First: your last resort!
ILLiad
Tufts' online Inter-Library Loan request system for all items (anywhere in the world) not available through the BLC, and for all journal articles.
Virtual Catalog of the Boston Library Consortium
An online inter-library request system, involving just the libraries part of the Boston Library Consortium (BLC)--the advantage is that it can deliver items sooner than an ILLiad request. Use your library barcode number (on the back of your ID) to access the database. NOT for article requesting (use ILLiad).
WorldCat
A catalog of materials held by libraries worldwide, including books, periodicals, sound recordings, musical scores, videos, manuscripts, and maps. Search this if you are looking for a specific item not available at Tufts; it will show you the libraries that own the item and will help you choose between using the BLC Virtual Catalog and ILLiad.
Dissertation Abstracts (1861-present)
Selectively covers masters theses and dissertations including dissertations from Canada, Great Britain, and Europe.
General Reference and Interdisciplinary resources
Search for books and articles using the Tufts Library Catalog
Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press, c.2002-
Provides web access to 100 major Oxford University Press dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference works in the humanities, social sciences, foreign languages, science, technology and medicine, the performing arts, and religion. Works can be searched separately or across the entire databases. Includes over 1.5 million entries. Philosophy titles include:
- The Oxford Companion to Philosophy
- The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy
Credo Reference
Provides access to 162 online reference resources from numerous publishers. The collection features over 2 million entries; 180,000 audio pronunciation files; 66,000 art, science, and medical images; and 90,000 atlas images of places and geographic features throughout the world. Philosophy titles include:
- A Dictionary of Philosophy (Macmillan)
- Bloomsbury Guide to Human Thought
- The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy
Expanded Academic ASAP (1980-present)
Articles from more than 1,500 scholarly, trade, and general-interest publications, including national news and commentary. Coverage is from 1980 to current and is updated daily. Some full text is available.
Lexis-Nexis
Major full-text resource including articles from major American newspapers, in addition to many periodicals and regional papers, among other sources.
MLA International Bibliography
An international index to books and journals on the modern languages and literatures, including linguistics and folklore.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1974-present)
Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It covers 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, and it indexes individually selected items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.
FULL-TEXT JSTOR Warning: JSTOR's most recent articles are normally 5 years old or older; go elsewhere for the very latest research!
For a list of Philosophy journals covered in JSTOR, click here.
FULL-TEXT Project MUSE
For a list of Philosophy journals found in Project MUSE, click here.
Philosophy-specific sources
Philosophers Index
The Philosopher's Index provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language.
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Contains full content of the original 10-volume set on subject matters including Anglo-American, ethical and political, cross-cultural, interdisciplinary, continental and contemporary philosophy. Also includes regularly added new articles, as well as editorially reviewed links to other sites and resources on the web.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
A dynamic reference work in which each entry is written and kept up to date by an expert or group of experts in the field. The Encyclopedia is a publishing project of the Metaphysics Research Lab at the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI) at Stanford University.
For historical research:
International Medieval Bibliography. Brepols, 1967-
An international index to medieval topics (400-1500) in literature, language, history, archaeology, art, music, theater, Arabic and Islamic studies, and religion and philosophy. IMB covers 4,500 journals and over 5,000 miscellany volumes in 30 languages.
L'Année Philologique
Online edition of the annual bibliography of classical studies, containing, as of January 2003, entries from 1969-1999. Future updates will add both more recent entries as well as earlier volumes. Use in conjunction with printed volumes covering earlier years at Tisch Reference Z7016 .A5.
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