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• Criminal Justice Abstracts About
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Database: Criminal Justice Abstracts
Description: Provides citations to major journals in criminology and related disciplines.
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Access: on campus and remote
• Sociological Abstracts About
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Database: Sociological Abstracts
Description: Provides access to the latest research in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences from journals, serials, conference papers, books, and dissertations.
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Access: on campus and remote
• SocINDEX with Full Text About
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Database: SocINDEX with Full Text
Description:Offers comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study. Includes over 700 full text journals dating back to 1908.
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Access: on campus and remote

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• FORENSICnetBASE About
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Database: FORENSICnetBASE
Description: Provides an ever-growing number of essential forensic science and criminal justice references.
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• Historical Statistics of the United States About
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Database: Historical Statistics of the United States Millennial Edition
Description: This definitive reference work contains more than 37,000 annual time series of quantitative historical information covering virtually every quantifiable dimension of American history: population, work and welfare, economic structure and performance, governance, and international relations, all from the earliest times to the present. Each series is fully documented and placed in historical context by a recognized expert.
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• NCJRS Abstracts Database About
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Database: National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts
Description: The National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database contains summaries of more than 170,000 criminal justice publications. To search the NCJRS collection of 7,000+ full-text publications, go to the NCJRS Virtual Library.
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Access: free Internet access
• NCJRS Virtual Library About
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Database: National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Virtual Library
Description: Searches the NCJRS web site and the web sites of the agencies of the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, and the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, and the NCJRS collection of 7,000+ full-text publications.
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Access: free Internet access
• PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) International About
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Database: PAIS International
Description: Database chronicling global public policy and social issues by providing selective subjects and bibliographic access to periodicals, books, hearings, reports, gray literature, government publications, Internet resources, and other publications from 120 countries.
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• PsycInfo About
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Database: PsycInfo
Description: PsycINFO, from the American Psychological Association (APA), contains more than 2 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s. 97 percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed. Journal coverage, which spans 1887 to present, includes international material selected from nearly 2,000 periodicals in more than 25 languages.
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• Social Services Abstracts About
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Database: Social Services Abstracts
Description: Social Services Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. The database abstracts and indexes over 1,406 serials publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews.
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• Social Work Abstracts About
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Database: Social Work Abstracts
Description: Abstracts from social work and related journals.
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• RefWorks About
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Database:Tuesday, February 9, 2010-serif" size="2">Description: RefWorks is an online research management, writing and collaboration tool that is designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies.
Note: RefWorks requires free registration before you can use this resource.
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