Criminology

This page will help you get more out of your Library resources for your assignments, projects, dissertations, and theses in Criminology.

REMINDER: Download the University VPN system to access these resources while you're studying off campus.

Library Sessions

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These drop in sessions are a space for students to ask referencing, research, and library related questions.

Assignment Calculators

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These assignment calculators will take your deadline and give you a suggested breakdown of tasks to help make research, planning, and writing more manageable.

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Advanced Search Techniques using the Library's Discovery Service (video)
This in depth video will go over how to use the Advanced Search feature in the Library's Discovery Service. It will discuss how to find keywords, Boolean operators, other search techniques, as well as accessing online resources.


Access the full text of books, videos, and datasets about quantitative and qualitative research methods.


fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

More than 2,500 journals and more than nine million full-text articles are available providing access to the physical sciences and engineering life sciences.

Library Guide is available.


• Scopus 

Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings.


• SocINDEX 

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

A key source for tracking down articles across the social sciences, including Criminology.


fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

Consists of a number of databases containing information gathered from thousands of scholarly journals, books, book series, reports, and conferences.

Additional access instructions:

For off campus access use this link

 

Journals

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Remember to check the date for Full Text Access. Ideally it's best to go with YEAR - present

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