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Finding Articles ~ Criminal Justice
Criminal Justice Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive international coverage of the major journals in criminology and related disciplines.
Coverage: 1968 to present.
Updated quarterly.
Westlaw This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to federal and state cases, statutes, regulations and administrative codes, as well as European Union information, law encyclopedias, law reviews and citators. Also includes some news transcripts, EDGAR filings and other company information.
Coverage: Case law--complete. Statutes--1990 to date. Regulations--current edition. European Union--complete. Law reviews--1980 to date.
For research assistance, call 1-800-REF-ATTY (1-800-733-2889).
Finding Articles ~ Public Policy
Public Administration Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Public Administration Abstracts covers essential areas related to public administration, including public administration research, public administration theory, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline, like urbanism, transportation, police administration, recreation, housing, etc. Covers: 1956 to date. Updated weekly.
Finding Articles ~ Business & Management
ABI/INFORM Complete This link opens in a new window
ABI/INFORM Complete is a comprehensive business database with over 3,200 journals (over 2,460 full-text titles) covering business and economic conditions, corporate strategies, management techniques, as well as competitive and product information. It consists of: ABI Global, ABI Archive, ABI Images, ABI Trade and Industry, Dateline, Business Dissertations, Hoovers, Oxford Research, Wall Street Journal, SnapShots North American, and EIU.
Coverage: 1971 to date.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database, with more than 5,300 full text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. Offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. Features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.
Updated daily.
Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
Business Source Premier contains coverage for more than 2,300 journals covering a wide range of business topics. In addition, the databases includes access to company profiles, country reports, industry reports, market research reports and SWOT analyses.
Finding Articles ~ Psychology
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
PsycINFO contains abstracts and bibliographic citations for the contents of thousands of journals. Also includes references to dissertations, media, and books. Coverage: 1887 to present.Updated quarterly.
PILOTS Database This link opens in a new window
The PILOTS (Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress) database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Its goal is to include citations to all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events.
Coverage: 1871 - present.
Updated: Monthly.
Finding Articles ~ Health & Medicine
CINAHL Plus with Full Text This link opens in a new window
CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) is a resource for finding nursing and allied health literature: journals, books, pamphlets, audiovisuals, software, research instruments, nursing dissertations, evidence based care sheets, etc. and provides full text for 391 journals, plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials.
Coverage: 1937 to present.
MEDLINE (via OVID) This link opens in a new window
The National Library of Medicine's international bio-medicine & health journal database covering all areas of medicine, including dentistry, nursing, veterinary medicine, the health care system, preclinical sciences. The majority of the publications covered in MEDLINE are scholarly journals; a small number of newspapers, magazines, and newsletters considered useful to the discipline are included.
Coverage: 1951 to present.
Updated monthly.
PubMed@CSULB This link opens in a new window
Provides access to MEDLINE, Pre-MEDLINE, additional life science journals, and molecular biology databases; when articles have no free full text use Get It@CSULB. Coverage: Medline covers 1940's to present. Updated daily.
TOXLINE This link opens in a new window
Produced by the National Library of Medicine, TOXLINE covers all areas of toxicology, including chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pesticides, environmental pollutants, and mutagens and teratogens.
Finding Articles ~ Sociology
SocINDEX Full Text This link opens in a new window
SocINDEX provides abstracts to articles on topics of abortion, criminal justice, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, political sociology, religion, rural & urban sociology, social development, social psychology, social work, socio-cultural anthropology, sociology, sociological theory, substance abuse & other addictions, violence and many others. Coverage: 1940 to present, with some abstracts back to 1895. Updated monthly.
Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Provides access to international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social & behavioral sciences.
Coverage: 1952 to date. Updated monthly.
