Databases

Academic Search This link opens in a new window
Search for articles on political science or criminal justice topics. Link to full text articles.
APA PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
PsycINFO is an index with abstracts to worldwide journal articles covering psychology and related fields.

Congressional Documents (HeinOnline)
HeinOnline is an online research platform that provides more than 233 million pages of multidisciplinary periodicals, essential government documents, international resources, case law, and more. Composed of fully searchable image-based PDFs.
CQ Press
Learn about major issues from current and historical perspectives and the inner workings of the U.S. government from authoritative, accessible, and unbiased sources.

Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
This focus of this database is criminal justice topics including policing, prisons, prisoners, justice, and international security.
International Political Science Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Search for scholarly political science articles. Links to full text articles in other databases.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Archive of back issues of core scholarly journals in the arts, business, humanities, sciences and social sciences. Does not provide the most current issues, usually has a rolling end date of 2-5 years.
OneSearch This link opens in a new window
Search for articles, books, course reserves, and more; all in one! Provides access to the majority of the library’s resources from a single entry point. OneSearch including the library's physical items and most of the library’s electronic content.
SocINDEX This link opens in a new window
Search for criminal justice and social issues topics. Link to full text articles.

Sociological Abstracts (Proquest)
Search for scholarly articles in political science and criminal justice.

Supreme Court Database
The Supreme Court Database is a source for researchers, students, journalists, and citizens interested in the U.S. Supreme Court. The Database contains over two hundred pieces of information about each case decided by the Court from its founding to today. Examples include the identity of the court whose decision the Supreme Court reviewed, the parties to the suit, the legal provisions considered in the case, and the votes of the Justices.

Search Tips

It helps to narrow down and make your terms more specific.

For example if your research interest was freedom of speech and campaigns,

First search your broader topic with your main keywords- freedom of speech AND campaign
The results returned will have your keywords somewhere in the record.
Examine other terms to find synonyms that might also work- for example these might work for this example:
- First Amendment
- Campaign Finance
- Campaign Laws
With these additional terms, start to narrow down your search in order to get more specific results. For example, the next search could be: first amendment AND campaign finance.

> The result should be more items on your topic, with less searching.