Research Guides: Philosophy Research Guide: Finding Articles

Databases to Search:

PhilPapers This link opens in a new window
PhilPapers is an online directory of academic philosophy maintained by the community of philosophers. If you are trying to explore a new topic, doing preliminary research, or want to stay up-to-date, PhilPapers can be a great resource, for both undergraduate and graduate students.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Provides access to academic journals and books covering a wide range of disciplines; it also includes some limited primary source collections.
Past Masters This link opens in a new window
Provides access to correspondence and primary source materials for figures important to the study of Philosophy.
Arts and Humanities Citation Index This link opens in a new window
An index covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities, part of the Web of Science Core Collection. (Indexing: 1975+)
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Scholarly journals and ebooks in the arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
A great database to get started with for your research on any topic. Use it to search for articles from scholarly (peer-reviewed) journals, newspapers, and magazines.
ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials This link opens in a new window
An index of materials covering a range of topics such as Biblical studies, world religions, church history, religion and society, and more.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Provides access to scholarly research pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore.
AM Explorer (AM Digital) This link opens in a new window
Access millions of pages of primary source collections across the entire portfolio of Adam Matthew Digital, spanning content from the 15th-21st centuries.

Browse Online Journals

Browse through our list of Philosophy journals or search for a specific title.

Open Access Journals in Philosophy

This list is not comprehensive, but a small selection of open access journals available within the field of Philosophy.

Directory of Open Access Journals: Philosophy
The Directory of Open Access Journals was launched in 2003 at Lund University, Sweden, with 300 open access journals and today contains more than 10,000 open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social science and humanities.
Ergo, an Open Access Journal of Philosophy
Ergo is a peer-reviewed, open access philosophy journal on all philosophical topics and from all philosophical traditions. This includes, among other things: history of philosophy, work in both the analytic and continental traditions, as well as formal and empirically informed philosophy.
Feminist Philosophy Quarterly
Feminist Philosophy Quarterly (FPQ) is an online, open access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to promoting feminist philosophical scholarship.
Informal Logic
Informal Logic is a peer reviewed journal publishing articles and reviews on topics related to reasoning and argumentation in theory and practice.
Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy
The Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy is a peer-reviewed online journal in moral, social, political, and legal philosophy.
Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology (PTPBio)
Peer-reviewed open access journal for philosophers of science and theoretically-inclined biologists.