COD Library: Philosophy: Articles

Introduction to finding articles

Use the links below to find scholarly, peer-reviewed articles and sources from magazines and newspapers. You'll need a COD Library card to access many of these sources from off campus. You can get a library card online.

Philosophy Databases

JSTOR
JSTOR is an excellent database that contains all scholarly, peer-reviewed articles. Note that articles in JSTOR are usually 1-5 years old, but should be sufficient for most of your papers.
Academic Search Ultimate
This collection provides both popular and scholarly journal articles. If you need scholarly articles only, click on the Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals box on the left side of your search results page.
Issues & Controversies

Issues & Controversies provides accurate, accessible, and authoritative information about current issues, exploring more than 800 hot topics in business, politics, government, education, and popular culture. This is an excellent database to explore pros/cons and multiple sides of an issue and is great for research papers and debate preparation.
PhilPapers: Philosophical Research Online
PhilPapers is an online collection of scholarly materials on philosophy topics. This resource includes articles and reviews from 350 journals. Note that some articles are available and others can be requested through Interlibrary Loan, https://codlrc.org/ill-forms

Philosophers' Imprint (Journal)
Philosophers' Imprint is a refereed series of original papers. It was founded by Stephen Darwall and J. David Velleman, and published by Michigan Publishing at the University of Michigan. The Imprint was founded in the spirit of the Open Access movement, whose mission is to promote a future in which funds currently spent on journal subscriptions are redirected to the dissemination of scholarship for free, via the Internet.