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Criminal Justice Abstracts (CSA version)- Willow Tree Press    1968-         Updated Quarterly.
Comprehensive coverage of international journals, books, reports, dissertations and unpublished papers on criminology and related disciplines.  WWW. Search Guide

Criminal Justice Periodicals – UMI ProQuest  1981-  Updated Weekly
Provides information on virtually any criminal justice topic, including corrections administration, law enforcement, social work, industrial security, drug rehabilitation, and criminal and family law. Covers 59 journals in full-text (1994-) and indexing/abstracts for 190 journals from 1981-. Search Guide

Sociological Abstracts - Cambridge Scientific Abstracts     1963-    Updated Monthly
Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,700 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Records added after 1974 contain in-depth and nonevaluative abstracts of journal articles. Many records from key journals in sociology, published since 2001, also include the references cited in the bibliography of the source article. Each individual reference may also have links to an abstract and/or to other papers that cite that reference; these links increase the possibility of finding more potentially relevant articles.

NCJRS Abstracts Database -  Nat'l Crim. Justice Ref. Serv.  1973-  Updated Monthly
The National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database contains summaries of more than 140,000 publications on criminal justice, including Federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research. Subject areas include corrections, courts, drugs and crime, law enforcement, juvenile justice, crime statistics, and victims of crime. The Abstracts Database is produced by NCJRS, a service of the National Institute of Justice, with  the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Office for Victims of Crime, Bureau of Justice Statistics, and Bureau of Justice Assistance, all part of the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, and the Office of National Drug Control Policy. Global, subject, author, and Boolean searching are supported.  WWW   Search Guide        NCJRS  (CSA version)

Social Services Abstracts -  Cambridge Scientific Abstracts     1980-      Updated Monthly
Provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services,and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. The database abstracts and indexes over 1,500 serials publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews.

Social Work Abstracts Plus   N.A.S.W.   1977-             Updated Monthly
Contains records from more than 450 journal in the fields of social work and human services from 1977 to present. Coverage includes theory and practice, areas of service, social issues,and social problems. Also includes  The Register of Clinical Social Workers,  a searchable directory of clinical social workers in the United States. WWW Search Guide

Academic Search Elite    Ebsco            1990-          Updated Daily
Covers a wide range of academic areas: business, social sciences, humanities, general academic, general science,education, multi-cultural and general reference including: Full text for over 1,000 journals, and abstracts and indexing for over 3,200 scholarly journals; Coverage of 1,700 peer-reviewed journals; and coverage of The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The Christian Science Monitor. WWW.  Search Guide

Academic OneFile - Gale                     1995-                                     Updated Daily
Contains more than 3,000 full text journals, including peer-reviewed 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 back to 1995.  Search Guide

General OneFile  -  Gale                1980-                Updated Daily
Provides desktop access to more than 6,000 full text periodical titles including 121 wire services; full indexing of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The Christian Science Monitor newspapers; and a total of more than 10,000 periodical titles with 25 years of backfile coverage from 1980 to present.  The database uses the same search engine as our other InfoTrac databases.  Content includes more than 508 million records from  periodical and news content and indexing from a variety of mainstream and specialized sources including refereed academic journals. WWW Search Guide

Expanded Academic ASAP – Gale                      1980-                Updated Daily
Access to 3,500+ journals and magazines including more than 2,100 in full text. WWW. Search Guide

LexisNexis Academic                                                        Updated Daily
Provides the full text of current and back issues for 5,000+ titles including journals, major newspapers, newsletters, reference materials, and legal materials, both state and federal.  WWW. Search Guide    Legal Research on LexisNexis.

WestLaw – Westlaw, Inc.      Updated Daily
Access to court decisions, case law, legal reviews, newspapers, and trade databases.  Access from Library Workstation only. Search Guide

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