Criminal Justice Databases

Contains comprehensive coverage of international journals, books, reports, dissertations and unpublished papers on criminology and related disciplines.
Coverage: 1968 - current

Criminal Justice Abstracts covers crime trends, crime prevention and deterrence, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, police, courts, punishment and sentencing. The database contains indexes and summaries of international journal articles, books, and governmental and non-governmental reports on a wide range of topics in criminal justice.

Consists of bibliographic records (indexed summaries or abstracts) as well as full-text of 23 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 23 years.
Coverage: 1976 - current

Criminology encompasses over 5,500 articles covering such subjects as Criminal Justice, Juvenile Delinquency, Juvenile Justice, Corrections, Penology, Policing, Forensic Psychology, and Family and Domestic Violence.

Authoritative, analytic reviews in 32 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences.
Coverage: 1996 - current

Annual Reviews synthesizes the vast amount of primary research literature and identifying the principal contributions in 32 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences. Editorial committees comprised of distinguished scholars in the discipline critically review, synthesize, and filter the vast amount of primary research in specific disciplines. Each AR article is written by authors who are recognized experts in the field. Each article is its own search engine, providing a gateway to the essential primary research literature referenced within each topic. These AR publications are among the highest cited publications by impact factor according to the Institute for Scientific Information® (ISI).

Full text of the Globe offers authoritative coverage of local, national and international news.
Coverage: September 1980 - current

Access to full-text coverage of the Boston Globe through detailed indexing that covers not only complete bibliographic information but also subjects, companies, people, products, and geographic areas. In addition, items such as editorials, editorial cartoons, obituaries, and letters to the editor from well-known people are also made easily accessible through the searchable index.

Citations and abstracts of research on on the maltreatment, safety, permanency and well-being of children.
Coverage: 1965 - current

Child Abuse, Child Welfare & Adoption is now a free database that requires registration to attain username and password access. Citations and abstracts cover books, journal articles, final reports from federally-funded grant, conference papers, unpublished paper, reports on completed or continuing research, as well as descriptions of service programs and prevention and treatment strategies. Primarily English-language, U.S. based.

Full text of 2,200 digests, plus full text, citations and abstracts of 1000+ journals, books, proceedings, reports, and Department of Education publications.
Coverage: 1966 - current

The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature. ERIC provides coverage of journal articles, conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs. It also offers users access to many of the ERIC documents no longer available online in the UML ERIC microfiche from 1972 to 2003.

Access 65 full-text journals plus abstracts from hundreds more in nursing, medicine, healthcare, psychology and the biological sciences along with the Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) database.
Coverage: journals 1996 to the present, HaPI 1985-Present

Access full-text articles from 65 journal covering nursing, medicine, healthcare, psychology and the biological sciences plus the Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) database. A third option is the Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) database that provides ready access to information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/ manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests) in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science.

Full-text access to more than 350 newspapers from the U.S. and around the world, including the Financial Times (dating back to 1982), The New York Times (dating back to 1980) and The Washington Post (dating back to 1977)

LexisNexis Academic is divided into four catagories that can searched individually or in combination:
"News" provides full-text access to more than 350 newspapers from the U.S. and around the world, including the Financial Times (dating back to 1982), The New York Times (dating back to 1980) and The Washington Post (dating back to 1977); over 300 major magazines and journals; and broadcast transcripts from the major television and radio networks.
"Legal" includes primary source material such as case law, statutes and regulations along with legal news and law reviews for background or analysis of a legal topic.
"Business" provides U.S. and international company financial information, market research, industry reports, and actual SEC filings. Search features permit comparison of companies based on criteria such as sales, income and number of employees.
"People" offers biographies and obituaries of people in the news, government, and industry.

Provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments.
Coverage: 1916 - 2006 (Yearbook 9 - current)

Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) series contains information for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. All MMY entries contain descriptive information (e.g., test purpose, publisher, pricing) and edited review(s) written by leading content area experts. To be included in the MMY, a test must be commercially available, be published in the English language, and be new or revised since it last appeared in the series. MMY provides coverage from Volume 9 to the present.

Full-text complete access to hundreds of Oxford Companion reference books and dictionaries covering all subjects world wide with an emphasis on English-speaking countries.

Oxford Reference Online Premium is a huge and comprehensive resource that contains over 170 dictionaries and reference titles covering the complete subject spectrum: from General Reference and Language to Science and Medicine, and from Humanities and Social Sciences to Business and Professional. Search either the entire site or any of the 19 subject-specific collections. Also included are collections of quotation reference books, map images, and timelines broken down by theme or country.

Bibliographic citations and abstracts from more than 1300 journals as well as books, book chapters, dissertations, and reports in psychology and as well as business, education, law, social work, linguistics, and medicine.
Coverage: 1887 to present

From the American Psychological Association (APA), PsycINFO contains nearly 2.3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s. 97 percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed. The database also includes information about the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and others. Journal coverage, which spans 1887 to present, includes international material selected from more than 2,100 periodicals in more than 25 languages.

Abstracts and indexes from over 1,300 journals and dissertations, and citations to book reviews as well as full text from 140 journals covering sociology and social work.
Coverage: 1979-Current

CSA Social Services Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. 124 of the 140 full-text journals are refereed, including of the 129 ISI rated journals in sociology and social work. Deep archiving dates as far back as the 1920s for some titles.

Comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study.
Coverage: 1895 to present

SocINDEX with Full Text features more than 1,910,000 records with subject headings from a 19,300 term sociological thesaurus, including full text for 397 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1908, and 150 "priority" coverage journals, more than 720 books and monographs, and 6,743 conference papers. It also contains informative abstracts for more than 815 "core" coverage journals dating as far back as 1895. In addition, it features over 10,000 Author Profiles covering the most prolific, most cited, and most frequently searched for authors in the database. Each author profile includes biographical data and bibliographic information, which together allow users to quickly ascertain an author's areas of expertise and academic/professional focus.

Full text from 140 journals covering sociology and social work plus abstracts and indexes for articles from over 1,800 international serials along with books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.
Coverage: 1952-Current

Over 40% of titles in CSA's Sociological Abstracts are published outside North America with over 20% of content published in languages other than English. 124 of the 140 full-text journals are refereed, including of the 129 ISI rated journals in sociology and social work. Deep archiving dates as far back as the 1920s for some titles.

Search the UMass Lowell Library catalog for books, journals and non-print materials.

Over 3,250 items ranging from commercial tests to measures published in journals and books available at the UML Libraries. Search by test name, author, year, subject or publisher.
Coverage: 1885 to 1999

Complete, full-text access to more than 4,100 ebooks covering all major subject areas, including over 280 titles related to Psychology.
Coverage: Publication dates 1963 - 2006

NetLibrary eBook titles are searchable by using up to four criteria including title, author, keyword, ISBN, or publisher plus limiting by publication year and language. Individual titles can then be read online in the Online Reader, browsed by table or contents, or keyword searched. Up to four books can be held in the Reader simultaneously. Books cannot be read offline, downloaded, or "checked out." The Reader is cleared at the end of each session. By creating a free account, access is available from anywhere using your personal login and titles can then be saved to your Favorites list.

Full-text access to Oxford Companions on American Law and the Supreme Court plus a law dictionary and a Guide to Supreme Court decisions.
Coverage: Publication dates 2000 - 2006

Oxford Reference Online Premium is a huge and comprehensive resource that contains over 170 dictionaries and reference titles covering the complete subject spectrum: from General Reference and Language to Science and Medicine, and from Humanities and Social Sciences to Business and Professional. Search either the entire site or any of the 19 subject-specific collections. Also included are collections of quotation reference books, map images, and timelines broken down by theme or country.

Guidance on best resources for Criminal Justice research chosen and categorized by a UML subject specialist reference librarian.