Basic Library Resources in Philosophy
Information Competence Project
Department of Philosophy
California State University, Long Beach

 
Books   Reference Books and Links   Periodical and Article Indexes   Web Sites
 
BOOKS

COAST Library Catalog of Books: http://www.coast.csulb.edu/

Your doorway to what we have in the University Library including 1.25 million books, some over 500 years old
REFERENCE BOOKS and LINKS

Biographical dictionary of twentieth-century philosophers. REF B104 .B5 1996

Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names: http://www.philosophypages.com/dy/

Encyclopedia of classical philosophy. REF B163 .E53 1997.

The encyclopedia of Eastern philosophy and religion: Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Zen.
REF BL1005 .L4813 1989.

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy: (REF B51 R68 1998). Important multi-volume encyclopedia.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: http://plato.stanford.edu/

PERIODICAL & ARTICLE INDEXES

Academic Search Elite: http://www.csulb.edu/library/eref/eref.html#A

Covers nearly 1400 full text journal titles including some major philosophy journals. Coverage goes back to the early 1990s.
Bioethicsline has been integrated into the “National Library of Medicine Gateway” http://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/databases_bioethics.html
Ethical, legal, and public policy issues in health care and biomedical research, focusing on topics such as abortion, AIDS, euthanasia, in-vitro fertilization, surrogate motherhood, genetic engineering, and informed consent. Information is taken from the English-language literature of law, religion, social sciences, philosophy, popular media, and health sciences. Database goes back to the early 1960s.
Ebsco Online. http://www.csulb.edu/library/eref/eref.html#E
A full text journal “aggregator”. It includes a good number of important philosophy journals.
Humanities Abstracts. http://www.csulb.edu/library/eref/eref.html#H
More than 400 periodicals on archaeology, art, classics, film, folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, the performing arts, philosophy, religion, world history, and world literature. Available online 1983 to date. Print index goes back to 1974.
International Directory of Online Philosophy Papers. http://www.hku.hk/philodep/directory/
500 philosophy papers for online distribution
JSTOR: Journal Storage Online. http://www.csulb.edu/library/eref/eref.html#J
A full text database of searchable archived journals. It includes the following titles from their earliest publication until 1998. Ethics; International Journal of Ethics; Journal of Philosophy; Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods; Journal of Symbolic Logic; Mind; Nous; Philosophical Perspectives; Philosophical Quarterly; Philosophical Review; Philosophy and Phenomenological Research; Philosophy and Public Affairs.
Paideia Project Online, The Paideia Archive. http://www.bu.edu/wcp/PaidArch.html
Contains more than 900 philosophy papers from the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy.
Philosophers Index: http://www.csulb.edu/library/eref/eref.html#P
An international index with abstracts from more than 400 philosophy journals and books. Coverage goes back to 1940.
Project Muse: http://www.csulb.edu/library/eref/eref.html#P
Full text electronic access to 180 scholarly journals including the following philosophy journals: Hypatia, Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, Philosophy and Literature, Philosophy and Rhetoric, Philosophy East and West, Ethics and the Environment, Perspectives in Biology & Medicine, Perspectives on Science, Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology.


WEB SITES

American Philosophical Association: http://www.apa.udel.edu/apa/index.html

Guide to Philosophy on the Internet: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/philinks.htm

Very comprehensive
HIPPAS: Limited Area Search of Philosophy on the Internet: http://hippias.evansville.edu/

Philosophy in Cyberspace: http://www-personal.monash.edu.au/~dey/phil/

A comprehensive guide to the world of philosophy with evaluated, annotated links to resources on such topics as aesthetics, ethics, feminism, logic, epistemology, metaphysics.
Philosophy pages from Garth Kemerling: http://www.philosophypages.com/
“This site offers helpful information for students of the Western philosophical tradition. “
This page prepared for the Department of Philosophy by Greg Armento, CSULB Philosophy Librarian.
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Last updated: June 11, 2002