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CJS-1001/4001 Criminal Justice Research

Article Searches

All library research databases can be found on the A-Z Databases page. Filter by subject (criminal justice) to get a list of all criminal justice-related databases.

What you need to know:

Cyclone Search is the library's discovery search tool, searching across a large portion of the library's digital subscriptions as well as our physical collection. For criminal justice research, it includes Academic Search Complete, PsycARTICLES, SocIndex with Full Text, and our JSTOR journals. Academic Search Complete is a large, multidisciplinary database with indexing coverage of peer-reviewed journals as well as magazines and reports.
Includes:         My Account      Save Articles      Search Alerts      Citation Generator


Nexis Uni

Nexis Uni features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790.
  • Access discipline-focused pages with curated news, featured publications and relevant court cases for Political Science, Business and Criminal Justice majors
  • Use guided search forms to jumpstart research
  • Conduct a single search across all content or narrow the focus by content type




What you need to know:

ProQuest Central offers a cross-search of all of its individual subset databases, some of which are multidisciplinary. Key content includes Psychology Database, Criminal Justice Database, Sociology Database, plus newspapers and dissertations.
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HeinOnline Academic


Law Journals or Law Reviews in HeinOnline
HeinOnline's Law Journal Library contains more than 2,700 academic and commercially-published periodicals. Subjects covered include criminal justice, political science, technology, human rights, and more. Coverage for all journals is from inception and goes through the most currently published content allowed based on contracts with publishers. About 90% of journals are available through the current issue or volume.

Case Law in HeinOnline
The federal case coverage includes the judicial opinions of the Supreme Court (1745-present).



What you need to know:

JSTOR is an interdisciplinary digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources. Nearly all journals in the database are peer-reviewed. Subjects covered include: Criminology and Criminal Justice, Law, Psychology, and Sociology. JSTOR journals are grouped into collections for libraries to license - Centenary subscribes to several collections, though not all, so there may be content that is not immediately available to you. JSTOR collections are for the most part, archival, meaning that the most current issues are not included.
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How to Use JSTOR (for Students)


What you need to know:

Google Scholar is Google's attempt to index the scholarly literature that can be found on the free web. It links to freely available articles on publisher websites, author websites, institutional repositories, and pre-print servers, as well as reports, online books, and other scholarly material online. In some ways it can be easier to search than subscription databases, in that it is better able to process a natural language search. Because it searches so much, and because there are very few filters included, it can also be more difficult to sort through the results.
Includes:         My Account      Save Articles      Search Alerts      Citation Generator

Library Links
- Connect Google Scholar results to Centenary's digital subscriptions in order to get to full text articles to which the university has access.
Google Scholar Button
- Add this extension to your browser to be able to highlight and look up papers as you browse. This is useful for checking for full text, and for getting an idea of how many times an article has been cited.