There are also pages for information research in criminal justice, and for other helpful resources in criminal justice on the Internet.
For federal and state cases, laws, codes, and regulations, use the drop-down menu above or search the Public Library of Law
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Academic Search Complete
Remote Access
Access restricted to St. Mary's and other TexShare institutions' computers and computing accounts. - Start your search with this interdisciplinary database of journals and magazines with full text available for many. Other Interdisciplinary Databases may also be useful. Specific subject databases are below. Use the drop-down menu above to select other databases by title.
- Public Library of Law
- Searchable cases from the US Supreme Court and Courts of Appeal, cases from all 50 states back to 1997, federal statutory law and codes from all 50 states, as well as regulations, court rules, constitutions, and more
- FindLaw
- Searchable full text of codes, laws, cases, and legal news for the federal and state governments.
- Gale Virtual Reference Library
Remote Access
Access restricted to St. Mary's computers and computing accounts. - Search multiple encyclopedias and other reference works with a single search
- Google Scholar Remote Access
Access to some full text restricted to St. Mary's computers and computing accounts.- Search for scholarly works from a wide variety of disciplines
- GPO Government Publications Catalog
- Covers all types of U.S. government documents, including congressional reports, hearings, debates, judiciary materials and much more. Consists of records published by the Government Printing Office since July 1976. Also included are documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.). A bibliographic citation is included on each record.
- Hein Online
Access restricted to St. Mary's computers.- Searchable database of fulltext legal journals and books.
- Homeland Security Digital Library
Access restricted to St. Mary's computers. Remote access not available.- Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Office of Grants and Training and the Naval Postgraduate School's Center for Homeland Defense and Security, the HSDL collection includes homeland security strategy, policy and research documents published by federal, state and local government agencies, international governments and institutions, research institutions, universities, and think tanks.
For off-campus access to HSDL, St.Mary's students and faculty may request individual research accounts directly from the Homeland Digitial Security Library individual access page. Be sure to use your St. Mary's email account when you request your HSDL access.- JSTOR Remote Access
Access restricted to St. Mary's computers and computing accounts.- A respected interdisciplinary database of leading academic journals in full text
- Legal Collection Remote Access
Access restricted to St. Mary's and other TexShare institutions' computers and computing accounts.- This database contains full text for nearly 250 of the world's most respected, scholarly law journals. The Legal Collection is an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world.
- LexisNexis Remote Access
Access restricted to St. Mary's computers and computing accounts.- LexisNexis gives access to legal codes and cases, company financial information, full text magazine and newspaper articles while Congressional Universe provides indexing and abstracting of congressional publications and the CIS Legislative Histories (1970-present), full text of congressional reports, documents, prints, bills and the Congressional Record, committee rosters, bill tracking, public laws, US Code, CFR, and more.
- Lexis One
- Free access to legal forms, U.S. Supreme Court cases, and selected federal and state case law from January 1st 1996. The Legal Internet Guide links to more than 20,000 selected law-related web sites, organized by category.
- LLMC Digital (Law Library Microfiche Consortium) Remote Access
Access restricted to St. Mary's computers and computing accounts.- Searchable online access to government and legal literature. There is a list of current contents since this collection is growing rapidly. From the home page, click on "Choose" to choose a particular collection to search or search the combined collections.
- Military and Government Collection Remote Access
Access restricted to St. Mary's and other TexShare institutions' computers and computing accounts.- Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of these sites. The Military & Government Collection provides full text for nearly 400 journals and periodicals. The database also includes full text for 245 pamphlets and offers indexing and abstracts for more than 500 titles. Publications covered in this database include Air Force Comptroller, Army Reserve Magazine, Defence Studies, Global Security Review, JFQ: Joint Force Quarterly, Military Technology, National Review, Combat Edge, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, Foreign Affairs, Naval Forces, and many more. Additionally, many full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color.
- National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts
- Searchable index and abstracts of journal articles, books, book chapters, and other information on criminal justice; more than 150,000 items in the database beginning with the early 1970's. For the main library page for NCJRS, use NCJRS Library
- Project Muse Remote Access
Access restricted to St. Mary's computers and computing accounts.- Searchable access to a selection of prestigious journals in the humanities and social sciences. The library's subscription includes fulltext access to a subset of the full collection.
- Texas Department of Criminal Justice
- Publications and statistics from the TDCJ.
- TRAIL: Texas Records and Information Locator
- Searches for information from over 150 state agency webservers
More Criminal Justice Databases
- ABA Network: Lawyer Locator
- Search for lawyers and firms by name, firm, location, and practice type. Returns name and address, year admitted to bar, year of birth, and college degrees.
- ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union)
- Full text materials related to law and civil liberties.
- Automated Index of Criminal Justice Information Systems
- " a database containing infomration on criminal justice software systems, as well as criminal justice agencies that have practical experience with automated systems "
- Avalon Project (Yale University)
- Mounts digital documents relevant to the fields of law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy and government. Search or browse the Federalist Papers, the Nuremburg War Crimes Trial, Inaugual addresses of the Presidents, Colonial Charters and related documents, and hundreds of others from ancient to modern times.
- Campus Safety
- Campus crime statistics, information on campus safety, and prevention of campus crimes.
- Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873.
- This searchable database will consist of a linked set of published congressional records of the United States of America from the Continental Congress through the Forty-second Congress. The first release contains the records of the first two federal congresses, 1789-1793, including the Journals of the House of Representatives (1789-1793) and the Senate (1789-1793), including the Senate Executive Journal (1789-1805); the debates of Congress as published in the Annals of Congress (1789-1838); and the Journal of William Maclay (1789-1791), Senator from Pennsylvania in the first Congress.
- Child Abuse & Neglect
- Indexes and abstracts of journal articles and some full text working papers searchable here. Free with registration. Register on your own or use this: User ID=acadlib and Password=acadlib.
- Code of Ordinances, City of San Antonio, Texas
- Browse or search the city code
- Constitution Finder
- Locate constitutions, charters, amendments and related documents from all nations
- Copyright and Fair Use
- Searchable database on laws and cases regarding copyright.
- Crime & Justice Electronic Data Abstracts
- Statistical information from a wide variety of sources aggregated into downloadable spreadsheets to enable further analysis.
- Death Penalty Information Center
- Full text reports and briefs on all aspects of the death penalty; frequently updated.
- GPO Access
- Searchable databases of government information: bills, CFR, Congressional Record, etc.
- International Constitutional Law
- Links to English translations of the constitutional documents of over 70 countries and links to model constitutions.
- International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
- Search Tribunal cases, legal documents, lists of detainees, indictments and more at this site.
- LawOffice.com
- Answers to common legal questions and problems organized by topic and state. Also, search for attorneys by geographical location, type of law practiced, or name. Information provided is name and office address, date of bar admittance, degree, and type of law practiced.
- 'Lectric Law Library
- Online legal dictionary and encyclopedia plus law links organized by topic area
- LII: Supreme Court Collection (Legal Information Institute)
- Access to official summaries and full text of U.S. Supreme Court opinions on the day they are issued. Contains full text of all decisions since May 1990, searchable by date and party names. Also access to the calendar of the Court, current cases, rules, and oral arguments.
- Municipal Codes Online
- Links to city and county codes throughout the United States, including San Antonio
- NATLEX
- A database of international labor law.
- Organized Crime and Corruption Bibliographic Database
- Searchable by author, title, and keyword with some full text links
- Oyez Project: A Supreme Court Multimedia Database
- Search Supreme Court Cases with excellent summaries and short biographies of the Justices. Real audio and written transcripts available for the arguments of some cases
- Public Laws
- Laws passed by the 104th to present Congresses in full text.
- Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics Online
- Browse or search the full text of this resource.
- Texas Law Librarians HomePage
- Index of links to Texas, federal, state, and international legal sites.
- Uniform Crime Reports
- County level data files on offenses collected by the US Department of Justice. The UCR is also available directly from the FBI site.
- University Law Review Project
- Searchable full text online law reviews
- The Virtual Chase: Legal Research on the Internet
- How-to guides on researching various legal topics
- Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents
- Presidential documents from 1996-present searchable in full text.
- Google Scholar Remote Access
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