LibGuides: Philosophy: Home

Welcome!

This guide gives you an overview of recommended sources for philosophy:

databases to find literature
journals, based on the lists of philosophy journals as published as part of the project 'Quality indicators for Philosophy'
reference works to orientate on a particular topic and to find background information and
collected works of philosophers.

The page 'New in the collection' shows recent additions to the philosophy collection of the Erasmus University Library, with an option to subscribe to updates.

Ebooks for philosophy

From May 11, it's possible to borrow print books from the University Library and the Rotterdamsch Leeskabinet (more information is available here), but it can be hard to visit the campus. Our online collection is still available. Below is a list of ebook packages for the field of philosophy: some are existing licenses, some packages are available because the publisher is now giving everyone access to its ebooks. If you are looking for a specific title, it's better to use sEURch, because there all publishers are covered.

For teachers: if you are looking for online access to a specific book, please let me know, than I can check the available options.

Cambridge Core
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Full-text access to academic journals (and a few e-books) published by the Cambridge University Press.
De Gruyter Books
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eBooks published by De Gruyter and partner publishers.
COVID-19: in response to the Corona crisis, De Gruyter has made over 68.000 books in the humanities and social sciences and published from 1650 up to 2016 available for free until July 31, 2020. To peruse the list of partner publishers, number of available titles and highlights from each publisher, please click here.

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) - Philosophy
Open Access books in the field of philosophy.

JSTOR
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Multidisciplinary archive of full-text articles of the most important academic journals. Also contains a large collection of ebooks (book chapters) and some primary source materials.
COVID-19: in response to the corona crisis, many publishers have made their books on the JSTOR platform available for free, until August 31, 2020. Also 26 public health journals and all journals and primary sources are available for free, until December 31, 2020.

Date range: In general journals have been indexed from the first issue. Please note that in most cases the last three to five volumes are not available via JSTOR.

The EUR subscribes to the collections
- Arts & Sciences I, II, III, IV, VI, VII and IX
- Business I
- Health & General Sciences
MIT Press Direct
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Ebooks published by MIT Press. Key subject areas covered include art and architecture, biomedical sciences, business and finance, computer science, cognitive science, design, education, environment, game studies, humanities, information science, linguistics, neuroscience, new media, philosophy and social sciences.

Perpetual access to the books published in 2020; term access to the books published prior to 2020.
Numerique Premium ebooks
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French language ebooks in humanities, social, legal and political sciences.
COVID-19: in response to the corona crisis, access is provided until July 15th, 2020.

Oxford Handbooks Online - Philosophy
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Oxford Handbooks Online offers access to a selection of handbooks. Each handbook offers thorough introductions to topics and a critical survey of the current state of scholarship.
Oxford Handbook Online - Political Science
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Handbooks focused on political science, political theory and international relations, offering thorough introductions to topics and a critical survey of the current state of scholarship.

Oxford Scholarship Online Philosophy
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E-books in the field of philosophy, published by Oxford University Press.

This collection is part of an evidence based acquisition pilot. Access to all books in the philosophy collection is provided until November 30, 2020. At the end of this pilot a part of the collection will be purchased, based on the usage statistics. For more information, please contact Judith Gulpers

Date range: 1963-2020
Related database: Oxford Handbooks Online
Past Masters (Online)
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Collected works of philosophers, including Hegel, Locke, Spinoza and Wittgenstein.

Past Masters offers access to the work of Aristotle, Dilthey, English philosophers (Bacon, Hobbes, Berkeley, J.S. Mill), Hegel (OUP Translations & Werke II), Hume, Kierkegaard, Locke, Nietzsche, Peirce, political thinkers (Machiavelli, Rousseau), rationalists (Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz) and Wittgenstein.
The texts are in English, except Kierkegaards collected work (in Danish) and Diltheys, Hegels and Nietzsches work (in German).
Project Muse
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Full-text access to high quality, peer-reviewed humanities and social sciences journals from over 200 scholarly publishers.

Date range: 1993 - present
Related database: JSTOR