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/
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+
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+
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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(407) 823-2563
Last modified: January 20, 2000
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