A database is an an electronic collection of information organized to help patrons access relevant information. Unlike search engines, databases are extensively tagged to help patrons find information and include citations. Below you will find lists of databases ranging from general to highly specific.
If you would like to begin with a broad search, try searching in OneSearch@IU, our resources which brings together much of IU Libraries' content, allowing one to simultaneously search IUCAT, scholarly article databases, news and popular publications to retrieve a wide range of materials across subject areas.
Below we have broken our Philosophy databases into two sections: Specialized Databases and Databases by Period. The specialized databases would be useful if you are searching topics that are specific to a particular discipline or school of thought. The Databases by Period section would be useful if you are searching topics that are specific to a particular period of time, or you can use the databases in the General tab if you're looking to conduct a broad search.
Specialized databases, like the ones listed below, would be useful if you are searching topics that are specific to a particular discipline or school of thought. They are tailored for specific subjects, so they may help you find more relevant materials if you know which particular subject or discipline you want to search.
A bibliographic database with abstracts covering scholarly research in philosophy since 1940. Cites works in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Russian, Chinese and Japanese.
Authoritative general encyclopedia of philosophy. All articles contain an extensive bibliography (non-annotated).
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) is designed to be a scholarly dynamic reference work. Each entry is maintained and kept up to date by an expert or group of experts in the field. All entries and substantive updates are refereed by the members of a distinguished Editorial Board before they are made public. Allows users to cite fixed editions that are created on a quarterly basis and stored in the Archives. The Table of Contents lists entries that are assigned and/or published. The Projected Table of Contents also lists entries which are currently unassigned but nevertheless projected.
Collection of primary source full-text electronic editions in philosophy. Includes full corpora of figures in the history of the human sciences, including published and unpublished works, articles, essays, reviews, and correspondence. Works are in the original languages, with some translations included.
Comprehensive resource for the study of philosophy. Includes access to over 2,800 articles and 25,000 cross-references linking themes, concepts and philosophers. Also a reference source for those in subjects related to philosophy, such as politics, psychology, economics, anthropology, religion and literature.
Covers classical languages and literatures, ancient authors, Greek and Latin. Includes brief abstracts of articles.
Specialized bibliographic database of scholarly works relating to all aspects of Ancient Greek and Roman civilizations published by the Société Internationale de Bibliographie Classique. The bibliography is published in print and online. The online database includes all volumes of the annual index, beginning with Volume I published in 1928.
Contains every book published in England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and the United States between 1475-1700.
From the first book published in English through the 17th-century, this collection contains over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection and the Early English Books Tract Supplement. The database offers complete citation information and page images.
Searchable electronic versions of every book published in Great Britain in the 18th century.
Based on the English Short Title Catalogue. Includes books, pamphlets, essays, broadsides and more.
Full text and searchable correspondence between the greatest thinkers and writers of the "Long Eighteenth Century."
Electronic Enlightenment offers unrivalled access to the web of correspondence between the greatest thinkers and writers of the long 18th century and their family and friends, bankers and booksellers, patrons and publishers. Over 53,000 letters from 6,000 correspondents are available in their original languages, including English, French, German, and Italian.
An index to journals and e-books published by Brill with full text access to content licensed by Indiana University, Bloomington Libraries. Subject areas include the humanities, international law, and biology.
Licensed full text content will display a "Full Access" icon.
PhilPapers is a comprehensive index and bibliography of philosophy maintained by the community of philosophers.
Texts in political philosophy, including the major works of: Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527), Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), Edmund Burke (1729-1797), Thomas Paine (1737-1809), David Hume (1711-1776), John Locke (1632-1704), John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804), John Jay (1745-1829), James Madison (1751-1836), and Jean-Jacques; Rousseau (1712-1778).
Full-text database for theology and philosophy research. Includes hundreds of journals and magazines covering many religious and philosophical topics, including world religions, religious history, political philosophy and philosophy of language.
Collection of approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major American black leaders—teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and other figures—covering 250 years of history. In addition to the most familiar works, Black Thought and Culture presents previously inaccessible material, including letters, speeches, prefatory essays, political leaflets, interviews, periodicals, and trial transcripts. The ideas of over 1,000 authors present an evolving and complex view of what it is to be black in America.
The collection includes the words of Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Carter G. Woodson, Alain Locke, Paul Robeson, Booker T. Washington, Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey, Sammy Davis, Jr., Ida B. Wells, Nikki Giovanni, Mary McLeod Bethune, Carl Rowan, Roy Wilkens, James Weldon Johnson, Audre Lorde, Thurgood Marshall, A. Philip Randolph, Constance Baker Motley, Walter F. White, Amiri Baraka, Ralph Ellison, Martin Luther King, Jr., Angela Davis, Jesse Jackson, Bobby Seale, Gwendolyn Brooks, Huey P. Newton, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Randall Kennedy, Cornel West, Nelson George, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Bayard Rustin, and hundreds of other notable people.
Primary sources documenting the changing representations and lived experiences of gender roles and relations from the nineteenth century to the present. Includes sources for the study of women's suffrage, the feminist movement, the men’s movement, employment, education, the body, the family, and government and politics.
Material has been sourced from across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia. Key areas represented in the material include: employment and labor, education, government and legislation, the body, domesticity and the family. Includes records from men’s and women’s organisations and pressure groups, detailing twentieth-century lobbying and activism on a wide array of issues to reveal developing gender relations and prevalent challenges.
Allows users to interactively explore data on religion using online features for generating national profiles, GIS maps, church membership overviews, denominational heritage trees, tables, charts, and other reports.
Includes American and international collections aimed at educators, journalists, religious congregations, and researchers. Data included in the ARDA are submitted by religion scholars and research centers in the world.
Archive of magazines devoted to religious topics, spanning 19th-21st centuries. Offers insight into the influence of belief systems on public life, the history of popular religious movements and the means used by religions to gain adherents and communicate their ideologies. Includes a variety of religions and denominations, allowing for comparative studies of religions during this period.
The Databases by Period section would be useful if you are searching topics that are specific to a particular period of time, or you can use the databases in the General tab if you're looking to conduct a broad search. These databases can be helpful if you don't know exactly which subjects you want to search and wanted to cast a wide net for materials, or if you know you want philosophical materials from a certain time period and want to search based on that.
An index to journals and e-books published by Brill with full text access to content licensed by Indiana University, Bloomington Libraries. Subject areas include the humanities, international law, and biology.
Licensed full text content will display a "Full Access" icon.
Special version of Google's index to scholarly content on the web. Connects to full-text resources available to IU users.
oogle Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
Connecting to Google Scholar from off-campus? The IUB Libraries already provide access to many of the journal articles indexed in Google Scholar. Look for IU-Link, which will lead you to information about full-text content you can access via the Libraries' subscriptions.
Comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, including millions of works from thousands of universities. Each dissertation published since July, 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Simple bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637.
Includes the following:
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: UK & Ireland
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: A & I
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: CIC Institutions
Streaming educational video. Covers a wide range of curricular subjects, including history, biology, business and economics, engineering, computer science, technical and trade skills, art and architecture, music and dance, philosophy and religion, geography, environmental science, anthropology, language and literature, mathematics, psychology, sociology, political science, and more.
Includes titles produced by A&E, PBS, BBC Learning, National Geographic, ABC News, NBC News, CNBC, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, HBO Documentary Films, PBS NewsHour, Open University, Bill Moyers, California Newsreel, Annenberg Learner, TED, Films for the Humanities & Sciences, and more.
Introductions to research concepts and methods used in the social sciences. Each entry begins with the basics, and moves into specialist literature. Also includes biographical entries on pioneers of social science methods, covering the history of research methods, techniques, and underlying epistemological and philosophical issues. Includes access to content through 2023.
Provides full text access and indexing for e-journals and e-books from a variety of scholarly publishers. Covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.
Covers classical languages and literatures, ancient authors, Greek and Latin. Includes brief abstracts of articles.
Specialized bibliographic database of scholarly works relating to all aspects of Ancient Greek and Roman civilizations published by the Société Internationale de Bibliographie Classique. The bibliography is published in print and online. The online database includes all volumes of the annual index, beginning with Volume I published in 1928.
Collection of primary source full-text electronic editions in philosophy. Includes full corpora of figures in the history of the human sciences, including published and unpublished works, articles, essays, reviews, and correspondence. Works are in the original languages, with some translations included.
A bibliographic database with abstracts covering scholarly research in philosophy since 1940. Cites works in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Russian, Chinese and Japanese.
Comprehensive resource for the study of philosophy. Includes access to over 2,800 articles and 25,000 cross-references linking themes, concepts and philosophers. Also a reference source for those in subjects related to philosophy, such as politics, psychology, economics, anthropology, religion and literature.
Authoritative general encyclopedia of philosophy. All articles contain an extensive bibliography (non-annotated).
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) is designed to be a scholarly dynamic reference work. Each entry is maintained and kept up to date by an expert or group of experts in the field. All entries and substantive updates are refereed by the members of a distinguished Editorial Board before they are made public. Allows users to cite fixed editions that are created on a quarterly basis and stored in the Archives. The Table of Contents lists entries that are assigned and/or published. The Projected Table of Contents also lists entries which are currently unassigned but nevertheless projected.
The following LibGuides might also be of interest: Classical Studies; Classical Studies Online Resources; History.
Contains every book published in England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and the United States between 1475-1700.
From the first book published in English through the 17th-century, this collection contains over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection and the Early English Books Tract Supplement. The database offers complete citation information and page images.
Collection of primary source full-text electronic editions in philosophy. Includes full corpora of figures in the history of the human sciences, including published and unpublished works, articles, essays, reviews, and correspondence. Works are in the original languages, with some translations included.
A bibliographic database with abstracts covering scholarly research in philosophy since 1940. Cites works in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Russian, Chinese and Japanese.
Comprehensive resource for the study of philosophy. Includes access to over 2,800 articles and 25,000 cross-references linking themes, concepts and philosophers. Also a reference source for those in subjects related to philosophy, such as politics, psychology, economics, anthropology, religion and literature.
Authoritative general encyclopedia of philosophy. All articles contain an extensive bibliography (non-annotated).
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) is designed to be a scholarly dynamic reference work. Each entry is maintained and kept up to date by an expert or group of experts in the field. All entries and substantive updates are refereed by the members of a distinguished Editorial Board before they are made public. Allows users to cite fixed editions that are created on a quarterly basis and stored in the Archives. The Table of Contents lists entries that are assigned and/or published. The Projected Table of Contents also lists entries which are currently unassigned but nevertheless projected.
The History LibGuide might also be of interest
Searchable electronic versions of every book published in Great Britain in the 18th century.
Based on the English Short Title Catalogue. Includes books, pamphlets, essays, broadsides and more.
Full text and searchable correspondence between the greatest thinkers and writers of the "Long Eighteenth Century."
Electronic Enlightenment offers unrivalled access to the web of correspondence between the greatest thinkers and writers of the long 18th century and their family and friends, bankers and booksellers, patrons and publishers. Over 53,000 letters from 6,000 correspondents are available in their original languages, including English, French, German, and Italian.
Collection of primary source full-text electronic editions in philosophy. Includes full corpora of figures in the history of the human sciences, including published and unpublished works, articles, essays, reviews, and correspondence. Works are in the original languages, with some translations included.
A bibliographic database with abstracts covering scholarly research in philosophy since 1940. Cites works in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Russian, Chinese and Japanese.
Comprehensive resource for the study of philosophy. Includes access to over 2,800 articles and 25,000 cross-references linking themes, concepts and philosophers. Also a reference source for those in subjects related to philosophy, such as politics, psychology, economics, anthropology, religion and literature.
Authoritative general encyclopedia of philosophy. All articles contain an extensive bibliography (non-annotated).
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) is designed to be a scholarly dynamic reference work. Each entry is maintained and kept up to date by an expert or group of experts in the field. All entries and substantive updates are refereed by the members of a distinguished Editorial Board before they are made public. Allows users to cite fixed editions that are created on a quarterly basis and stored in the Archives. The Table of Contents lists entries that are assigned and/or published. The Projected Table of Contents also lists entries which are currently unassigned but nevertheless projected.
The following LibGuides might also be of interest: History; History and Philosophy of Science