchable version from the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library.
Open access from anywhere.

Philosophy Pages
By Garth Kemerling. A huge amount of information for students of Western philosophy, including dictionaries, historical surveys, study guides, and more.
Open access from anywhere.

E. F. Schumacher Society Library
Search the on-line catalog of this local research library for titles on the world's major religions, including spiritual foundations for economic reform, social justice and environmental conservation (including 350 titles from E. F. Schumacher's personal collection). It also houses published and unpublished literature on peace, non-violence and concientious objection.
Open access from anywhere.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
A dynamic reference work and publishing project of the Metaphysics Research Lab at the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI) at Stanford University.
Open access from anywhere.

General Websites

Google Scholar full text
The ever-ambitious Google’s attempt to index “scholarly” information on the web. Not exhaustive or entirely reliable (the project is still in development), but worth a try if you’ve drawn a blank everywhere else. Note that many of the articles indexed require payment for viewing (though you can usually obtain the article citation for free). More database info.
Limited full-text. Open access from anywhere.