Philosophy databases

Arts & Humanities

  • Features hundreds of titles covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre, and Cultural Studies.
  • Full-text journals.
  • Included in the main library search.

ASSIA (Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts)

  • Worldwide English language coverage of journal articles, conference papers and book reviews in the fields of applied social sciences and health.
  • Provides article citations and abstracts, not full text.

British Education Index

  • Covers research, policy, and practice in education and training in the UK, with particular strengths in evaluation and assessment, technology, and SEN.
  • Sources include journal articles, books, reports, series, and conference papers.
  • This indexing database provides article citations and abstracts, not full text.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

British Humanities Index

  • An international abstracting and indexing tool for research in the humanities and arts.
  • This indexing database provides article citations and abstracts, not full text.

Cambridge Journals Online

  • Cambridge Journals Digital Archive contains the full text from 170 journals, from volume 1, issue 1 to 1996.
  • Included in the main library search.

CCO - Philosophy Religion and Cultural Studies (Cambridge Companions Online)

  • Provides introductions to major writers, artists, philosophers, topics, and periods in the subject areas of literature, philosophy, classics, religion, and cultural studies.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Early European Books Online

  • A wide-ranging overview of the intellectual life and historical upheavals of early modern Europe.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

IBSS (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences)

  • Focuses mainly on politics, sociology, economics and anthropology and is one of the world's largest social-science databases.

JSTOR

  • UWE Bristol subscribes to the JSTOR multidisciplinary Arts and Sciences Collections I,II,III,V,VII, VIII and XIV.
  • A scholarly archive of over 1,000 full-text electronic journals.

Nexis

  • Full text database including UK national and regional newspapers, and worldwide newspapers and magazines.
  • Includes access to the Financial Times.
  • Also includes full-text information covering companies, industries, market surveys, countries, and people.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Open Commons of Phenomenology

  • Hosts texts, documents, images, and other relevant materials and research related to the phenomenology.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Philosopher's Index

  • A bibliographic database with informative, author-written abstracts covering scholarly research in all areas of philosophy.

PhilPapers

  • Index of the research literature in philosophy containing bibliographic records.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

PsycBooks (APA PsycBooks)

  • A crucial research tool for the behavioural sciences.
  • Access to 3,733 scholarly titles within psychology and its sub-fields.

PsycInfo (APA PsycInfo)

  • Comprehensive international bibliographic database of psychology.
  • Material from more than 2,450 periodicals from more than 49 countries.
  • Includes nursing, psychology, medicine, sociology, pharmacology, physiology and linguistics.

SAGE Research Methods

  • A web-based research methods tool created to help researchers, staff and students with their research projects.
  • SRM focuses on methodology rather than disciplines, so can be used by researchers from the social sciences, health sciences and more.
  • Included in the main library search.

Scopus

  • The largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings.
  • Fields of research include science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
  • Included in the main library search.

Sociological Abstracts

  • Indexes journal articles and conference proceedings from over 1,500 journals in the field of sociology and related disciplines.

The Times Digital Archive

  • Access to back issues of The Times (London) newspaper online.
  • One of the most highly regarded resources for the study of 18th century history and onward.
  • Included in the main library search.

Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive

  • A complete online facsimile edition of every issue of one of the most comprehensive literary publications of the 20th century.
  • This digital archive an essential resource for anyone studying, or supporting the study of, modern literature, humanities and culture.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

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