InfoGuides: Forensic Science: Find Articles

Databases

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
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Provides full-text, peer-reviewed journals, as well as indexing and abstracts for monographs, reports, and conference proceedings. Features content going back as far as 1887.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Access (searching and browsing) journals and eBooks published by Elsevier and its partners. Covers most disciplines, including science, medicine, economics and the social sciences.
Web of Science: Core Collection This link opens in a new window
Find articles relating to all areas of forensics. The citation searching feature is especially useful for following the evolution of an argument or topic.
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federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, audiovisual presentations, and unpublished research.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.

NCSTL (National Clearinghouse for Science, Technology & the Law)
The NCSTL database is designed to be “one-stop-shopping” for information related to the nexus of science, technology and the law. It is a collection of thousands of bibliographic records for forensic and criminal justice related resources. These bibliographic records provide you with an abstract for each item, as well as all the information you or your librarian will need to find that item, including the URL to the full text of the item whenever it is available online.

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.
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.

Google Scholar
Useful for cross-disciplinary topics.

AFTE Journal Article Index
The essential journal covering the firearms and toolmarks literature. (AFTE = Association of Firearm & Toolmark Examiners).
Journal of the American Society of Questioned Document Examiners Index
The abstracts and author indexes can be searched by using the "Find" function in the PDF viewer. You can search all issues of the journal in the combined abstracts or search individual abstracts by journal issue. The index of authors has been divided into two PDF files. There is some overlap between the two files. This journal is not indexed elsewhere.

SciFinder-n This link opens in a new window
This new discovery platform is the next generation product of SciFinder. It provides integrated access to the world's most comprehensive and authoritative source of references, substances and reactions in chemistry and related sciences. Contains PatentPak™ (mapped and indexed OCR’d patents); MethodsNow™ synthetic protocol content (step-by-step synthetic protocols); experimental and predicted Retrosynthesis tool; and enhanced Markush and Substructure search features. Enables multiple tab browsing for simultaneous searching and enables user to search References, Substances & Reactions at same time. Note: New users are required to register with SciFinder-n in order to enable basic functionality on the platform. Please register here.
Compendex This link opens in a new window
Provides abstracts and full bibliographic citations for worldwide engineering and technical literature. Encompasses all engineering disciplines as well as related fields in science and management.
Inspec This link opens in a new window
Scientific and technical journals and conference proceedings in physics, electrical engineering and electronics, computing and control, and information technology.

Inspec This link opens in a new window
Articles and conference proceedings in computer science, computer engineering, and computer/information security.
ABI/INFORM Collection This link opens in a new window
The business press: find articles on security management issues.
Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
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The business press: find articles on security management issues.
Factiva This link opens in a new window
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Find articles relating to security management issues.

Homeland Security Digital Library
Contains non-classified Presidential directives, policy, and national strategy documents as well as specialized resources related to homeland security.

Medline with Full Text This link opens in a new window
The U.S. National Library of Medicine's premier bibliographic database of literature on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health-care system, and pre-clinical sciences.
BIOSIS Previews This link opens in a new window
(1926-present) The biological sciences; e.g. forensic entomology, wildlife forensics, DNA analysis.

Biological Abstracts
(1969-2009) The biological sciences; e.g. forensic entomology, wildlife forensics, DNA analysis.

APA PsycInfo (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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Find articles relating to forensic psychology and forensic psychiatry.
TOXLINE This link opens in a new window
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Provides bibliographic citations and abstracts from the core journal literature in all areas of toxicology, including chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pesticides, environmental pollutants and mutagens and teratogens from 1999 to present. Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
The premier online resource for researchers, professionals, and students in sociology and related disciplines. Contains citations and abstracts from over 2000 journals. Useful for topics such as offender profiling.

Major Journals

To find articles on topics within these journals, please use the databases listed on the Find Articles page. Depending on your topic, you should also try more specific databases in the "Biological aspects", "Physical aspects", or "Security management" categories.

Journal of Forensic Sciences
The Journal of Forensic Sciences (JFS) is the official publication of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. It is devoted to the publication of original investigations, observations, scholarly inquiries, and reviews in the various branches of the forensic sciences. These include Pathology and Biology, Toxicology, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, General, Odontology, Physical Anthropology, Jurisprudence, Criminalistics, Questioned Documents, Engineering Sciences, and Digital & Media Sciences.
Forensic Science International
Forensic Science International publishes original contributions in the many different scientific disciplines pertaining to the forensic sciences. Fields include forensic pathology and histochemistry, chemistry, biochemistry and toxicology (including drugs, alcohol, etc.), biology (including the identification of hairs and fibres), serology, odontology, psychiatry, anthropology, the physical sciences, firearms, and document examination, as well as investigations of value to public health in its broadest sense, and the important marginal area where science and medicine interact with the law
Forensic Science International: Genetics
Forensic Science International: Genetics is an international journal dedicated to the applications of genetics in the administration of justice. This branch of Forensic Science can be defined as the application of genetics to human and non-human material (in the sense of a science with the purpose of studying inherited characteristics for the analysis of inter- and intra-specific variations in populations) for the resolution of legal conflicts.
Journal of Forensic Identification
The Journal of Forensic Identification includes case studies of closed criminal cases, evidence collection, crime scene processing, blood pattern interpretation, footwear and tiretrack preservation and examination, latent print processing techniques, fingerprint comparison, forensic photography, forensic art, and DNA analysis studies.
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DVD: Vol. 1-58 (1933-2008): All publications archive / International Association for Identification; Location: Gateway Library (Johnson Center) CD-ROM; Call Number: HV8073.I56 A55
AFTE Journal (AFTE=Association of Firearm and Tool Mark Examiners)
The AFTE Journal is the official publication of the Association of Firearm and Tool Mark Examiners. The AFTE Journal is dedicated to the sharing of information, techniques and procedures.
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CD-ROM: Vol. 1-33 (1969-2001) Location: Gateway Library (Johnson Center) CD-ROM; Call Number: HV8077 .A88 2010
Science & Justice
Science and Justice provides a forum to promote communication and publication of original articles, reviews and correspondence on subjects that spark debates within the Forensic Science Community and the criminal justice sector. The journal provides a medium whereby all aspects of applying science to legal proceedings can be debated and progressed.
International Journal of Legal Medicine
The International Journal of Legal Medicine aims to improve the scientific resources used in the elucidation of crime and related forensic applications at a high level of evidential proof. The journal offers review articles tracing development in specific areas, with up-to-date analysis; original articles discussing significant recent research results; case reports describing interesting and exceptional examples; population data; letters to the editors; and technical notes, which appear in a section originally created for rapid publication of data in the dynamic field of DNA analysis.
American Journal of Forensic Medicine & Pathology
The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology features original articles on new examination and documentation procedures, as well as provocative discussions of the forensic pathologist's expanding role-in human rights protection, suicide and drug abuse prevention, occupational and environmental health, and other key areas. Unique special features include case reports, technical notes on new examination devices, and reports of medicolegal practices worldwide.
Journal of Analytical Toxicology
The Journal of Analytical Toxicology (JAT) is an international toxicology journal devoted to the timely dissemination of scientific communications concerning potentially toxic substances and drug identification, isolation, and quantitation.