CCJ 5456 Resources
Administration of Justice

How to Access UCF Library Databases and Resources from off campus

Starting Points - Criminal Justice

WebLUIS - UCF library catalog and gateway to electronic resources, such as:
http://webluis.fcla.edu/

• Academic Index (WebLUIS 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+

• PsycINFO (WebLUIS Index) - Indexed materials are selected by the American Psychological Association from more than 1,300 journals published in 50 countries and 28 languages. Most records have abstracts. Dates of coverage: 1887+

• Sociological Abstracts (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts database) - a primary resource from an international selection of over 2,600 journals and other serials publications, plus conference papers, books, and dissertations. Social Planning/Policy & Development Abstracts (SOPODA) is also included as a subfile, providing additional literature on policy issues addressing violence, abuse, neglect, aging, health, energy, environment, housing, education, women and development, disaster preparedness and risk assessment. Dates of coverage: 1963+

• 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+
• 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+

• Dissertation Abstracts (FirstSearch database) - covers every doctoral dissertation completed in the U.S. at accredited institutions for the last 150 years. Includes some master's theses and foreign language dissertations. Dates of coverage: 1861+

• 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). 

• Web of Science (Databases A-Z) - ISI Citation Databases collectively index more than 8,000 high quality, peer-reviewed journals cover-to-cover, providing users with complete bibliographic data, searchable author abstracts when available in the science and social sciences source material, and cited references from the world's most influential journals. Dates of coverage: 1977+

• Peterson's GradSearch (Databases A-Z, GaleNet database) - contains the entire text of Peterson's Graduate and Professional Programs database, the most comprehensive database on graduate study available. The database covers 31,000 graduate academic departments at more than 1,600 degree-granting institutions.

• Uncover is a database of current article information taken from more than 17,000 multidisciplinary journals. It contains brief descriptive information about over 7,000,000 articles published since Fall 1988. The UCF Library is subsidizing document delivery service in the UnCover database for Faculty and Graduate students. 

Other UCF Electronic Resources, such as:
http://library.ucf.edu/resources.htm

• EBSCOhost - 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.
  http://search.epnet.com/cpidlogin.asp?custid=ucf

• Dialog@CARL - offers 250+ databases in a wide selection of subjects, including article indexes, full text newspapers, directories and more.
  http://webluis.fcla.edu/~fclwlui/Gateways/dial.html

• 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 1997+.
  http://www.proquest.com/pqdauto

• Criminal Justice Abstracts - available on the CD-ROM LAN in the UCF Library, indexes the major journals in criminology and related disciplines, books, and reports from government and non-governmental agencies. Dates of coverage: 1968+

• Criminal Justice Research Sources 
  http://library.ucf.edu/Instruct/criminal_justice_sources.htm

• Government Documents Resources
  http://library.ucf.edu/govdocs/

• Untangle the Web! - Internet Workshop Series
  http://library.ucf.edu/Internet/

UCF Interlibrary Loan
http://library.ucf.edu/ill/

UCF Quick Reference 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/database.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

• Florida Criminal Justice Information (Florida Legislature, Office of Economic & Demographic Research)
  http://www.state.fl.us/edr/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

• Corrections Connection
  http://www.corrections.com/

• Police Officer's Internet Directory
  http://www.officer.com/bigindex.htm

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