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Key databases for Philosophy  
JSTOR
Provides full text access to the entire archive of key journals in Philosophy.
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Past Masters Philosophy Texts
Online access to the works of major Western Philosophers:
Aristotle Complete Works, Boyle Correspondence & Works, British Philosophy 1600-1900, Continental Rationalists, Dewey Collected Works, Hume Complete Works and Correspondence, Locke Philosophical Works and Selected Correspondence, Nietzsches Werke, Plato Collected Dialogues and Wittgenstein Collected Works.
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Philosopher's Index via OvidSP (1940's - present)
References to scholarly books, journals and proceedings on all areas of Philosophy.
 
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Detailed reviewed articles covering the main areas in Philosophy, also provides links to other sites and resources on the web.
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Oxford Reference Online : Premium plus Western Civilization Collection
Includes over 1 million entries across 25 subject areas - everything from architecture to zoology as well as access to guides on English grammar and usage and over 130 dictionaries.
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More databases useful for Philosophy (A - Z)  
Dissertation & Theses Full Text
Access to full text doctoral dissertations and master's theses, mainly from US universities.
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Google Scholar
Searches academic information on the internet and may allow access to publications subscribed to by the University of Sydney Library.
 
Libraries Australia
Searches the combined catalogues of Australian libraries and can also provide access to the British Library Catalogue, Consortium of [British] University Research Libraries, Library of Congress Catalogue, and OCLC WorldCat. Australian content
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Project Muse (Mid 1990's - present)
Project Muse provides full text access to over 300 peer-reviewed humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.
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Voltaire electronique
Texts based on the Voltaire Foundation's Oeuvres completes de Voltaire (the Oxford edition)
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Web of Science
One of the largest Humanities and Social Sciences databases, it also provides citation analysis of authors and journals.
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