Research Databases

Research Databases by Subject

Criminal Justice/Law

• Academic Search Premier — Periodical articles for research in all academic disciplines. For peer reviewed, select "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals" on basic search screen.
• CIA World Fact Book — Open access information on the history, people and society, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities. Provides a variety of maps, flags of the world and ability to compare countries in 75 fields.
• Criminal Justice Database — Articles from U.S. and international criminal justice journals. Options for limiting to peer reviewed and scholarly journals are on the basic search screen.
• Films on Demand — Streaming video collections offering curriculum-focused content in humanities & social sciences; business & economics; science & mathematics; health & medicine; technical education; family & consumer sciences; careers & job search; guidance & counseling. Thousands of full-length programs and video segments with new titles added monthly.
• Gale Academic OneFile — Articles from periodicals and reference sources in all academic disciplines. For peer reviewed, select “to peer-reviewed publications.”
• Gale OneFile: Criminal Justice — Includes full-text articles from over 250 journals, magazines, books, news, images, and videos that cover topics such as law, law enforcement, terrorism, training for paralegal service, preparing for a career in homeland security, delving into forensic science, investigating crime scenes, developing policy, going to court, writing sociological reports, and much more.
• Google Scholar — Open access scholarly literature, articles, journals and conference papers, theses and dissertations, academic books, pre-prints, abstracts, technical reports, court opinions and patents. All broad areas of research, from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, university repositories, and websites.
• Hathi Trust — The largest set of open access ebooks, with millions of titles, covering a broad set of scholarly interests.
• ProQuest Central — Periodical articles from 39 specialized databases in all major subject areas, including thousands of newspapers from around the world. Options for limiting to peer reviewed and scholarly journals are on the basic search screen.
• Research Library — Articles from periodicals in a wide range of academic subjects. Options for limiting to peer reviewed and scholarly journals are on the basic search screen.
• U.S. Code via LII — Public access to U.S. laws and Codes with legal encyclopedias of business, constitutional, criminal, family, employment, and money and finances law provided by the Legal Information Institute (LII), a project of Cornell Law School.
• USA Facts — Provides understandable open access government data and analysis on U.S. spending and outcomes for business and economy, government finances, people and society, and security and safety.