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Annotated Bibliography
Peer Reviewed Journals and Popular / Trade Magazines
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Scholarly vs. Popular A chart to help you decide whether a journal or article is scholarly or popular.
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What is a peer-reviewed journal? A more detailed explanation of what to look for in a peer-reviewed journal.
Library Databases
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Criminal Justice Database (ProQuest)This is THE database to start research in criminal justice.
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Google Scholar Search scholarly literature from one convenient place.Explore related works, citations, authors, and publications.Locate the complete document through your library or on the web.
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Homeland Security Digital Library The Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) is the nation’s premier collection of documents related to homeland security policy, strategy, and organizational management. The HSDL is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s National Preparedness Directorate, FEMA and the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security.
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Psychology Database (ProQuest) The database encompasses a wide range of topics from leading psychological and psychosomatic publications. In addition to clinical and social psychology, it also provides coverage of related disciplines including genetics, psychology of business and economics, communication, criminology, addiction, neurology, social welfare, and more. A number of the titles are heavily cited and have a strong set of ISI impact factors.
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Social Sciences Full Text Covering the latest concepts, theories and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences, this full-text resource provides access to the most important English-language social science journals.
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ScienceDirect Authoritative, full-text scientific, technical and health publications. Research articles are peer reviewed. 1995 to the present is full text.
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Credo ReferenceCredo is a collection of encyclopedias and dictionaries and quite a few images on many topics. You may wish to start your research in Credo if you need some background on your topic. There are links to other library databases within Credo; your search terms will carry over into the new database.
We Search
We Search will provide results from over 50 databases at once.