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  Philosopher's Index (ProQuest/CSA) Authentication Required Resource Guide
    Coverage: 1940 to present. Updated: quarterly.
Citations and abstracts from more than 350 journals and books in philosophy and related fields.
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  Project Muse Authentication Required Brought to you by the University of Wisconsin System 
    Coverage: 1993 to present. Updated: monthly.
Includes the full text of over 100 scholarly journals in the fields of: literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others.
  Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Authentication Required Brought to you by the University of Wisconsin System 
    Coverage: entries written from 1995 - present.
This is an online encyclopedia covering a variety of philosophical topics. This resource is continuously updated by discipline experts with each entry reviewed by an editorial board prior to publication.

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  Sociological Abstracts (ProQuest/CSA) Authentication Required 
    Coverage: 1952 to the present. Updated: monthly.
Provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.
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This resource includes full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. Citations and abstracts are included from over 2,200 journals with full text for 1,030.
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    Coverage: 1987 to present. Updated: weekly.
Access to Arts & Humanities Citation Index,, Science Citation Index Expanded,, and Social Sciences Citation Index, which collectively index more than 8,000 high quality, peer-reviewed journals cover-to-cover.

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Provides access to citations and abstracts for over 8,000 magazines and journals, with full text access to over half these titles. For scholarly publications, full text is available for more than 3,600 titles covering subjects such as social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
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  Alternative Press Index (FirstSearch) Authentication Required 
    Coverage: 1991 to present. Updated: quarterly.
Indexes nearly 290 newspapers and magazines that report and analyze the practices and theories of cultural, economic, political and social change. Provides additional viewpoints on internationally significant subjects.
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    Coverage: 1969 to 1990. Updated: quarterly.
Indexes nearly 290 newspapers and magazines that report and analyze the practices and theories of cultural, economic, political and social change. Provides additional viewpoints on internationally significant subjects.

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  Philosophy Periodicals
A title list of the library's individual periodical subscriptions in Philosophy. Many more Philosophy related periodicals are available through the library's article databases.

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    Featured Reference Books @ Murphy Library

  Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics
    4 volumes. 1998.
  Encyclopedia of Buddhism
     2 volumes. 2004.
  Encyclopedia of Chinese Philosophy
    2003
  Encyclopedia of Ethics
    2nd edition. 3 volumes. 2001.
  Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World.
    2 volumes. 2004
  Encyclopedia of Philosophy
    10 volumes, 2nd ed., 2006
  Encyclopedia of Protestantism
    4 volumes. 2004.
  Encyclopedia of Religion
    2nd edition. 15 volumes. 2005
  New Catholic Encyclopedia
     2nd edition. 15 volumes. 2002.
  New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
     6 volumes. 2005
  Oxford Companion to the Mind
    2004
  Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
     10 volumes. 1998
  The Facts on File Encyclopedia of World Mythology and Legend
    2nd edition. 2 volumes. 2004.
  The New Encyclopedia of Judaism
    2nd edition. 2002

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