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Reference Works

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Covers all the central aspects of philosophy. Is continually updated by specialists. All articles are under peer review.
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Peer reviewed and up to date online lexicon with articles written by academic philosophy professionals.
The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy / Simon Blackburn. 2.ed., rev. (2008)
Covers all areas of philosophy and have terms from related disciplines such as religion, natural sciences and logic. Contains clear and acknowledged definitions.
Oxford Reference Online - Premium Collection
Ebook database with a great collection of acknowledged reference works and dictionaries.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas (1973)
Online access to the older reference work for history of ideas. Can often be a great place to start for an analysis related to the methodologies of history of ideas.
A Dictionary of Philosophy of Religion / Taliaferro and Marty. 2010.
Dictionary that explains the terms related to the study of philosophy of religion. Provides short bibliographies for philosophers of religion, contemporary as well as historical.
Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
Philosophical reference work with short articles on specific terms and philosophers. Open access. Contains references to open access lexica.

Journal Databases

JSTOR
Journal database with open full-text access to the leading academic journals within all subject areas.
NB: it is usually not possible to access the most recent 3-5 volumes, but it is possible to access publications before that – some journals even go back to the 16^th-18^th centuries.
Journal of the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists (Brill)
A journal and online forum centering women in philosophy. Contains access to texts, online lectures, seminars, published books etc. Funded by scholars at Paderborn University.
Project Muse
Journal database with open full-text access to high quality journals within the humanities and social sciences. The database provides access to the most recent issues and sometimes to older issues (back issues) as well. Continuously updated.
Bibliotek.dk – Artikelsøg
This Danish article database contains Danish newspaper and journal articles from 1945. Is continually updated.

Bibliographies

Philosopher’s Index
Index of articles, books, research reports within philosophy and other related areas of study.
PhilPapers
The largest online archive for philosophy. Index of books, articles and open access archives from other websites.
ATLA
One of the leading bibliographies within science of religion and theology. Direct access to online texts. Index articles, essays and reviews.

Online News Archives and Media

Infomedia (Only in Danish)
Here you can find full text articles from Danish national, regional and local daily and weekly newspapers, specialist journals, magazines and news agencies. It covers the years from approximately 1990 and onwards – depending on when the specific journals and news sites started.
Mediestream (the site is in Danish and English)
Mediestream provides online access to Det Kgl. Biblioteks digital collections of Danish cultural heritage. So far it covers newspapers, radio, television as well as commercials. Most of the content is in Danish, so relevant if you need to watch Danish documentaries, commercials or episodes of typical Danish drama series.
WayBackMachine – The Internet Archive
Digital archive that catalogues websites over the last 20 years. Access through the search engine Wayback Machine.
Factiva
Database with access to newspapers from all over the world. Partial full text access.

Dictionaries

Ordbogen.com
Web-based dictionaries which are often updated with words that the user was unable to find in the first try. Contains the most used words and expressions within the given languages and subject areas.
Oxford English Dictionarry (OED)
E-books database containing a large collection of acknowledged reference works and dictionaries. Also contains a collection of quotes, illustrations, maps and historical timelines.

Ebooks

Cambridge Companions Online
Online-versions of the acknowledged Cambridge Companions series meant for students. Contains good introductions to classical and central authors, artists, philosophers, topics and periods.
Ebook Central
Ebook database with thousands of e-books in all subject areas.
Oxford Scholarship Online
Grants access to a wide selection of books from Oxford University Press. Only provides full-text access to the subjects that AU Library subscribes to: Classical Studies, Linguistics, Literature, Economics and Finance, Philosophy, Political Science, Law, Sociology, Religion, Biology, and Public Health and Epidemiology. On other subjects, access is only granted to the abstracts of the books

Reference Works for Specific Topics

The Blackwell companion to hermeneutics
Edited by Niall Keane and Chris Lawn (2016)
A companion to epistemology
Edited by Jonathan Dancy, Ernest Sosa, and Matthias Steup. 2.ed. (2010)
A Companion to Metaphysics, 2nd Ed
Jaegwon Kim (Editor), Ernest Sosa (Editor), Gary S. Rosenkrantz (Editor)
Dictionary of Existentialism
Ed. by Haim Gordon, 1999. Contains short introductions to themes and philosophers within the field of existentialism.
A Dictionary of Philosophy of Religion
Edited by Charles Taliaferro and Elsa J. Marty. 2010
Dictionary for terms within the field of philosophy of religion.
Dictionary of Untranslatables
A Philosophical Lexicon / Edited by Barbara Cassi. 2014. Collection of foundational philosophical terms with different translations and within different language context and cultures.
Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (1998)
A part of Oxford Art Online. Contains ressources within the field of art philosophy and art critique.
Encyclopedia of Bioethics 3rd ed./ Post. 2004
Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World
A collection of research on the area of the influence on the Neo Latin world on the renaissance and contemporary philosophy.
Brill's New Pauly Online / Der Neue Pauly
Covers classic ancient times and early Aegean cultures. Contains resources regarding people, places, events, artefacts, art, literature and philosophy.

Text Archives and Individual Philosophers

Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is an online library of more than 60.000 free eBooks. It is the world’s oldest online text archive. The archive is not monitored for errors in digitization. This means that mistakes can appear in the digitized versions of the literature.
InteLex Past Masters
Ebook database the provides an array of classical works within philosophy and other areas of study. Contains works by Kant, Beauvoir, Decartes, Hegel, Kirkegaard etc.
The Encyclopedia of Concise Concepts by Women Philosophers
Encyclopedia for philosophical terms, concepts and phenomena as explained as it was developed by female philosphers. Each term is explained in 100-300 words. Funded by scholars at Paderborn University.
Oxford New Histories of Philosophy
Online collection of book collection by Oxford University Press. Grants full text access through the Danish Royal Library. Provides essential resources for those aiming to diversify the content of their philosophy courses, revisit traditional narratives about the history of philosophy, or better understand the richness of philosophys past.
Calvini Opera Database
Digital version of the Calvin-version in Corpus Reformatorum from 1863-1900.
Grundtvigs Værker
An in-progress project to digitize a critical and commented version of Grundtvigs works.
Søren Kierkegaards Skrifter (SKS)
The complete works of Søren Kierkegaard.
Supressed Histories Archives
An independent and non-profit database of 50,000 images and 100 visual presentations, articles, photo essays, books, and videos fleshing out the cultural heritages of womxn around the world. Is not associated with a university or research centre.
Løgstrup Arkivet
Overview of materials for research on Løgstrup. Includes manuscripts, published titles and secondary literature.
Melanchthoni Opera Database
Digital version of the Melanchton-version of Corpus Reformatorum from 1834-1860.
Internet Archive
A source for primary literature from the 19^th century.
Marx wirklich studieren!
Contains the complete Marx-Engelsk Werke in German. Can be downloaded.
Marxists Internet Archive
Contains many of the works of Marx and Engels in English as well as full text version of a broad array of Marxist literature. Note: not accurate page numbers.
Marxistiske Klassikere
Contains many of the works of Marx, Engels and Lenin in Danish. Note: not accurate page numbers.
Online Library of Liberty (OLL) - A collection of scholarly works about individual liberty and free markets
Text collection of works regarding theories of the free market and individual freedoms. Contains a chronological collection of text from ancient times, to the contemporary.
The Open Commons of Phenomenology
Full text works from phenomenological philosphers.
Perseus Digital Library
Classic works from Plato, Aristotle and more in both Greek and English.

Podcasts

Interventions. The intellectual history podcast
Interviews with some of the leading scholars within history of ideas. Produced by students from history of ideas at Cambridge University, England.
Lectures in Intellectual History
Recordings of lectures given at the Institute of Intellectual History, University of St. Andrews, Scotland.
S-usih podcast
Podcasts from Society for US Intellectual History
Ted talks, Philosophy
Shorter lectures within a broad variety of topics, presented in an engaging fashion.

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