Psychology and Law (Broaders)

Library Catalog

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Indexes / Databases

General

• Academic Search Premier

  Academic Search Premier provides citations to journal articles covering almost all academic disciplines.

• Academic OneFile

  A collection of peer-reviewed, full-text articles in HTML and PDF format from more than 8000 journals with extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature, and other subject; intended primarily for academic researchers.

• Web of Science

  This database provides bibliographic information and some abstracts from articles from more than 5,700 journals in the sciences, more than 1,700 in the social sciences, and more than 1,100 in the arts and humanities.

• Lexis Nexis Academic

  Among many other sources this database indexes national and international newspapers, news wires, magazines, and trade journals.

• Global Newsbank

  Citations and selected full-text articles from U.S. and international news sources, including wire services, broadcasts, transcripts, newspapers and periodicals. Users may search by key word within the full-text, or within the headline, lead paragraph or source title.

• PAIS International (Public Affairs Information Service)

  A bibliographic index to the literature of public policy, social policy, and the social sciences in general. Journal articles; books; government documents; statistical compilations; committee reports; directories; serials; reports of public, intergovernmental, and private organizations; and most other forms of printed literature from all over the world are indexed.

• ProQuest Historical Newspapers

  Full-text and full-image articles from the New York Times (1851-2003), the Wall Street Journal (1889-1989), the Washington Post (1877-1990), the Los Angeles Times (1881-1985), the Chicago Tribune (1849-1985), Atlanta Constitution (1868-1929), the Chicago Defender (1905-1975), New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993) and Boston Globe (1872-1924), every page from every issue in PDF files.

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Psychology

• PsycInfo

  This database provides abstracts and citations to the scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences. Updated weekly, PsycINFO provides access to journal articles, books, chapters, and dissertations.

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Sociology

• Sociological Abstracts

  This database covers sociology and sociological topics in fields such as anthropology, economics, education, medicine, community development, philosophy, demography, political science and social psychology.

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Law

• LegalTrac

  This database contains citations with abstracts, from more than 800 legal publications, including major journals from other English-speaking countries. Also includes law-related articles from more than 1,000 additional business and general interest periodicals.

• Index to Legal Periodicals & Books

  This database indexes articles from over 800 legal journals (beginning in 1981), and from major law books published since 1993. Focus is on publications from the United States. Does not contain any articles in full text, though links to full text sources are available.

• Index to Legal Periodicals Retro (1908-1981)

  This database indexes articles from over 800 legal journals (beginning in 1981), and from major law books published since 1993. Focus is on publications from the United States. Does not contain any articles in full text, though links to full text sources are available.

• HeinOnline

  This database provides digitized back issues of more than 220 law reviews and law journals published primarily at law schools in the United States.

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Reference Books

Encyclopedia of criminology / Richard A. Wright, J. Mitchell Miller, editors.
MAIN Reference (Non-circulating)
364.03 E559

West’s encyclopedia of American law / Jeffrey Lehman, editor, Shirelle Phelps, editor.
MAIN Reference (Non-circulating)
348.7303 W538 2004
This resource is also available online

Encyclopedia of crime & justice./
MAIN Reference (Non-circulating)
L 364.0321 E56 2002
This resource is also available online

Encyclopedia of criminology and deviant behavior / Clifton D. Bryant, editor-in-chief / Jean-Pierre Coumont.
MAIN Reference (Non-circulating)
364.03 E557

Encyclopedia of psychology / Alan E. Kazdin, editor in chief
MAIN Reference (Non-circulating)
150.3 E564

Handbook of psychology / Irving B. Weiner, editor-in-chief.
MAIN Reference (Non-circulating)
150 H2357

Geoff Morse
Reference Department
Email:gmorse@northwestern.edu
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