Guides: Philosophy and Ethics: Find Articles

Key Indexes

Philosopher's Index
The primary index to the literature of philosophy. Indexes and abstracts for journal articles and books; click through to available full text. Indexes 1,600 philosophy & related journals; 1940 to present with additional records back to 1902..
PhilPapers
PhilPapers is a comprehensive index and bibliography of philosophy maintained by the community of philosophers. Includes journals (over 1,000), books, open access archives and personal pages of academics.
JSTOR
Contains the full text of about 125 philosophy journals; also lists recent books which which are likely available via George (follow link: "Find full text..."). Note: journals usually do not include the latest three to five years.
Oxford Bibliographies Online - Philosophy
Annotated bibliography of scholarship in philosophy and related topics. From Oxford University Press.

PhilSci-Archive
An electronic archive specifically tailored to and run by philosophers of science. The archive is offered as a free service to the philosophy of science community. Its goal is to promote communication in the field by the rapid dissemination of new work.

Related Databases

Academic Search Premier
Full-text publications from all academic areas of study, including the sciences, social sciences, humanities, education, computer science, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
Bioethics Research Library Databases
The ETHXWeb database provides citations of journal articles, book chapters, bills, laws, court decisions, reports, and news articles relating to bioethics and professional ethics. Genetics and Ethics contains citations of books, journal articles, book chapters, bills, laws, court decisions, reports, news articles, and audiovisuals focused on genetics and ethics.
Previously called Kennedy Institute of Ethics Databases.
Google Scholar
Searches across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. For on campus or GU-authenticated users, results contain links to electronic full text from GU-subscribed content, especially journal articles. (If off campus, click on Settings and then on Library Links. Type Georgetown in the search box.)
Humanities Full Text
Indexes the major scholarly English-language journals in the humanities (including history and literature). For articles published before 1984, use Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective.
ProQuest Central
Combines several of the Library's heavily used databases, including ProQuest Research Library, into one easy-to-search interface. Thousands of journals, newspapers, magazines, dissertations, working papers, and other scholarly content on a very broad range of topics and sources.
Web of Science
Cumulates five databases:
Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science
Emerging Sources Citation Index
Science Citation Index Expanded
Social Sciences Citation Index
In addition to traditional author, title and keyword searches, the citation databases offer access to articles' cited references (from authors' bibliographies). You may take a known, relevant paper and find other, more recent papers that cite it.