Research Guide: Philosophy & Religion Databases

Available through FirstSearch. A citation index. References to over 1100 arts and humanities sources.

Provides access to over 5 million books, audiobooks, and video titles as well as reviews, award listings, and best sellers.

Peer-reviewed journal published by the College at Oneonta Philosophy Department.

Addresses human impacts on the environment.

Includes all data from Humanities International Index (indexing to more than 2,100 journals and 2 million records) as well as access to about 900 full-text journals.

Provides access to the full text of over 300 scholarly journals across many subject areas. The objective of JSTOR is to provide all issues back to Volume 1, Issue 1 for all journals. (Due to copyright restrictions, the most recent 3-5 years are unavailable.)

The New York Times archive provides full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. It is possible to limit by article type including: classified ad, display ad, editorial cartoon, letter, comic, editorial article, review, stock quote, weather, legal notice, and real estate transaction.

Contains about 2000 viewpoint articles, 1000 topic overviews, 700 court case overviews, and 30 full text periodicals and newspapers. The Research Guide provides tips on analyzing issues with opposing viewpoints, distinguishing fact from opinion, evaluating information sources, and recognizing deceptive arguments.

Provides access to back files of over 550 complete full-image journals spanning 200 years in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.

Searchable. Includes reference, verse, fiction, non-fiction. Includes the Harvard Classics versions of works such as Plato's Apology, Phædo and Crito and Antigone by Sophocles.

Full text of over 100 scholarly journals in fields including literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, political science, gender studies, and economics.

Contains about 500 full-text journals covering topics such as world religions, biblical studies, and philosophy.

Good for background information. Provides up-to-date articles on philosophical themes (such as metaphysics, ethics, law); world philosophies (such as African, Japanese, Tibetan); periods; world religions (such as Islam, Christianity, Buddhism).