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· ABI/INFORM Research (1971 – current)
Provides citations, abstracts and full text, many with images, to articles from leading business and management publications. Learn How to Search ABI/Inform

· Criminal Justice Abstracts (1968 – current)
Citations include abstracts to major journals in criminology and related disciplines, books, and reports from government and nongovernmental agencies.

· Criminal Justice Periodicals (1981 – current)
Provides citations, abstracts and full text on criminal justice topics, including corrections administration, law enforcement, social work, industrial security, drug rehabilitation, and criminal and family law.

· Legal Periodicals Full Text (1981 – current)
Legal Periodicals Full Text is a bibliographic database that cites articles from legal periodicals and indexes law books. Full text coverage for selected periodicals is also included. Periodical coverage includes law reviews, bar association journals, university publications, yearbooks, institutes, and government publications. Legal Periodicals Full Text covers all areas of jurisprudence, including recent court decisions, new legislaton, and original scholarship.

· InfoTrac OneFile (1980 – current)
Provides citations, abstracts and full text, many with images, news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics.

· JSTOR (first issue to “moving wall”)
Provides full-text access to a digital archive of scholarly journals in 15 academic disciplines. Most of the tiles are in the social sciences and humanities disciplines.

· LexisNexis Academic (1789 – current)
Covers news, business, legal research, medical, and general reference information. Most are full-text and include newspapers, magazines, wire services, federal and state court opinions, statutes, regulations and more.

· LexisNexis Congressional (1970 – current)
Includes CIS/Index to Publications of the U.S. Congress, full-text of congressional bills, bill-tracking, the Congressional Record, the Federal Register, the Code of Federal Regulations, the U.S. Code, public laws, information about the members of the United States Congress, and testimony and documents from Congressional Committees.

· LexisNexis State Capital (1985 – current)
Full-text access to bills, laws, constitutions, proposed and enacted regulations, legislative membership, and documents on issues and policies across all 50 states.

· NCJRS (1970 – current)
The National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database contains summaries of publications including Federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research. The NCJRS Virtual Library contains full-text publication.

· PAIS International (1972 – current)
Public Affairs Information Services provides selective citations to books, journal articles, government documents, serials, gray literature, pamphlets, reports of public and private organizations, and Internet materials on the world's public affairs, public and social policies, international relations, and world politics.

· PsycINFO (1887 – current)
Citations and abstracts of journals articles, chapters, books, technical reports, and dissertations in psychology and related disciplines, including criminal justice and law enforcement.