LibGuides: Existentialism Resources: Databases

Databases

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4. Many disciplines address Existentialism, including philosophy, theology/religion, psychology, and literary criticism.

Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
Gale Virtual Reference Library will provide the reference background for your Existentialism paper. Two in-depth reference sources available in this collection are the 10-volume The Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the 15-volume Encyclopedia of Religion, both of them definitive sources in their fields. You'll find other helpful results in here, as well.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. These journals are applicable to almost any subject, but be aware that these are academic texts, aimed at researchers who are already familiar with the basics of a topic.
Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Probably the library's most comprehensive resource, this multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
Literary Reference Center This link opens in a new window
Literary Reference Center(LRC) combines information from major respected reference works, books, literary journals as well as original content. It contains full text for more than 35,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, nearly 100,000 articles/essays of literary criticisms, more than 253,000 author biographies (including more than 22,000 in-depth bios), more than 460 literary journals, more than 693,000 book reviews, nearly 78,000 classic and contemporary poems, more than 19,600 classic and contemporary short stories, more than 6,500 author interviews, more than 8,200 classic texts and much more.
Literature Criticism Online This link opens in a new window
Reproduction of thousands of works of literary criticism. While not in the most user-friendly format, this is a rich resource for literary studies, from Shakespeare through the 20th century.