UCI LIBRARIES INSTRUCTION

http://www.lib.uci.edu

 

Brian Williams, Research Librarian, Criminology, Law & Society

Langson Library 107 ; 949.824.0473

brianrw@uci.edu

 

 

Social Ecology C195 Field Study [Winter 2007] - Professor Simon Cole

 

Library InstructionWed. Jan. 31, 2007 (11–12) [Langson Library 228]

 

KEY SOURCES :

 

Name

Address

UCI LIBRARIES

http://www.lib.uci.edu

HOW TO CONNECT OFF CAMPUS

http://www.lib.uci.edu/services/how/connect.html

ASK A LIBRARIAN [NEED HELP? CLICK HERE]

http://www.lib.uci.edu/services/ask/ask.html

 

UCI LIBRARIES SUBJECT GUIDES

http://www.lib.uci.edu/online/subject/subject.php

CRIMINOLOGY, LAW AND SOCIETY SUBJECT GUIDE: 

http://www.lib.uci.edu/online/subject/subpage.php?subject=crim

 

ANTPAC

http://antpac.lib.uci.edu/

MELVYL

http://melvyl.cdlib.org/

UCI LIBRARIES:  ONLINE RESOURCES PAGE

http://www.lib.uci.edu/online/online.html

 

CALIFORNIA DIGITAL LIBRARY (CDL)

http://www.cdlib.org/

 

 


 

 

Criminology & Related Disciplines

 

Criminal Justice Abstracts UCI access only
Comprehensive coverage of the major journals in criminology and related disciplines, extensive coverage of books and reports from government and nongovernmental agencies. Abstracts include a summary of the findings, methodology, and conclusions. Topics include crime trends, corrections, juvenile delinquency, police, courts, offenders, victims, and sentencing. [CSA ILLUMINA]

 

Criminal Justice Periodical Index (CJPI) UCI access only
This database contains full-text and full-image coverage of approximately 50 criminal justice journals, with abstracts (summaries) for 140 additional titles. Publications covered in CJPI focus primarily on practical issues in crime prevention.

 

ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) UCI access only

[CSA ILLUMINA]

 

Lexis Nexis Academic Universe  UCI access only
Legal information database, including law review articles

 

NCJRS Abstracts Database
(Online Tutorial - http://www.ncjrs.org/tutorial/)
Summaries of more than 170,000 criminal justice publications, including Federal, State, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research.

 

PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) UCI access only
Index to numerous scholarly articles and government publications. Particularly strong for policy-related topics.  [Publisher:  CSA ILLUMINA]

 

PsycINFO UCI access only
Citations & abstracts of articles from 1,400 scholarly journals, conference proceedings, reports, dissertations, books, and book chapters in psychology and related disciplines. [Publisher:  CSA ILLUMINA]

 

PubMed
Search interface to the National Library of Medicine’s MEDLINE database. It contains references and abstracts from more than 4,300 biomedical journals from 1966 to the present.

 

Social Services Abstracts  UCI access only

[Publisher:  CSA ILLUMINA]

 

Sociological Abstracts  UCI access only
Summaries of international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Very strong in criminology. Abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews from more than 1,700 publications, and abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Use UCeLinks to determine if UCI owns the publication you need.  [Publisher:  CSA ILLUMINA]

 

Web of Science  UCI access only
An online index consisting of Social Sciences Citation Index, Science Citation Index Expanded, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index. In addition to providing information on journal articles by subject term, author name, or journal title, a citation index makes it possible to identify articles that cite (make reference to) an earlier author or article.

 

Westlaw Campus  UCI access only
Legal information database, including law review articles