Juniata College - Philosophy Department

Choose a topic and decide a tentative theme, and review related course material (especially the related philosophers' original works) on the topic.
Search Philosopher's Index and/or Humanities Abstracts (from the library's website) to review the abstracts of the related papers on the topic (use the key word search function). Based on the abstracts, choose papers of interest.
Locate the journals containing the full texts of the papers by searching from the library's A to Z Journals List for periodical titles that the library has (you can gain access to most journals electronically, and some are still in paper format).

Philosopher's Index (please make sure to log out after your use since only one person can gain access to the database at any time) the primer and best philosophy index on the market. The list of all journals indexed (homepages, contact information)
Humanities Abstracts : indexes Humanities literature (1984 - present). Subjects include: archaeology, art, classics, film, folklore, food, journalism, linguistics, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion, space, world history, world literature.
AH Search (FS): arts & Humanities Citation Index (1980 - present) Subjects include: Arts, humanities, & related social science & science information
ArticleFirst (FS): index of articles from the contents pages of journals (1990 - present). Subjects include: business, humanities, medicine, popular culture, science, social science, technology
ATLA Religion: indexes international religious & theological literature (1949 - present). Subjects include: anthropology, business, history, law, medicine, philosophy, psychology, religion, sociology, theology
WorldCatDissertations: indexes and abstracts of dissertations worldwide

From JStor (abut 30 philosophy journals)
From Blackwell Synergy (37)
From Project Muse (22)
From Pro Quest Research Library (about 60; not all are full text)
From Science Direct (3)
From Wilson OmniFile Full Text Mega (about 20; Wilson Web; you need to search for the journals)
Sage Journals (a few philosophy journals, including Philosophy, Politics, and Economics)

Philosophy