Criminology

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A 'digital/data research space' to enable researchers to easily download often large amounts of data and digital collections in order for them to conduct their own experiments manually and / or computationally.

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The world’s largest aggregator of open access research papers from repositories and journals.

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Covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and languages.

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42,000 out-of-copyright books online.

• PubMed 

PubMed comprises millions of citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher websites

 

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