Finding Academic Articles In A Library Database
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Databases
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SocINDEX This link opens in a new windowContains full text for 397 "core" journals dating back to 1908 and 150 "priority" journals. Also includes full text for books, monographs and conference papers.
Subject: Sociology and related fields such as Criminology and Criminal Justice, Gender Studies, Social Psychology, Religion etc. -
CBCA Complete This link opens in a new windowCanadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA) Complete combines full text and indexed content from all four CBCA database subsets
Subject: Covers current events, business, science, the arts, and academic information as produced in Canada. -
Canadian Newsstream This link opens in a new windowFull text access to British Columbia and Canadian newspapers. Coverage: 1985 - present.
Subject: News and current events. -
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowAcademic Search Complete is a multi-disciplinary full text database, with more than 8,600 full text periodicals, including more than 7,500 peer-reviewed journals.
Subject: All subject areas. -
PsycINFO This link opens in a new windowPsycINFO contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, technical reports, and dissertations.
Subject: Psychology. -
Quicklaw This link opens in a new windowQuicklaw is a Canadian electronic legal research database that provides court decisions from all levels of Canadian courts, provincial and federal legislation, news reports, journals, and wide range of other legal commentary.
Subject: Canadian law. -
Sage Journals Online This link opens in a new windowFull text of peer reviewed journals in Criminology and Psychology, published by Sage.
Subject: Sage Criminology and Psychology Collections. -
CANSIM (CHASS) This link opens in a new windowCANSIM (Canadian Socio-Economic Information Management System) is the Statistics Canada's computerized database of time series covering a wide variety of social and economic aspects of Canadian life. CANSIM tables are freely available on the Statistics Canada website and are updated daily. CANSIM is also available through the University of Toronto’s Computing in the Humanities and Social Sciences (CHASS) Data Centre. The CHASS version provides more powerful searching options than the Statcan website
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JSTOR This link opens in a new windowThe Library subscribes to the Arts & Sciences Collection I, II, III, IV and Complement.
Subject: General/multidisciplinary; science; business; humanities and social sciences; botany; ecology and mathematics. -
PsycTESTS This link opens in a new windowThis repository for ready-to-use tests and measures from the American Psychological Association provides access to thousands of actual test instruments.
Subject: Psychology, Psychiatry, Education, Medicine, Business, Social Work, Criminology, and more. -
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new windowIndexing and full text of more than 1000 peer reviewed journals published by Elsevier. A database of high quality scientific, technical and medical journals.
Subject: Sciences. -
Taylor & Francis Online This link opens in a new windowThe Taylor & Francis Online collection provides online access to more than 1200 journals stretching back to 1997 where available.
Subjects: Anthropology, Behavioral Science, Criminology, Health & Social Care, Politics, Sport & Leisure, and Sociology. -
Vancouver Sun (1912-2010) This link opens in a new windowFull-text coverage of the Vancouver Sun newspaper from its inception in 1912 to 2010. Contains full-page images of each issue.
eJournals
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Criminology
Criminology is devoted to crime and deviant behavior. Disciplines covered in Criminology include: sociology, psychology, design, systems analysis, and decision theory. Major emphasis is placed on empirical research and scientific methodology. Criminology's content also includes articles which review the literature or deal with theoretical issues stated in the literature as well as suggestions for the types of investigation which might be carried out in the future. -
Criminology & Public Policy
Criminology & Public Policy is devoted to the study of criminal justice policy and practice. The journal’s central objective is to strengthen the role of research in the formulation of crime and justice policy through publishing empirically based, policy-focused articles. -
Critical criminology
The journal Critical Criminology explores social, political and economic justice from alternative perspectives, including anarchistic, cultural, feminist, integrative, Marxist, peace-making, postmodernist and left-realist criminology. Rather than limit the scope of its coverage to state definitions of crime, Critical Criminology focuses on issues of social harm and social justice, including work exploring the intersecting lines of class, gender, race/ethnicity and heterosexism. -
Journal of experimental criminology
The Journal of Experimental Criminology focuses on high quality experimental and quasi-experimental research in the development of evidence based crime and justice policy. The journal is committed to the advancement of the science of systematic reviews and experimental methods in criminology and criminal justice. The journal publishes empirical papers, reviews of substantive criminal justice problems, and methodological papers on experimentation and systematic review. -
Justice Quarterly
JQ is a refereed, multi-disciplinary journal that publishes theoretical, empirical and interpretive studies of issues related to criminal justice. JQ is indexed in Criminology and Penology Abstracts, Police Science Abstracts, Criminal Justice Periodical Index, and Criminal Justice Abstracts. In the past decade, JQ has become a premier journal and it continues to be a major forum for criminal justice related scholarship, making it an essential part of any library’s holdings.