Using Databases


General
Academic Search Complete (Web)
Wide coverage of social sciences
Use if your topic overlaps into other subject areas
Approximately 50% of journals available in full text
eLibrary Classic (Electric Library)
Wide coverage of social sciences
Use if your topic overlaps into other subject areas
Full text
netLibrary eBooks
Fulltext books online
Coverage of all topics including criminal justice
Fulltext can be searched at netLibrary
Indexing and links to fulltext available via the online catalog

Legal
LexisNexis
Laws, regulations, court cases for federal and state governments
Full text
FindLaw
Laws, regulations, court cases for federal and state governments
Full text
Hein Online
Fulltext of historical and some current law journals

Government Information
Government Publications Catalog (Marcive)
Indexing for publications of the federal government
Coverage of all topics including criminal justice
Links to some full text
Online Catalog
Indexing for publications of the federal government received by St. Mary's
Coverage of all topics including criminal justice
Links to some fulltext

Criminal Justice
National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts
Specific coverage of criminal justice issues
Some full text available online


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This presentation was created to train criminal justice and criminology students at St. Mary's University in the use of information resources. Created December 1996. Last modified