How to Access UCF Library Databases and Resources from off campus
Starting Points - Criminal Justice | General Internet Information
UCF
Library Home Page provides links to the UCF library catalog and
gateway to other resources, such as:
http://library.ucf.edu/
Public Affairs & Law Resources
Criminal Justice Periodical Index (ProQuest database) provides thorough indexing of over 100 U.S., British and Canadian journals in these disciplines: corrections, criminal law, criminology, drug abuse, family law, juvenile justice, police studies, prison administration, rehabilitation, and security systems. Available in print INDEX HV6001.C754 from 1975 to Sep 1998. Available electronically 1980+.
Criminal Justice Abstracts (SilverPlatter database) is available on campus (& off-campus using Pegasus dial-up), indexing the major journals in criminology and related disciplines, books, and reports from government and non-governmental agencies. Dates of coverage: 1968+
Universe Databases (CIS/Lexis-Nexis) - Academic Universe provides more than 9.5 million documents from over 18,300 sources. Lexis-Nexis Universe provides access to company profiles and financial reports, government transcripts, trade journals and academic and legal databases. Their files are updated with full-text documents from general interest wire services, newspapers, and magazines from around the world. Congressional Universe - gives researchers access to vast and varied information published by and about Congress. Congressional Universe has full text of almost all Committee Reports from 1990 forward and Congressional testimony from 1988 forward. Statistical Universe (CIS) - provides the full text of Statistical Abstract of the U. S., plus indexing and abstracts (with some full text available) from American Statistics Index (ASI), Statistical Reference Index (SRI), and Index to International Statistics (IIS).
Popular Indexes
Academic Index (WebLUIS database) indexes articles in approximately 1000 scholarly journals and popular magazines in the arts, humanities, social sciences, science and technology. Abstracts are included for some articles. Provides access to ASCII full text of some articles. Dates of coverage: 1982+
WilsonSelect (FirstSearch database) contains indexed and abstracted articles from periodicals, all with ASCII full text online. The database is comprised of records from the following H.W. Wilson databases: Readers' Guide Abstracts, Social Sciences Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, General Science Abstracts and Wilson Business Abstracts. Dates of coverage: 1994+
EBSCOhost Academic Search Elite provides abstracts and indexing for over 3,200 scholarly journals covering the social sciences, humanities, education and more. Also offers full text for over 1,000 journals with many dating back to 1990. Includes coverage of over 1,700 peer-reviewed journals.
Other
Library Resources
http://library.ucf.edu/Databases/titles_a-z.htm
Criminal
Justice Research Sources
http://library.ucf.edu/Instruct/criminal_justice_sources.htm
Government
Documents Resources
http://library.ucf.edu/govdocs/
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UCF
Ask A Librarian provides links to useful Internet sites,
telephone reference (407-823-2562), and electronic reference service via a Web form or by e-mail. http://library.ucf.edu/quickref/ |
Other Useful Web Sites:
NCJRS
Abstracts Database (National Criminal Justice Reference
Service)
http://www.ncjrs.org/search.html
Florida
Criminal Justice Information (Florida Legislature, Office of
Economic & Demographic Research)
http://www.state.fl.us/edr/Conferences/Criminal_Justice/criminal.htm
Bureau
of Justice Statistics (U.S. Dept of Justice)
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/
UCF
Public Safety & Police - including campus crime statistics
http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~ucfpd/stats.htm
American
Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) includes issue pages regarding
Criminal Justice, Death Penalty, Drug Policy, Police Practices, and Prisons
http://www.aclu.org/
Criminal
Justice Links (Florida State Univ)
http://www.criminology.fsu.edu/cj.html
Web
Links from the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies
http://www.criminaljusticestudies.com/weblinks/ICJS_Links.htm
Corrections
Connection
http://www.corrections.com/
Officer.com
http://www.officer.com/bigindex.htm
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Last modified: August 21, 2001
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