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Library Resources by College: Criminal Justice

This faculty guide features key library resources arranged by college.

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Research Guides

The following guides offer suggestions for finding articles, e-books, and websites for student research.

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Library Resource Lists

See the following document for a list of the library's full-text criminal justice resources by database.

Resources for Live Lectures

Live Lecture Presentations

Librarians are available to present during your live lectures. Use this form to request a presentation:

Videos

These videos can be used in live course lectures to introduce the library and its services to students:

Ashley explains how librarians can help students with their library research and gives a brief overview of helpful resources on the library homepage.

This short video gives students a quick tour of the CSU Library.

Key Databases

This list of databases is the library's "best bets" for research within this subject area.

This authoritative database contains full text for many of the most important journals and magazines related to criminal justice and criminology. Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text includes 112 active full-text, non-open access journals not available in any version of Academic Search.

The Criminal Justice (GALE OneFile) database brings together journals that cover a variety of topics including law enforcement, terrorism, homeland security, and forensic science.

This extensive database includes materials on most academic disciplines, and thousands of the publications are peer-reviewed journals.

Nexis Uni offers a wide range of information for legal research, including news content, federal and state cases and statutes, U. S. Supreme Court decisions, and business profiles for many U. S. and international companies.

This full-text database provides definitive intelligence resources for security and threat analysis. It covers regional conflict, terrorism, domestic security, and risk management. 

From foundational science to new and novel research, discover the large collection of Physical Sciences and Engineering publications, covering a range of disciplines, from the theoretical to the applied.

Security Issues Online delves into conflicts, policies, and relationships that have impacted the global arena throughout modern history. At completion, this collection will include at completion 175 hours of video and 100,000 pages of printed materials (personal papers, organizations, government documents, journals, reports, monographs, and speeches). It is organized around more than forty events and areas and includes a wide array of themes such as terrorism and counterterrorism, insurgency and counterinsurgency, cybersecurity, ethnic conflicts and resolution, and nuclear threats.

Military & Government Collection is a database of full-text journals and periodicals pertaining to all branches of the military and government. It is designed to offer current news to military members, analysts, policy makers, students and researchers.

This database includes scholarly journals, magazines, and reports covering all aspects of the past and current state of military affairs. 

Users of this database will have access to resources on global conflict that include trade/professional publications and reports as well as a limited number of peer-reviewed journals. 

Videos

Films on Demand houses a collection of streaming video titles from both academic and mainstream producers such as films for the Humanities and Sciences, PBS, A&E, History Channel, BBC, National Geographic, and others.

The best part about Films on Demand?  You can share videos from Films on Demand in your courses without worrying about copyright restrictions.

To share Films on Demand videos with your students, select "Share" beneath the video and copy the "Record URL" link:

For instructions on creating custom video segments in Films on Demand, see the following guide: