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| Criminal Justice Periodicals | 1981 - present | Search a comprehensive collection of U.S. and international criminal justice journals including information for professionals in law enforcement, corrections administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law, and industrial security. |
| HeinOnline
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HeinOnline is a web-based subscription service allowing researchers to browse or fully search libraries containing >1.2K older law reviews and other legal materials including all charts, graphs, and photographs! Coverage is from the first issue published for all periodicals and goes through the most-currently published issues allowed based on contracts with publishers. Searching can be done by title or author name, as well as full-text searching of the collection or select periodicals. Date ranges may also be entered to narrow search results.
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| Legal Collection | This database contains full text for nearly 250 of the world's most respected, scholarly law journals. The Legal Collection is an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world. | |
| National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)
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(1972-date; >185K publications) | The searchable National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts Database contains abstracts of >185,000 criminal justice publications, including federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research. Subject areas include corrections, courts, drugs and crime, law enforcement, juvenile justice, crime statistics, and victims of crime. Most documents published since 1995 by NCJRS sponsoring agencies -- the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Office for Victims of Crime, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, and the Bureau of Justice Assistance, all part of the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, and the Office of National Drug Control Policy -- are available in full-text online. When the full-text is available online, a link is included with the abstract.
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| Service Abstracts Database | NCJRS offers a range of services and resources, balancing the information needs of the field with the technological means to receive and access support. The following offers a number of highlights of NCJRS services and resources. | |
| National Organization for Research (NORC) Abstracts Database
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(1972-date; >185K publications) | The searchable National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts Database of >185,000 criminal justice publications, including federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research. Subject areas include corrections, courts, drugs and crime, law enforcement, juvenile justice, crime statistics, and victims of crime. Most documents published since 1995 by NCJRS sponsoring agencies -- the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Office for Victims of Crime, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, and the Bureau of Justice Assistance, all part of the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, and the Office of National Drug Control Policy -- are available in full-text online. When the full-text is available online, a link is included with the abstract.
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| PAIS International | A reference resource for research in American government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs. | |
| ProQuest Dissertations & Theses |
1861 - current | ProQuest Dissertations & Theses database (PQDT) is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses and the database of record for graduate research, with >2.3MM dissertations and theses included from around the world. The database includes bibliographic citations for materials dating from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester. Dissertations published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. The full text of >1 MM titles is available in paper and microform formats and >750K are available for download in PDF format. 60K new citations are added to the database annually.
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| PSYCINFO | 1887 - current | Comprehensive international database of psychology. Covers the academic, research, and practice literature in psychology. |
| SAGE Journals Online
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1999- Current | SAGE Publications publishes over 485 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine. |
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23 titles; coverage varies by title - (>5.5K articles with some dating back to 1984) | Sage Publications' Criminology Full-Text collection includes the full-text of 23 core journals published by SAGE and participating societies covering such subjects as criminal justice, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, corrections, penology, policing, forensic psychology, and family and domestic violence. The searchable database consists of bibliographic records (indexed summaries or abstracts) with links to the appropriate full-text of each journal article in PDF format. Updated monthly.
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| Westlaw | West publishes case law from the state and federal courts, case law digests, statutes, textbooks, treatises and other law-related materials. WESTLAW Campus includes American Jurisprudence 2d (a comprehensive encyclopedia of state and federal law); American Law Reports (has attorney-written articles analyzing case law on a particular legal issue); 50 states’ and federal cases; statutes from 50 states and federal statutes (U.S.C.A.); federal regulations published in the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations; law reviews and legal journals and other materials. Case law, statutes, regulations, and articles can be retrieved using their legal citations or searched using either a natural language or terms and connectors (Boolean logic) method. |
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Updated 8/13/2009