The field that my paper falls under is philosophy - more specifically, classical/ancient philosophy, platonism, feminist theory, and protofeminism (which refers to a philosophic idea of feminism that existed before the advent of the modern feminist movement).
Databases:
When researching philosophy, the most popular academic database is the Philosopher's Index (http://secure.pdcnet.org/pri) maintained by the Philosophy Documentation Center. The database contains over 800,000 sources, dating from the year 1460, in multiple languages, which are automatically translated for the user. According to the EBSCOhost, the Philosopher's Index is "considered the most thorough index" of scholarly research in all areas of philosophy. It is supposed to be available under EBSCO, however:
Accessing EBSCO through Galileo does list two databases that cover philosophy; Religion and Philosophy Collection and Academic Search Complete.
update: I finally figured out the simple solution that solves most of the problems I've encountered in this course so far. As I mentioned in class, I was able to access the UGA version of Galileo, and it...
it's glorious! I had no idea how much information could be accessed through Galileo that ABAC is too cheap to pay for.
Journals:
If you do a general web search for the "best philosophy journals", you receive a multitude of results by various people who may or may not know anything about the subject. However, I did find a few links that seemed credible. Brian Leiter, the Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the Center for Law, Philosophy & Human Values at the University of Chicago (which implies he has some authority in the field), invited his professional colleagues to participate in a poll ranking the quality of general philosophy journals. The results can be found here. Thom Brooks, Reader in Political and Legal Philosophy at Newcastle University, UK, also hosted a poll, the results of which can be found here. The same five journals top both lists.
Journal of Philosophy (2nd and 1st)
Noûs (3rd and 2nd)
Mind (4th and 5th)
Philosophical Review (1st and 3rd)
Philosophy & Phenomenological Research (5th and 4th)
This is how I chose the Journal of Philosophy as the focus for my Issue Analysis paper.
For my comparison paper, I am going to compare three student journals:
Dialogue - the official journal of Phi Sigma Tau, the International National Honor Society in Philosophy
The Dualist - published by the Philosophy Department of Stanford University
Logos - published by the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University
And two of the professional journals; probably the Journal of Philosophy and either Noûs or the Philosophical Review.
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