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Databases: Criminal Justice and Law
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Criminal Justice Abstracts
Covers trends, crime prevention and deterrence, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, police, courts, punishment, and sentencing. MORE DETAILS... |
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Westlaw
Campus
An online legal research tool designed specifically for undergraduate
and graduate students who need to research law-related issues.
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Social Sciences Citation Index
Published by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI); Delivered via the Web of Science platform.
The Social Sciences Citation Index® (SSCI®) and Social SciSearch® provide access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in over 1,700 of the world's leading scholarly social sciences journals covering more than 50 disciplines. They also cover individually selected, relevant items from approximately 3,300 of the world's leading science and technology journals. MORE DETAILS... |
1991+ |
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Academic
Search Elite via Ebsco
Broad coverage —including biological sciences, economics, communications,
computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts
and literature, medical sciences and women's studies. MORE
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Abstracts: 1984+
Full text: 1990+ |
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CountryWatch
Up-to-date information and news on the countries of the world:
political, economic, and business information. MORE
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CQ
Researcher
The Congressional Quarterly (CQ) Researcher explores a single
"hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics
range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education
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1991+ |
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Current Contents Connect
A multidisciplinary current awareness Web resource providing access to complete bibliographic information from over 8,000 of the world's leading scholarly journals and more than 2,000 books. MORE DETAILS... |
1998+ |
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Dissertations & Theses via Proquest
The database includes citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester; those published from 1980 forward also include 350- word abstracts, written by the author. Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. Of the millions of titles listed, UMI offers over 1.8 million in full text.
The database represents the work of authors from over 1,000 North American graduate schools and European universities. MORE DETAILS... |
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1994+ |
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LexisNexis
Academic
Access to full-text legal, medical, business, biographical
and news and information from over 5000 sources. MORE
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PsycARTICLES
via Ebsco
PsycARTICLES is an online database containing full-text articles
from 49 peer reviewed journals published by APA and allied organizations.
Covers general psychology and specialized basic, applied, clinical,
and theoretical research in psychology. MORE
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1987+ |
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PsycINFO
via Ebsco
PsycINFO extensively covers psychological literature and includes
relevant materials from related disciplines such as medicine,
psychiatry, education, social work, law, criminology, social
science, and organizational behavior. MORE
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1967+ |
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Research
Library via ProQuest Direct
Provides access to full-text journals across a wide range of
subject areas, including business, education, literature, political
science, and psychology.MORE
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1971+ |
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SIRs
Government Reporter
Documents from the US government. Information on health,
science, economics, environment, politics, foreign affairs,
workplace issues, business and industry is included. MORE
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Abstracts: 1971+
Full text: 1991+ |
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SIRS
Researcher
Select full-text articles covering a a variety of social,
scientific, historic, economic, political and global issues.
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Abstracts: 1971+
Full text: 1991+ |
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Social
Sciences Full Text part of WilsonWeb's OmniFile
Covers the fields of anthropology, economics, geography, law
and criminology, political science, social work, sociology,
etc. MORE
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Abstracts: 1994+
Full text: 1995+ |
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Social
Work Abstracts
via SilverPlatter
Social work and human services info. Coverage includes theory
and practice in the areas of service, social issues, and social
problems. MORE
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1977+ |
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