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Databases by Subject: Criminal Justice and Forensic Studies

Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)

Dates Covered:  1975-present
Full Text:  Partial
Description: The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for more than 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals. 

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Academic OneFile (Gale)
Dates Covered: 1980-present
Full Text: Partial
Description: 
This multidisciplinary index contains articles, many in full-text in the areas of physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and more. Scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers are all included.

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Criminal Justice Abstracts

Dates Covered: 1968-present
Full Text: No
Description: 
This index provides provides comprehensive coverage of the major journals in criminology and related disciplines. Topics include crime trends, prevention projects, corrections, juvenile delinquency, police, courts, offenders, victims, and sentencing.

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Criminology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection  (CSA Illumina)

Dates Covered: 1982 - current
Full Text: Yes
Description: Criminology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection includes the full-text of 23 journals published by SAGE and participating societies. It covers such subjects as Criminal Justice, Juvenile Delinquency, Juvenile Justice, Corrections, Penology, Policing, Forensic Psychology, and Family and Domestic Violence.

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Ethnic NewsWatch

Dates Covered: 1990-present
Full Text: Yes 
Description: This database is a full text general reference database of the 240 newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press dating from 1990 to the present. It is searchable in both English and Spanish, and contains titles in a wide range of current and historical topics in both languages.

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GenderWatch

Dates Covered: 1970-present
Full Text: Yes
Description: This index is a full text database comprised of 175 periodicals and other publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas. GenderWatch supports programs in business, education, literature and the arts, health sciences, history, political science, public policy, sociology and contemporary culture, gender and women's studies and more. Publications include academic and scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets and pamphlets, conference proceedings, and government, n-g-o and special reports. GenderWatch contains some archival materials from the 1970's, making this an important repository on the historical perspective of the evolution of the women's movement and the changes in gender roles over the last fifteen to twenty years.

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Hamline Law Library Online Collections

Dates Covered: Varies by Index
Full Text: Partial
Description: Link to the Law Library web site and the journal indexes which are available to Bush Library patrons. All indexes cover journal literature in the area of law and legal issues.

HeinOnline  Access provided by the Hamline University Law Library

Dates Covered: varies by Title
Full Text: Partial
Description: HeinOnline is an ever-expanding, comprehensive, image-based collection of legal periodicals.

Title List is available as a .pdf document linked off the web page. Greater access to full text may be available in the Law Library building.

Legal Periodicals Full Text

Dates Covered: 1994-present
Full Text: Yes, in the law library only
Description: International coverage and access to scholarly articles, symposia, jurisdictional surveys, court decisions, legislation, books, book reviews, and more. 

Print version of this index 1909-1994, available in the Law Library 

LegalTrac InfoTrac

Dates Covered: 1980-present
Full Text: Partial
Description:  LegalTrac indexes over 800 titles from law reviews, legal newspapers, and international legal journals. It also indexes over 1000 business and general interest titles containing law-related articles. Also known as Legal Resources Index or Current Law Index by other publishers. 

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LexisNexis Academic Search

Dates Covered: varies with title
Full Text: Yes
Description: This service provides full-text access to articles in news, business, legal research, medicine and reference. This service is especially useful to students looking for full-text of foreign newspapers. Access to full-text of the Minneapolis Star Tribune is available from 1991-present and the St. Paul Pioneer Press from 1996-present.


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Congressional Universe (Lexis Nexis)

Dates Covered: 1789-present
Full Text: Partial
Description: 
CIS indexing and abstracting of congressional publications and the CIS Legislative Histories (1970-present) as well as Congressional Indexes, 1789-1969, and Indexes to Unpublished Hearings Through 1980. On campus access limited to Law School building. Off campus access limited to law students only. 

Print version of CIS Annual available 1970-1983 in REF KF49 .C62

National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts CSA Illumina

Dates Covered: 1975 - present
Full Text: Partial
Description: NCJRS is a federally-sponsored information clearinghouse for people involved with research, policy, and practice related to criminal and juvenile justice and drug control.

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ProQuest Newsstand

Dates Covered: varies by title
Full Text: Yes
Description: This database indexes over 350 full-text state, national and international newspapers. Includes the Minneapolis Star Tribune full-text from 1986 to present, as well as the Wall Street Journal (Eastern edition) 1984-current, and the New York Times East Coast Late Edition, 1999-current. To search historical back issues of the New York Times, select that database alone.

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Project Muse

Dates Covered: varies by title
Full Text: Yes 
Description: 
This database indexes full-text articles in 220 journals which are published by 37 scholarly publishers. They cover the disciplines of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.

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Earlier Articles available: Some titles are indexed and full text in earlier dates in JSTOR


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