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CRIMINAL JUSTICE & POLITICAL SCIENCE GUIDE
Each database below indexes unique journals related to criminal justice and political science and provides either abstracts or full text articles. If the full text option is missing, look for Check Online Availability or Check Full Text Finder for Full Text to see whether it is available in another database or in print at the library.
For a complete list of criminal justice and political science databases that are available through OCLS, visit OCLS Criminal Justice databases and OCLS Political Science databases.
- Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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Academic Search Complete is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 9,810 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. - Criminal Justice (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowA database offering research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, crime trends, and criminal litigation.
- Homeland Security Digital Library This link opens in a new windowSponsored by the Department of Homeland Security. This library includes government reports, best practices, resource guides, and assessments. Topics include gangs, school violence, cyber crime, domestic terrorism, and immigration.
- JSTOR: Scholarly Journal Archive This link opens in a new windowArts and humanities database on language and literature, music, film studies, folklore, performing arts, religion, and the study of art and architecture.
- Military and Government Collection (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowIncludes full text for 265 military and government periodicals, such as Military History, National Defense and Security Studies. Also indexes and abstracts 400 other related periodicals.
- Military and Intelligence Database (Gale/Cengage) This link opens in a new windowCreated to serve military personnel, this database provides access to U.S. armed services publications, along with military science, political science and international relations journals.
- PAIS Index (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowPAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) indexes articles in the social sciences that bear on public policy, administration and law.
- Political Science (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowA database offering access to hundreds of political science and international relations publications with nearly 500 in full text. Also covers: human rights, international development, migration, and environmental policy.
Below are links to suggested journals available through OCLS and links to additional revelent journal titles.
Criminal Justice
- International Journal of Social Economics
- Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency
- Additional Criminal Justice Journals Available Through OCLS
Political Science
- Political Science
- New Political Science
- Perspectives on Political Science
- Additional Political Science Journals Available Through OCLS
Are you looking for a specific article? If you know the journal or magazine the article is in, you can use the Journal Titles Search to see if OCLS has access to the journal or magazine.
The Journal Titles Search can be found on the OCLS homepage under Key Links.
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