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Criminal Justice Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Provides comprehensive coverage of the major journals in criminology and related disciplines, extensive coverage of books, and unparalleled access to reports from government and nongovernmental agencies.
Tutorial for the Criminal Justice Abstracts database.
Criminal Justice Database This link opens in a new window
Supports research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as litigation and crime trends. Covers U.S. and international scholarly journals, correctional and law enforcement trade publications, crime reports, crime blogs and other material relevant for researchers or those preparing for careers in criminal justice, law enforcement and related fields. View a tutorial on this database here.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service ((NCJRS) Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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Contains summaries of over 200,000 U.S. and international publications, including federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, audiovisual presentations, and unpublished research. Excludes most legal decisions, opinions, and statues. The collection has been developed to meet the needs of criminal justice professionals, researchers, policy makers, 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.
User guide for NCJRS here.
FORENSICnetBase This link opens in a new window
Provides electronic access to a large collection of forensics and law enforcement books published by CRC Press. Subject areas include: Arson & fire investigation; computer crime investigation; counter terrorism; criminal justice & law; disaster planning & recovery; emergency response; forensic chemistry; forensic pathology; forensics; homeland security; law enforcement; and security management.

HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
Image-based legal research database includes such collections as: Legal Classics, Law Journal Library, U.S. Supreme Court Library, U.S. Federal Legislative History Library, Treaties and Agreements Library and more. Bridges the gap in legal history by providing comprehensive coverage from inception of law and law-related periodicals.
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Legal Collection This link opens in a new window
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Includes scholarly publications of law journals, documents, and case studies, including over 250 full-text journals. Provides information centered on the discipline of law and legal topics such as criminal justice, international law, federal law, organized crime, and ethics. Indexing and abstracts are provided for all journals in the collection.
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Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Provides access to a wide range of news (includes New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times), business (company news, industry forecasts), government (legislative news, tax information), legal (news, case law) and reference information. Formerly LexisNexis Academic. View a tutorial on this database here.

APA PsycInfo (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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Covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas. Includes more than 3.7 million records. View a tutorial on this database here.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection This link opens in a new window
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Offers over 500 full-text, scholarly journals. Also provides indexing and abstracts for all journals in the collection. Subject coverage includes emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Tutorial for the Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection database.
PsychiatryOnline Premium Collection This link opens in a new window
Features DSM-5th and the American Journal of Psychiatry as the cornerstones of an online collection of psychiatric references, including textbooks, journals, self-assessment tools and APA practice guidelines. Search across the collection or within an individual title. Includes an A-Z index. Offers seamless access to current and older journal content.

Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Abstracts and indexes the international literature of sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Contains citations and abstracts from thousands of journals, as well as books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers, and working papers from 1952 to present. Includes the complete Social Services Abstracts.
Tutorial for the Sociological Abstracts database.
Social Science Database This link opens in a new window
Offers indexing for more than a thousand academic journals, most with full text. Covers a wide range of social science disciplines including anthropology, criminology, economics, education, political science, psychology, social work and sociology.
Tutorial for the Social Science Database database.
ProQuest Social Sciences Collections This link opens in a new window
Provides global indexing of the scholarly literature in the social sciences, including full-text scholarly journals and key non-periodical sources such as dissertations and working papers, covering political science, sociology, the applied social sciences, criminal justice, education, and other areas. Search one or more of these databases, from Alt-PressWatch to Worldwide Political Science Abstracts. Tutorial for the ProQuest Social Sciences Collection database.

EconLit with Full Text This link opens in a new window
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Provides bibliographic coverage of a wide range of economics-related literature. An expanded version of the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) includes indexes of journals, books, and dissertations and full text of nearly 600 journals. Covers both economic theory and application. Tutorial for the EconLit with Full Text database.
ABI/INFORM Collection This link opens in a new window
The ABI/INFORM Collection includes international coverage and provides researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world.
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Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
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Covers scholarly journals for business topics such as marketing, management, human resources, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Includes author profiles, financial data, books, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, company profiles, SWOT analyses, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, datamonitor, and country reports from 1886.
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Political Science Complete This link opens in a new window
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Search citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international journal literature in political science and related fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy. Also provides access to full-text reference works, and conference papers, including those of the International Political Science Association. Tutorial for the Political Science Complete database.
PAIS Index This link opens in a new window
Covers issues in the public debate through selective coverage of a variety of international sources including journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference papers, web content, and more, from 1972 to present. Includes PAIS Archive, covering content published in print 1915-1976. Tutorial for PAIS Index database.
Policy Commons This link opens in a new window
Database for public policy, with millions of reports, working papers, policy briefs, data sources, and media drawn from a directory of more than 20,000 IGOs, NGOs, think tanks, and research centers on disciplines including agriculture, energy, pharmaceuticals, diversity, crime, librarianship, etc. Community tools allow users to upload, share, and discuss their discoveries.
FindPolicy.org This link opens in a new window
Search across leading think tanks in a policy area. Search engines within FindPolicy include: Climate, Economy, Development, Foreign Policy, and general Public Policy. There are also country-level and regional searches.

Oxford Handbooks Online This link opens in a new window
Access to the entire seventeen subjects from the Oxford Handbooks Online platform. Offers review essays that evaluate the current thinking on a field or topic in a given subject area, and makes original arguments about the future direction of the debate.
Routledge Handbooks Online This link opens in a new window
Provides overviews of classic, current research and future trends in the social sciences and humanities; as well as guides to theory and method, key sub-disciplines, and the primary debates of today. Full-text access to peer-reviewed content available for the subject collections in criminal justice & criminology, politics, and security studies.
SAGE Research Methods and Cases Online This link opens in a new window
Provides an overview of research methods (quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods) across the social and behavioral sciences. Includes SAGE book and reference material on research methods, and editorially selected material from SAGE journals. Also includes a searchable collection of case studies of real social research, commissioned and designed to help users understand abstract methodological concepts in practice.
Tutorial for the SAGE Research Methods and Cases Online database.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text This link opens in a new window
Provides a comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day and offering full text for graduate works added since 1997, along with selected full text for works written prior to 1997. Contains new international dissertations and theses both in citations and in full text. Tutorial for the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text database.

Legal Research (Open Resources)

FindLaw
Findlaw provides basic background information on a variety of legal topics. This is a good starting point for gaining an understanding of complex legal topics.
Justia
Justia has all Supreme Court opinions, all federal circuit court opinions since 1950 and some U.S. district court opinions. It includes full-text searching of all cases plus the ability to browse decisions by court and date.
Open Jurist
OpenJurist's mission is to provide access to published court opinions without charge. Includes over 600,000 opinions from the United States Supreme Court and United States Courts of Appeals

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Social Explorer This link opens in a new window
Access current and historical census data and demographic information. Create maps and reports to illustrate, analyze, and understand demography and social change.
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Bureau of Justice Statistics This link opens in a new window
Collects, analyzes, publishes, and disseminates information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government.
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Historical Statistics of the United States Millennial Edition Online This link opens in a new window
Standard source for quantitative facts of American history. Expanded and revised to include over 37,000 data series from over 1,000 sources. Includes sections on Population, Work and Welfare, Economic Structure and Performance, Economic Sectors, and Governance and International Relations. Tables may be downloaded into Excel. Users may create custom tables as well.

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