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Criminal Justice Abstracts (1968-present)
Provides comprehensive coverage
of the major journals in criminology and related disciplines, extensive coverage
of books, and unparalleled access to reports from government and nongovernmental
agencies.
HeinOnline (coverage varies)
Has two online library collections: an image-based
Law Journal Library collection, which contains nearly 370 of the top academic
legal periodicals, as well as the Federal Register Library, which is also
image-based and contains pre-1981 coverage of the United States Federal Register.
Index to Legal Periodicals and Books (1981-present)
Articles from legal journals,
yearbooks, institutes, bar association organs, law reviews, and government
publications originating in the US, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia
and New Zealand.
LexisNexis Academic (coverage varies)
Provides access to a wide range of
news (includes New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times), business (company
news, industry forecasts), government (legislative news, tax information),
legal (news, case law) and reference information.
Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS) (1972-present)
Database chronicling
global public policy and social issues. Provides selective subjects and bibliographic
access to periodicals, books, hearings, reports, gray literature, government
publications, Internet resources, and other publications from 120 countries.
Sociological Abstracts (1963-present)
The premier online resource for researchers,
professionals, and students in sociology and related disciplines. Contains
citations and abstracts from over 2000 journals.
Other Related Databases- subscribed to by GMU
CQ Researcher (1991-present)
Analytical reporting on the most current and
controversial issues of the day. Provides an overview of the subject, including
the historical background and a discussion of the current controversies and
initiatives.
Dissertation Abstracts (1861-present)
The complete range of academic subjects
appearing in dissertations accepted at accredited institutions.
InfoTrac OneFile (coverage varies)
One-stop source for articles on a wide
range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education,
health care, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social
science, and many general interest topics.
Ingenta (1988-present)
A database of current article information taken from
over 25,000 multidisciplinary journals. Contains brief descriptive information
for over 7 million articles.
ProQuest Research Library (coverage varies)
Covers more than 1,800 periodicals
on a wide variety of topics, plus current coverage of articles from newspapers.
Social Sciences Citation Index (1980-present)
A multidisciplinary database,
with searchable author abstracts for over 60% of the articles, covering the
journal literature of the social sciences.
Public Domain Databases
National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)
NCJRS Abstracts Database
provides summaries from more than 160,000 criminal justice publications
including Federal, State, and local government reports, books, research
reports, journal articles, and unpublished research.
National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD)
The National Archive of
Criminal Justice Data (NACJD) preserves and distributes computerized crime
and justice data from Federal agencies, state agencies, and investigator
initiated research projects to users for secondary statistical analysis.
Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Science Database
(Records cover the late 1960s
to the present) This is an interdisciplinary, searchable database of 100,000
records on alcohol abuse and alcoholism.
National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information
A searchable
database of 25,000 articles, reports, book chapters and books on child abuse
and neglect and child welfare issues.