LibGuides: Philosophy: Home

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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.

New books in the collection philosophy

BrowZine: scholarly journals at your fingertips

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Ebooks for philosophy

Below is a list of databases with ebooks for the field of philosophy. 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.

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 primary source materials.
COVID-19: 26 public health journals and all journals and primary sources are available for free, until June 30, 2022.

Date range: In general journals have been indexed from the first issue. Please note that 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 and 2021.

In 2022 the EUR Library participates in MIT Direct to Open 2022 HSS (Humanities & Social Science) collection and receives term access to the HSS backfile collection.
Open Textbook Library
The Open Textbook Library contains over 800 open textbooks. All kinds of subjects and disciplines are covered, including business, economics, psychology and sociology.

The textbooks have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed. They have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities to assess their quality.

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

This collection contains e-books selected in 'evidence based acquisition' pilots in 2019, 2020 and 2021. For more information, please contact Judith Gulpers

Date range: 1963-2021
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

Routledge Handbooks Online - Philosophy
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Routledge Handbooks Online offers access to a selection of handbooks and companions, published between 2014 and 2018.

Taylor & Francis eBooks
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Unlimited access to a large collection of academic eBooks published by Taylor & Francis and Routledge, all available without download restrictions. Please note the EUR doesn't have access to all eBooks published by Taylor & Francis/Routledge.

Also gives access to the Routledge handbooks in Communication, Journalism, Media and Culture Studies from 2020 onwards: see subjects Media & Film Studies and Cultural Studies.

Related database: Routledge Handbooks Online (handbooks published up to 2019).

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