Guide to Criminal Justice Research
Databases, Indexes and Abstracts
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The following databases and paper indexing and abstracting publications may be used to locate articles relevant to criminal justice in journals, magazines, conference proceedings, books, and other sources. Contact a librarian (688-5570 or 800-786-2038) for more information or if off-campus access is denied to a current SDSU student, faculty member, or staff member..
Sociological
Abstracts. 1963+.
The Sociological Abstracts
database indexes and provides abstracts for journal articles from sociology
and related disciplines. In addition, it covers relevant association papers
and PhD and Master's theses. Older journal articles are also covered in the paper Sociological
Abstracts shelved on the library's main floor in the Abstracts &
Indexes area (305.So15).
NCJRS
The National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database contains
summaries of more than 150,000 criminal justice publications, including
Federal, State, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal
articles, and unpublished research.
LexisNexis has information from the Congressional Information Service regarding the federal government law making. This site also gives access to the U.S. Constitution, State Constitutions, U.S. Code, State Codes, U.S. Regulations, etc. You can also search for items from the news in newspapers, magazines, and journals. There are links to LexisNexis Academic which provides full text articles from newspapers, magazines, journals, news transcripts, legal reviews, and more as well as to LexisNexis Statistical which allows the user to search for statistics from the American Statistics Index, Statistical Reference Index, and Index to International Statistics.
LexisNexis Academic has newspaper/journal/magazine articles, and news transcripts all of which are full text.
Homeland Security Digital Library
Quick access to over 57,000 important U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national strategy documents as well as specialized resources from universities, organizations and local and state agencies.
PsychInfo
1887+.
This American Psychological Association database covers
journal articles, book chapters, and book literature in psychology, as well
as psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as sociology,
education, anthropology, and others. It contains citations with abstracts
to journals, books, and book chapters in psychology and the behavioral
sciences.
EbscoHost
This resource includes a searchable database to the full text
of numerous scholarly journals and magazines.
ProQuest
ProQuest provides access to several different bibliographic and
full-text databases covering a wide variety of disciplines and topics. The
Social Sciences Module and the Research Library Core are probably the most
useful for criminal justice. However other modules may be appropriate for
certain topics. Many full-text journal articles are provided.
Criminal Justice Abstracts. 1979+.
This quarterly
bibliography publishes informative abstracts of the worldwide criminology and
criminal justice literature. It provides comprehensive coverage of the major
journals in the disciplines and selected coverage of books, government and
non-governmental agency reports, dissertations, magazines, and unpublished
papers. Shelved on the library's main floor in the Abstracts & Indexes area
(364.05.C868).
International Bibliography of Sociology. 1955+.
This
annual bibliography provides access to worldwide sociological literature. Much
non-English-language literature is included. Along with its sister
publications, Anthropology, Economics, and Political Science, it is known as
The International Bibliography of the Social Sciences. Shelved on the library's
main floor in the reference collection (H83.A11I55).
Social Sciences Citation Index. 2001+.
A multidisciplinary database of citations
and abstracts from journal literature. It can be used as a conventional
author-subject index, or it can be searched by cited author or paper.
It covers an extremely large amount of social sciences literature
including most social sciences disciplines.
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Other Databases, Periodical Indexes and Abstracts
Child Welfare Information Gateway
A service of the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, we provide access to print and electronic publications, websites, and online databases covering a wide range of topics from prevention to permanency, including child welfare, child abuse and neglect, adoption, search and reunion, and much more.
CIS
Congressional Universe.
Comprehensive access to U.S. legislative
information from Congressional Information Service, Inc.
Current
Contents.
This multidisciplinary, current awareness resource
provides indexing and tables of contents to over 6,000 journals covering a broad
range of disciplines. This database is also available on WinSPIRS workstations on the SDSU campus.
Dissertation Abstracts International.
A
database that
provides a subject, title, and author guide to over 1.2 million doctoral
dissertations and masters theses written since 1861.
ERIC via CSA.
The
premier national database of educational literature from 1966 to the present.
The database is divided into two parts: Current Index to Journals in
Education (CIJE) and Resources in Education (RIE).
Access ERIC via the
ERIC
System.
MarciveWeb
DOCS.
Provides citations to United States government
publications from July 1976 to the present.
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