Electronic Databases
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- Academic Search CompleteA comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887.
- CQ Researcher In-depth, weekly publication covering current and controversial issues. Full text.
- Criminal Justice Abstracts "Contains hundreds of in-depth abstracts of current books, book chapters, journal articles, government reports, and dissertations published worldwide. Criminal Justice Abstracts also offers extensive coverage of new books from scholarly and commercial publishers and valuable reports from public and private agencies in many nations."
- Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text "Contains more than 200,000 records selected from the most important sources within the discipline. Subject areas covered include: criminology; criminal justice; criminal law and procedure; corrections and prisons; police and policing; criminal investigation; forensic sciences and investigation; history of crime; substance abuse and addiction; probation and parole."
- Index to Legal Periodicals & Books "An excellent resource for attorneys, educators, business people, law librarians, students, paralegals and others involved with the law, providing complete coverage of the most important English language legal information, with international coverage of scholarly articles, symposia, jurisdictional surveys, court decisions, legislation, books, book reviews and more."
- JSTOR: Arts & Sciences Collections I, II, III, IV, VII & XII; Biological Sciences collection Archives of scholarly electronic journals in sociology, political science, economics, mathematics & statistics, history; law, asian studies, ecology, botony, evolutionary biology, plant and animal sciences, paleontology, and conservation.
NOTE: you may limit your results to show only the content you have access to through UW-Platteville's subscription. At the top of the results list, choose Content I can access from the drop down menu.
- LexisNexis Academic Provides access to 6,000 news, business, legal and reference information. Some full text.
- ProQuest Direct databases Includes the Newspaper database, ABI-Inform and Criminal Justice Periodical Index. From Bell & Howell.
- PsycINFO Abstracts from over 1300 psychology journals.
- Readers' Guide Full Text Mega "Includes indexing of over 450 periodicals as far back as 1983 and searchable full text of articles from over 250 journals as far back as 1994. PDF page images of full-text articles provide access to illustrations, photographs and other graphical content from the original article. Subject coverage includes antiques, arts, business, computers, education, entertainment, film & television, gardening, health & medicine, history, home improvement, literature, news & current events, photography, popular & classical music, politics, popular culture, religion, science, sports & fitness, transportation, travel and much more. "
- Social Sciences Full Text "Provides access to a wide assortment of the most important English-language journals published in the social sciences. This resource provides detailed indexing for over 625 periodicals dating back as far as 1983—nearly 400 of which are peer-reviewed. "
- Social Sciences Citation Index A citation index can be searched by author, topic or citation.
- Westlaw Campus Research Provides access to a comprehensive collection of news and business information and law-related resources.
- WISCAT Combined catalog of books and other materials in over 1000 Wisconsin libraries.
- WorldCatBooks and materials in libraries worldwide.
- General Electronic Databases
Print Resources
- Criminology, Penology and Police Science Abstracts
- Index to Legal Periodicals
- PAIS
- Psychological Abstracts
- Reader's Guide Index
- Social Sciences Index
- Sociologial Abstracts
The paper indexes and abstracts above are shelved in the Reference Area in alphabetical order and are no longer current.
General Web Sites for Legal Resources
Law School Comprehensive Web Sites for Legal Resources
Wisconsin Sites for Criminal Justice & Legal Resources
Federal Sites for Criminal Justice & Legal Resources
Web Sites for Criminal Justice & Legal Resources from Other Countries
Department of Criminal Justice Sites at Educational Institutions
Criminal Justice at UW-Platteville
- The Criminal Justice Department is located in 425 Warner and the contact person is Tom Caywood. For a listing of courses or for more information on this program, call (608) 342-1621.
- James Hibbard is the Karrmann Library's liaison to the Criminal Justice program. Contact James at (608) 342-1229 for individualized consultations and/or library instruction sessions in Criminal Justice. His e-mail address is hibbardj@uwplatt.edu.