Locating Journal Articles

Online Journals

If you already have the citation for an article that includes the journal title, you can

• Use Citation Linker to find full text when you already know the citation for an article.
• Search for the journal in the list of online journals,
• Use the Orbis Quick Limit (Serials and Journals) with a title or keyword search
• Search in Orbis by selecting the Search in: option: Journal/Newspaper/Magazine Title

Search the Online Journals database:

• Directory of Open Access Journals
• Ebscohost Electronic Journals Service
• JSTOR (Journal Storage Project)
• Project Muse Johns Hopkins University Press electronic journals

Online Databases

If you do not know where to find a particular journal article or want to search for philosophy articles , you can try one of these standard online databases to find citations for philosophy articles:

Use the Philosophy multidatabase search

Philosopher's Index
Academic Search
Alternative Press Index
America: History and Life
L'Année Philologique
Aristotle Bibliography
ARTFL (American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language)
Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL)
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
ATLA Religion Database
Bibliography of Theology & Peace
Contemporary Women's Issues
Essay and General Literature Index
FRANCIS
GenderWatch
Historical Abstracts
IBZ: Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur
IMB: International Medieval Bibliography
ITER: The bibliography of Renaissance Europe
MLA International Bibliography
Humanities Full Text
Mathematical Reviews (MathSciNet)
Oxford Classical Dictionary
Past Masters
Periodicals Archive Online
POIESIS: Philosophy Online Serials
Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature
Readers' Guide Retrospective
Religion and Philosophy Collection
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Social Sciences Abstracts
Social Science Full Text
Social Science Citation Index
Victorian Database Online

This is only a partial list of online databases. A complete list can be found here.

Yale University Library Research Guide in Philosophy
Comments and questions to Anne Oechtering
Prepared by David L. Eastman
Illustration from René Descartes' Principia Philosophiæ, 1677
©2007 Yale University Library