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	JSTOR Provides full-text access to back issues (delay in coverage generally 3-5 years) of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics and other fields of the humanities and social sciences. The Library subscription includes access to the Life Sciences Collection, Business III and the Arts & Sciences Collections I - IX.
	Past Masters (InteLex) Definitive editions of the writings of key philosophers, including published and unpublished works, articles and essays, and correspondence. Our access includes: Aristotle's Complete Works, British Philosophy 1600-1900 (Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, George Berkeley, David Hume, Francis Bacon, Jeremy Bentham, Edmund Burke, Anne Conway, John Stuart Mill, David Ricardo, Henry Sidgwick, Adam Smith), the Continental Rationalists (Rene Descartes, Benedict de Spinoza, Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz), and Locke's Philosophical Works and Select Correspondence.
	Philosopher's Index (OvidSP) The Philosopher's Index provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language.
	Project MUSE Full-text access to over 400 high quality, peer-reviewed humanities and social sciences journals from over 100 scholarly publishers.
	Religion and Philosophy Collection (EBSCOhost) An indexing and abstracting database, with some full-text coverage, of journals on religious history, biblical studies, epistemology, political philosophy, and the history of philosophy.
	Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Coverage includes Anglo-American, ethical and political, cross-cultural, interdisciplinary, continental and contemporary philosophy. Over 25,000 hot-linked cross-references between articles and new links to other editorially reviewed websites.
	Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Includes entries on such topics as democracy, civil rights, quantum mechanics, consciousness, voluntary euthanasia, and on many other topics important to the human condition, all freely available. Each refereed entry is maintained and kept up to date by an expert or group of experts in the field.

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Reference

• Blackwell encyclopaedia of political thought 1987 - Cen:Ref JA/61/BL78
• Cambridge dictionary of philosophy. 2nd ed. 1999 - Cen:Ref B/41/C497/1999
• The Routledge companion to aesthetics 2001 - Cen:Ref BH/21/RV35
• A Companion to epistemology 1992 - Cen:Ref BD/161/CQ55
• A Companion to metaphysics 1994 - Cen:Ref BD/111/CQ55
• A Companion to the philosophy of mind - Cen:Ref BD/418.3/CQ55
• Encyclopedia of aesthetics 1998 - Cen:Ref BH/56/EJ7
• The Encyclopedia of ethics 1992 - Cen:Ref BJ/63/EJ7
• The Encyclopedia of philosophy (P. Edwards)1972 - Cen:Ref B/41/EJ7
• Hutchinson dictionary of ideas - Cen:Ref B/41/H212
• The Oxford English dictionary online
• Routledge encyclopedia of philosophy 1998 - Cen:Ref/B/51/RV35
• Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy

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Web sites

• Philosophy Dept University of Otago
• EpistemeLinks: Philosophy resources on Internet - Most comprehensive directory to philosophy resources on the web. Recommended by the philosophy department.
• The EServer: Philosophy - Canonical philosophic texts and links to scholarly philosophic organizations. The EServer has other collections in the arts & humanities which address philosophical concerns.
• Philosophy at Large
• Australasian Philosophy

Last revised: 21 January, 2008