The following databases contain books, articles, and abstracts related to philosophy.
Oxford Handbooks are a series of books covering Classical Studies, Law, Music, Philosophy, Political Science and Religion which provide students 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.
These databases contain journal articles, papers, and abstracts (short summaries) on specific subjects. The databases listed below are likely to be most useful for Philosophy, but you can find the full list of all the research databases which the Library subscribes to on the databases page.
Multi-disciplinary journals, reports and proceedings.
Abstracts and some full-text scholarly articles from Cambridge University Press on the humanities, social sciences and STEM displines. Includes the Digital Journals Archive.
JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.
Contains works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies, criticism and reference resources.
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.
Access journals, books and other important reference sources in the humanities.
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.
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.
Searchable index of UK theses with full text available to order.
Search and view open access theses and dissertations.
