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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 Lexis-Nexis.

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Comprehensive coverage of international journals, books, reports, dissertations and unpublished papers on criminology and related disciplines.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

DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals    -    Lund University Libraries, Sweden            Current File            Updated Weekly
This service covers 1642 free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals covering all subjects and languages. Currently 413 journals are searchable at article level. More than 75,000 articles are included in the DOAJ service. Subject areas covered include: Agriculture and Food Sciences, Arts and Architecture, Biology and Life Sciences, Business and Economics, Chemistry, Earth and Environmental Sciences, General Works,  Health Sciences, History and Archaeology, Languages and Literatures, Law and Political Science,  Mathematics and Statistics, Philosophy and Religion, Physics and Astronomy, Science General,  Social Sciences, and Technology and Engineering.

Supreme Court Decisions  1893-    FINDLAW Constitutional Law Center
FindLaw's searchable database of the U.S. Supreme Court decisions since 1893 (U.S. Supreme Court Decisions: US Reports 150-, 1893-). Browseable by year and US Reports volume number and searchable by citation, case title and full text. WWW.
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Supreme Court Briefs 10/99-   FINDLAW Constitutional Law Center
Before presenting their oral arguments, counsel for both sides will submit a legal brief summarizing the facts of the case as well as the legal reasoning behind their arguments. The briefs below are organized alphabetically by first-party case name, and are coded according to the Supreme Court Rule 33, which governs the cover colors for booklet-form documents.

THOMAS - Library of Congress    1973-            Updated Daily
THOMAS is an online compilation of selected publications of the US Congress.  It tracks Federal legislation from the time a bill is introduced until it becomes law or dies in the process. THOMAS provides full text of: Legislation (1989-); Bills (1989-); Congressional Record (1989-); Public Laws (1973-); and Committee Reports (1989-). It also includes Summaries of Bills (1973-) and Historical Databases covering dcuments from 1774-1873. WWW.  Search Guide.

NCJRS Abstracts Database -  National Criminal Justice Reference Service  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. Global, subject, author, and Boolean searching are supported.  WWW   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.

Academic Search Premier  Ebsco               1975-                    Updated Daily
The world’s largest scholarly, multi-discipline, full text database designed specifically for academic institutions. With a collection of 4,000 peer-reviewed, scholarly full text journals, this database offers critical information from many sources found in no other database. The database includes full-page images as well as color embedded images.  Scholarly, full text resources are provided for nearly all academic areas of study: social  sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.  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

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