Research, Citation, & Class Guides: Philosophy 281: Social Philosophy: Research Databases

Journal Article Databases

Religion and Philosophy (Gale) Religion and Philosophy Collection provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that cover topics across a wide range of philosophies and religions. *See screenshot with tips below.*
Arts & Humanities Citation Index This segment of Web of Science indexes nearly 8,000 of the world's leading journals in arts and humanities.
This resource also tracks how many times an article has been cited since publication, finds relevant items which share one or more cited references, reviews cited references that link to a full record display, and searches all cited authors.

Additional resources may be found by searching general, multi-disciplinary databases, e.g., Academic OneFile or Academic Search Complete. Please consult the A-Z Databases list, especially databases tagged for the subject Philosophy & Religious Studies, or ask a professor or librarian for suggestions.

Current Issues

Use these databases to find articles about current issues from newspapers and other sources.

CQ Researcher
In-depth, authoritative, informative & persuasive reports on a full range of political and social-policy issues extending back to 1923.
Each report is footnoted and includes an overview, background section, chronology, bibliography, and debate-style pro-con feature, plus tools to study the evolution of the topic over time.
Academic Search Complete
Full-text access to articles from over 7,000 journals (including nearly 6,000 peer-reviewed journals), magazines, and reference sources.
“You may browse content on the EBSCOlearning site before registering. Once you locate an individual learning resource (tutorial, practice test, article, flashcards, or e-book), that you would like to use, you will be prompted to register before you can access it. Registration also gives you access to “My Center,” where you can save any learning resource in progress for future completion, or to reuse an item.”.
Please see EBSCOlearning Quick Start Guide for further instructions and information.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context (Gale)
Contextual topic overviews and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues. Links to content from magazines, academic journals, news, primary sources, multimedia, and vetted websites.

Philosophy Journals in JSTOR

JSTOR
JSTOR is a searchable multidisciplinary electronic journal archive providing full-text access to complete runs of back issues of scholarly journals in many fields, including philosophy.
Coverage varies by publication but typically begins with volume one of each title and continues to within 3 to 5 years of the most current issue.

Partial funding for Collections V and VI from the Russell Moratz estate. Partial funding for Collection VII provided by Student Technology Fees.

Philosophy Journals Held in JSTOR
Search or browse JSTOR's philosophy journals. Range of available years' full text included.

Religion and Philosophy Database Tips

Hints for Finding Articles in a Library Article Database

Hints for searching in an article database:

Put phrases in quotation marks (“ ”). A phrase is any two or more words next to each other.
For example: “united states”; “sierra leone”
Use the truncation symbol to get alternate endings to words
For example: imperial* = imperial, imperialism, imperialist
- The most common truncation symbol in the article databases is the asterisk (*). However, the symbol can be different, so if you don’t know for sure which symbol to use, ask a reference librarian.
Think of synonyms or other ways to say the same thing or to convey the same or similar ideas
For example: corruption; fraud; profiteer
- Then link the synonyms together with the word OR (this expands your search)
  For example: corruption OR profiteer*
Narrow your search by joining ideas together using the word AND
For example: madagascar AND military
Combine the AND and OR search by putting the synonyms in parentheses
For example: war AND (fraud OR profiteer* OR corrupt*)
Use the button if the article you want isn’t available in full text in the current database you are searching.
Use Interlibrary Loan (ILLiad) to request an article that we don’t have online or in print from another library.

Find the Full Text

Most databases have both full text articles and article citations. When an article is not available in full text, use the button to determine if Andersen Library has the article.

Click the Find It button displayed near article citation.

You will be linked to Research@UWW away from the database you are searching in.

1 of 3 options will be available to you:

1.) If we have access to the article, a link to the article in the database that it is available will display under the View It tab.

Simply click on the link provided, and you will be linked to the full text article to view in a library database.

2.)If we only have access to the article in print, the Get It tab will display. This will show you the location of where you can find the article in Andersen Library.

3.) If neither of the first two options are available, you will see a link that says We can get it for you! (Document Delivery/Illiad) under the Get It tab.

Simply login with your Net ID, and click request. We will do our best to find the article for you by requesting a copy from another library. This is available free of charge to students and faculty. Please allow up to 3-4 days for your request to be filled. Articles can be accessed by logging into My ILLiad located on the library homepage. You will receive an e-mail to your UWW e-mail account when the article becomes available.