Databases & Journals: Indexes, Abstracts & Articles
Databases for Criminal Justice and Intelligence Analysis
Access the databases and e-books relevant to specific topics for the field of Criminal Justice and Intelligence Analysis.
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Bookmark this on Delicious [BETA]Criminal Justice Periodicals Index provides information on virtually any criminal justice topic, including corrections administration, law enforcement, social work, industrial security, drug rehabilitation, and criminal and family law. 190 journals are indexed; coverage begins in 1981.
Bookmark this on Delicious [BETA]Criminology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection includes the full-text of 23 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 24 years, encompassing over 5,500 articles. It covers 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) as well as the complete text of each journal article. Every bibliographic record in the Collection links to the appropriate full-text in PDF format.
Bookmark this on Delicious [BETA] This collection of 700 titles is useful for legal, pare-legal and security studies, and for a career in Homeland Security.
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Bookmark this on Delicious [BETA]NCJRS is a federally sponsored information clearinghouse for people around the country and the world involved with research, policy, and practice related to criminal and juvenile justice and drug control. The NCJRS Abstracts database, containing over 190,000 abstracts of articles, can be accessed from this page. Many of the articles are available in full text from other UDM databases.
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According to the website, you must request an individual account. From the website:
"We invite all homeland security officials and academics to utilize the HSDL for research, analysis, and policy and strategy development. Library access is offered to U.S. citizens who are:
- Federal, state, tribal, and local government officials
- Members of the U.S. military
- Homeland security researchers and academics
- Security staff protecting organizations vital to U.S. infrastructure"
Legal Databases
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Bookmark this on Delicious [BETA]Campus Research™ is a research service for news, business and law-related information.It includes full-text information and access to both current and archived materials from thousands of news databases arranged geographically and topically, and law-related resources, including both primary law and analysis.
Cross Discipline Databases
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Academic OneFile is a major source of full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources, with extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times 1985-date. Updated daily.
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Bookmark this on Delicious [BETA]Full text of over 1,200 core academic journals in most disciplines. Coverage starts with the first issue puiblished, and continues, ending 3-5 years before the current year. An additional year is journals published is added annually. The Libraries own current paper issues of many titles in the collections.
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Bookmark this on Delicious [BETA]PsycINFO , from the American Psychological Association (APA), contains nearly 2.3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s. 97 percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed. Journal coverage, which spans 1887 to present, includes international material selected from more than 2,100 periodicals in more than 25 languages.
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Bookmark this on Delicious [BETA]Blackwell Synergy titles are now included in the Wiley Interscience database. Blackwell Synergy contains the online versions of more than 870 scholarly journals published by Blackwell. As of July, 2008, nearly 885,000 full text Blackwell articles are included. Full text is available for all of these journals from at least 2001 (except for new journals) and coverage for some goes back to the 1970s. Listings and indexing on InterScience include ALL Wiley journals as well as the former Blackwell Synergy titles, but with few exceptions, only the Blackwell titles are availaible in full text.
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Bookmark this on Delicious [BETA]Wilson SelectPlus indexes and abstracts records with accompanying full-text periodical articles, many of which are linked to citations in other FirstSearch databases. Includes US and international professional publications, academic journals, and trade magazines. Links to full-text articles. The database contains more that 1.1 million full-text articles from 2,100 journals.
Local Newspapers
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Bookmark this on Delicious [BETA]This is the online edition of the Detroit News, 1999-date.
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Bookmark this on Delicious [BETA]A collection of over 100 newspapers and 275 newswires from around the country and the world. Included are the Detroit Free Press (March 28, 2000-July 30, 2008), Times (London) 1985-date and the Christian Science Monitor 1996-date. The database contains over 27 million articles.
Federal Statistics
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Bookmark this on Delicious [BETA]FedStats, which has been available to the public since 1997, provides access to the full range of official statistical information produced by the Federal Government without having to know in advance which Federal agency produces which particular statistic. With convenient searching and linking capablilties to more than 100 agencies that provide data and trend information on such topics as economic and population trends, crime, education, health care, aviation safety, energy use, farm production and more, FedStats is your one location for access to the full breadth of Federal statistical information.
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Bookmark this on Delicious [BETA]This is the official U.S. Census Bureau website, providing information about the upcoming 2010 census and access to the 2000 census data. In addition to the standard census tables in the general categories of people and households, business and industry, and geography, the site also provides access to survey and sample data. Information includes anonymous data from many social, financial and medical studies that are conducted by the Bureau of the Census. Population clocks show U.S. and World population estimates updated minute-to-minute.
Electronic Book Collections
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From the journal: "Homeland Security Affairs is the peer-reviewed online journal of the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS), providing a forum to propose and debate strategies, policies, and organizational arrangements to strengthen U.S. homeland security."
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From the journal: "Surveillance & Society publishes rigorously peer-reviewed academic work of the highest quality... and is a free-to-access electronic journal."
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by Executive Office for United States Attorneys
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View bimonthly articles dating back to 1996.
