Research Guides: Philosophy: Home

Welcome

Welcome to the Rider University Libraries' guide to research in Philosophy. The purpose of this guide is to help you navigate through the many philosophy-related resources available to you through Rider University Library and beyond. Click on the tabs on the left-hand side of this page to go to the types of resources that will be helpful for your project. Or, get started by exploring your subject using the resources on this page.

Primary Databases

Here are primary databases available to the Rider community for doing research on topics in philosophy. To see a more complete list of databases, click on the "Find Articles" tab at the top of this page.

Humanities Index Full Text
Indexes the content of magazines and journals in art, communications, gender studies, history, and other disciplines. It includes both scholarly journals and specialized magazines.
JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive
JSTOR contains the full text of articles published in approximately 430 journals from the fields of arts and sciences, and business. It's archive spans from the first volume of the journal to within the past three to five years of the journal.

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
This is a large, interdisciplinary resource; there are many articles available full text. Access provided by the New Jersey State Library.
Interdisciplinary resource.
Social Sciences Full Text This link opens in a new window
Social Sciences Full Text™ provides access to a wide assortment of the most important English-language journals published in the social sciences. This resource provides detailed indexing for over 625 periodicals dating back as far as 1983—nearly 400 of which are peer-reviewed.