How to Access UCF Library Databases and Resources from off campus
General Internet Information | Starting Points - Criminal Justice
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, such as:
Criminal Justice Periodical Index (ProQuest) 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 is available on the CD-ROM LAN in the UCF Library, indexing the major journals in criminology and related disciplines, books, and reports from government and non-governmental agencies. Dates of coverage: 1968+
LexisNexis Databases (CIS/Universe) - Academic 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 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 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
, such as:Academic Index - 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/TitlesAL.htm
PsycINFO (WebLUIS database) - from the American Psychological Association - indexed materials are selected from more than 1,300 journals published in 50 countries and 28 languages. Most records have abstracts. Dates of coverage: 1887+
Social Sciences Abstracts (FirstSearch database) covers some 350 core periodicals in the fields of anthropology, economics, geography, law and criminology, political science, social work, sociology, and international relations. Dates of coverage: 1983+
Criminal
Justice Research Sources
http://library.ucf.edu/Instruct/criminal_justice_sources.htm
Government Documents Resources
including Resources
for Maps & Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
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 Live Reference Chat, a Web form or by e-mail. http://library.ucf.edu/ask/ |
Other Useful Web Sites:
Crime
Mapping Resources (National Archive of Criminal Justice Data)
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/NACJD/links.html#crime
Criminal
Justice Resource: Crime Mapping (Michigan State Univ Libraries)
http://www.lib.msu.edu/harris23/crimjust/crimemap.htm
NIJ's
Mapping & Analysis for Public Safety
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/maps/
ESRI
Law Enforcement & Criminal Justice Page
http://www.esri.com/industries/lawenforce/
NCJRS Abstracts Database
(National Criminal Justice Reference Service)
http://www.ncjrs.org/search.html
Criminal Justice
Technology Links
http://www.co.pinellas.fl.us/bcc/juscoord/etech.htm
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
Police
- including campus crime statistics
http://police.ucf.edu/CrimeStatic.html
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/cjlinks/
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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