Databases for Philosophy
- Academic Search Premier (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowProvides full text for scholarly publications and peer-reviewed journals as well as general interest sources. Multidisciplinary. A good place to start your research.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowProvides multi-disciplinary access to scholarly journals and books. Our collection (Arts & Sciences 1-IV and VII) is available in full text. To get more search results, change the "Select an access type" menu from the default "Content I can access" to "All content." Some of this content may need to be requested from other libraries (Interlibrary Loan).
- Philosopher's Index This link opens in a new windowPremier database for scholarly research in all areas of philosophy. The literature covered includes journal articles, books, book chapters, and book reviews.
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy This link opens in a new windowAn excellent open-access reference source created by contributions from libraries and philosophy departments all over the world. Features in depth articles with extensive bibliographies.
Databases for Business
- Business Source Premier This link opens in a new windowDesigned for business researchers, provides full text for more than 2,200 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. Business Source Premier provides easy access to country economic data, company profiles, industry information, SWOT analyses, and market research.
- Mergent Intellect This link opens in a new window
Mergent Intellect is a flexible web-based application that features a deep collection of worldwide business information that enables users to generate insightful business intelligence. It offers access to private and public U.S and international business data, industry news, facts and figures, executive contact information, industry profiles and much more.
- Science Direct This link opens in a new windowOne of the world's largest providers of scholarly, peer-reviewed scientific, technical, and medical literature. Access to journals in mathematics, social sciences, arts and humanities, and business as well.
- Wall Street Journal This link opens in a new windowSearch for full text newspaper articles.1984-current.
Tips for Searching Databases
Multiple Key Words or Phrases: Place in separate boxes or separate by Boolean operators. Don’t string them together all on one line as you would in Google.
Use key words to search, not full sentences: "parental consent" AND abortion not should a teenager have to get parental consent before having an abortion?
Put phrases in quotation marks: "corporate social responsibility" "child labor" "fiduciary responsibility" "global warming" "Keynesian economics"
Truncation: Add an asterisk * to the end of a term to retrieve results with multiple endings. For example: ethic* will retrieve records for ethic, ethics, ethical, ethicist
Boolean Operators can help you expand or narrow your search
AND: (“corporate social responsibility” AND Nike) Narrows your search so that only records containing both search terms come back to you.
OR: (worker OR employee) Broadens your search so that all records containing the term worker as well as all records containing the term employee come back to you.
NOT: ("trade agreements" NOT NAFTA) Narrows your search so that you get records about trade agreements but none that are about NAFTA