Library services during COVID-19
For the safety and wellbeing of our community, Geisel Library and the Biomedical Library Building are closed effective Monday, March 16, 2020 until further notice. Learn more about services available at the Library during the COVID-19 response.
General Library Info
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Library HoursHours may change during Week 10 and Finals week of each quarter.
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My Library AccountSet up My Library Account to use all library services.
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Ask a LibrarianUC San Diego librarians are available to help with your research needs. Chat 24/7 with a librarian now!
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Get Started with Library ResearchNot sure how to begin your research? This guide will give you all the information that you need to begin your project.
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Course ReservesFind what your instructor has put on Reserve.
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Interlibrary LoanInterlibrary loan is a way to request books and articles that are not available at UC San Diego.
Spring 2020 Remote Access
Some of the resources listed on this guide have been licensed by the UC San Diego Library. Off-campus access, as well as on-campus wifi access, is restricted to UC San Diego students, faculty and staff. Follow the links below to enable access on campus using your laptop, or off-campus access using VPN.
Off-Campus Access to Journals, Ebooks, and Databases: Use AnyConnect VPN.
- When logging in, select the 2 Step Secured - althruucsd option (click to see an example)
- Duo two-step login also required
Access to Electronic Library Resources for Spring 2020: Home
A list of resources available during the Spring quarter, during the COVID-19 online transition, including new (temporary) content.
Key Resources
Resources with a blue lock mean that you need to have your off-campus computer configured for access.
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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Philosophers (temporary access)Features critical biographies of individuals who have contributed to the history of intellectual thought. Growing each year, it currently includes over 8,000 thinkers from North America, Britain, Ireland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the Middle East.
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Philosopher's IndexThis bibliographic database offers informative, author-written abstracts covering scholarly research in all areas of philosophy. The literature covered goes back to 1940 and includes journal articles, books, book chapters such as contributions to an anthology and book reviews.
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Routledge Encyclopedia of PhilosophyThe online, expanded and updated version of the 1998 print edition. Contains subject guides, links to new articles and updates, and full text search capability.
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Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyThis is a dynamic resource and entries are being constantly added and revised. It is searchable by topic, and essays are written by experts in the field.
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JSTORSearch by subject or browse full text of more than 2000 titles, predominantly scholarly journals in social sciences, humanities, and sciences, to their earliest issues. Many titles extend as far back as late 19th or early 20th centuries; most recent 3-5 years often not included.
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Project MuseSearch by subject or browse full text of scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics. Coverage begins 1995 or later, depending on the publication.
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Electronic EnlightenmentSearchable and browsable database with access to correspondence between the greatest thinkers and writers of the 17th-19th centuries, and their families and friends, bankers and booksellers, patrons and publishers. Coverage includes letters and documents, manuscripts and early printed editions, scholarly annotations, and links to biographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, newspapers, and other online resources. With 79,254 letters and documents and 10,232 correspondents (as of Winter 2018–2019) EE is the most wide-ranging online collection of edited correspondence of the early modern period, linking people across Europe, the Americas and Asia from the early 17th to the mid-19th century.
Contact Info
Michael Smith
Contact:
9500 Gilman Drive #0175R
La Jolla, CA 92093-0175
La Jolla, CA 92093-0175
858-534-1248