Databases for Criminal Justice and Intelligence Analysis
National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)
NCJRS is a federally sponsored information clearinghouse for people around the country and the world involved with research, policy, and practice related to criminal and juvenile justice and drug control. The NCJRS Abstracts database, containing over 190,000 abstracts of articles, can be accessed from this page. Many of the articles are available in full text from other UDM databases.
Database includes: Some full-text, some abstract-only
Off campus access: Free (public) database
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Homeland Security Digital Library
Homeland Security Digital Library is a protected database. You must be vetted by the Director of the Intelligence Analysis program to gain access.
"We invite all homeland security officials and academics to utilize the HSDL for research, analysis, and policy and strategy development. Library access is offered to U.S. citizens who are:
- Federal, state, tribal, and local government officials
- Members of the U.S. military
- Homeland security researchers and academics
- Security staff protecting organizations vital to U.S. infrastructure"
Criminal Justice Collection (Gale)
MEL.
This collection of 700 titles is useful for legal, pare-legal and security studies, and for a career in Homeland Security.
Database includes: Full-text
Off campus access: Requires authentication
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License Information
Copyright: protected by U.S copyright laws
Users: UDM students, faculty, staff, and onsite patrons
Number of Simultaneous Users: unlimited
Print Copy: single excerpt of the data; single copy for support of personal research needs
Use of Information: research and internal non-commercial use only; may not use as a component of, or basis for, a directory, database, or other publication prepared for sale or other form of distribution
Download: may not upload, download or transmit for sale or conveyance; may download electronically a single copy of excerpts of records for nonprofit educational and research purpose
Sharing: no third-party sharing of materials
Interlibrary Loan: interlibrary loan not permitted
Reserves: may not place materials on reserve
Persistent Links: links
Course Packs: no course pack allowed
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LexisNexis Academic
LexisNexis Academic is an interdisciplinary, full-text database of over 18,000 sources including newspapers, journals, wire services, newsletters, company reports and SEC filings, case law, government documents, transcripts of broadcasts, and selected reference works.
Database includes: Full-text
Off campus access: Requires authentication
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Academic OneFile (Gale)
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Academic OneFile is a major source of full-text articles 1980-date from the world's leading journals and reference sources, with extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times 1985-date. Some audio files and broadcast transcripts from National Public Radio Programming are included. Updated daily.
Off campus access: Requires authentication
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License Information
Copyright: protected by U.S copyright and patent laws
Users: UDM students, faculty, staff, and onsite patrons
Number of Simultaneous Users: unlimited
Print Copy: single excerpt of the data; single copy for support of personal research needs
Use of Information: research and internal non-commercial use only; may not use as a component of, or basis for, a directory, database, or other publication prepared for sale or other form of distribution
Download: may not upload, download or transmit for sale or conveyance; may download electronically a single copy of excerpts of records for nonprofit educational and research purposes
Sharing: no third-party sharing of materials
Interlibrary Loan: interlibrary loan not permitted
Reserves: may not place materials on reserve
Persistent Links: links
Course Packs: no course pack allowed
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JSTOR
Full text of over 1,200 core academic journals in most disciplines. Coverage starts with the first issue published, and continues, ending 3-5 years before the current year. An additional year of journals published is added annually. The Libraries own current paper issues of many titles in the collections. Follow this link to see a listing of all JSTOR collections available at UDM or download a complete list of all journals included in these collections.
Database includes: Full-text
Off campus access: Requires authentication
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License Information
Copyright: protected by U.S copyright and proprietary rights
Users: UDM students, faculty, staff, and onsite patrons
Number of Simultaneous Users: unlimited
Print Copy: reasonable printing; may not copy entire issue or issues of a journal
Use of Information: may not utilize materials for commercial purposes, including but not limited to sale of materials, fee-for-service use or bulk reproduction or distribution in any form
Download: may not download or attempt to download an entire issue or issues of a journal from the database
Sharing: no third-party sharing of materials; no infringing on the intellectual property rights of third party who contributed to database
Interlibrary Loan: may provide printed materials from the database in accordance with the Copyright Act of the U.S.; only printed materials, not electronic copies, may be used in interlibrary loan
Reserves: may not place materials on reserve
Persistent Links: links
Course Packs: no course pack allowed
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PsycINFO 1887 (ProQuest)
PsycINFO , from the American Psychological Association (APA), contains nearly 2.3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s. 97 percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed. Journal coverage, which spans 1887 to present, includes international material selected from more than 2,100 periodicals in more than 25 languages.
Off campus access: Requires authentication
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License Information
Copyright: protected by U.S copyright and proprietary rights; may not export information outside the U.S.
Users: UDM students, faculty, staff, and onsite patrons; independent contractors acting as faculty or staff members officially affiliated with university
Number of Simultaneous Users: unlimited
Print Copy: excerpts may be printed; research or educational use must acknowledge the source, title, author, and publisher
Use of Information: may be accessed, searched, browsed and viewed
Download: excerpts may be downloaded; research or educational use must acknowledge the source, title, author, and publisher
Sharing: no third-party sharing of materials; no infringing on the intellectual property rights of third party who contributed to database
Interlibrary Loan: interlibrary loan not permitted
Reserves: may not place materials on reserve
Persistent Links: links
Course Packs: no course pack allowed
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Wiley Online Library
The Wiley Online Library includes all electronic book and journal publications from Wiley. Journals formerly in the Blackwell Synergy collection are now included in the Wiley Online Library. Full text is available for these journals from at least 2001 (except for new journals) and coverage for some goes back to the 1970s. Volumes available through UDM are preceded by an open padlock icon.
Database includes: Full-text
Off campus access: Requires authentication
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License Information
Copyright: protected by U.S copyright, English law
Users: UDM students, faculty, staff, and onsite patrons
Number of Simultaneous Users: unlimited
Print Copy: single printed or electronic copies of single articles at the request of individual authorized user
Use of Information: neither the licensee nor authorized or walk-in users may provide, by electronic means, to a user at another library or elsewhere, a retained electronic copy of any part of the licensed material; scholarly sharing prohibited
Download: may not upload, download or transmit for sale or conveyance
Sharing: no third-party sharing of materials
Interlibrary Loan: electronic interlibrary loan not permitted; may supply to an authorized user of another library (whether by post, fax or secure transmission, using Ariel or its equivalent, whereby the electronic file is deleted immediately after printing), for the purposes of research or private study, a singe paper copy of an electronic original of an individual document; may not provide by electronic means to a user at another library or elsewhere a retained electronic copy of any part of the licensed materia
Reserves: may place materials on reserve
Persistent Links: links
Course Packs: authorized users may incorporate parts of a licensed material in print or electronic course or study packs for the use of the authorized users in the course of instruction; each such item shall carry appropriate acknowledgment of the source, listing title and author of extract, title and author of work, and publisher; copies of such items shall be deleted when they are no longer required for such purpose
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Homeland Security Review
HeinOnline.
This journal may be accessed only ON CAMPUS. It is available curtesy of the Law School. Once in HeinOnline, type in the name of the journal, Homeland Security Review in the search box "Enter a Publication Title" in the right frame. Available from Vol. 1 (2005/06) to present.
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Wiley CPA Examination Review
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Federal Statistics
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General Research
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VIDEOS/DVDs
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Annual Reports & 10Ks
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Wiley CPA Examination Review
BOOKS
Tax Forms and Publications (instructions)
Books
Federal Tax Preparation Information
State Tax Tables and Sales Tax Tables
