Criminal Justice Resources: Databases

Full-text legal periodicals database with browse and full-text search features.

Full text plus expert indexing of the most important legal journals and books. Users will appreciate international coverage and access to scholarly articles, symposia, jurisdictional surveys, court decisions, legislation, books, book reviews, and more. This is an excellent resource for attorneys, educators, business people, law librarians, students, paralegals, and others involved with the law.

LexisNexis Academic is a collection of online databases: News, Business (plus corporate news and corporate financials), Legal, Medical, and Reference.

Use Business Source Premier if your topic includes a business or economic issue.

Database covering Native American history and related topics.

Index to JSTOR, full text academic journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.

Academic Search Complete is a powerful general purpose database that covers fields such as the social sciences, business and economics, general sciences, and humanities. Many of the articles are available in full text form. This replaces the old Academic Search Premier database.

JSTOR covers the arts and humanities, the sciences, and the social sciences. You should always check JSTOR regardless of your research topic. JSTOR contains back files from many scholarly journals. The content in JSTOR begins with the individual journals first issue and covers up to about 3 years ago.

Proquest Research Library covers a broad range of subjects including arts, business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's interests.

This link to Google Scholar lets you access content contained across databases held by the University Library.

This database covers topics involving education and is a good complement to the ERIC database.

NOTE: The ERIC database is currently undergoing updates such that no full text articles are available at the present time. . ERIC stands for the Educational Resource Information Center which is a government sponsored database of articles and papers on all facets of education. Most of these results are available in full text.

This database covers the sociology field and offers full text articles from over 700 journals. Use this database if your topic involves social issues.

This database focuses on the fields of communication studies and mass media/advertising.

Contains full text articles from 60+ journals published by the American Psychological Association. This is a good starting point for information involving psychology but should not be the only psych database you search.

This dataabase provides the most complete coverage in the field of pyschology. Many of the articles are available in full text.