• Books in Miller Library:
  
  
  • Reference:
    
    
    • Online:
      
      
      • Concise Companion to the Jewish Religion
      • Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
      • Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
      • Dictionary of Buddhism
      • Dictionary of the Bible
      • Encyclopaedia Britannica
      • Oxford Companion to the Bible
      • Oxford Companion to Philosophy
      • Oxford Dictionary of Islam
      • Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy
        
        
    • Print:
      
      
      • Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy
      • Dictionary of World Philosophy
      • Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy
      • Encyclopedia of Philosophy
      • Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment
      • Handbook of World Philosophy: Contemporary Developments Since 1945
      • Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
    
    
    
• Books in the main collection:
  
  
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    • uses Library of Congress classification system
      • B = Philosophy. Psychology. Religion.
        
        
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      • start with major headings and then skim the subheadings, e.g.:
        
        
    • Faith
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    • Plato
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    • Sartre, Jean Paul
    • Freud, Sigmund
      
      
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• For books not in the library, order through Interlibrary Loan
• free, online order form, budget 1-2 weeks

• Academic Search Premier
  • 4,500+ general and academic journals
  • coverage 1985+
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• JSTOR
  • indexes 440+ of the most prestigious scholarly journals
  • provides all years of all journals except for the most recent 3-5 years
  • full-text
  
  
• Philosopher's Index
  • the professional bibliographic database covering scholarly research in all areas of philosophy
  • indexes books, articles from over 550 journals, book chapters in anthologies, book reviews
  • coverage from 1940+
  • abstracts
    
    
• Project MUSE
  • 250+ scholarly journals, primarily in the humanities
  • coverage from 1983+
  • mostly full-text
    
    
• WilsonWeb
  • 3,500+ general and academic journals
  • two components: OmniFile Full Text Mega; Humanities & Social Sci Retro
  • OmniFile Full Text Mega: indexing begins in 1982, abstracts in 1984, and full-text in 1994
  • Humanities & Social Sci Retro: index only, 1907-1984
  • 1,750 journals are full-text
    
    

• Check journal titles in Journal Finder, the library's list of full-text electronic periodicals
  
  
• For articles not in the library, order through Interlibrary Loan
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• Lexis-Nexis Academic
  • 5,900+ national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources
  • coverage varies but basically back to 1990
  • full-text
    
    
• New York Times (1851-2001)
  • the complete newspaper (text, graphs, photos, etc.) in digital form

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• EpistemeLinks.com
  • over 13,000 categorized links to philosophy resources on the internet.
    
    
• Guide to Philosophy on the Internet (Earlham College)
  
  
• The Last Days of Socrates (Clarke College)
  • designed to help first year philosophy students read the Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and the death scene from the Phaedo
    
    
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Stanford University)
  
  
• Google Directory: Philosophy
  
  
• Yahoo! Directory: Philosophy

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• Hacker Online
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