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Philosophy
Librarian Subject Specialist
- Michael Winter
- mfwinter@ucdavis.edu — (530) 752‑3058 — Humanities, Social Sciences, and Government Information Services (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/)
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Subject Specific Databases
- Philosopher's Index [via Proquest] (http://uclibs.org/PID/23307) VPN
- Indexing and abstracts of journal articles, books, book chapters, and book reviews. Covers over 500 journals worldwide. Topical coverage is broad (ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, metaphysics, logic, the philosophies of law, education, history, etc).
- Coverage: 1940 - present
- L'Année philologique; bibliographie critique et analytique de l'antiquité gréco-latine. (http://uclibs.org/PID/31798) VPN
- This is the major bibliographic index for Classical studies, including art, history, philosophy, literature and more.
- Coverage: 1949-current
- Related:
- Use the hard copy edition of the Annee Philologique to search for material published before 1949. It is located at Shields Library Humanities/Social Sciences Reference Z7016.A1 A5
- Use the hard copy edition of the Annee Philologique to search for material published before 1949. It is located at Shields Library Humanities/Social Sciences Reference Z7016.A1 A5
- Periodicals Index Online (PIO) (http://uclibs.org/PID/6848) VPN
- Periodicals Index Online is a retrospective database (1665-1995); over 300 philosophy titles are included. It also provides access to a smaller set of titles in fulltext electronic form.
- Coverage: 1665-1995
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- Periodicals Archive Online (PAO) (http://uclibs.org/PID/9284) VPN
- Companion resource to Periodicals Index Online (PIO), PAO is a fulltext archive of hundreds of historical digitized journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences; about 35-40 of the titles covered are philosophy journals.
- Coverage: 1802-1995
- Related:
- See also entry for Periodicals Index Online(PIO) (http://uclibs.org/PID/6848)
extended retrospective covereage of a larger number of titles, along with some selective fulltext access.
- See also entry for Periodicals Index Online(PIO) (http://uclibs.org/PID/6848)
- Oxford Bibliographies Online: Philosophy (http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/browse?module_0=obo-9780195396577) VPN
- Author: Editor in chief, Duncan Pritchard
- Developed cooperatively with scholars and librarians worldwide, Oxford Bibliographies in Philosophy is designed to provide the student with authoritative guidance. Unlike resources that that simply list citations, this online reference tool combines the best features of an authoritative encyclopedia with the advantages of a traditional bibliography. Frequent updating creates and maintains entries that evolve with current scholarship.
- Coverage: All aspects of philosophy
- Related:
- Oxford Bibliographies Online (http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/) VPN
Follow this link to see all the Oxford Bibliographies Online currently available to UC Davis library users.
- Oxford Bibliographies Online (http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/)
General Databases
- General Databases Covering Materials in Philosophy (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/ul/research/subjects/?heading=35)
- The library's "General Databases in the Humanities and Social Sciences" page has several resources with substantial content in philosophy:Expanded Academic ASAP, PCI (Periodicals Contents Index), Project Muse, and J STOR.
- Coverage: Varies by resource
- Europeana: Europe's Digital Library (http://www.europeana.eu)
Direct access to several million digital objects: film,photos, paintings, sound recordings, maps, manuscripts, books,newspapers and archival papers.
Selected from already digitized resources available in Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections. French and German cultural institutions are particularly well-represented.
Full-Text Resources
- ABU: La Bibliothéque Universelle (http://abu.cnam.fr/)
- A collection of electronic text versions of works by a number of major French philosophers and novelists (e.g. Descartes, Leibnitz, Pascal, Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau, Corneille, Racine, Moliere,Balzac, Flaubert, de Maupassant, Rostand, Stendhal, and Zola . 288 electronic text versions of public domain works of 101 authors, and a number of dictionaries.
- Thesaurus Linguae Graecae: A Digital Library of Greek Literature [via UCI] (http://stephanus.tlg.uci.edu/inst/fontsel) VPN
- "The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae [TLG] Digital Library now contains virtually all Greek texts surviving from the period between Homer (8th century B.C.) and A.D. 600 and the majority of surviving works up the fall of Byzantium in A.D. 1453..Its' goal is to create a comprehensive digital library of Greek literature from antiquity to the present era."
- Related:
- Displaying and viewing texts in Greek requires a polytonic Greek font, downloadable from the TLG website. (http://www.tlg.uci.edu/help/Help.html)
- Displaying and viewing texts in Greek requires a polytonic Greek font, downloadable from the TLG website. (http://www.tlg.uci.edu/help/Help.html)
- CogNet [ MIT ] (http://cognet.mit.edu/)
- Massachussetts Institute of Technology's Portal to information in the Cognitive Sciences. Includes a digital library of online books and journals, call for papers, semiars, discussion networks and news.
Guides to Electronic, Print, and Other Resources
- Philosophy Resources on the Internet (http://www.epistemelinks.com/index.aspx)
- Over 13,000 categorized links to philosophy resources on the Internet and has several additional features. Updated often; follow "What's New" link for details. Includes materials on philosophers, biographical and critical profiles, quotations, subfields and topics, bibliographies, publishing, links to academic departments, organizations, and job listings.
- Print Resources in Philosophy at the UC Davis Libraries (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/philosophy/philosophy-print.php)
- Dictionaries, encyclopedias, directories, biographical, critical, and historical reference works with call numbers indicating shelf locations at UCD.
- Location: Most entries are shelved in the Humanities and Social Sciences Reference collection, 2nd floor of Shields Library. Map at http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/info/FAQ/libmap/SecondFloor.html
Encyclopedias & Dictionaries
- Dictionary of the History of Ideas [Digital Version] (http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/DicHist/dict.html)
- The Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas(DHI),in five volumes and edited by Philip P. Wiener, was published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, in 1973-74 (Shields Library CB5 .D52) This e-version is made available through the University of Virginia's Electronic Text Center.
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (http://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html)
Designed as a dynamic reference work, this continuously updated encyclopedia features entries maintained and updated by an expert or group of experts in the field. All entries and updates are refereed by the members of an Editorial Board before they are made public. For citation, fixed editions are made on a quarterly basis and stored archivally.
Note: Open (unrestricted public) access to the Encyclopedia has been made possible, in part, with a financial contribution from the University of California Libraries.
- Coverage: General, including philosophers, periods, schools, subfields, and topics
- Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy [CD ROM]
The library also has a copy of the print version, shelved in the Humanities and Social Sciences Reference Collection at B51 .R68 1998 [Lib Use Only].
- Location: Humanities/Social Sciences Reference, 2nd Floor Shields Library, Workstation "MADRID."