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Databases Philosopher's Index - Premier database for philosophy. Citations with author abstracts from more than 480 philosophy journals in in English, Spanish, German, Italian, French, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese and Japanese. Topics include the major fields of philosophy including aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, logic (including mathematics), and metaphysics. Expanded Academic ASAP (in InfoTrac Web) has citations, abstracts, and selected full-text articles from scholarly and general journals covering all academic disciplines. ProQuest Direct provides convenient search and retrieval from thousands of publications. Many articles are in full-text and image format. ArticleFirst indexes more than 12,500 journals in all areas, including humanities, social sciences, science, medicine, and technology. Some full-text. PsycINFO covers psychology and related fields and describes journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations. Dissertation Abstracts Online provides citations and abstracts to theses and dissertations accepted at accredited institutions in a full range of subjects. Contemporary Authors supplies biographical and bibliographical information and references on over 120,000 American and international authors. Web of Science is a multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the literature of the sciences, social sciences and the arts & humanities. Users may choose to search across all the databases, or select just one. This unique database indexes and links cited references for each article. All formats provide complete bibliographic data and additional features, such as cited reference searching, links to related articles, plus author and publisher addresses. Wilson Biographies contains the full text of the articles from various biographical reference books published by H. W. Wilson in current affairs, history, literature, children's literature, music, film, and art. Full-Text Collections Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy features more than 2000 original articles. Covers various philosophical topics including Anglo-American, ethical, political, cross-cultural, continental as well as contemporary philosophy. Summary provided at the beginning of every article. Suitable for all user levels. Past Masters offers full-text access to a variety of philosophical works, including the complete works of Aristotle, Plato, the Continental Rationalists, the British Empiricists, and Wittgenstein, among others. The texts are fully searchable, downloadable, and printable. Project Muse Originating at Johns Hopkins University, Project Muse currently provides 100% full-text access to over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers. JSTOR has full-text access (with a search interface) to important academic journals, including 20 philosophy journals. Electronic Collections Online provides citation and full-text access to academic journals online in many disciplines and from many publishers. Can limit search to philosophy journals in the pull-down menu. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a free resource. All entries and updates are refereed by the members of an Editorial Board before they are made public. Catalogs Cameo is the Carnegie Mellon online catalog. Also see: How To Use Cameo. WorldCat has over 36 million records of any type of material cataloged by libraries worldwide. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 11th century. PittCat contains bibliographic records for more than one million books, microforms, periodicals and sound recordings owned by libraries at the University of Pittsburgh. Carnegie Mellon users can borrow directly from most of the University of Pittsburgh's Libraries. Ask a librarian how you can borrow directly from University of Pittsburgh libraries, or see Oakland Library Consortium: Courier Service.

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