- Criminal Justice Periodicals
- The most comprehensive database of its kind — provides information on virtually any criminal justice topic, including corrections administration, law enforcement, social work, industrial security, drug rehabilitation, and criminal and family law. Full text for about 50 of the titles most frequently accessed by criminal justice researchers. Covering 190 titles from 1981 to date.
URL: http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=SU5UPTAmVkVSPTImREJTPTExMjE@&clientId=45998 - Gale Virtual Reference Library
- Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. In many cases, these are multi-volume reference works previously only available in a physical form in the library. Now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Chicago State has access to more than 40 titles. Featured titles include Contemporary Black Biography, a 71 volume biographical reference source and International Directory of Company Histories, a massive 93 volume encyclopedia of business history. A current alphabetical list of all available titles can be found here.
Criminal Justice titles included in the Gale Virtual Reference Library include
URL: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/uiuc_csu?db=gvrl- Gale Encyclopedia of Everyday Law. 2nd ed., 2 vols. 2006.
- Crime and Punishment: Essential Primary Sources. 2006.
- Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe - Legal Research
- Through the integration of information and technology, LexisNexis uniquely unites proprietary brands, advanced Web technologies and premium information sources. Across the globe, LexisNexis provides customers with access to five billion searchable documents from more than 40,000 legal, news and business sources.
URL: http://www.lexisnexis.com/us/lnacademic/search/flap.do?flapID=legal - National Criminal Justice Reference Service
- Summaries of more than 180,000 criminal justice publications. Most documents published by NCJRS sponsoring agencies — the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Office for Victims of Crime, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, and the 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 — since 1995 are available in full-text online.
URL: http://www.ncjrs.org/abstractdb/search.asp
General Interest Databases
Academic Search Complete—is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for over 5,300 scholarly publications, including more than 4,400 peer-reviewed publications. Offers indexing and abstracts for 9,300 journals on nearly every area of academic study.
Gale Virtual Reference Library—is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely at all times.
JSTOR Arts and Sciences 1 (119 titles) is JSTOR’s first collection—includes core journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities, social sciences, ecology, mathematics, and statistics. Arts and Sciences IV (112 titles) has a strong focus on the professions of business, education, and law, and also includes titles in psychology, public policy and administration.
Newsbank—provides full-text articles from the electronic editions of record for nearly 500 U.S. newspapers – including the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Chicago Sun Times.
