The following databases contain books, articles, and abstracts related to philosophy.
Access millions of pages of primary source collections across the entire portfolio of Adam Matthew Digital, spanning content from the 15th-21st centuries.
Oxford Handbooks are a series of books covering Classical Studies, Law, Music, Philosophy, Political Science and Religion which provide students and scholars with authoritative and up-to-date surveys of original research in a particular subject area. They offer a critical examination of the progress and direction of debates as well as a foundation for study and research.
Access to a selection of high quality, fully cross-searchable full-text monographs from the subject areas of Classical Studies, Law, Philosophy and Political Science.
Philosophers Index provides access to the full text of over 220 academic journals in philosophy, covering all major fields of philosophy, and including more than 500,000 indexed records.
Research databases contain abstracts, journal articles and conference papers on specific subjects. They should be used for searching around a topic and for when you need to conduct a more focussed search than the Library Search provides. The key databases for research in Philosophy and other humanities subjects are listed below.
Multi-disciplinary journals, reports and proceedings.
Abstracts and index of academic journals, daily newspapers and weekly magazines published in the UK and other English speaking countries, as well as quality newspapers published in the UK from 1962 onwards.
Abstracts and some full-text scholarly articles from Cambridge University Press on the humanities, social sciences and STEM displines.
Includes the Digital Journals Archive.
A not–for–profit organization dedicated to helping the scholarly community discover, use, and build upon a wide range of intellectual content in a trusted digital archive. The University of Lincoln has full-text access to the JSTOR Full Archive Collection and a selection of eBooks.
Contains works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies, criticism and reference resources.
This link opens in a new windowDetailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. The indexed materials coverage is international and includes titles from J-STOR’s language and literature collection as well as links to full text.
Project Muse provides full-text, high quality articles for the humanities and social sciences from over 120 publishers
Access to journal articles and e-books for the academic, professional and business communities.
Please be aware that we do not have access to all volumes of every title in this collection. Full text coverage varies by title due to publisher restrictions.
Online collection of biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of Britain's past, from the fourth century BC to the year 2001. Includes portraits, photographs and illustrations.
The library subscribes to a number of PhD and MA dissertation databases which you may find useful when writing your own dissertation or exploring a subject in depth.
Searchable index and access to open access research theses from European universities.
This link opens in a new windowSearchable index of UK theses with full text available to order.
Information and a searchable index of international electronic theses and dissertations, including some open-access titles.
Search and view open access theses and dissertations.
The most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day and offering full text for graduate works added since 1997, along with selected full text for works written prior to 1997. It contains a significant amount of new international dissertations and theses both in citations and in full text.
If you wish to access full text theses, please make sure the "Full text" option is ticked under the search bar.
