Electronic Databases
Many of the databases listed below are for use by UW-P students, faculty and staff only. For information on using databases from off campus, please see the Guide for Off-campus users or Service to Distance Education Students.
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- Academic Search Elite Abstracts and full text journal articles in all subject categories.
- CQ Researcher In-depth, weekly publication covering current and controversial issues. Full text.
- Criminal Justice Abstracts Index to journal articles, books and reports from criminal justice sources.
- JSTOR: Arts and Sciences Collections 1 & 2 Archives of scholarly electronic journals in Sociology, Political Science, Economics, Mathematics, History, and more.
- Legal Periodicals & Books Articles from legal journals, yearbooks, institutes, bar association organs, law reviews, and government publications.
- 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
Indexes and abstracts from more than 400 popular journals, from as far back as 1983. Also available in print, Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, 1900 - 1982 (Reference Area Index Tables)
- Social Sciences Full Text Index to social science journals. Full text.
- Social Sciences Citation Index A citation index can be searched by author, topic or citation.
- 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The paper indexes and abstracts above are shelved in the Reference Area in alphabetical order and are no longer current.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.
- Charlene Ingebritsen is the Karrmann Library's liaison to the Criminal Justice program. Contact Charlene at (608) 342-1758 for individualized consultations and/or library instruction sessions in Criminal Justice. Her e-mail address is ingebric@uwplatt.edu.