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These databases are a good place to start your research. a full list can be found on the Databases page.

PhilPapers: Philosophical Research Online
Index of philosophy books and articles, with real-time indexing of pre-prints, fine-grained classification by topic, email alerts, and reading lists.
Humanities International Complete
Scholarly articles, books and other published sources in the humanities disciplines. Hosted by EBSCO.
JSTOR
Multidisciplinary resource providing articles from peer-reviewed journals. UCO's Collections include Arts & Sciences I-XV, Business IV, Ecology & Botany II, Hebrew Journals, Ireland, Life Sciences, Lives of Literature, 19th Century British Pamphlets, Security Studies, and Sustainability. Archival access only.
Modern Language Association International Bibliography
Literature criticism, linguistics, writing education, second language acquisition. Hosted by EBSCO.
Project Muse
Multidisciplinary database with special emphasis on social science and the liberal arts.

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