Research Databases

Research Databases by Subject

Philosophy/Religion

• Academic Search Premier — Periodical articles for research in all academic disciplines. For peer reviewed, select "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals" on basic search screen.
• Ancient and Medieval History — Articles, primary sources, maps/charts, images, timelines, and videos on world history topics from prehistory through the mid-1500s.
• Credo Reference — Credo’s Academic Core Collection provides full-text background information covering over 80 major subject disciplines and more than 6 million research concepts from encyclopedias, handbooks, guides, companions, and readers. Credo also provides access to more than 1,000 videos and animations, as well as 500,000 contextual visual aids, images, photographs and maps.
• Films on Demand — Streaming video collections offering curriculum-focused content in humanities & social sciences; business & economics; science & mathematics; health & medicine; technical education; family & consumer sciences; careers & job search; guidance & counseling. Thousands of full-length programs and video segments with new titles added monthly.
• Gale Academic OneFile — Articles from periodicals and reference sources in all academic disciplines. For peer reviewed, select “to peer-reviewed publications.”
• Gale OneFile: Biography — Biographical information on noteworthy individuals from past and present across all disciplines and subject areas.
• Gale OneFile: Religion and Philosophy — Includes over 1.1 million periodical articles covering topics across a wide range of philosophies and religions. Researchers will gain valuable insight about the impact religion has had on culture throughout history, including literature, arts, and language.
• Gale OneFile: World History — Reference, magazine, news, and journal articles, primary source documents, multimedia, and more on world history topics.
• Google Scholar — Open access scholarly literature, articles, journals and conference papers, theses and dissertations, academic books, pre-prints, abstracts, technical reports, court opinions and patents. All broad areas of research, from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, university repositories, and websites.
• Hathi Trust — The largest set of open access ebooks, with millions of titles, covering a broad set of scholarly interests.
• JSTOR (also OER from JSTOR's Open Content) — Archives of core journals in the Arts & Sciences I collection (economics, history, political science, sociology) and the Arts & Sciences III collection (languages and literature, music, folklore, religion, and the history and study of art and architecture); does not contain content from the past 3-5 years. Includes multidisciplinary book and journal open access content from JSTOR's Open Content.
• LibriVox (Audio books) — Download open access audiobooks in a wide range of genres and subjects.
• Modern World History — Articles, primary sources, maps/charts, images, timelines, and videos on world history topics from the mid-15th century to the present.
• PhilPapers — The largest open access e-print archive in philosophy that includes ebooks and academic research papers.
• Project MUSE — Open access academic books and journals in health, history, art history, humanities, literature, culture and diversity, education, music, math, philosophy, sciences, and technology.
• ProQuest Central — Periodical articles from 39 specialized databases in all major subject areas, including thousands of newspapers from around the world. Options for limiting to peer reviewed and scholarly journals are on the basic search screen.
• Religion Database — Articles from international periodicals for diverse religious and spiritual studies.
• Research Library — Articles from periodicals in a wide range of academic subjects. Options for limiting to peer reviewed and scholarly journals are on the basic search screen.
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — An open access reference source from Stanford University and The Metaphysics Research Lab for philosophy.