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Essential Philosophy Sources

Philosopher's Index
Useful for Philosophy. Contains articles from about 570 scholarly journals and book chapters in philosophy and related fields.
Coverage, 1940--.
Année Philologique
Useful for Western Civilization.
Comprehensive database for ancient Greek and Roman history, literature, languages, archaeology, religion and philosophy.
ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
ATLA (American Theological Library Association) contains indexes and abstracts articles from over 500 theology religion journals as well as book reviews and essay collections. Full text of many titles included.
MLA International Bibliography
Indexes literary criticism from over 4,000 journals, along with some book chapters and dissertations. Coverage from 1920 to present.

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
A good place to start for most topics with a wide range of scholarly journals and articles, along with some newspaper and news magazine content.
JSTOR
Provides complete full-text coverage of over 1000 leading journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences as well as over three million licensed, high-quality images previously in Artstor.
Project MUSE
Provides full text of articles from 440 scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences.
Oxford Reference
Two million digitized entries spanning 25 different subject areas.
CQ Researcher plus Archive
Collections of original reports and analyses on issues of current interest such as health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy.

Google Scholar
Google's search engine for locating scholarly literature. Searches scholarly articles, books, and other technical or research content. Often helpful for locating specific articles when you already know the title.