Robbins Library Notes

Good afternoon, all!

This morning, I was asked a question about accessing Philosophy Compass, formerly published by Blackwell, but now part of Wiley-Interscience.

If you are at Harvard, all you will need is your PIN and ID to access the Philosophy Compass.  If you search “philosophy compass” in HOLLIS, setting the search parameters to “title,” you’ll turn up the record, which lists the URL for the database.

However, you will not be able to access the articles at the present time.  As former Blackwell content, the Philosophy Compass is part of the migration of that content over to the Wiley-Interscience platform that began about two weeks ago.  Unfortunately, the migration of the content did not go as smoothly as planned, and there are a number of items that are currently unavailable, the Philosophy Compass being one of them.

I do not know when this will be available again.  Wiley is moving as quickly as possible to migrate the content and make it available — no small feat when over 1.6 million articles are involved.  I will keep checking back to see if the Philosophy Compass is available, and will let you know.  I will also let you know about some of the features of the new platform.

Please don’t hesitate to let me know if you have any questions about this.

Update 14 July 2008: Access to Philosophy Compass has been restored.  You are now able to download articles without being charged.