Criminal Justice Databases

Academic Search Premier

Academic Search Premier, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 8,200 journals in the collection. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more. Academic Search Premier is an enormous collection of the most valuable peer-reviewed full text journals, offering critical information from many sources unique to this database.

Contemporary Women's Issues

A multidisciplinary, full-text database that brings together relevant content from mainstream periodicals, "gray" literature, and the alternative press -- with a focus on the critical issues and events that influence women's lives in more than 190 countries.

Criminal Justice Abstracts, 1968 -

Citations, abstracts, and some full text to books and journal articles in the field of Criminal Justice.

Criminal Justice Periodical Index, 1981 -

Provides cover-to-cover access for 45 criminal justice journals, plus complete abstracts for over 100 additional titles. Provides option for searching refereed journal articles.
In the "Databases" field, choose "Social Sciences -- Criminal Justice Periodicals".

Elsevier Science Direct

ScienceDirect offers more than a quarter of the world's scientific, medical and technical information online.Over 2,000 peer-reviewed journals,hundreds of book series, handbooks and reference works.
In the right-hand column, under "Subject Areas in ScienceDirect," choose "Social Sciences."

Expanded Academic ASAP

Includes scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspaper articles in the arts, humanities, social sciences, science, and technology disciplines. Some full-text. Searches may be restricted to refereed journals only.

Lexis-Nexis Academic

Up-to-date news on local, state, national and international events; foreign language news; government, political, corporate and legal news; biographical information; reference sources; legal reviews; Federal Case Law; the U.S. Code; Constitutional and Court Laws and state legal research.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts

Published by the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice's National Criminal Justice Reference Service, an information clearinghouse for people around the U.S. and the world involved with research, policy, and practice related to criminal and juvenile justice, and drug control. This resource contains summaries of over 174,000 U.S. and international publications, including federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, audiovisual presentations, and unpublished research. The NCJRS Abstracts Database excludes most legal decisions, opinions, and statutes. The collection has been developed to meet the needs of criminal justice professionals, researchers, policymakers, and technical and legal experts. Unique elements of the collection include agency produced documents and final grant reports of Office of Justice Programs sponsored research. Documents are either written in English or have an English-language summary.

OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition

OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content -- indexing, abstracts, and full text -- from six of Wilson's full-text databases: Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text. Full-text articles from five additional periodical databases are also included when available: Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Art Full Text, Biological & Agricultural Index, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, and Library Literature & Information Science Full Text. Indexing begins in 1982, abstracts in 1984, and full-text coverage in 1994. Each database has its own start dates for indexing, abstracting, and full text; start dates for full-text rights to individual journals vary within a database.

SAGE Full-Text Collections

SAGE Full-Text Collections comprise four collections of fulltext journals published by SAGE Publications and participating societies, providing access to more than 75 peer-reviewed journals, 20,000 fulltext articles, and up to 20 years of backfile data. Collection areas are: Communication Studies; Criminology; Politics and International Relations; and Sociology.

Social Sciences Full Text

Subject areas include addiction studies, anthropology, area studies, community health and medical care, corrections, criminal justice, criminology, economics, environmental studies, ethics, family studies, gender studies, geography, gerontology, international relations, law, minority studies, planning and public administration, policy sciences, political science, psychiatry, psychology, public welfare, social work, sociology, and urban studies.  Full text coverage begins in January 1995.

SpringerLINK

Provides access to scholarly journals in business, law, medicine, humanities, science, and social science disciplines. This resource also provides access to the following book series: Lecture Notes in Physics and Topics in Current Chemistry.

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