Suggested Databases for Finding Sources - CJUS 499 (304) - Research Methods - Research Guides at University of Nebraska Kearney (UNK)

Useful databases for creating an annotated bibliography

This is not an exhaustive list, but it's a good one. Search multiple databases in order to obtain the best variety of sources. Reference the Criminal Justice general LibGuide for more links.

Criminal Justice & Criminology This link opens in a new window
"HeinOnline’s Criminal Justice & Criminology offers an historical overview of these ever-changing disciplines and their various expressions in American and English law over time. Collecting Bureau of Justice statistics, memoirs of retired Scotland Yard investigators, congressional hearings on drug control policies, accounts of prison life in days long past and much more, this collection explores how criminal justice has changed in America and the effect criminology has had on those changes. It collects government documents as well as rare or hard to find pamphlets, memoirs, and books written by ordinary law enforcement officers and not-so-famous criminals. To help users navigate the content spanning these two wide-reaching disciplines, all titles in this collection have been subject coded into 16 subject areas: Attorney General, Crimes and Criminals, Criminal Statistics, Criminology, Drug Enforcement, Government Law, Investigation and Forensics, Juvenile Justice, Law and Procedure, Law Enforcement, Organized Crime, Penology, Reform and Recidivism, Reminiscences, Sex Crimes, and Victimology. " - from database webpage
Opposing Viewpoints in Context This link opens in a new window
Examines social issues from a variety of sources: pro and con viewpoint articles; full-text articles from magazines, academic journals, and newspapers; statistics and more.
CQ Researcher Online This link opens in a new window
Addresses controversial topics in a balanced, unbiased manner, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy.
Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window
Contains more than 83,000,000 articles from a variety of newspapers, magazines and peer-reviewed journals -- many in full-text.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Searches across numerous publishers and institutional sources for reports, dissertations and theses, and scholarly publications. Using this link will indicate which Google Scholar results are available in full-text through UNK databases or other free/open-access sources.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
A digital archive containing the full-text and full-page views of hundreds of journals. JSTOR's Arts & Sciences Archive Collections (1-10) and Life Sciences Archive Collection are available at UNK.
Individuals not affiliated with UNK may access content through a paid, personal JPASS account. Limited, free access is also available by registering for JSTOR's Register and Read program.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Project MUSE offers 300+ journals from 60 scholarly publishers in the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.