Criminal Justice and Security Databases

Criminal Justice is a multidisciplinary subject. Also consider searching databases in Sociology, Political Science or Psychology.

* database contains partial or complete full-image and/or full-text coverage of journal articles

Criminal Justice Periodicals Index ProQuest 1981-
A comprehensive database of U.S. and international criminal justice journals. Great for searching in criminal justice, law enforcement, corrections administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law and industrial security.

NCJRS Abstracts Database National Criminal Justice Reference Service
A free database containing summaries of the more than 195,000 criminal justice, juvenile justice, and substance abuse resources housed in the NCJRS Library collection.

Sociological Abstracts Proquest/CSA 1952-
Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. An excellent resource for any sociology related topic.

Sage Online Journals* Sage years vary-
A full-text, multidisciplinary database covering more than 520 journals in business, humanities, social sciences, and science, technology and medicine.

Oxford Bibliographies Online
Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO) is a research tool for the social sciences and humanities that helps researchers find reliable sources of information by directing them to the right chapter, book, website, archive, or data set they need for their research area. It has excellent bibliographies in criminal justice and social work areas.

ICPSR Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
ICPSR maintains a digitl, data archive of more than 500,000 files of research in the social sciences. It hosts 16 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, demographics and other social related fields.

Homeland Security Digital Library U.S. Dept of Homeland Security
Provides quick access to literature on homeland security including important U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national strategy documents as well as specialized resources such as theses and reports from various universities, organizations and local and state agencies.

ISN: International Relations & Security Network
An international perspective database containing grey literature of all types, daily briefings, a monthly summary, primary source material, books, and many journals.

Films on Demand Films Media Group
Contains thousands of streaming documentaries in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. For criminal justice, it contains films in the areas of criminal investigation, criminal justice system and sociology.

Laws and Court Cases

LegalTrac* Gale 1980-
Use this database to find articles in all major law reviews, law journals, specialty law and bar association journals, and legal newspapers on Federal and State Cases, Laws and Government Regulations, Legal Practice, and legal subjects such as Taxation and International Law. British Commonwealth and European Union cases and law are also included. View the Journal List.

LexisNexis Academic* LexisNexis years vary
Click on the Legal link near the top of the page to search for laws and court cases. Also contains news sources, such as the New York Times, a great resource for general searching.

OmniFile Full Text Mega (H.W. Wilson)* EBSCOhost 1982-
This general database includes articles that cover a wide range of topics in education, general science, humanities, and the social sciences. Formerly known as WilsonWeb, OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition contains the full text of articles from over 2,500 publications and abstracts from nearly 3,600 publications.

Thomas
Provided by the Library of Congress, Thomas searches current legislation from 1990 to present. Search for bills, resolutions, Congressional Records and more.

Selected General Databases

Academic OneFile*
Contains peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources in the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995.

Academic Search Premier* EBSCOhost years vary-
Provides full text for more than 3,430 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. This database is updated on a daily basis.

Annual Reviews 1996-
Annual Reviews provides researchers, professors, and scientific professionals with a definitive academic resource in 29 scientific disciplines. Includes Annual Review of Law and Social Sciences and Annual Review of Political Science.

Social Sciences Citation Index ISI Web of Knowledge 1900-
Includes current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found the world's leading scholarly social sciences journals covering more than 50 disciplines.